Sweden: the country of Palme wants to become a Nato protectorate!

For the first time in Sweden’s history the so-called “NATO-option” has obtained a majority in parliament, meaning that while the country edges closer to Finland’s defence and security policy which has the ‘NATO-option’ as its cornerstone, it is also keeping the possibility of NATO membership alive.

In 1949, Sweden chose not to join NATO and declared a security policy aiming for non-alignment in peace and neutrality in war. Since the 1990s, however, there has been an active debate on the question of NATO membership.

The parliament’s second-largest opposition and populist party, the Sweden Democrats party  , joined the rest of the opposition – the Moderate Party, the Christian Democrats and Liberals – in their stance on defence matters, the broadsheet Svenska Dagbladet reported.

However, the minority government of Social Democrats and Greens wants to hold on to the traditional policy of strict military non-alignment.

When justifying the populist party’s change of heart, Sweden Democrats Chair Jimmie Åkesson referred to Finland’s policy of maintaining a NATO option in a statement published in the tabloid Expressen.