“Isolate Russia, isolate Iran, isolate Syria, isolate Venezuela, isolate China, and now isolate Turkey?
Are there too many threats in the West to isolate various countries, including major, key powers?
And won’t the “isolators” end up isolating themselves from the rest of the world?”
— he wrote in Telegram.
On May 15, the Finnish government made a formal decision to apply for membership in NATO.
On the same day, the ruling Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden also officially decided to apply for membership in the alliance.
The head of the leading faction of the European Parliament, the European People's Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, said that attempts to block the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO could be punished by isolation.