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Sweden officially joins NATO (www.nato.int)

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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.

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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 73 points 3 months ago

The Swedes are apparently so excited that they're celebrating in the streets! And by celebrating I mean shortening the usual 2 meter personal space to a mere 1.5 meters to politely confirm that this is indeed an interesting development.

[-] don@lemm.ee 39 points 3 months ago

The confirmations are distributed via curt single nods, with no words spoken since that’d be small talk.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 11 points 3 months ago

Jesus Christ, this Dionysian orgy of ecstatic jubilation must be called to a halt, it's transgressing all mores,

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 6 points 3 months ago

In the distance, a Finn watches the inappropriate closeness and exuberance of the Swedes with disdain.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 23 points 3 months ago

Woooo, NATO lake!

[-] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 22 points 3 months ago

As a German, I feel safer already!
Good to know the Vikings are with us this time.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago

Gripens for everyone!

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 points 3 months ago

Do we get to vote to get Saab cars back now?

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 21 points 3 months ago

The Baltic sea is now the NATO sea. Now we should build a big ass dam in the Finnish Gulf.

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 3 months ago

Made of aircraft carriers

[-] current@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

tactical explosive blåhajs incoming, you better be ready russia

[-] roserose56@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

Thats good news!

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Finally, that big gap the size of Sweden has been filled.

And it only took 11 months after Finland.

[-] corymbia@reddthat.com 4 points 3 months ago

Fantastic news. The wall of democracy is far more solid.

[+] bumphot@lemy.lol -28 points 3 months ago

I am afraid that this fear of Russia is blown a bit over-proportion and is used by the US to gain even more dominance of the World military power. Russia was not really successful in it's invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine is a lot smaller and closer to Russia then Sweden. Not to mention the geographiclly harder to conquer. At this pace I dont see that Russia can invade Sweden in the next century or more. While joining NATO right now will indirectly mean that Sweden increases it's military and particapates in NATO involvement in the middle east. It is a bit scary how centralized the power balance of the world has become. US is now involved with almost all wars in the World and is invading coutries like Iraq, Syria, Libya without any justification and no repricussions, just for oil. I am more scared of the US and I think that is reasonable.

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 6 points 3 months ago

Find a better job, troll farm employee nr 62662

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 3 points 3 months ago

And obviously that account isn't even a day old. Trust him guys, he's only here to debate! What do you mean russian bot/troll account? Naahhhh. Anyway, on an unrelated note, US bad, amirite?

[-] bumphot@lemy.lol -1 points 3 months ago

You sound like more of a troll then me. I give reasonable responses, you just make jokes to insult people.

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