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Turkey’s veto on Finland and Sweden joining the alliance is part of a complex political game being played by Ankara.
Ankara has sought to reset its ties with Israel and the Arab world
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Garwood, N.J.: This letter is in response to Voicer Robert J. SanFilippo: Thank you for your letter. It made me smile. I could not finish reading Dr. Andrew Wickline’s op-ed (“The right way to curb opioid abuse by Americans,” May 16) because I was laughing, too.
It has been just six years since Russia’s Gazprom and its German partners announced plans to expand Russian gas imports into Europe via the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Greed motivated Germany, but Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interest went deeper. He understood the strategic value of a pipeline that would essentially unlink Ukraine from Europe.
Finland and Sweden have not joined NATO in the past, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led them to consider it.