I wonder what made Sweden and Finland want to join NATO...
Corruption?
Anyone reading the news in sweden knew they were on the lookout for a casus belli to join NATO… Ukraine invasion was as good as any.
If the Russian empire didn’t expand west under the guise of communist brotherhood, then proceeded to make every aspect of life miserable to those they controlled (not talking about purely macroeconomics here), Nato would have never been invited east.