| − | Nations aren’t given a choice to join. They either join or the US removes the government and installs one that will. Neither [[Sweden]] nor [[Finland]] face any threat from any nations, let alone Russia. The Finns, however, remember the unprovoked Soviet invasion of 1939. The Russians by contrast, recall the starvation of 1.2 civilians in the [[Siege of Leningrad]] wherein the Finns participated with their Nazi allies in the encirclement.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jt8QVm8dPaQC|title=The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments|last=Kirschenbaum|first=Lisa A.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2006|isbn=9781139460651|pages=44|quote=The blockade began two days later when German and Finnish troops severed all land routes in and out of Leningrad.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225210446/https://books.google.ch/books?id=jt8QVm8dPaQC|archive-date=}}</ref> The supposed “threat” is that Russia has invaded Ukraine “without provocation”, committed war crimes and could invade anyone else next - the same “[[WMD]]” lie to advance US [[foreign policy]] objectives. NATO has waged a proxy war of aggression against the ethnic Russians of Donbas since 2014. There was no democratic referendum for the people of Finland and Sweden to decide if they wanted to join the militaristic alliance, although, even politicians opposed to joining NATO have changed their minds, because of pressure from the electorate. With Sweden and Finland joining NATO, they will be less secure. With the next NATO [[war of aggression]] thousands of miles from its own borders, Swedish and Finnish troops will be sent to die there and both nations’ treasuries emptied in the process. Vladimir Putin said that Russia would have to wait and see what type of military infrastructure would be installed in those countries to provoke a response. NATO expansion is a factor of US hegemony - an unwillingness to accept multipolarism and its attempt to continue imposing unipolar primacy. | + | Nations aren’t given a choice to join. They either join or the US removes the government and installs one that will. Neither [[Sweden]] nor [[Finland]] face any threat from any nations, let alone Russia. The Finns, however, remember the unprovoked Soviet invasion of 1939. The Russians by contrast, recall the starvation of 1.2 million civilians in the [[Siege of Leningrad]] wherein the Finns participated with their Nazi allies in the encirclement.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jt8QVm8dPaQC|title=The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments|last=Kirschenbaum|first=Lisa A.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2006|isbn=9781139460651|pages=44|quote=The blockade began two days later when German and Finnish troops severed all land routes in and out of Leningrad.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225210446/https://books.google.ch/books?id=jt8QVm8dPaQC|archive-date=}}</ref> The supposed “threat” is that Russia has invaded Ukraine “without provocation”, committed war crimes and could invade anyone else next - the same “[[WMD]]” lie to advance US [[foreign policy]] objectives. NATO has waged a proxy war of aggression against the ethnic Russians of Donbas since 2014. There was no democratic referendum for the people of Finland and Sweden to decide if they wanted to join the militaristic alliance, although, even politicians opposed to joining NATO have changed their minds, because of pressure from the electorate. With Sweden and Finland joining NATO, they will be less secure. With the next NATO [[war of aggression]] thousands of miles from its own borders, Swedish and Finnish troops will be sent to die there and both nations’ treasuries emptied in the process. Vladimir Putin said that Russia would have to wait and see what type of military infrastructure would be installed in those countries to provoke a response. NATO expansion is a factor of US hegemony - an unwillingness to accept multipolarism and its attempt to continue imposing unipolar primacy. |