I once assumed that small incremental environmentally conscious steps in how people lived, worked, and played were inevitable. I'm talking smaller, more energy efficient, and safer vehicles, vegetable protein substitutes in place of industrialized meat products becoming generally accepted and even the norm, and I even had naive presumptions about some imminent expansion of mass transportation because it simply made more economic sense.
But that was all before I learned the power of 
Thought Turkey would actually keep blocking Sweden from joining Nato.
Turkey got a ton out of it though. I think many people here are a bit idealistic in terms of what they think is possible and what not. States do barter all the time.
Turkey got new F16s, a modernization of its fleet, and it also got Sweden to criminalize the PKK and since it is Turkey we talk about, also the HDP and others. Including support for Rojava (which is now 11 years old btw).
Basically Turkey traded NATO membership non-veto for continuing to keep migrants and asylum seekers out of the EU and more control about its excursions into Syria.