In June, he called Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan from Air Force One on the way to a summit in Madrid, in hopes of getting Erdogan’s support for expanding the alliance. Dangling a one-on-one meeting, Biden said of Turkey’s long-sought access to America’s F-16 fighter jets, “Let’s find a way to get that done,” according to the White House. By March 2024, Sweden and Finland were in. “Everybody thought, including you guys, thought I was crazy,” Biden says. “Guess what? I did it.”
After both countries applied for membership in May 2022, Biden turned to getting the rest of NATO to accept them. In June, he called Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan from Air Force One on the way to a summit in Madrid, in hopes of getting Erdogan’s support for expanding the alliance.
https://time.com/6984970/joe-biden-2024-interview/
Προσέξτε αυτό το σημείο της συνέντευξης που μόλις ανέβηκε : από τον Ιούνιο 2022 άρχισε το παζάρι ΜΕ ΠΡΩΤΟΒΟΥΛΊΑ Biden (!!!) ώστε η Τουρκία να πάρει τελικά τα F-16 (αναβαθμισμένα κ τα kit για την αναβάθμιση των υπαρχόντων), με αντάλλαγμα την υπογραφή της για την επέκταση του ΝΑΤΟ (ένταξη Σουηδίας κ Φινλανδίας)
