Published 5 February 2023 at 13.00
Foreign. The US's former national security adviser John Bolton is not impressed by Sweden's swagger in front of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Instead, Bolton wants to exclude the Turks from NATO.
– This is not like Sweden, says John Bolton in a longer interview with Nyheter Idag (!).
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– I don't think it is in Sweden's character to stoop to this kind of villainous behavior. It shouldn't do that for any NATO member, Bolton says, among other things, in the interview.
According to the former US official, who is counted among the hawks within the Republican Party's neoconservative phalanx, the Turkish people probably do not support Erdogan's policy.
– I think this is the policy of an aspiring Mussolini, and I think that if there is a free and fair election in Turkey, it is very likely that Erdogan will lose, says Bolton.< /p>
If Erdogan is re-elected through electoral fraud, Bolton wants the country to be excluded from NATO, he has previously said. And it is a message that he repeats in the interview with Nyheter Idag.
– Then I think we have to ask ourselves what is the value of NATO if we have such a member, he says.
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