“Finland and Sweden have made the stunning decision to join NATO, but Russia’s trade and military partners still have not abandoned it at a time of need, unfortunately, including Turkey, whose NATO membership should be in question in 2024 if President Erdogan is likely to fraudulently, will be re-elected,” Bolton wrote in an article for The Telegraph.

He noted that Germany did not fulfill the promise to increase defense spending.

According to him, the prolongation of the Ukrainian conflict will contribute to increased tension in Western countries.

Greek National Defense Minister Nicolas Panagiotopoulos said earlier that Turkey's threats of war speak of provocative revisionism, and not of the behavior of a NATO ally.