NATO Secretary General Iainz Stoltenberg said the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan had agreed to forward Sweden's accession to the Turkish parliament as soon as possible. He had blocked Sweden's NATO bid for more than a year, but told NATO officials who had dropped his objections after hours of meeting ahead of the Vilnius summit. So now Putin, who started this war, presumably to break out of NATO's grip, has actually strengthened NATO instead. The bottom line is that if his goal is to weaken NATO, obviously that has failed.

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