Follow-up about Sweden & Finland attempt
to be approved by Turkey & the other 29
NATO members to become the newest
NATO members:
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March 15 2023
Turkey plans to ratify Finland's NATO bid
https://www.reuters.com/world/turkey-plans-ratify-finlands-nato-bid-ahead-may-polls-sources-2023-03-15/
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Turkey's parliament will "highly likely" ratify
Finland's NATO accession bid before mid-April ... .
... Talks between Sweden & Turkey have made
little progress, especially following several dis-
putes mainly over street protests by pro-Kurdish
groups in Stockholm. ... Sweden's Prime Minister
... said on Tuesday that the likelihood of Finland
joining NATO ahead of Sweden had increased, ...
... after talks between the 3 sides in Brussels
this week.
... The United States & other NATO countries
are hoping that the 2 Nordic countries become
members of the alliance at a NATO summit due
to be held in July 11 ... .
On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 4:49:37 PM UTC-6, observer wrote:
.> Link to previous posts:
.>
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys/c/XP-CufZQY-M/m/fmLK0qQbBAAJ
.>
.> The way in which 2-dimensional maps
.> exaggerate sizes the further you go from
.> the equator, the following graphic shows
.> that in the clearest manner possible, with
.> Greenland, Canada, northern Europe, &
.> Russia the most exaggerated (a fact I ...
.>
.> ... suspect Putin delights in), with the
.> continental U.S. & China having far less
.> exaggeration. Hardly any exaggeration
.> in South America, Africa, & Australia:
.>
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/
.>
.> Over 2/3rds of the world's land mass
.> is in the northern hemisphere.
.>
.> The northern hemisphere is 40% land,
.> 60% water.
.>
.> The southern hemisphere is 20% land,
.> 80% water.
.>
.> Compare the land north of 30 degrees
.> north latitude (includes most of the U.S.,
.> Canada, Europe, Russia, most of China,
.> Japan, Korea) to the land south of 30
.> degrees south latitude (Chile, Argentina, ...
.>
.> ... southern tip of Brazil, southern tip of
.> South Africa, southernmost coast of
.> Australia, New Zealand, & Antarctica).
.>
https://tinyurl.com/worldmapbylatitude
.>
.> Northern hemisphere population is 6.96
.> billion people (87.0% of the Earth's human
.> population). Southern hemisphere popula-
.> tion is 1.04 billion people (13% of Earth's
.> human population).
.>
https://www.google.com/search?q=world+population+northern+vs+southern+hemisphere
.>
.> ~~~
.>
.> As for accuracy, the AuthaGraph map is
.> claimed to be the most accurate map
.> you'll ever see:
.>
https://allthatsinteresting.com/authagraph-world-map
.>
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