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Sweden officially joins NATO (www.nato.int)

submitted 2 years ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 years ago

Putin gonna be like "noooooo you're encroaching on my territory noooo I have no choice but to invade more neighbors noooooo"

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 17 points 2 years ago

at this rate he's gonna run out of neighbors that arent part of NATO or allied to china before too long

[-] photoncollector@mastodon.social 3 points 2 years ago

@CarbonIceDragon @empireOfLove2
China doesn't do alliances.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 12 points 2 years ago

If someone were to invade, say, North Korea, they would be very likely to intervene, as they have before. Maybe that isn't an official "alliance", per se, and it certainly isn't an equal partnership, but the effect is the same

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

idk ban north korea is a wery shit ally, they could sell gun for both and make more money

[-] photoncollector@mastodon.social 6 points 2 years ago

@empireOfLove2 @CanadaPlus
Russia can't even defend its existing borders

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't expect they're going to be eager to repeat this exercise for a long time, even if they do manage to grab part of Ukraine. If they don't, it's more a question of even surviving as a regime.

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

If they do manage to grab a part of Ukraine that won't be the end. They'll be fighting a western backed resistance movement. The USA and allies sank over two million million dollars and twenty years trying to hold Afghanistan after and failed. If Russia 'wins' in Ukraine they'll be in for a far rougher time.

[-] e_t_wright@union.place 1 points 2 years ago

@then_three_more @CanadaPlus Putin's big threat about Sweden's entry was the nuclear one, so we'll see about that. He's been rattling that saber for some time now. Doubt even he has the stomach for that one. He is one cold bird, but that would bounce back horribly.