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Timeline (from Swedish press yesterday - Omni): Today, May 12: Finnish president Niinistö presents his view on the NATO issue. Friday, May 13: A new Swedish s
by tpmx 4y ago
Timeline (from Swedish press yesterday - Omni):
Today, May 12: Finnish president Niinistö presents his view on the NATO issue.
Friday, May 13: A new Swedish security policy analysis is presented in parliament. All 8 parties represented there have collaborated on this.
Saturday, May 14: Heads of the Finnish Social Democratic Party meet and decide on the NATO issue. Swedish and Finnish FMs join a NATO meeting in Berlin.
Sunday, May 15: Heads of the Swedish Social Democratic Party meet and decide on the NATO issue.
Tuesday/Wednesday, May 17/18: Finnish President Niinistö visits Stockholm.
- wolverine876 4y ago> All 8 parties represented there have collaborated on this. Imagine a country where one major party doesn't sell itself by obstructing everything.
- toxik 4y agoTo be fair, there is no partisan issues in the US over helping Ukraine either. People unite against a common enemy -- it's like that old wisdom, the worst thing to happen to the US was winning the cold war.
- VictorPath 4y agoThat was why Victoria Nuland was in Euromaidan Square stirring up this new cold war.
- finiteseries 4y agoThe Cold War involved competing blocs of military & economic peers fighting over the alignment of uninvolved nations, it isn’t just a fancy laymen word for proxy or general US - USSR remnant conflict. This is not a world wide conflict involving superpowers with the ability to project power (hard/soft) globally, it’s at best a regional power struggle involving regional powers. You can make a case this is the American dagger to Russia’s future aspirations beyond regional powerdom, but peers, and blocs, and cold war there is not.
- comrh 4y agoIt's bipartisan but not completely. There are elements on the right with the "it's not our problem, leave Ukraine to it's fate" point of view.
- ceejayoz 4y ago> To be fair, there is no partisan issues in the US over helping Ukraine either. One of Trump's impeachments was over extorting stuff from Zelensky - "I would like you to do us a favor, though", all 57 House "no" votes to the latest aid bill are Republican, and Rand Paul just held it up in the Senate today. There's some partisan component to it.
- tpmx 4y agoAdded: Monday May 16: The Swedish government meets, formally decides and then submits the application the same day. (Source: Expressen, today)