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
interview from an emergency room in clare, michigan. an emergency room where he was beingme treated for what was believed to be a broken room. the man who did the alleged flipping off and then the alleged ball kicking of the other republican official, he told the detroit news he took offro his glasses before engagi in these fisticuffs, telling the detroit news, quote, when you see me taking my glasses off, i mla ready to rock. again, state-wide republican partyta meeting in michigan thi weekend. the news outlet bridge michigan has a little bit more after the detroit news wasa first to rept what happened. bridge notes that charges are likely goinges to be pressed in this case. they also note the man who did the alleged flipping off and has ed ball kicking also his own version of the story in which he t says he was not the aggressor. he says the other guy threatened him and that the other guy, quote, came out of the meeting