Here's a long thread on Sweden's neutrality, nuclear weapons programme (yes, we had one) and relationship with NATO today.
After suggestion from @CherylRofer, who had been translating every single tweet, I'm sharing the whole shebang here. Kinda works. threadreaderapp-com.translate.goog/thread/1482648…
After suggestion from @CherylRofer, who had been translating every single tweet, I'm sharing the whole shebang here. Kinda works. threadreaderapp-com.translate.goog/thread/1482648…
Key point being: as a non-NATO member, Sweden pays all the costs (and then some) to stay relevant to NATO (US) by contribution in missions and defence purchases, but we don't get the key thing: defence guarantees.
This is, of course, ironic as we've promised to fight for all our neighbours and EU-members (NATO-allies), but they haven't promised to fight for us.
Things are changing quite rapidly though. I've never seen such a positive popular support for NATO as this one from now (46% favour, 34% against), and there's a parlimentary majority for a "NATO-option", i.e. threatening RU with NATO-membership if they escalate. 
Some bonus parts of the thread includes Sweden's clandestine nuclear weapons programme which was abandoned only after the EXPLICIT recognition that we were under the US nuclear umbrella (early 1960s). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_n…
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