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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What to Do with Climate Emotions</strong> - If the goal is to insure that the planet remains habitable, what is the right degree of panic, and how do you bear it? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/what-to-do-with-climate-emotions">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Wes Moore Would Like to Make History</strong> - Maryland’s first Black governor talks about his surprise win, what working in banking taught him about power, his grandmother’s advice, and the importance of service. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/wes-moore-would-like-to-make-history">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Alternative Facts of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.</strong> - The Democratic Presidential candidate talks about his right-wing admirers, his distrust of scientists and the media, and his belief that the C.I.A. was involved in J.F.K.’s death. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-alternative-facts-of-robert-f-kennedy-jr">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Conspiracies of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.</strong> - The anti-vaccine activist and litigator with a famous name and a long history of addiction has decided to run for President. David Remnick probes what his candidacy is all about. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-conspiracies-of-robert-f-kennedy-jr">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>To Save the Planet, Should We Really Be Moving Slower?</strong> - The degrowth movement makes a comeback. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/to-save-the-planet-should-we-really-be-moving-slower">link</a></p></li>
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A conversation about parenting, our planet, and holding onto hope.
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There are a handful of topics that I almost force myself to not think about because the thoughts lead to a dead end. At the top of that list is climate change. It’s one of those problems that starts to overwhelm me when I consider the scale and the implications and all the barriers to tackling it.
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I also know I can’t ignore it, because it’s real and it’s getting more urgent. In fact, the average temperature was as hot as it’s ever been, or at least as hot as we’ve ever recorded it to be, several days <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/world-breaks-hottest-day-record-third-time-this-week-us-agency-2023-07-07/">already this month</a>. And if you live in the northeast United States, you’ve probably noticed the smoke blanket looming over you in recent weeks thanks to wildfires in Canada.
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The question a lot of us have asked ourselves at various points is: What is <em>my</em> responsibility in this situation? What can I, as an individual, do?
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There isn’t an easy answer here, in part because the problem is too big for any one of us to solve. But if you’re a parent — as I am — the climate predicament takes on an additional dimension. You have to wonder not just about the ethics of raising children in an unstable world. You also have to decide, in a very concrete way, what you <em>really</em> value and whether or not you’re willing to live in accordance with those values.
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I spoke with Elizabeth Cripps for <em>The Gray Area</em> (full episode below). She’s a professor of political theory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and she’s the author of a new book called <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047586/parenting-on-earth/"><em>Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher’s Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids — and Everyone Else</em></a>.
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Cripps writes about issues like climate change and the ethics of collective responsibility, and her work has always emphasized the real possibilities for political reform. In her new book, Cripps makes what might seem like a strange turn to parenting, but it’s not strange at all, because it’s about the responsibilities we have as parents and citizens to build a sustainable future. The book walks the reader through the real-life choices we’re all facing, whether we have kids or not, and it explores what it means to be a climate activist in a world that forces us to make complicated — and sometimes contradictory — choices.
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<strong>So this is a book about parenting. We’re gonna talk a lot about parenting. You have two daughters. How old are they?</strong>
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They are 10 and nearly eight. Having them was what inspired me to write the book and made me think about climate change and these other emergencies in a new way. I’d already known how important climate justice was and then suddenly it was my own children whose future was at stake. And it seemed to matter to me in a whole new way, and I felt it was really important for me as a philosopher, but also as a person to try and figure out what it actually meant to be a parent at the moment.
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<strong>Is this a space where your academic interest and your private life as a parent sort of converge?</strong>
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They do very much converge. I’ve written and thought about climate justice since I started my academic career. But then when I had my first daughter, I just couldn’t stop making the link between all these new responsibilities that I had to her and the state of the world for the next generation. There was surprisingly little that was written about the direct question of what, as parents, we should be doing about climate change because we owe it to our own children. There’s a lot about intergenerational justice generally. But this specific question, which seems so important to me, hadn’t been massively discussed, and I thought, “I really need to figure this out.”
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<strong>It’s a gigantic question, but what do you personally think we most owe our children?</strong>
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I mean, it’s a huge philosophical question, what exactly we owe our children, but most people who have thought about this relatively recently tend to say, we owe it to our children to give them a good childhood. So, to give them all the things they need while we are caring for them, but also to prepare them to be adults, to enable them to live flourishing lives as adults.
