Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer
by jeltz on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:32PM
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That Sweden does not want to be dragged into a war. There are countries in the NATO which Sweden has historically had quite big disagreements with, e.g Turkey and the US. And we do not want to be dragged into wars which we oppose. Military spending has never been an issue, during the cold war our military spending was higher than most NATO countries.
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Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer
by xdennis on Monday April 11, 2022 @01:07PM
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> That Sweden does not want to be dragged into a war.
Is this a way of saying, like in WW2, that since Sweden doesn't share borders with aggressive neighbors you don't want to have the burden of defending the free world?
What does the US and Turkey have to do with anything? Turkey only requires defending if it's being attacked, not if Turkey starts a war.
Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer
by formerly_proven on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:54PM
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I'm not sure if you know this, but you do realize that pretty much every decision NATO takes has to be unanimous, right? Even as little decisions as "do we want this PDW caliber or that PDW caliber as a [non-binding] NATO standard?" can be blocked by a single member (Germany, in this case).