The offer appeared to be the latest move in an ongoing diplomatic effort to persuade Turkey to drop its objection to Sweden joining the military alliance.
  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure we would donate them directly to Erdogan himself if it got us into NATO quicker.

    Our newspapers here in Sweden were celebrating that Bob Menendez is getting indicted for bribery, because we see him as a barrier for the US sending F-16s to the Turkish Dictator. With him gone, we’re getting excited that Erdogan will finally let us into NATO once he gets his F-16s.

  • 0xtero@kbin.social
    23·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think Stockholm actually has any fighter jets… so naturally it’s easy for them to promise!