From a Washington Post column by Asli Aydintasbas headlined “How the Biden administration sealed the Sweden deal with Erdogan”:

NATO summits usually start with drama and often end with a happy family photo. This time, the drama was over before the summit started.

During the run-up to the summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, all eyes were on Ukraine’s prospects for membership. But Sweden’s membership bid was also up in the air, held up by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.