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Is there any downside whatsoever to joining NATO? Even military expenditure shouldn't be an issue as most countries don't actually fulfill their military spendi
by frozenport 5y ago
Is there any downside whatsoever to joining NATO? Even military expenditure shouldn't be an issue as most countries don't actually fulfill their military spending obligations.
- cycomanic 5y agoYou might have to join a war that you don't want to get involved in? That's a pretty big downside.
- ratg13 5y agoIt's about changing the position of a country that has a history of being militarily neutral.
- CRConrad 5y ago> It's about changing the position of a country that has a history of being militarily neutral. It's about changing the position of a country that has a history of craven acquiescence to whoever is the biggest bully in the neighbourhood at the moment; a history of being rather Deutschgesinnt until about 1942-43, and of "always having been on the Allies' side in spirit!" after that. A history of selling iron ore for Krupp guns and allowing trains transporting German soldiers to and from northern Norway/Finland. And after WW2, a record-beating history of painting the holier-than-thou Sverigebilden -- the international image of Sweden -- around the world, and perhaps above all indoctrinating her own population in it. Not really a history to be all that proud of, or worth clinging on to.