the little "world tension" meter in HOI4 just went up by like 3%

Rad

NATO still trying to finish what the nazis started.

Do you know why NATO annexed Sweden?

Thanks ~~Obama~~ Putin!

It was a de facto member as long as NATO existed. Now it also is a de jure member too, a big nothing-burger.

Guys will see this and say "hell yea"

I don't like the expansion of NATO, but due to Russia's recent imperialism, Sweden's and Finland's reactions are completely reasonable. A much healthier alternative would have been actually advancing towards an integrated European defense system involving EU members, with a door open to certain neighbours such as Norway, but it's pretty hard to do that when the political groups that could actually promote that alternative are schizophrenically tolerating positions such as "I'm a pacifist, so I'm advocating for my own country's disarmament despite my neighbours starting wars very recently" and "if Ukraine didn't want to get invaded, they shouldn't have sought guarantees against Russian aggression from third countries".

Fuck the tankies in here and praise UN and Sweden.

Russia locked out of the Balkan Sea now?

Huzzah! Welcome to the team, Sweden. We can all be self defense buddies together! =D