A Finnish commentator* (video only in Finnish, here) I just listened to made a couple of good points regarding this. First, he points out that the 'first rule' of making any kind of treaty/contract is to make it as explicit and detailed as possible, so that there's as little or no room for intepreting it by the other party as it likes or as it suits their goals. This has obviously not happened with this treaty between Turkey, Sweden and Finland. As this guy says, there was an apparent rush to make 'progress' (e.g., to make NATO look good), which made Sweden and Finland to hastily agree to any kind of treaty. As he says, the experienced and skilled Finnish diplomats, who always used to participate in these kind of negotiations, are now nowhere to be found. Instead, the deals are made solely by unexperienced politicians, who are nowadays used to of not having to take responsibility of anything.
Furthermore, he pointed out that Erdogan/Turkey is apparently playing this game with great skill. Firstly, without any kind of treaty/contract they wouldn't have got nowhere. Just saying "No" to Finnish/Swedish membership would not had got them anywhere – they needed to start negotiations, just like the merchant at the bazaar starts the bargaining process. As the treaty is not detailed, and as it gives a lot of room for interpretations, the power of the agreement lies with Turkey. It doesn't matter what Finnish or Swedish law says (as is naively said in e.g. th Finnish MSM: "Finland does not have to agree to any extraditions"), if Turkey interprets that their demands are not met, they will just not agree to Finland/Sweden joining NATO. The main point is this: before signing this treaty, Finland and Sweden were not by any kind of law bound to give Turkey anything – it was just a battle of opinions – but now as they've signed, Turkey has the lawful right to reject Finlands membership if their demands are not met. Also, this agreement will maybe give other, more Russia friendly NATO countries, the idea of start their own bargain. My own suspicion regarding this is that there are, as history has shown, a number of hidden agreements behind the scenes. There might, for instance, be some kind of agreement between Erdogan and Putin, that Turkey should, indeed, proceed exactly in this way (signing a treaty) in order to make NATO implode because of the absurdities this kind of treaty will cause in the long run.
The making of this disastrous deal has, as the commentator points out, also a lot to do with the utter incompetence of the Biden andministration (also IMO the British leadership). Without a competent, or at least, a realistic US leadership (with brain cells!) this kind of deal was doomed from the start.
As the commentator points out, this was probably one of the worst treaties/contracts ever made in Finlands history. Just goes to show the utter incompetence of Finnish politicians (read: clowns!). They can't even get their 'betraying/selling my own country' process to advance without making stupid mistakes!
* The commentator is apparently a Bible/Israel scholar of some kind, but nevertheless, the things he points out appear spot on.
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