Sweden officially joins NATO
Sweden officially joins NATO
Sweden became NATO’s newest member on Thursday (7 March 2024), upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the Government of the United States in Washington DC. With Sweden’s accession, NATO now counts 32 countries among its members.
We (the western world) really needs to deal with Orban eventually. At least when other countries kept re-electing someone (like Merkel), you had the confidence that the system still allowed someone else to be elected and democracy was still working.
Turkey might be a lost cause.
Term limits should really be a default position if one is to defend their democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_state_leaders_by_date_of_assumption_of_office -- the two NATO members causing issues? Two longest serving heads of state within NATO (excluding ceremonial monarchs).
I don't like the expansion of NATO, but due to Russia's recent imperialism, Sweden's and Finland's reactions are completely reasonable. A much healthier alternative would have been actually advancing towards an integrated European defense system involving EU members, with a door open to certain neighbours such as Norway, but it's pretty hard to do that when the political groups that could actually promote that alternative are schizophrenically tolerating positions such as "I'm a pacifist, so I'm advocating for my own country's disarmament despite my neighbours starting wars very recently" and "if Ukraine didn't want to get invaded, they shouldn't have sought guarantees against Russian aggression from third countries".
Fuck the tankies in here and praise UN and Sweden.
depositing its instrument of accession
Sounds like a sov.cit.
Irasshaimase~ er, welcome! This isn't really that big of news imo, they were pretty much already a member kinda.
Took long enough. Glad to have them finally.
I hate China
NeATO
