As a swede I am on the fence on wether Sweden should join NATO in the first place, but at least we're not out for the stupidest fucking reason anymore.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

What are your counter points? Other than not wanting to be a staging ground for a potential NATO/Russian war?

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do they think not being in NATO will save them if they're between Russia and a NATO member?

[–] TheGod@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sweden currently would be in a perfect selfish situation.

Norway and Finland are in. So sweden cannot be attacked by russia without NATO helping them unless russia only attacks islands. But Sweden has free choice to participate or ignore NATO being attacked.

Now Sweden has to help NATO wherever they are being attacked.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Finland and Sweden have been cooperating in matters of defense for a long time. Now they both are NATO members, that united defense should be a credible deterrent to Russia. In Sweden was left out, that structure would have been weaker.

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