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I think that makes intuitive sense: what I owe to my children is to give them a good shot at a decent, flourishing human life. And that means caring for them now. It means thinking about what they’ll need as adults and helping them to get that.
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But I also think now, when we can’t rely on our governments to protect our children’s future because they’re really not acting on climate change, being a good parent inevitably then has this other element of trying to think about what we can do to change that.
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<strong>But you also push back against this parenting style that you call the parental saint. That sounds like such a good thing to be. What could possibly be wrong with being a parental saint — which is obviously a play on the idea of a moral saint?</strong>
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Absolutely it is. So there’s this great quote from <a href="https://godandgoodlife.nd.edu/digital-essays/susan-wolf-s-moral-saints-reject-moral-perfection-rethink-morality-don-t-obsess-over-morality/#:~:text=I%20don't%20know%20whether,morally%20worthy%20as%20can%20be.">Susan Wolf</a> who says, I don’t know exactly what a moral saint is, but I’m glad that neither I nor anybody I care about is one. The idea being that we wouldn’t be able to do so many of the things that give our lives enjoyment and meaning if we were focused entirely on doing what we could for others all the time. And equally, she says, if we always did that as a society, we would lose other things that are incredibly valuable: great works of literature and art and so on.
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I think similarly we could say, as parents, if we throw everything we have at our children and deny ourselves all our other interests, then it seems that a lot of value would also be lost. And it’s also unclear that that would be what’s best for our own children.
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<a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691173733/family-values">Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift</a>, who talk about this a lot, talk about the fact that it can be good for our own children to see their parents having their own interests. Although, of course, it’s also important to have this family relationship and to do things you value together. So it’s a balancing act.
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<strong>Part of the conflict here is between well-intentioned parents wanting to help build the institutions that will protect us and our kids in the future from things like climate change. And something you say explicitly in the book: “When it comes to protecting our children … the buck stops with us.” This is something I feel pretty intensely because I’m not sure how much faith I have in our institutions moving forward. But I think that you are right to caution parents against assuming that our institutions will safeguard our kids’ futures.</strong>
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<strong>And if we are right to be worried about that, then, how do we balance the desire to protect our kids as much as possible against the desire to sacrifice in service of institutions we think are failing — and in many cases have already failed?</strong>
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I think it is a mistake to think that we can rely on current institutions to protect our children. I think it’s quite clear that our governments aren’t going to act adequately on climate change unless a lot more pressure is put on them. I also think it’s really worth stressing that it’s a very privileged position to be in, only just to be realizing that.
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Only a middle-class white parent could be saying, “Oh my goodness, I’ve just realized that our government isn’t looking after my children.” For parents of color, that’s something that they’ve been dealing with for generations.
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In terms of the institutions themselves, I think we are in a position now where it’s not a straightforward case of saying, my government’s not gonna protect my child, so I’m going to protect them as an individual, because we can’t do that. Nobody — possibly if they’re a billionaire building a bunker underground — can ensure some kind of future life for their child, even in extreme climate change situations. But for most of us, even privileged people, this isn’t something that we can do alone.
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So we have a third option. Which is changing and challenging these institutions on behalf of our children. And that is why I end up saying the most important thing that we need to do as parents is to be activists. And I don’t say that lightly, but I think that’s a kind of unavoidable position when we’ve got to this point.
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<strong>What does that mean really, to be an activist? That’s a term, at least in our discourse, that’s a little loaded. What does it really mean at this moment in history, about this issue in particular, to be an activist? </strong>
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As I use it, it means working with others to try and change what’s happening collectively, to get a just response to these global emergencies. So that could involve anything from petitioning banks and pension funds to change what they do to being part of some kind of coordinated lifestyle change movements to move away from flying or driving, or campaigning to reform the public transport systems. It can also mean directly trying to lobby with or work with, or even become a politician and change what happens politically. It could even involve civil disobedience.
