On 2/28/2022 2:56 AM, smitra wrote:
NATO membership may not all be that relevant in practice. Russia isn't
performing all that well in Ukraine. Sweden and Finland should have
little difficulty in stopping a conventional Russian attack. And there
is no question that a nuclear attack by Russia on any country would
trigger a nuclear counterstrike.
Not being part of NATO may have some benefits too. If Sweden
intervenes in Ukraine in some way and Russia sees that as a act of
war, then that doesn't bring NATO directly into the conflict. If the
calculation is that Sweden is strong enough to resist a Russian
attack, then it would be useful to have such non-NATO members like
Sweden. And not being part of NATO does not mean that NATO cannot
choose to intervene on behalf of such a non-NATO country.
Saibal
I don't disagree. But the main point of a defensive alliance like NATO
is deter attacks rather than actually fight them. A Russian attack on
Sweden would have to go thru Finland. When Russia tried that in the
Winter War it did not go well for them.
Brent
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