Comments by US and Turkish Presidents Joe Biden and Tayyip Recep Tayyip Erdogan threaten to upstage the NATO summit and help Russian President Vladimir Putin, CNN reports July 10.
As NATO leaders meet in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, two clouds hang over the alliance’s pivotal summit.
Earlier, Erdogan told reporters that Sweden’s NATO membership should be linked to Turkey’s membership in the European Union.
US President Joe Biden tells CNN that Ukraine should not join the alliance until the conflict is over.
Both issues may detract from the main issues of the summit, but Western officials know that distractions that can be used to make the West appear disunited will be welcome in Russia at this time.
And this is the real reason why the officials heading to Vilnius are so upset. Both dramas created by Erdogan and Biden could generate headlines for the summit that set up a false premise and could ultimately make the meeting look like a failure in some respects.
And this only helps the person who looks from afar at the Kremlin.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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