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Sweden and Finland recently submitted a "joint" application to NATO, hoping that NATO can open a "green channel" for itself. For the application of these two Nordic powers, the United States and NATO have given "special attention". However, the incident has caused discontent among other NATO members, and after Turkey, the second NATO member who said "no" has emerged.
(NATO receives "contraction" applications from Sweden and Finland)
According to the Global Network quoted Russian media news, Croatian President Milanovic has stated that he intends to let Croatia's representative in NATO, Nobiro, express his opposition to NATO's acceptance of Sweden and Finland. His statement further increased the resistance of The Two Countries to join NATO, because before Croatia's statement, Turkey had made it clear that it would firmly say "no" unless a series of conditions proposed by Turkey were met. At present, Turkey is preparing for the US-Turkey leaders' meeting to "resolve differences", and the leaders of The Two Countries also intend to "ask Biden for help", Biden said that he will not go to Turkey, but he pretended to be optimistic, saying that "it will be fine".
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Biden's apparent optimism clearly can't hide the deep-seated contradictions between the United States and Turkey, because Turkey bought Russia's S-400 air defense weapons and the United States excluded Turkey from the F-35 fighter program. The Two Countries have contacts with the Kurds, and turkey has its own demands on the Cyprus issue. In addition, the "Gulen problem" has always been a sticking point between the United States and Turkey. In this case, even if The Two Countries ask the United States for help, the United States may find it difficult to guarantee Turkey's attitude.
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The emergence of Croatia has compounded the problem. In fact, Croatia itself is opposed to NATO expansion, and even before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict began, Milanovic had made it clear that he opposed NATO's expansion in "any direction." Note that he emphasizes "any direction", that is, not only Ukraine, NATO expansion in other directions, which is also not possible in Croatia's view. Milanovic believes that NATO's expansion is actually putting Croatia at risk, and he doesn't want Croatian soldiers to take risks because of it.
(Ukrainian soldiers surrender at Mariupol)
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Milanovich's attitude became even tougher, and he made it clear that he opposed NATO's admission of The Franco-Swedish-French countries, because it would provoke Russia. Milanovic also believes that NATO has always ignored Croatia and the interests of croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, countries such as Bulgaria, Romania and North Macedonia have also suffered from the EU's snubbing to varying degrees, but now Finland and Sweden can enjoy the "green channel" to join NATO, which makes them quite dissatisfied.
In fact, Ukraine sees this scene now, it is estimated that it is also full of mixed feelings, ukraine has not always wanted to become a member of NATO, but now Ukraine has become NATO's cannon fodder. Because The two countries are rich countries, they have obtained the "green channel". So it shows that Ukraine should not count on NATO at all. Especially the United States, if Ukraine still thinks that the United States is very reliable, then The price for Ukraine will be even greater.