{"id":126801,"date":"2024-03-08T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/with-sweden-onboard-natos-north-is-now-sealed\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:30:11","slug":"with-sweden-onboard-natos-north-is-now-sealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/with-sweden-onboard-natos-north-is-now-sealed\/","title":{"rendered":"With Sweden onboard, NATO\u2019s north is now sealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126801\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nWith Sweden&#8217;s membership now formalized, NATO&#8217;s Nordic wall is complete. Stockholm has been impatiently awaiting this moment, as it felt left out in the cold between allies Norway and Finland.<\/p>\n<p>NATO officials assured Finland and Sweden when they applied together for membership in May 2022 that their process would be the fastest in history. And, in fact, it finally has been, but nearly one year since Finland&#8217;s rapid accession in April 2023 has been nerve-wracking for the Swedish government, which had hoped the duo&#8217;s accession would be a tandem one like the application. But opposition from Turkey and Hungary meant Sweden had to accept that long delay before being allowed under NATO&#8217;s security umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Jonsson, a researcher with the Swedish Defence University, says having declared its desire to join but being stalled by would-be allies was the &#8220;worst place&#8221; for Sweden to be stranded, even temporarily. &#8220;If you look at just recent empirics, you can see that Russia has invaded two states that it perceived to be on the way into NATO,&#8221; he told DW, referring to Georgia and Ukraine, &#8220;but zero NATO member states.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It took some 20 months to gain the approval of the Turkish parliament and another few weeks for Hungary&#8217;s. Each required extra diplomacy and, as it turned out in both cases, coincidental or not fighter-jet deals. Turkey&#8217;s green light for Sweden came only after it was assured of the long-stalled acquisition of F-16s from the United States \u2014 which waited to confirm until Turkey&#8217;s required documents arrived in Washington, DC. For Hungary, it was four additional JAS-Gripens from Sweden before the parliament took its vote on February 26. But then new Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok made ratifying this decision his very first act in office on March 5.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden had concluded multiple bilateral security arrangements with NATO countries over the years based on its intention to remain outside a military alliance, but none of them had the binding nature of NATO&#8217;s Article 5 &#8220;all for one and one for all&#8221; guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Pal Jonson, who previously was the head of the Swedish parliament&#8217;s defense committee, advocated membership for decades by saying his country &#8220;can hope, we can assume, we can wish that we get the support from NATO [in case of attack], but we cannot know until we join the alliance.&#8221; But that concern was not enough for the majority of the Swedish population until Russian President Vladimir Putin launched war on Ukraine \u2014 and until neighboring Finland made clear it would waste no time in seeking membership.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Jonsson says while the NATO application was portrayed by many inside and outside Sweden as the abandonment of the country&#8217;s cherished self-image as a &#8220;neutral&#8221; and military non-aligned nation, it actually wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/with-sweden-onboard-natos-north-is-now-sealed\/a-68448631\">Reed more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/with-sweden-onboard-natos-north-is-now-sealed\/a-68448631\">DW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/with-sweden-onboard-natos-north-is-now-sealed\/\">With Sweden onboard, NATO\u2019s north is now sealed<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,847,848],"class_list":["post-126801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-nato","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}