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I think there’s a huge range of actions there, and what it makes sense for individual parents to do is very much going to depend on not only what’s most needed, but also what opportunities they have, what talents they have, what skills they have, how much money they have, how much time they have.
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There’s gonna be lots of different things that people can do, from donating huge amounts of money, to well-chosen charities, to spending their time in certain ways.
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<strong>You mentioned civil disobedience. Are you familiar with Andreas Malm? His book, </strong><em><strong>How to Blow up a Pipeline</strong></em><strong>? </strong><a href="https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/22691428/vox-conversations-climate-change-andreas-malm"><strong>He was on the show</strong></a><strong>. In brief, he’s making the argument that, given how dire this problem is, if you really want to be an effective activist on this front, things may have to get a little dicey, a little less safe. We may have to take certain measures beyond civil disobedience. Not necessarily blowing up a pipeline, but more subversive acts in order to instigate the sorts of changes we need. How does that argument sit with you?</strong>
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To start with, I would say that there’s evidence that a wide range and combination of tactics can work well together. So, what different people do is gonna depend on the situations they’re in.
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But for me, I think the key moral distinction is between violent and nonviolent action. And by that I mean, there’s a key distinction between civil disobedience and violence against property, on the one hand, and violence against people, which is just a clear moral no-no.
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<strong>Yeah, I said this to Andreas and I’ll say it again here to you. Even though I certainly grant the distinction between violence to property and violence to people, purely as a political question, I think taking those sorts of measures now will probably undercut our efforts more than anything else.</strong>
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<strong>You talked about your daughters earlier. They’re still a little young for this, but, in a few years, how would you react if one of your daughters came to you and said that they have decided that they’re gonna engage in subversive activities in defense of climate efforts, what would you tell them? That’s a tough question, I know.</strong>
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It is a tough question. I’ve taken them on climate protest marches with me. I think that there is a clear philosophical defense of civil disobedience when the government is essentially not doing its part in the social contract, it’s not protecting children, future generations’ basic rights.
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So that does give this clear justification for principled lawbreaking. But as you say, there is then this further question of what works.
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So I think what I would be saying to my daughters is, have you done the research on what’s gonna be effective? Have you thought through the impact for yourself?
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But ultimately it’s up to them. I think that key difference is between violence against property and violence against people, the latter of which I would never, ever condone, but I want to bring up my children to understand the challenges that face them and to be aware of the range of options there are for tackling them.
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<strong>There is a giant, awkward, looming question hanging over these kinds of conversations: should we even be having kids at all? Now, I think this is a ridiculous question, but lots of people don’t.</strong>
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Yeah, I thought it was really important to discuss this question. For me, the important question is really, what do we owe our children when we have them? That was the one I really wanted to tackle in this book, but this is a live question for a lot of people. People are asking this and they’re asking it for various reasons.
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There’s the concern, about the world that you would be bringing this child into. And I understand that concern, and I think one of my fears of not acting on climate change is of leaving the next generation in a situation where they really do face this stark choice between not having children at all and those children having a terrible future.
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We can still do something about this. And then there’s the other sort of main argument, which is the carbon impact of having children. It’s one of the biggest carbon impact decisions that we make as an individual. What I do in the book is reflect on choices that I made and my husband made there, rather than try and dictate to anyone else, because I just don’t think it would be appropriate to be doing that.
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As with all other individual choices, like not flying and not driving, there are moral reasons not to do something that has high carbon impact, but on the other hand, not having children would be such a huge sacrifice for many people. I mean, it’s a really fundamental part for many people of living a flourishing life. It’s a really amazing and valuable relationship.
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This crisis is caused by governments, fossil fuel companies. It is not caused by individuals. To be saying to individuals — including individual women whose bodies are ultimately in question here — “Oh, you shouldn’t be having children,” just doesn’t seem like the right response.
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But I don’t want to say that there’s some kind of universal rule, that everyone should stop at some set number of children, because people have very different reasons for valuing different family sizes. It’s just not reasonable to say there’s some rule that everyone should just stop at some fixed number of children or choose to do that. I don’t think that makes moral sense.
