vara bungas: Edvarda Lukasa pārdomas pēc diskusiju festivāla uz Gotlandes salas. Cik atpazīstama liberāli-demokrātiskā prakse, ja valdībai nepaīk kāda militārā tēma, tā tiek neoficiāli pasludināta par taboo, ko nepieklājas apspriest inteliģentu cilvēku sabiedrībā. Tā bija SE ar dalību NATO, vai LV ar OMD atjaunošanu, tā paliek ar Otavas konvenciju. Acīmredzot vēl nav pienācis laiks kost sev pirkstos, tad gan viss sāk ātri notikt. P-plānošana “shut eyes, cross fingers, and hope that the Americans will sort it out”.
[..] The other main topic of conversation, as this month’s NATO summit in Vilnius looms, was about Turkish and Hungarian foot-dragging on Sweden’s membership application. Until a couple of years ago, any discussion of joining NATO was almost taboo in Sweden. But the country could also have prepared better on the NATO issue, both with the notoriously prickly Turkish leadership, and with allies who have influence in Ankara. The Stockholm government’s approach now seems to be shut eyes, cross fingers, and hope that the Americans will sort it out. Perhaps. But the United States has many other issues to discuss with Turkey. Sweden should be thinking hard about how to spend its time in NATO’s waiting room constructively. For its part, the alliance should bend its rules to enable the closest possible cooperation.[..]
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