Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Why is MOSCOW TERRIFIED of FINLAND's NATO membership? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

@conductingintomfoolery9163 Actually, Finland has one of Europes largest armies, and Sweden one of its largest airforces. Sure, the population is small in both countries, but they're both significant. And importantly, they're not trying to abolish their democracies. Something that actually matters a great deal in Europe. Perhaps more so then wealth or possibly even the Bosporus. NATOs members will negotiate with Turkey, and they'll get some concessions. But Europe is getting pretty fed up with countries pretending to be democracies while dismantling their democracies. And also with their behavior. Playing the rest of Europe up against external powers might be grudgingly accepted when everyone involved are democratic (What Norway is doing between the US and EU). But not when both Erduans Turkey and Russia is heading in a more and more authoritarian direction.
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 @kuamir573 The economic crisis is caused by internal mismanagement. Even the full economic power of the EU and USA combined can't make up for Erduans incompetence...
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@papaitojan They're no more Islamic fanatics then you are. The authoritarian bend is true though. Basically, Turkey is experiencing the same thing that the US was under Trump and Bush. Authoritarian leaders elected by conservatives from their "bible belt". Turkey has a mix of proportional and first past the post electoral system. That makes elections a lot more about people then politics or parties. In local elections where people start their political careers it's all first past the post. With the negative effects that entails. The parliament is a bit better, being proportional, but still quite a bit in favour of the bigger parties, something that also causes issues. And of course they have a presidential system, two round election. They'd do a lot better with a parliamentarian system, and proportionality at every level.
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