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Sweden officially joins NATO (www.nato.int)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] SuddenDownpour 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because it includes countries that are routinely looking for trouble, such as the US and Turkey. One of these days Turkey is going to try and drag us into a conflict with Syria or Iran like the US did with Afghanistan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's just me, but it felt like the US fought Afghanistan without much help from NATO.

[–] SuddenDownpour 1 points 11 months ago

Plenty of NATO countries had troops in Afghanistan since 2001 onwards as part of the US-led campaign:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participants_in_Operation_Enduring_Freedom