Sweden officially joins NATO : worldnews

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

NATO still trying to finish what the nazis started.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Fuck the tankies in here and praise UN and Sweden.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Russia locked out of the Balkan Sea now?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have Kaliningrad.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Balkan wars were tough on Sweden, being so geographically close to the conflict.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NATO coming for the Baltic peninsula next

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[+] [email protected] -53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah yes the US foreign policy of "not being invaded by Russia"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dunno, is it really US foreign policy if it's not bipartisan

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a de facto member as long as NATO existed. Now it also is a de jure member too, a big nothing-burger.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (9 children)

NATO membership comes with guarantees and responsibilities.

The guarantee is that if Sweden would be attacked, other members will support with their troops. The responsibility is that Sweden must expand their military.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks ~~Obama~~ Putin!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Reignited the West's arms industry as well! We had gotten complacent until Putin started the largest war in Europe since WWII.

[+] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I blame the fact they built all these institutions with no clause to expel members, or which require total unanimity to do so. They really bought in to the whole "end of history" thing, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is an interesting element. Historically, allowing all members a veto, while also having no way to expel a member, means that any such institution is liable to outside meddling. The classic example is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto -- in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, any noble could veto anything. So all it took was buying a few nobles and it shattered.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you know why NATO annexed Sweden?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

startrek website continuing to be the highest quality instance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Everyone's doing a big ehhhhh on that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

depositing its instrument of accession

Sounds like a sov.cit.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the little "world tension" meter in HOI4 just went up by like 3%

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guys will see this and say "hell yea"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

hell yea

[+] [email protected] -16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You used to be cool, Sweden

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When was that exactly?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Now they're really fucking cool!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, during the 30 years war. After Gustavus Adolphus went the way of the Dodo, Sweden sucked.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rad

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Russia uses RadAway

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It fails.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It hurt itself in it's confusion

[+] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

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