Sweden will finally join NATO after Hungary’s approve! What do you think about this as an american?

33 comments

1. I hope they fulfill their treaty obligations. 

2. Cool

3. Anything that pisses off Putin is fine with me

4. They are a strong addition to NATO who has a similar culture and goals as the rest of the countries in NATO.

5. As long as they spend the minimum target percentage of their GDP(on military budget), I’m happy to hear it!

6. Good.

7. Yes, quite happy. Sweden is a capable country that will help secure NATO’s northern flank so we can focus on other security priorities.

8. The more democracies that join NATO the better

9. Good.

10. The more joining the party to contain Putin the better.

11. I was more surprised when I found out they weren’t in NATO around the time the war broke out.

    Glad they’re joining and meeting their 2% GDP obligation. I feel like the USA and NATO wouldn’t ignore a threat from Russia to Sweden.

12. 1. I think it’s wonderful

    2. How much did we bribe or threaten Hungary to get them on board?

13. Big up

14. Welcome, Sweden, glad to have you on board.

15. Good, all good. Russia has officially lost the war. “WHAT ABOUT UKRAINE???” What about it? Russia just caused Sweden and Finland to end over 60 years of official neutrality.

16. I want to see every liberal democracy in the world join NATO.

17. With the addition of Sweden and Finland, the Baltic Sea is now entirely NATO controlled apart from Kaliningrad. This is bad news for Russia because not only does it give NATO an easy opportunity to completely shut down Russia’s access to the oceans that aren’t frozen in the event of a conflict, it also gives NATO a staging ground on Gotland in the event of a Russian annexation of Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania.

18. Welcome to the party!

19. Super excited Finland and Sweden joined!

    Sweden has been neutral since the time of Napoleon so that’s shows how momentous this is.

20. Love the meatballs. Glad they are joining the team.

21. I fully welcome it. I am all for more countries joining NATO.

22. That took too long

23. I’ve been following geopolitics for about 10 years. And man back then I would google nato Swedish relations or even more bizarrely Finnish nato relations.

    Never did I anticipate that one day those two would join. I thought if that happened maybe that’s be bad. But anything to piss off putin nowadays. It also pisses off china.

24. The more the merrier

25. I think it’s cool more countries want to join

26. Sounds good to me

27. One Scandinavia! Woooooo!

28. Swedes are cool and it pisses off Putin. Glad to have them.

29. Probably overdue. Collective defense against rogue states like Russia is the best way to restrain those states.

30. I’m much happier with all the Nords on board than I am with the lack of consequences for Orban and Erdogan jerking us all around for two years. Something needs to be done to convey the idea that NATO membership is a chain of responsibility (broken by its weakest link), not a posse of cronies.

31. Indifferent

32. I don’t think this is bad at all. There’s safety in numbers. NATO was formed to blunt Russian aggression and there’s a lot of Russian aggression in the world these days. I don’t think Sweden will be the last to join either.

33. I think it’s excellent. Good for NATO and good for Sweden. Unfortunate for Putin’s Imperial Russia ambitions, which is also excellent news.