{"id":774938,"date":"2022-12-29T19:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=774938"},"modified":"2022-12-29T19:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T16:14:58","slug":"sweden-joining-nato-would-crush-russian-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2022\/12\/29\/sweden-joining-nato-would-crush-russian-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden joining NATO would crush Russian power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sweden joining NATO would crush Russian power\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/txvkGcEL2H0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Both Finland and Sweden are set to join the\u00a0NATO\u00a0alliance this year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The two countries, previously neutral, changed their minds after Russia\u2019s\u00a0invasion\u00a0of Ukraine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finland and Sweden will both have to rejigger their\u00a0armed forces\u00a0away from territorial defense and toward helping defend an entire continent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia\u2019s invasion of\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0has created an unwanted situation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and one of the most unexpected effects of his actions is the flipping of former neutral states Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Instead of intimidating his Scandinavian neighbors into accommodating his demands, Putin\u2019s invasion has pushed them into the waiting arms of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, where they will join 30 other countries in the\u00a0collective defense of Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s invasion of\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0has created an unwanted situation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and one of the most unexpected effects of his actions is the flipping of former neutral states Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Instead of intimidating his Scandinavian neighbors into accommodating his demands, Putin\u2019s invasion has pushed them into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":774940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,502],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-774938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-sweden","tag-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}