Brexit leader Nigel Farage warned that it could be a mistake for NATO to accept offers from the traditionally neutral Scandinavian countries Finland and Sweden to join a military alliance with the West, as it further increases the risk of the West entering a hot war.
Finland’s parliament fully supported the country’s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday, after the Swedish government signed the official proposal, with Finnish lawmakers backing the proposal by a 188-8 margin. allied.
If NATO accepts the offers, Finland’s World War II
Speaking ahead of the widely anticipated measures, Brexit leader Nigel Farage warned that “continuing” Vladimir Putin in this way could be a “mistake”.
“I understand why [Sweden and Finland] He might want to join NATO,” Farage told GB News on Monday, but asked the question: “Does it make sense for NATO to allow these, it risks effectively locking Putin here as it expands and expands until it incorporates its borders. are we
Mr Farage said his view may not be popular in Westminster, urging Western countries to offer Putin “a way for us to start some kind of peace talks”.
“For years I have been somewhat critical of NATO enlargement. I always believed that this was a provocation against the Russian leader, who would use paranoia on his people… I even predicted in the European Parliament that there would be a war in Ukraine in 2014,” Faraj recalled.
However, he denied that trying to prevent a war or calling for peace talks made him “a supporter of Putin while the left was shouting”, and declared that he deeply regretted what had happened in Ukraine over the past three months. .
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– Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) March 31, 2022
Despite the devastation and loss of life and economic turmoil in Ukraine, war has left the world’s supply chains and threatened potential famine, with little appetite for peace in the halls of power in Washington, London or Brussels. Attempts to negotiate with Moscow, such as those of French President Emmanuel Macron, have been widely criticized for doing so.
According to Ukrainian media, the UK government has been the biggest obstacle to any peace talks with Russia, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson told President Volodymyr Zelensky during his visit to Kiev last month that he would not support peace talks with Putin on the assumption that the West would not. The Russian army can be defeated.
Quoting a close friend of President Zelensky, ukraine truth Johnson reported: “Johnson brought two simple messages to Kiev: Putin is a war criminal, he must be prosecuted, not bargained. Second, if you’re prepared to enter into some sort of warranty agreement with him, we’re not.”
The Johnson administration has also sworn the lives of British soldiers to protect Sweden and Finland if they are attacked by Russia during an interim period when applications for NATO membership are being considered by the national parliaments of the alliance member states.
Putin has warned of possible retaliation if there is a military formation between the two countries on the Russian border.
Boris announces Finnish plans to join NATO as British troops promised to protect Finland and Sweden from Russia https://t.co/9EDyJvzuat
– Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) 12 May 2022
Despite widespread support for Scandinavian countries to join NATO, there are other potential obstacles that could derail this process. So far, the main opposition has come from Turkey, which entered into an enlargement alliance in 1952.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his government will not support any country that enters NATO that imposes sanctions on Turkey, referring to a 2019 ban on arms sales from Sweden due to Turkey’s military actions in Syria.
The two countries have also provided a safe haven for members of the PKK, a Kurdish separatist group classified by Turkey as a terrorist organization, leading to Sweden being described as a “brewing ground” for terrorism and thus unworthy. of NATO. Turkey’s resistance will be enough to block the entry of Sweden and Finland, as new members of the alliance must be approved by all 30 national parliaments of the alliance.
“Guesthouse for terrorist organizations” – Turkey opposes Sweden and Finland joining NATO https://t.co/MZ9Ryuj85Q
– Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 15, 2022
Source: Breitbart