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<strong>Yeah, and look, I should say, while I think the answer to the question “Should we stop having kids?” is very obviously no, I understand the anxiety out of which that question springs. My son is four. Sometimes I do think about what might await him in the future, and it scares the absolute shit outta me to the point where I kind of just stop thinking about it, really.</strong>
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<strong>The premise beneath the question is what upsets me a little bit, because it’s both counterproductive and also fatalistic in a way we have to reject. We don’t know the future. We don’t know what’s possible. We have no idea how much happiness may come to our kids in the future. To have a kid at all is already an expression of hope. And if we’re done with hope, then we’re just done.</strong>
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I think there’s a really important difference between a passive hope, and what I call active or earned hope. So yes, in having children, it is, as you say, a kind of declaration of hope.
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But I then think that we owe it to our children to try and work together to protect their futures rather than just sitting back and having the reaction you sometimes see, which is middle-aged people looking at youth strikers and saying, “You give me hope. You’re amazing as a generation.” Because it’s not just their job to do that. It’s our job as parents to be protecting their future.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson pose for a photograph during their meeting ahead of the NATO Summit on July 11, 2023 in Vilnius, Lithuania. | Filip Singer/Pool/Getty Images
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has agreed to support Sweden’s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO), <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/7/8/23787509/sweden-turkey-nato-membership-summit-drama">a last-minute about-face</a> that delivers a symbolic win for the military pact ahead of its summit on Tuesday.
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Late Monday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced that Erdoğan would push for Sweden’s ratification into NATO. It was a pretty remarkable turnaround from Erdoğan, whose objections seemed to deepen earlier Monday, when he <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/7/8/23787509/sweden-turkey-nato-membership-summit-drama">tried to tie Sweden’s NATO prospects</a> to Turkey’s ascension to the European Union.
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Sweden had already <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/7/8/23787509/sweden-turkey-nato-membership-summit-drama">made a series of concessions</a> to Turkey to persuade Erdoğan, and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nato-membership-turkey-sweden-hungary-9bdf70de90ac0fb6e0ba1c8cc72f9f10">Stoltenberg,</a> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/erdogan-biden-held-call-discussed-swedens-nato-bid-turkish-presidency-2023-07-09/">the United States,</a> and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-sunak-tells-turkey-hopes-swedens-nato-accession-will-happen-soon-2023-07-07/">other NATO allies</a> had spent recent days trying to convince Erdoğan to <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/23581876/turkey-sweden-finland-nato-membership">end his months-long obstruction</a>. Allies are gathering in Vilnius, Lithuania <a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden/2023/7/10/23790174/joe-biden-europe-uk-nato-ukraine-finland">for this year’s NATO summit</a>, and Turkey’s objections undermined the sense of cohesion the alliance sought to project. It also distracted from the other difficult diplomacy leaders are working on this week, most notably, the question of <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/stronger-nato-more-dangerous-world-vilnius-jens-stoltenberg?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=pre_release&utm_campaign=&utm_content=20230710&utm_term=PressCFR%20and%20Members%20-%20ALL">Ukraine’s future NATO membership</a>.
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Glad to announce that after the meeting I hosted with <a href="https://twitter.com/RTErdogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="RTErdogan">@RTErdogan</span></a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/SwedishPM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="SwedishPM">@SwedishPM</span></a>, President Erdogan has agreed to forward <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sweden?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Sweden</a>’s accession protocol to the Grand National Assembly ASAP & ensure ratification. This is an historic step which makes all <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NATO?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NATO</a> Allies stronger & safer. <a href="https://t.co/D7OeR5Vgba">pic.twitter.com/D7OeR5Vgba</a>
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— Jens Stoltenberg (<span class="citation" data-cites="jensstoltenberg">@jensstoltenberg</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/jensstoltenberg/status/1678484703060324359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2023</a>
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Turkey’s parliament (<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/09/erdogan-orban-nato-sweden/">along with Hungary’s</a>) must still ratify Sweden’s membership, so this is not a totally done deal yet. But NATO can still claim<strong> </strong>a<strong> </strong>big victory — and, er, a totally natural photo-op — as the summit begins. This is more than just symbolism, though. This year, NATO expanded, and will gain two new members, bringing the total to 32. Finland (which officially joined in April) and Sweden had long pursued policies of nonalignment, cooperating with NATO, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/13/23069341/finland-sweden-nato-membership-russia-ukraine-war">but staying firmly outside the pact</a>. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced Finland and Sweden to reconsider their security interests, and see ascension as a deterrent to future Russian aggression.
