Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. I've looked at the documents, noting that the July 5th Accession document does not appear to be online, and I see no argument based the NATO Treaty language that supports a view that the US does not have a @NATO Art 5 obligation to both #Sweden and #Finland. Turkey agreed

2. to a unanimous "invitation" in Barcelona that was the only thing the Treaty requires. It says nothing about ratification. Erdogan & Orban, both allied with the war criminal Putin, have yet to approve the protocols. We should not let these two anti-democratic corrupt autocrats

3. control NATO. The US is the force that brings safety to members from #Kremlin aggression by being a counterbalance to the #Russian strategic missile forces. That is what makes NATO work more than any other factor. We cannot tolerate #Oban and #Erdogan

4. dictating our foreign policy vis-a-vis Russian aggression when both leaders are objectively working with #Putin and totally corrupt. Now, after a clumsy #Turkish false-flag operation, where Erdogan clearly bombed his own city, we are going to pretend that our #SDF

5. partners, who defeated #ISIS engaged in a suicide bombing where the alleged bomber is a member of a terrorist force controlled by Erdogan. This does not pass a giggle test and if Directors of @CIA Burns and @ODNIgov Haines are buying this absurdity they both should be removed.

6. On the contrary, I believe they and @JakeSullivan46 know it was the Turkish MIT that bombed Istanbul and are simply pretending to placate an anti-democratic autocrat with dreams of establishing the Califate in Syria under the guise of intelligence source and methods secrecy.

7. The men and women of @DeptofDefense and our IC are risking their lives daily to defend not only the US but all of @NATO from the threat Putin poses. The members and their families have moral right to know we are caving to a monster like Erdogan who is allied with both #ISIS

8. and Al-#Qaeda, against whom under the #2001AUMF the US is in a de facto state of war. Few people know what a slippery cuss Erdogan is more than @JoeBiden. I watched how @BarackObama would ditch dealing with Erdogan on now President Biden when he was @VP.

9. Every time Erdogan would try to pull a fast-one Joe Biden pushed back. Now Erdogan is testing @POTUS @JoeBiden by attacking an area of Syria where @USSOCOM is operating to see if President Biden, like his immediate predecessor, #thecreature #45, would cut and run.

10. The time has come to open the file on Erdogan and his family's corrupt dealings with NATO's and the US' enemies ISIS and Al-Qaeda and if it impacts the Turkish elections, so be it. Our leaders' duty is to the American people and not deceiving the US electorate

11. about the status of a pretend ally and candor towards us is more urgently critical than worrying about Turkey and its own electoral process. @TeamPelosi @SenSchumer @SenJackReed @RepAdamSmith @SecBlinken @SecDef @WHCOS @PressSec @NSC_Spox @StateDeptSpox