@BTE For Finalnd it took 13 days from Erdogan's approval to passing in Turkish parliament, though no reason it can' be faster.
The only US F-16 contact Turkey is going to get anytime soon (tongue in cheek, not investment advice)
https://reuters.omni.se/u-s-shoots-down-turkish-drone-in-syria-officials/a/pQe7nG
Interestingly Polymarket also had a spike and I don't know why.
@jack i was also confused, I think it's because Menendez is likely to leave the Senate on corruption charges and he was a key opposer of selling Turkey F-16s? That's the best I could come up with
@such Actually there was another piece of positive news and I bid this market up before anyone on polymarket did. It's not super easily indexable on search engines. Anyway, I think 40-45% is about right.
@SemioticRivalry you're thinking about the below?
"Cardin, who attended a gathering of NATO ambassadors this week, said Turkey has indicated it would clear the way for Sweden’s membership in the first part of October."
Turkey planning to ratify in October https://www.reuters.com/world/swedish-foreign-minister-still-hopeful-turkey-will-ratify-nato-bid-oct-2023-09-01/
After Turky's ratification of Finland, it only took three days until full membership.
@konstan But there's still the question of Hungary
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-taunts-sweden-over-stalled-nato-bid/
https://manifold.markets/BenjaminIkuta/will-sweden-join-nato-by-the-end-of
https://manifold.markets/BenjaminIkuta/will-sweden-join-nato-by-the-end-of-eeb46646206b
https://manifold.markets/BenjaminIkuta/will-sweden-join-nato-by-the-end-of-f677c48dd2b7
https://manifold.markets/BenjaminIkuta/will-sweden-join-nato-by-the-end-of-b471ebe10a1d