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https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_223446.htm Sweden is now officially the newest member of NATO.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20008814/64-3-213938 Finnish language news, but the gist of this is that Hungarian President has now signed the Swedish NATO-ratification. Steps towards Swedish NATO membership left are: A) Hungary deposits the ratification to US State Department B) The US Secretary of...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-26/sweden-clears-final-hurdle-to-join-nato-with-hungary-vote Hungarian Parliament has now ratified Swedish NATO-application. Now the only thing left for Hungary to do is for the President to sign the ratification + for Hungary to deposit the...

https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/2b557374-096e-4995-8d6d-384938894b72 Erdogan has also now ratified Swedish NATO-application. Now the only thing left from Turkey is depositing the ratification to US State Department.

Once again Darth Putin has shown his strategic mastermind 4d chess calculator mind (incomprehensible to us) in action.

The Turkish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Commission handles the Swedish NATO application on Thursday this week after which it is transferred for Grand National Assemby of Turkey for ratification.

The President of Turkey Erdogan has confirmed today that Sweden's NATO application has been sent to the Turkish Parliament for ratification (finally, duh). Last time when Finland's ratification was sent to the Turkish Parliament for ratification, Hungary finished up our ratification in less...

Sweden is also necessary to get ASAP to logistically support defending Finland and Baltics and to provide a backbone for NATO to defend Finland from in the means of logistics, supporting critical assets like AWACS, etc... further away from Russian weapon systems' influence. And also getting...

Finland is now a full member of NATO!

Turkish President Erdogan has now signed the ratification of Finnish NATO application, so it's only a matter of them depositing it to Washington DC.

The Turkish Parliament just ratified Finland's NATO application. Now we only need Erdogan to sign the ratification papers and our NATO membership will begin.

And today Hungarian president Katalin Novak signed the ratification of Finland into NATO into legal force, and Hungarian foreign minister confirmed to our foreign minister that Hungary will deposit the Hungarian ratification of Finland to NATO to the US state department vaults on Friday. Now...

The Turkish leadership is still halting Swedish application due to political reasons related to Kurdish organizations acting in Sweden, etc... and the Turks and Hungarians move in lockstep in these matters (as Hungary wants to help Turkey avoid the pressure of being the sole party still left to...

Finnish NATO application was just ratified by the Hungarian parliament at clear 182-6 majority leaving Turkish parliament the only one left.

Also today the Turkish parliamentary foreign affairs commission green-lighted our NATO ratification to be sent for a final vote in Turkish parliament. And Hungary released their parliamentary schedule of next week, and on Monday March 27th 2023 their parliament will have our ratification in...

Today the President of Turkey Erdogan has confirmed that he will now accept Finland's (but not Sweden's yet) ratification to NATO and has signed the papers forward to the Turkish Parliament to be ratified before the Turkish Election on May 14th, 2023 (it's likely the Turkish ratification comes...

Slovakia ratified our NATO appslications today bringing Finnish and Swedish NATO appslication ratification counts to 28/30 with us only needing Hungary and Turkey to ratify our applications.

So North Macedonia has ratified Fin&Swe NATO applications bringing the total to 19 out of 30. With US Senate having the issue now on executive calendar, French National Assembly dealing with the matter on August 2nd, and some other nations just ratifying the applications without prior...

Romania and Lithuania have ratified Fin&Swe NATO applications now bringing us to 17/30 nations.

That data is obsolete. Currently with our defense budget of 5.8 billion euros, Finland already spends over 2% of our GDP on defense. And that amount increases if we use the NATO formula instead of the Finnish budget formula which excludes military pensions (as they're paid from the budget of...