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Finland’s and Sweden’s membership, then, is a defeat for Vladimir Putin, whose war in Ukraine ultimately spurred the enlargement and potentially, the reshaping, of the alliance. NATO wants to seize on this moment to reinvigorate its mission and reimagine its role in the defense of Europe and its position in the world.
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Last summer, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/13/23069341/finland-sweden-nato-membership-russia-ukraine-war">Finland and Sweden dropped</a> their long-held stance of nonalignment and announced their intention to join NATO. The two European Union countries had a long history of cooperating closely with the alliance, and both are strong, stable democracies — typically the ideal formula for a smooth membership.
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Erdoğan saw it differently. The Turkish leader opposed their bids because of what he saw as the countries’ support for Kurdish groups that he regards as terrorist organizations, and because of the countries’ arms embargoes on Turkey. At last year’s NATO summit in Madrid, Turkey, Finland, and Sweden <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/13/23069341/finland-sweden-nato-membership-russia-ukraine-war">all agreed to a memorandum of understanding</a> that seemed to resolve these issues.
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But it didn’t last. Though the Turkish leader ultimately allowed Finland to join, he <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/23581876/turkey-sweden-finland-nato-membership">continued to block Sweden’s entry</a>, saying that it still had not been tough enough on terrorists.
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Erdoğan’s definition of terrorists, though, is pretty expansive, and often includes dissidents and others critical of his regime. Even if Turkey has a case, Sweden has to follow due process and rule of law and can’t just, say, extradite a bunch of people on a whim. A recent <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sweden-quran-burnings-islam-nato-russia-ukraine-bbcf9ebcae1b2897df77929919a4f765">Quran-burning outside a Stockholm mosque</a> has added to tensions, as Turkey interprets these as Sweden’s permissive attitude toward anti-Islamic protests rather than freedom of speech.
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Even so, Sweden made concessions, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sweden-turkey-nato-terror-laws-pkk-ed6dc182a351de8f338269e184d49d96">including strengthening its antiterrorism laws</a> and by agreeing to extradite some individuals, including at least one person convicted of a drug crime in Turkey in 2013. (The person claims <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sweden-turkey-kurds-hdp-pkk-extradition-a3c20e6712657bd465711bd0144404e0">the real reason for his extradition</a> is his PKK ties.) But Sweden is also trying to walk a delicate line, as both its government and its citizens have insisted they <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-03/swedes-reject-legal-concessions-for-turkey-s-nato-assent-in-dagens-nyheter-poll#xj4y7vzkg">will not compromise on rule of law to appease Turkey</a>.
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In addition to these steps,<strong> </strong>the hope was that Erdoğan, <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/5/28/23735070/turkey-elections-erdogan-akp-nato-united-states">fresh off a big reelection win this May</a>, would no longer be seeking easy political wins, and so might ease off his Sweden stance by the time this summit rolled around. But just because Erdoğan won another term didn’t mean he would become a different president. <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/5/28/23735070/turkey-elections-erdogan-akp-nato-united-states">As experts said</a>, he would see the election as a way to reset relations with the West — but on his terms. Which meant few Turkish observers thought he’d rush to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership after the election, at least not without getting something in return.
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That something might be F-16 fighter jets. The <a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">Biden administration</a> has been very clear that it will be happy to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/biden-says-he-erdogan-talked-about-f16s-sweden-2023-05-29/">let Turkey buy upgraded equipment</a>, and hasn’t even been all that discreet about <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/biden-says-he-erdogan-talked-about-f16s-sweden-2023-05-29/">using it as leverage in this effort</a> to get Sweden into NATO. “I congratulated Erdogan. He still wants to work on something on the F-16s. I told him we wanted a deal with Sweden, so let’s get that done,” President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/biden-says-he-erdogan-talked-about-f16s-sweden-2023-05-29/">said</a> after Erdoğan’s election win in May.
