Analysis: Putin’s war moves Finland and Sweden closer to joining NATO
3. Overwhealming public support.— Alexander Stubb Entry into NATO would be a historic move for both countries
. Since the early 19th century, for reasons initially tied up in the geopolitics of the Napoleonic wars, Swedish governments maintained a studied neutrality that.
The political journey toward NATO has taken longer. “It was only when Russia under Putin started to demonstrate that its threshold for using military force was lower than many had hoped — first with the war with Georgia in 2008 and then the invasions of Ukraine beginning in 2014 — that a debate on possible NATO membership started,” wrote former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt inAfter Putin’s war on Ukraine, Bildt added, “there is no way back to a past of illusionary neutrality.
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