On Thursday, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson rejected the idea of holding a referendum on the country’s potential NATO membership, calling it a “bad idea.”
Andersson’s comments were made in response to a call for a referendum from Sweden’s opposition Left Party. “This … has to go back to the voters, there has to be very strong democratic support in this question,” Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar said earlier this week.
Andersson argued that Swedes shouldn’t vote on the issue since it’s a matter of national security. “I don’t think it is an issue that is suitable for a referendum,” she said. “There is a lot of information about national security that is confidential, so there are important issues in such a referendum that cannot be discussed and important facts that cannot be put on the table.”
The majority of Swedish lawmakers favor applying to NATO, and the parliament is expected to recommend the move after concluding a security policy review. Finland is also considering joining the military alliance, and according to media reports from both countries, they are expected to apply together sometime in mid-May.
Also on Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance would welcome the two countries. “If they decide to apply, Finland and Sweden will be warmly welcomed, and I expect that process to go quickly,” he said.
Stoltenberg also said that the two countries could expect some protection from NATO during the application process. He said there are “ways to bridge that interim period in a way which is good enough and works for both Finland and Sweden.”
If the two Scandanavian countries enter NATO, it will greatly escalate tensions with Russia in the region. Finland shares an over 800-mile border with Russia, which Russian officials have said will need to be reinforced if Helsinki joins the alliance.
Wow how matronising.
Patriarchy has its ways… hiding behind skirts seems to be a thing with our policy elites.
You recognize how this line is learned completely from the U.S. This kind of talk never existed before, but then politicians in Washington declared they could invade Iraq because they had secret knowledge, and so on. They invaded Afghanistan because they had proof against bin Laden that they couldn’t show anyone.
Magdalena Andersson is an Affirmative Action hire. The social democrats declared that their next party leader had to be a woman, period. Just like the communist Left Party and the social democrats in Finland. Competence was irrelevant.
The social democrats would have lost every national election since 2000 if it hadn’t been for the enormous mass immigration they have flooded the country with, filling apartment buildings in endless rows, entire suburbs with new buildings, so they could have new voters. They are therefore run by people who are entirely in line with the globalist strategy, with all the “sociology” textbooks being printed at coastal universities in the U.S. So of course they want to join NATO, as it isn’t fighting communists now, which the social democrats opposed during the Cold War. Now it is used for the leftist world order, with conservative Russia as the number one target. Magdalena Andersson has been bathing in propaganda about Russia “hacking the election” in the U.S., like all the other leftists, so Russia must be destroyed.
Neutral countries came out of World War 2 with no destruction. If past is prologue then neutrality is not a bad idea.
If Ukraine had become neutral they would not be on the edge of total destruction.
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson Lemmington has also declared all Swedes are now lemmings who must obey and be good little furries for their new political masters in NATO.
This is also not up for a vote on the grounds of protecting personal privacy, especially that of certain Swedish policy elites who have been doing a lot of strange things and not just lately.
In other news, alarmed Swedish Pagans have reported sightings of Loki suddenly appearing then disappearing at random, uncontrollably ROFLOL.
Rumours have it that Putin has been sobbing for days now, after realizing that is his mad adventure in Ukraine has backfired and that he has indirectly gifted Northern Europe to NATO.
Nordic surrender to NATO was inevitable and only a matter of time once NATO decided, they had to be taken into the fold once the US was convinced as well.
Its doubtful that Putin cares if this happens sooner or later. Its not negotiable.
As for Ukraine, the adventure continues. It like the defeat in Northern Ukraine never happened and the story will always be, things are going according to plan.
That was the Pentagon spokesman who never shed a tear for our victims in Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya.
They think they are good actors.
Unfortunately Putin’s erratic and crazy behaviour is forcing these countries to seek protection from Nato.
Putin really sucks at being a strategist.
Whenever you hear you can’t trust the public you should realize that significant money making is at hand. This is not about security, Sweden and Finland could not be more secure. This is connections and $$$$.
This is what happens when you have a WOMAN leading your country. It’s that lack of testosterone that makes us more willing to consider human life.
I think you misread the headline as I initially did. I thought she was saying no to NATO.
When you have a woman leading your country, she cites “national security” as a reason to enter an aggressive military alliance without asking the voters? Sounds pretty testosterone-ish to me.
With warmongering women all over the world, testosterone has been revealed to be a misplaced cause of warmongery.
“There is a lot of information about national security that is confidential..” That is exactly why our nation began with a revolution/rebellion. No voting on anything significant for all.
the ruling Elites in Finland and Sweden have been both bought off by the Military-Industiral Complex and bludgeoned by american and european propaganda . Expect a very strong response from Russia.
five or ten years from now, if there is such a time, they may well wish they hadn’t joined nato.
“What fools these mortals be!” – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dre