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
blinken reportedly met with the turkish minister, so his turkish counterpart, so it apparently took full-court press at the top levels of the biden administration, but as of tonightti they got it done. turkey has relented, turkey agrees.te the turkish parliament does still have to sign off, but they will. and then sweden will become nato country number 32, which is a huge win for president biden and the biden administration.e this is definitely one of those, you know, they said it couldn t be done situations. it has been done. it s going to happen. that isng a huge win for biden. it also has to be said it is a humiliating kick in the tiny dictatorial pants of russian presidentct vladimir putin. i mean ifes you started this wa in ukraine because you were so upset at nato, well, how was s that big strategic thinking working out for you now?