Given Turkish President Erdogan's behavior, NATO should take his words to heart, writes DanDePetris. He isn’t afraid to ruffle feathers or stand in as the black sheep of the NATO family.
President Joe Biden, who encouraged and reportedly spent months behind the scenes trying to push through the Nordic nations’ accession, was beaming at the Turkish-Finnish-Swedish compromise."I want to particularly thank you for what you did putting together the situation with regard to Finland and Sweden," Biden told Erdogan at the start of their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of this week's NATO summit."You’re doing a great job.
But no agreement is worth the paper it’s written on if the parties don’t live up to the bargain. Negotiating, drafting, and signing an accord is only half the battle. Just as important is the implementation. And that’s where this memorandum will likely get into trouble. And that’s why the entire document is a bit fuzzy. It’s written in such a way that all of the parties can walk away thinking they accomplished their main objectives. But the different interpretations can cause trouble and potentially doom the document to irrelevance. While keeping terms somewhat general may help clinch a deal, it can also prove to be poison when it comes time for the parties to abide by it.
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