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Sweden officially joins NATO (www.nato.int)

submitted 2 months ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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[-] Five 46 points 2 months ago

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

Welcome, Sweden!

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago

I thought my signature was bad

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

I like how it's a defined x-y curve. Could be more differentiable, though.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 months ago

Putin gonna be like "noooooo you're encroaching on my territory noooo I have no choice but to invade more neighbors noooooo"

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 18 points 2 months ago

at this rate he's gonna run out of neighbors that arent part of NATO or allied to china before too long

[-] photoncollector@mastodon.social 2 points 2 months ago

@CarbonIceDragon @empireOfLove2
China doesn't do alliances.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 12 points 2 months ago

If someone were to invade, say, North Korea, they would be very likely to intervene, as they have before. Maybe that isn't an official "alliance", per se, and it certainly isn't an equal partnership, but the effect is the same

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago

idk ban north korea is a wery shit ally, they could sell gun for both and make more money

[-] photoncollector@mastodon.social 6 points 2 months ago

@empireOfLove2 @CanadaPlus
Russia can't even defend its existing borders

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't expect they're going to be eager to repeat this exercise for a long time, even if they do manage to grab part of Ukraine. If they don't, it's more a question of even surviving as a regime.

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If they do manage to grab a part of Ukraine that won't be the end. They'll be fighting a western backed resistance movement. The USA and allies sank over two million million dollars and twenty years trying to hold Afghanistan after and failed. If Russia 'wins' in Ukraine they'll be in for a far rougher time.

[-] e_t_wright@union.place 1 points 2 months ago

@then_three_more @CanadaPlus Putin's big threat about Sweden's entry was the nuclear one, so we'll see about that. He's been rattling that saber for some time now. Doubt even he has the stomach for that one. He is one cold bird, but that would bounce back horribly.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The nuclear stuff is all "China's final warning". Unless we actually escalate to a direct act of war against Russia, or vice verse.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 months ago

Gripens when?

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

More like YAY-TO 😁

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago

I'm envisioning fully militarized IKEAs everywhere, Swedish fish in military green, the Swedish Chef in a NATO uniform, the Swedish Bikini Team in uh... just the Swedish Bikini Team, SAAB and Volvo branded tanks...