• @FiskFisk33@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • @itchy_lizard@feddit.it
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    112 years ago

    Turkey had previously spent months blocking Sweden’s application, accusing it of hosting Kurdish militants.

    Man, fuck Turkey

  • @1bluepixel@lemmy.ml
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    92 years ago

    It sounds like Erdogan is saying this is conditional on the EU reopening talks about Turkiye joining. Is that even happening?

  • @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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    42 years ago

    This isn’t happening it’s just grandstanding before the summit. Sweden said they’ll put in a good word for Turkey to join the EU, Erdogan said he’ll put in a good word to Turkish parliament. After the conference someone will do something trivial and they’ll fake outrage and go back to Sweden not joining.

  • Max_Power
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    32 years ago

    Fucking finally

    I want to see Putins stupid face now, it must be glorious to watch

  • @masquenox@lemmy.ml
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    02 years ago

    I don’t care what someone thinks or feels about the Russo-Ukraine war - NATO expanding is absolutely not a good thing.

    • @MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml
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      32 years ago

      Why not?

      I’m not saying Ukraine should/shouldn’t be in NATO, but if Ukraine was in NATO would Russia have invaded?

      Don’t larger military alliance disincentivize violent conflict?

      I understand if a conflict were to break out it would be much larger, but we can’t know the extent of the smaller conflicts that have not happened due to the existence of NATO.

      • @masquenox@lemmy.ml
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        12 years ago

        Don’t larger military alliance disincentivize violent conflict?

        Not necessarily - and NATO sure doesn’t seem to mind when their own members wage genocidal wars on the third world (like Turkey is doing with it’s ISIS-staffed proxy-militias in northern Syria).

        NATO has shown that it will happily play midwife to US neocolonialism - remember that time the US invaded Afghanistan using an even flimsier pretext than the ones Putin uses? At this point, we should be thankful that the US didn’t allow Russia itself to join NATO (something Putin is still pretty sore about)… but the US sure didn’t do it out of the goodness of their hearts.