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But it isn’t quite that simple. Congress ultimately has a say over weapons transfers, and it has continued to object to an F-16 deal over the Sweden-NATO standoff, but also other concerns, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/senior-us-lawmaker-wants-change-turkey-before-f-16-sale-approval-2023-05-31/">such as Turkey’s anti-democratic slide and Syria</a>. Over the weekend, Biden and Erdoğan had a chat, <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-not-ready-for-nato-turkey-erdogan-tells-us-joe-biden/">where they talked about F-16s</a>, but the Turkish leader appeared to bristle at the idea of a possible quid pro quo, basically saying it was <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-not-ready-for-nato-turkey-erdogan-tells-us-joe-biden/">“not correct”</a> to connect the two.
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Turkey officially <a href="https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-policy/turkiye_en">entered into ascension negotiations</a> with the EU in 2005, but its democratic and rule-of-law backsliding under Erdoğan, especially in recent years, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/world/europe/european-parliament-turkey-eu-membership.html">has put its bid indefinitely on hold</a>.
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It’s not really clear whether EU membership is even something Erdoğan really wants. Erdoğan uses his opposition to the West as a way to exert Turkey’s strength and influence, and that nationalism plays well domestically: being the headliner for the first days of the NATO summit and claiming that he revived Turkey’s EU bid may sell well at home. Even better if he ends up getting those F-16s.
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What’s also not clear is how the Sweden debacle might further transform relations between the West and Turkey. Turkey is proving itself an unreliable ally and partner. Though Erdoğan conceded in the end, he put the alliance through quite a bit of strain, and the West may have less tolerance in the future for Erdoğan’s antics. NATO will likely lean into its moment of unity now, but it is unlikely to obscure its current fractures for long.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> is in Europe this week for a series of pivotal meetings, <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/7/8/23787509/sweden-turkey-nato-membership-summit-drama">including a NATO summit</a> centered <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/6/10/23750041/russia-ukraine-war-counteroffensive-begins-explained">on long-term Ukraine policy</a> in Vilnius, Lithuania. These meetings come at a critical time: They are meant to signal the US and NATO countries’ enduring support of Ukraine, and to rally a newly expanded NATO as it struggles to align on the best response to <a href="https://www.vox.com/russia">Russia</a>’s ongoing military action.
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Biden’s first stop was in the United Kingdom, where he met with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak — and King Charles for the first time since his coronation. That visit will be followed by the NATO Summit, and another meeting in Helsinki, Finland, with Nordic countries.
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Members of the alliance have a lot to discuss: A question about Ukraine’s ability to join NATO remains outstanding. <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/7/7/23785820/cluster-bombs-ukraine-united-states-biden-treaty">And the US’s decision to send Ukraine cluster bombs</a>, a weapon that’s been banned by a number of NATO members, is also set to be addressed. Notably, member countries are likely to use the summit to discuss what long-term funding and military aid for Ukraine could entail.
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“The biggest critique of the US support for Ukraine is that it’s all very short-term,” says Max Bergmann, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “What about in 2024, in 2025?”
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Below is a look at what the US hopes to gain from these meetings, and where the country stands going into them.
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On Monday, Biden met with British Prime Minister Sunak, and described the relationship between the two countries as <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66156581">“rock solid.”</a> This week’s meeting enables Biden to reaffirm ties with the UK and marks his sixth with Sunak overall, though his first at 10 Downing Street.
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Reflecting on the enduring strength of our alliance, the leaders covered:<br/><br/> Progress to bolster the economic partnership<br/><br/>✅ The development of safe AI<br/><br/> Continuing long-term support for Ukraine<br/><br/> Ensuring Sweden’s accession to <a href="https://twitter.com/NATO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="NATO">@NATO</span></a><a href="https://t.co/C75c54mY8T">https://t.co/C75c54mY8T</a>
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— UK Prime Minister (<span class="citation" data-cites="10DowningStreet">@10DowningStreet</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1678392787572518912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2023</a>
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The meeting achieved multiple goals: In it, Biden emphasized <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/10/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-meeting-with-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-of-the-united-kingdom-4/">“steadfast support for Ukraine”</a> while addressing differences regarding new weapons the US plans to provide, talked through issues involved with NATO’s expansion, and reiterated the US and UK’s special relationship.
