partially correct. if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invadingef ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less aboute nato and somehow starti this war s would make that happ, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 i countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country. and now as of tonight we know that sweden is going to join natoat as well. sweden said months ago that they wanted to join, but this is something that really until today looked like it couldn t happen and that s because for a new country to join nato, it has to be a unanimous decision. all the nato countries have to agree with h the decision, if o country doesn t agree it doesn t happen. and inre the case of sweden it s an original nato it was a nato w member, a single nato country,in turkey, that said no. they saidid finland was okay
off, i m ready to rock. and just in today s news, it kind of goes downhill from there in terms of america s political snapshot at the moment. at least our political snapshot in the states, in the individual state of arizona that s another one of these states that was just riven by overthrow election demands byro trump and his supporters. today various parts of the arizonato republican party weren sort of panic mode after an arizona republican college group announced that the headline speaker for its next convention is going to be a guy who s a neo-nazi. the group s flyer for this upcoming conference listed three different county republican parties on the flyer as if they were cosponsorser of the event with a neo-nazi speaker. after one republican party official from maricopa county posted that online and publicly begged for party official said