Posted on 02/26/2024 8:29:51 AM PST by Miami Rebel
BUDAPEST — At last, Sweden will get to join NATO.
Sweden cleared the final hurdle to become the military alliance's 32nd member after Hungary — the last holdout among the countries — held a parliamentary vote to approve the move.
In recent years, Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed Sweden away from its decades of military non-alignment and towards the world's biggest military alliance. Sweden’s accession comes amid increasing uncertainty over NATO’s future, as the Republican frontrunner in the U.S. presidential race, Donald Trump, threatens to abandon security guarantees for at least part of Europe.
Advertisement Budapest finally made the move on Monday, with the parliament voting 188 to 6 votes in favor of the resolution.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has maintained contact with Russia’s Putin in defiance of Western pressure, withheld approval of Sweden's bid for more than 600 days.
Now, all existing NATO allies have now ratified the membership status of Sweden. A flag-raising ceremony is expected at NATO headquarters in Brussels later this week, less than a year after fellow Nordic country Finland joined the alliance.
Orbán gave his final nod just before the weekend, when his Swedish counterpart, Ulf Kristersson, flew to Budapest and signed a defense deal following years of what Orbán called "damned" relations over human rights and the rule of law in his increasingly politically repressive country.
For now, Russia is the biggest loser of Sweden joining NATO.
Moscow has threatened Sweden and Finland since both countries decided to turn toward NATO. Since the two Nordic countries began the process to join the alliance, the West has tightened its grip on the Baltic Sea, complicating a vital transit route for the Russian navy.
The Russian embassy in Stockholm called Sweden "a legitimate target for Russia’s retaliatory measures" last year, while Finland closed the border with Russia after finding "systematic" and "organized" efforts by the Russian authorities to send African migrants into Finnish territories.
Bad language. A more correct term is Russophiles or Putinistas or Russia lovers
When you strike, hit hard
Swedish farmers have now joined other EU countries against their governments and their policies.
This could change the whole outlook on NATO someday.
Your supposition is based on the fallacy that the West has not already fallen. When you look at the evil that the governments of the West, under the control of the CIA and the MIC, have committed against their own citizens in the form of censorship, stolen elections, ideological warfare, ripping open border for invasion and lockdowns you can only conclude that democracy in the West has been terminated. When your own government hates you, is it being a traitor to heat them back? Besides only idiots and propagandists confuse their government with their nation.
Scratch a Zeeper and find a Marxist vampire afflicted with TDS.
A pox on their house.
Here is the modern Thor ready to fight after his latest estrogen injection appointment. I feel so safe.
“I feel so safe.”
Yeah me too!!
“Swedish farmers have now joined other EU countries against their governments and their policies.
“This could change the whole outlook on NATO someday.”
Please don’t hold your breath.
You’ve got to be deeply sick to say that because we don’t agree with the current government I’m going to support Russia and Putin invading my country and its allies. Millions of people didn’t support the New Deal and the socialists running the United States, but we didn’t go around waiving swastikas in response.
From the 1870s until 1950, nearly 80s years, America was a "petroleum state" and that led to the creation of the American middle class and unparalleled prosperity. The murderous, leftist fanatics running this country want to destroy a Russia, because it isn't globohomo and it looks to surpass the United States in wealth and power.
True. Russia doesn’t have to anything to Europe. Or the USA. Just wait and watch.
Perhaps cuck_canuck understands that if America is prevented from fighting the Forever War overseas it will notice the obnoxious, nagging parasite on its back and will rectify the situation. If America ever throws off it's globalist communist cabal the next obvious step would be to free Canada and punish Mexico for all their evil, meddling ways.
good comment
America was a major petroleum producer (as it is now), but petroleum was never a particularly large part of the US economy. We were primarily an industrial economy.
You have got to be deeply sick for supporting foreigners over your own American citizens. Death to the Socialist International.
Lol, Russia, which is in a state of demographic collapse, is going to overtake the United States? LMAO. Russia is more on track to overtake Ethiopia.
This isn't what a rising super power looks like. Even before the war, Russia, with deaths far outstripping births, was net-losing one person every 30 seconds.
The British invented the industrial revolution thanks to their discovery of and exploitation of their vast amounts of coal resources. America took out the British empire by finding a better energy source, oil and gas. Did you ever taken economy course?
Thanks to Bidens's idiotic sanctions. Western companies were forced to pull out of Russia and Russia just took over all the infrastructure left behind. Now Russian manufacturing is increasing very rapidly for war material it after the war expect to see Russian value-added exports explode.
Great. I accept this challenge. Tell the Russians to leave Ukraine and go home and watch things collapse or whatever.
The NeoSoviet Russia run by the deep-state Kremlinists has no future.
They have made an alliance with the world’s most extreme communist and Islamic nations, like North Korea, Iran/Hamas. There is a price to pay for that.
Russia cannot continue for much longer its neo-colonial warmongering and for-ever wars policies. All madness in history has always ended, and very badly for the one who started the mess...
Those who do not denounce the harm that Russia/Iran/Hamas/North Korea Alliance does against America’s interests and our allies are evidently either pro Big Government Russians, Islamists, or incoherent nihilists / anarchists.
Only a dozen Freepers seem to support the Kremlin deep-state.
That’s reassuring.
Highly interesting demographic chart. Thank You.
Yes, the final count down for Russia has indeed started.
They are slowly dying out, because the situation in Russia dissuades couples to have children. They open their eyes, and what they see a dystopian nation. Who wants children living through that?
It’s a good move geographically. Very good in that sense.
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