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The meeting enabled both Biden and Sunak to offer a united front regarding their backing for Ukraine, though they’ve previously differed on how explicit to be about the country’s ability to join NATO. While both agree Ukraine shouldn’t join until its war with Russia is over, the UK has appeared more supportive of Ukraine’s efforts to do so, while the US has been more cautious, due to the risk of opening up direct military conflict with Russia.
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“The UK has been at the vanguard of supporting Ukraine,” says Garret Martin, a codirector of the Transatlantic Policy Institute at American University. “On that issue, the UK has been a very important partner in pushing the needle and even influencing the US to escalate.” In a recent <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/09/politics/joe-biden-ukraine-nato-russia-cnntv/index.html">CNN interview</a>, Biden indicated that he favored providing a path for Ukraine and addressing additional conditions, rather than bringing the country into the group in the short term.
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“I don’t think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war,” he said. Sunak has said that Ukraine’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/10/biden-uk-nato-sunak-king/">“rightful place”</a> is in NATO.
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The leaders also talked about the US’s recent and controversial delivery of cluster bombs to Ukraine. The UK and over 120 other countries have signed a convention that blocks the use of such weapons because of the threat they pose to civilians. The weapons are known to have unintended effects: Unexploded bombs can explode years later when triggered accidentally, hurting or killing civilians.
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Biden and Sunak “discussed the commitments that UK has under that convention, both not to produce or use cluster munitions and to discourage their use,” a spokesperson for the prime minister said, <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/joe-biden-says-us-uk-relationship-rock-solid-despite-disagreements-over-ukraine-12918578">according to Sky News</a>. Sunak said he did what he could to convey the UK’s position on the weapons; they will be transferred to Ukraine as scheduled.
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Sweden’s NATO membership was also on the agenda. <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/7/8/23787509/sweden-turkey-nato-membership-summit-drama">As Vox’s Jen Kirby has explained</a>, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted Finland and Sweden to request NATO membership. <a href="https://www.vox.com/turkey">Turkey</a> previously opposed both the bids of Finland and Sweden because of “what [President Recep Tayyip Erdogan] saw as the countries’ support for Kurdish groups that he regards as terrorist organizations, and because of the countries’ arms embargoes on Turkey,” Kirby writes. Turkey had previously resolved its objections to Finland’s bid, and on Monday, it announced it had decided to accept Sweden’s bid to join.
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Beyond NATO, the two leaders also addressed further action on the Atlantic Declaration, an agreement made in June aimed at increasing cooperation over tech manufacturing, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/4/28/23702644/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-technology">AI</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy">clean energy</a>. After his confab with Sunak, Biden also met with King Charles for the first time, focusing heavily on their mutual interest in efforts to combat <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate">climate change</a>. The two spoke with representatives from the private sector to discuss how companies could make investments that help address the issue.
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The NATO Summit on Tuesday and Wednesday is a major part of Biden’s trip, during which he’ll engage with leaders from the alliance’s 31 member countries. The goal here is to get all of NATO to agree on a plan for supporting Ukraine longer term.
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Ukraine will likely receive a message about its potential inclusion in the bloc rather than an outright decision of whether it’s able to join. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has previously pushed for an explicit signal regarding Ukraine’s invitation into the group. Those in favor of offering Ukraine a clearer path to joining NATO, including a number of European countries, have said that doing so would bolster its security and defenses. Those who are warier of doing so at this time, including the US and Germany, have worried, however, about risking an explicit military confrontation with Russia.
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“I think there is more openness of Ukraine joining but there’s crucial differences in how quickly and how clear that guarantee should be,” says Martin.
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NATO’s countries are also slated to discuss what a longer-term response to Ukraine could look like, whether that’s a more enduring commitment to military aid or financial support. Up until now, countries have provided Ukraine with enough money and weapons to last a few months. A longer-term plan would signal how committed they are to defending Ukraine, as well as enable the country to make more in-depth strategic plans.
