Flag of Turkey. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 18. The French television channel France24 published a material on Turkey's position regarding the possible entry into NATO of Finland and Sweden. On Monday, President Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara cannot say yes to the membership of these two countries in the alliance, because it cannot believe their assurances regarding relations with representatives banned in Turkey PKK. As Bloomberg reported citing sources, Ankara also demands to return it to the program for the supply of the latest F-35 fighters and lift US sanctions for the purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems. /2bafbf8870f652595467a37dc5400dc3.jpg» />In China, they said that NATO was embraced by a «new wave of madness» The publication caused an active response from users in the comments. «After the beginning of the end of the EU (in particular thanks to Hungary), the beginning of the end of NATO has come. This demonstrates the obvious: decisions that must be made by an absolute majority in any unification are impossible as soon as some serious problem arises. And this makes the whole organization completely helpless and vulnerable,» wrote user Rousseau Edmond. Erdogan, because he is someone who does not inspire much confidence in me, but: congratulations, Mr. Erdogan, please do not kowtow, as our leaders do to the United States, and hold on!» — Said Mariboo22. «Turkey is not such a vassal country as France to the United States,» noted abdel ido. .) are neutral, why destabilize the region,» JPDU69 noted. Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO is aimed at confrontation. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov emphasized that further expansion of the alliance would not bring greater security to Europe, the alliance has an aggressive character. At the same time, he noted that he did not consider the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO an existential threat to Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niiniste, pointed out that abandoning the traditional policy of military neutrality would be a mistake, since there are no threats to Finland's security. jpg» />Zakharova: there is no unity in NATO between politicians and the population of the countries of the alliance
