Posted on Mar 7, 2022
NATO should begin planning for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance - Breaking Defense
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After decades of military neutrality between NATO and Russia, last week saw a potential sea-change in how Finland and Sweden consider their role with the NATO alliance. In a new op-ed, Gene Germanovich of the RAND Corporation says that NATO needs to be thinking of how it can speed up any request to join the alliance.
NATO should begin planning for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance - Breaking Defense
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As I understand it they have voted to not join NATO several times in the past. Neutrality didn't serve them very well against Germany in WW II, they should have learned but I guess not.
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Of course I’ve heard of Anne Frank. She was neither Swedish nor Finnish.
Additionally, Sweden was never occupied by Germany in ww2.
Finland was a German ally for most of the war. They were directly attacked by both the UK and USSR prior to joining the allies around 1944. Furthermore, Finnish Jews were never persecuted.
“ As I understand it they have voted to not join NATO several times in the past. Neutrality didn't serve them very well against Germany in WW II”.
So how did it not serve them well?
Additionally, Sweden was never occupied by Germany in ww2.
Finland was a German ally for most of the war. They were directly attacked by both the UK and USSR prior to joining the allies around 1944. Furthermore, Finnish Jews were never persecuted.
“ As I understand it they have voted to not join NATO several times in the past. Neutrality didn't serve them very well against Germany in WW II”.
So how did it not serve them well?
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Why not let Ukraine into NATO under emergency acceptance so that Russia would have to answer to NATO forces from around the world!!! This humanitarian calamity in Ukraine must be terminated and the Russian Leader held accountable for his actions!!! This is only the tip of the Iceberg folks!
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
I'm sure that's true, I doubt Putin will stop with Ukraine and both He and Russia have a pattern of aggression throughout their history.
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1LT Peter Duston
SMSgt Lawrence McCarter - From the poor performance of the Russian ground army, I have serious doubts that he could use his army to invade any of the adjacent NATO states. It's clear from all the analysis that an occupation of Ukraine would be unlikely given the poor quality of Russia's army. His strategy likely follows his Chechnya war - bomb the civilian cities flat then bomb the debris flat. Hopefully, we are supplying the Ukrainians with lots of Stingers and facilitating the transfer of Polish/Hungarian MIG 29's to the Ukrainian Air Force - planes they have trained on. They might have a chance to hold off the Russians long enough for Putin to realize that he's in a quagmire and either pull out or negotiate out. ???? In the meantime, we need to pray mightily for Ukraine.
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