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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNBC is pushing the opinion that it's a mistake for Sweden and Finland to join NATO.
WTH???????
Having greater strength against Russia deters Putin and his gangsters from their push to occupy every country in their reach. Everyone else agrees. What does NBC owe to Putin for pushing this kaka?
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/turkey-sweden-finland-nato-membership-is-bad-for-us-rcna35786
Lovie777
(12,278 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Publishing is not "pushing".
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,399 posts)And this retired USMC MGySgt says accepting these 2 Nordic countries into the alliance is the right thing to do.
Hell, my opinion is just as valid as his.
I agree, publishing is not pushing, but it can begin to be pushing if he keeps on writing negative opinions on this topic.
Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)They just had a retired general on screen speaking in detail about how great this will be, with Joe Scar agreeing.
He spoke about the modern militaries of Sweeden and Finland, and their strategic positions in relation to the arctic and Russia.
They are all for it.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)And then NBC had to add their other opinion.
gab13by13
(21,360 posts)mathematic
(1,439 posts)Finland and Sweden will be overwhelmingly approved for NATO by the Senate. If you're saying American "oligarchs" are opposed to that then rejoice! the oligarchy has fallen and democracy has once again taken hold in America.
Kaleva
(36,312 posts)If you tried to post that in LBN , it'd get locked fast
tavernier
(12,392 posts)But it felt like just another slap at Biden by the media.
Amishman
(5,557 posts)at least it was clearly labeled as an opinion piece and not framed as unbiased or factual.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)tavernier
(12,392 posts)Response to LAS14 (Reply #22)
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GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)They love their bothsiderism.
Ocelot II
(115,735 posts)Davis appears on Fox and has co-authored with Tulsi Gabbard, so you know where hes coming from.
vanlassie
(5,676 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,140 posts)Up to now, if a war ever broke out between NATO and Russia, both Finland and Sweden would have been protected by their neutral status.
Sure! Ask Belgium and the Netherlands how their neutral status worked out in WWII. Switzerland only escaped because their banking system helped enable the Nazi regime.
Ocelot II
(115,735 posts)Jose Garcia
(2,598 posts)JoanofArgh
(14,971 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,959 posts)... watching mostly NBC this AM - they and CNN have not had any "mistake" views expressed.
ananda
(28,866 posts)...
brooklynite
(94,600 posts)Do you seriously believe that NBC has a corporate position on who should be in NATO?
tavernier
(12,392 posts)They employ Rachel Maddow, but they also employ Andrea Mitchell.
brooklynite
(94,600 posts)...and fewer care. The only nation that generates buzz is Ukraine.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)This decision is a tremendous sigh of relief to the Baltic nations, and there are a great deal of people who are United States citizens whose ancestry is from Latvia Lithuania and Estonia. Many are still first generation from World War II, and their children and grandchildren retain their traditions and vigorously support their ancestry; Many many more than a handful of people who dont really care.
brooklynite
(94,600 posts)...that questioned whether Sweden or Finland should join?
LAS14
(13,783 posts)JoanofArgh
(14,971 posts)been on Fox News a lot. Particularly the Jesse Watters Show. Why NBC would publish an opinion piece from this right wing hack, I don't know.
OneBlueDotS-Carolina
(1,384 posts)Defense Priorities, which is....
Allies of Rand Paul, Koch take aim at hawks
Sen. Rand Pauls vision of a less militaristic foreign policy got little traction in the GOP primaries, but some of his key backers are joining forces with associates of billionaire Charles Koch in a fresh effort to steer Washington away from interventions in overseas wars.
Theyre launching a think tank, the Defense Priorities Foundation, that seeks to elevate national security policies that are decidedly out of the mainstream of Republican and even some Democratic foreign policy thinking, featuring a significantly greater reluctance to assert military force or even impose sanctions on nations such as North Korea. The related Defense Priorities Initiative, meanwhile, is designed as the organizations advocacy arm, which will seek to lobby Congress.
Among the architects of the nonprofit are William Ruger, a Navy Reserve officer who is the vice president for research and policy at the Charles Koch Institute. The institute is backed by the billionaire businessman and donor, who along with his brother David has poured millions into conservative political causes that champion lower taxes and lighter regulations.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/rand-paul-charles-koch-think-tank-224099
JoanofArgh
(14,971 posts)tavernier
(12,392 posts)Early this morning when I googled Finland Sweden NATO, that was the first article that came up, so apparently NBC did feel it was relevant.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)tavernier
(12,392 posts)I prefer to value and and praise every positive development that allows NATO to defend Europe from Putin.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)... but not keeping us in an echo-chamber like NewsMax.
ornotna
(10,803 posts)Rand Paul and Charles Koch are behind this nonsense.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)And they try to devalue the progress that Biden and the European leaders have been struggling for months to achieve and maintain. The fact that there are people here in DU who try to poo-poo us for calling it out just makes me wonder.
Takket
(21,578 posts)moondust
(19,993 posts)"Pander to Putin's Pretentious Paranoia"
Pooty knows he will not be able to subsume NATO countries like he's trying to do to Ukraine for his "rebuild the Russian Empire" vanity project.
ripcord
(5,409 posts)tavernier
(12,392 posts)But obviously not everyone cares about that.
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