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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
invade ukraine because he felt very shy about nato. the nato alliance just had too many countries and it, too many countries that were too close to russia, and that all gave putin this terrible feeling about nato being too close and therefore he had to invade ukraine. again, i don t actually think that is it i don t think we know all the reasons why does what he does, who knows what is going on in his dictator heart of hearts. but if in fact the apologists are at least partially correct, if in fact putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invading ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be worry last about nato and somehow starting this war would make that happen, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 countries and 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, sweden is going to join nato as well. screen said months
yet. i don t think i will get invitation to go inside. probably not. the conversation here between the two leaders is supposed to be about climate finance and getting the private sector off the sidelines especially for the benefit of developing countries. looming large over this conversation is the president s decision to provide controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. the u.k. was among four nato allies which immediately voiced opposition to the move. and members of congress are split on this. you have got some republicans siding with president biden and some democrats opposing him. i have some real qualms about it. there is an international prediction prediction and the us here is a reason to do something different. green light to other nations to give green light. quite honestly, jake if as you look at the counteroffensive it has been slowed because this administration has been so slow to get the weapons in. the u.s. is not among the 120 countries that leaf unexplo