Hungary, which is now set to see its Gripen fleet grow from 14 to 18 jets, is the last holdout to Sweden joining NATO.
  • Lysol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    What’s the deal with linking the NATO membership with random fighter jets

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      10 months ago

      Hungary, Like Turkey, have been playing political games in the whole Finland and especially Sweden NATO membership, trying to get advantages out of the process.

      Basically vetoing deals until they can get something out of it. It’s likely that this fighter deal is part of that.