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“The most important component is that member states commit to weapon deliveries to Ukraine over a longer period of time,” says Council on Foreign Relations fellow Liana Fix. “The idea is to make this long-term and more formalized. It could be something like three to five years, not just in the next three to five months.”
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Sweden’s accession to NATO was another significant issue expected to be on the table before Turkey announced that it was dropping its objections on Monday. Turkey faced notable pressure from other member countries, including the US, to reverse its position. More recently, Turkey had suggested it may be willing to do so if it was granted membership in the <a href="https://www.vox.com/european-union">European Union</a>, something that is unlikely to happen, and allowed to purchase F-16 fighter jets from the US, something Biden had signaled support for.
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As part of the deal to relent on Turkey’s opposition, “Sweden [agreed to] help reinvigorate Turkey’s application to enter the European Union, and NATO [will] establish a new ‘special coordinator for counterterrorism,’” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/world/europe/erdogan-turkey-sweden-nato.html">the New York Times reported</a>.
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Now, rather than trying to convince Turkey to change its mind, the nations will likely discuss how to integrate Sweden into the alliance. Still, the prolonged conflict over Sweden’s inclusion points to divides within the group. Bridging those gaps will be vital to maintaining the unity of the alliance.
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“If Turkey doesn’t shift, there’s potential for a real rift in the alliance,” Bergmann said ahead of Turkey’s announcement.
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After the NATO Summit, Biden heads to Helsinki and will be there on Thursday. His visit is meant to commemorate Finland’s inclusion in NATO, and also to send a message to Putin that the US is ready to come to Finland’s aid should Russia violate the border the countries share.
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That summit will include gatherings with leaders from multiple Nordic countries including Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark. Given that Finland’s now in NATO, the country is likely to see increased support from member countries when it comes to shoring up its defense along its Russian border.
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Other issues like access to resources in the Arctic, where Russia and <a href="https://www.vox.com/china">China</a> have established themselves, are poised to be on the table as well. “The Arctic is likely going to become an even bigger element of economic and security competition in the years to come,” says Martin.
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<em><strong>Update, July 10, 4:30 pm:</strong></em><em> This story was originally published on July 10 and updated with the news of Turkey’s announcement about Sweden. </em>
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One day, a Navajo elder and his son were herding sheep and came across the space crew. The old man, who only spoke Navajo, asked a question, which the son translated, “What are the guys in the big suits doing?”
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A member of the crew said they were practicing for their trip to the moon. The old man got really excited and asked if he could send a message to the moon with the astronauts.
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After the old man recorded his message, they asked the son to translate. He refused. So the NASA reps brought the tape to the reservation, where the rest of the tribe listened and laughed, but refused to translate the elder’s message to the moon.
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I was playing basketball and got the opportunity to play with Shaq. It was great. Afterward it just so happens that I’m in the showers and it’s just him and me in adjoining showers. So I think to myself, I’ve got to see his penis. This is my one chance. I’ve just go to know.
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So I finish up fast and I do this like backwards walk out so I can peek and not make it awkward. I’m walking backwards, walking backwards and I look over. Immediately I see this gigantic black bodyguard standing there guarding the shower. Bald head, ugly as sin, and giving me the meanest look I’ve ever seen with his one squinted eye. I was caught. Totally humiliated.
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I’m leaving and I’m just like Oh my God. Oh my God. This guy is totally gonna rat me out to Shaq.
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An old lady was walking down the street with two huge bags over her shoulders. While suddenly, one of the bags break and 100$ bills start falling on the sidewalk one after another.
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“Oh my, thank you young man, most people these days would just walk by and not say a thing. You are such a sweetie.”, she replies, drops the bags and starts collecting the money.
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“How did an old lady like you get a full bag of money anyways?”
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“Oh, it is an honest business don’t worry”, the woman says. “I live in a house right next to the golf course and I have a beautiful garden with lots of nice flowers. However my fence is old and full of holes, so the golfers tend to come next to the fence, stick it through the holes and pee all over my flowers. This really hurts my garden, so I have figured out a trick. When they put it in the hole, I am waiting there with gardening shears and I say: ‘Give me 100$ or off it goes.’”
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“That really is a smart solution, however, I have to ask, what is in the second bag?”
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