What was supposed to be a health walk has become an obstacle course.
When they decided to give up their neutrality to join NATO, just after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Sweden and Finland thought it would only be a formality, both the arms members of the Alliance were open to them, so that they could protect themselves from the imperialist impulses of Moscow.
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had said it: the candidacy of the two Nordic countries will be one of the fastest in the history of the Alliance.
Child's play compared to the long wait, which will perhaps remain in vain, for Ukraine and Georgia.
This was without taking into account the opposition from Budapest and Ankara.
Eight months later, Stockholm and Helsinki are still waiting in the antechamber of the Atlantic Alliance,
The blocking of Hungary by Viktor Orban…
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