Congratulations to Sweden!

Honestly, at first my eye started twitching a lot, when I read the 2nd part of the message, I read it 10 times... not being able to understand whether it was a joke or not, until I saw the small text

Some of the Kremlin narratives/propaganda are just silly. I decided to dryly and sarcastically ridicule one of them in my italics text. NATO did not 'conquer' Finland or Sweden or force them to join the alliance... if anyone is 'responsible' for those two historically neutral countries it is the Russian invasion of Ukraine that Putin launched on 24-February-2024.

If Moldova decides to seek to join the NATO alliance it probably be for the same reason that Finland and Sweden joined, not because NATO sent tanks and troops into Moldova (unlike how a certain country that does not like NATO tends to try to 'convince' its neighbors to join it).

I realized this a little later, but at first I felt like, what the hell? 😐

Yay!

(Hungarian national here, no longer living in Hungary. Not proud of why it took so effin' long)

Yeah, that slow process of adding new members is a weakness of a voluntary alliance (like NATO), rather than rolling in tanks (like a certain other country). Of course the weakness of rolling in tanks and troops is that it can take even longer than two years... <looks at Ukraine, 743 days and still going>

Now that alliance needs some more balls and some less pink glasses, and perhaps there will be any sense in it. heh.)

YESSS!!!

Yeah, russians were yapping about this "threat" decades ago. Of course, they will present everything exactly like that in their propaganda. But no matter. If this helps and protects the civilized world, we can only rejoice.

Yes, and the USSR was complaining about the "threat" before that. However even the Soviet Union didn't manage to convince the historically neutral Sweden and Finland to join NATO so I guess the invasion of Ukraine that Putin launched with a surprise sneak attack on 24-February-2022 did demonstrate that Putin's Russia can accomplish something that the Soviet Union couldn't. I don't think that was Putin's desired result, but that's what he got whether the Kremlin likes it or not.

We can tell/see/determine that NATO didn't actually 'invade' the Nordic countries or 'force' them to join because there weren't a lot of furries from those countries making journals on FA about how they were being invaded, bombed, or coerced. Similarly, we can determine that Russia really did invade Ukraine on 24-Feb-2022 because of all the Journals that appeared on FA that day saying something like, "OMG, we're being bombed!", despite the slew/surfeit/surplus of Russian denials during the first few weeks that any invasion was taking place or that any Ukrainian cities were being hit by artillery, rockets, or missiles (which was obviously false from all the pictures in the news and all the individual Ukrainian members of FA who were writing/posting about it).

Kremlin still cannot stand the idea that we live in the times when all countries are free in their choice and their politicians are not frozen in the past. Meanwhile it lives in the distant past, believing that the world is still bipolar, like, "NATO vs their Soviet / post-Soviet shit". Anyway, I just hope Sweden and, especially, Finland may somehow influence NATO to be more decisive now. For now, it has been kinda useless and even chose to turn a blind eye to several missile attacks in eastern Poland, which is also in NATO.