We are finally home in NATO! Although there are doubts among one or two Member States, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages.
Many claim, for example, that the United States does not have pure flour in the bag historically in terms of the country’s foreign policy, and of course it is. But the United States has never acted militarily in NATO’s name. NATO is a defense alliance, not an offensive alliance.
We have never been neutral. During World War II, we allowed German troops to travel by train through Sweden. We have traded with NATO and Western countries for many years in terms of defense, but never with Russia or China. We are already 90 percent part of NATO through cooperation, but we do not get guaranteed protection if we are attacked, just as was the case with Ukraine. What is the point of being part of 90 percent without guaranteed protection? Yes, we got to practice with NATO, which was an advantage, but still.
No one ever has attacked a NATO country and so it will continue. The 9/11 attacks were not an attack on NATO, although Article 5 of the Alliance’s Charter was activated. Not even Putin would most likely be so stupid as to attack a NATO country.
The repository alliance is thus the best and only real protection we can have. If Turkey or the United States under Trump in the future were to attack any country, it has nothing to do with NATO. And should the United States leave NATO under Trump, there are still plenty of countries providing protection. You probably think about it a couple of times before you attack 30 countries, which is the whole point of the alliance.
However, we will not have any nuclear weapons in Sweden and we can still work against nuclear weapons in the world, just as, for example, Norway does, even though I do not understand how it would be possible to get rid of them completely. Try to get Putin or North Korean President Kim Jong-Un to scrap their nuclear weapons, and you’ll see how it goes.
About the rest of the world do not have nuclear weapons and these two gentlemen have snuck away some … horrible thought! Nuclear weapons have probably come to a halt, unfortunately, no matter how tragic and terrible it is.
But it is embarrassing that Sweden has asked for assurances from large, strong countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States in the event of an attack on our country. However, we ourselves have not had a thought of helping militarily if these countries were to be attacked, until now.
The only thing we could think of to do is to possibly send a field hospital or try to mediate. It has made me feel bad about shame!