Stockholm Offers Fighter Jets for Ukraine if Sweden is Allowed to Join NATO

I'm pretty sure we would donate them directly to Erdogan himself if it got us into NATO quicker.

Our newspapers here in Sweden were celebrating that Bob Menendez is getting indicted for bribery, because we see him as a barrier for the US sending F-16s to the Turkish Dictator. With him gone, we're getting excited that Erdogan will finally let us into NATO once he gets his F-16s.

Grippens...?

Deal. We'll just kick Turkey out. Who needs the Dardanelles anyway, what is this, the 15th century?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Swedish defense ministry said on Friday it could contribute its Gripen warplanes to a Western coalition that is trying to speed fighter jets to Ukraine — but only after Sweden is allowed into NATO.

The offer, included in a $200 million package of weapons, 155-millimeter caliber ammunition and other defense support for Ukraine, was the latest move in an ongoing diplomatic effort to persuade Turkey to drop its objection to Sweden joining the military alliance.

“Support in the form of JAS-39 Gripen would be conditional on Sweden first becoming a member of NATO,” the Swedish Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had tentatively agreed to admit Sweden in July, on the eve of NATO’s annual summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Sweden’s conditional offer to give some JAS-39 Gripens also comes as NATO is racing to train Ukrainian pilots and support crews to fly Western fighter jets — what officials and experts describe as one of the few weapons systems that could change the course of the 19-month war.

But the Defense Ministry statement on Friday said that it would review the training needed for Ukraine’s pilots as well as the support that Stockholm might receive from the Western fighter jet coalition as it mulls whether to reverse course.

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I don't think Stockholm actually has any fighter jets... so naturally it's easy for them to promise!