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.
    • ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml
      196·
      2 years ago

      We (the western world) really needs to deal with Orban eventually.

      Incredible display of chauvinism. Cause it’s worked out so well every other time you westoids have stepped in to decide another countries leadership for them. Stfu and stay home before you collapse yet another nation and start the slave trade there.

      • sheogorath@lemmy.world
        132·
        2 years ago

        That is an L take. Having a term limit helps increase the difficulty of making political dynasties. It doesn’t make it impossible, but it sure is gonna make it harder for a certain person or group to solidify their power base.

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      2 years ago

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

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          You don’t have to agree with the post to see that they hold themselves to a higher standard than most of the federation.

          • someguy3@lemmy.caEnglish
            22·
            2 years ago

            People are leaving the starTrek website communities and instance because of uh certain issues. See you at ten forward.

            • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              Oh that sounds like fun with a capital FU. EDIT: Cursory look didn’t bring up anything all that interesting. EDIT2: Evidence has been provided to me via DM, and i’m not impressed by it. Maybe Startrek is as good as it is because they get rid of people like that? Just a thought.

  • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml
    2412·
    2 years ago

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

      • zik@lemmy.world
        104·
        2 years ago

        Kaliningrad’s fairly strategically useless to them now that every surrounding country’s NATO though. The Suwałki Gap between Kaliningrad and Belarus used to be pivotal in potentially re-taking control of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It would have been very difficult for NATO defend them if Russia took the gap. But now those countries are protected by NATO countries all around so Kaliningrad’s a lot less useful strategically. Not to mention that there’s a strong Kaliningrad independence movement so they’re struggling to control it internally as well.

        More here.

  • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
    3125·
    2 years ago

    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”.

    • asterroid@lemmy.worldBanned
      720·
      2 years ago

      but due to Russia’s recent imperialism, Sweden’s and Finland’s reactions are completely reasonable.

      that is, it was not NATO that staged two coups in Ukraine, put its puppet government there and began to push the country into NATO, build bases and create threats to Russia’s security, but this Russia, for no reason, attacked poor Ukraine, which did not exist at all not so long ago, and it was part of Russia

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
    33·
    2 years ago

    Irasshaimase~ er, welcome! This isn’t really that big of news imo, they were pretty much already a member kinda.