Eleventh-hour deal clears path for Sweden to join NATO in rebuke to Putin

A HISTORIC DAY: In recent weeks, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has demonstrated why member nations were so anxious to keep him around for another year. The former prime minister of Norway managed to broker a deal that clears the way for Sweden to join Finland as the newest member of the trans-Atlantic alliance. Stoltenberg’s personal intervention, culminating in with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, broke the deadlock that threatened to block Sweden’s accession to NATO indefinitely. “This is a historic day because we have...