I urge my fellow Europeans to have our representatives reject this pathetic proposal.

Why is France consistently the only country with a spine in here?

We’ve caught on to how this works now. I anticipate about two more iterations of tedious, drawn out flip-flopping and misinformation during the remaining steps before we are either finally let in or the whole thing fizzles out.

Yeah, I agree that’s probably how this is going to play out; Ukraine cedes some territory to Russia and is allowed to join NATO, hopefully safeguarding it against further Russian imperialism in the future.

In the meantime, we should of course keep supporting Ukraine as much as we can to give them as strong of a position in these potential future negotiations as possible.

You can’t fool us Erdogan, we’ve seen this move before.

By tomorrow he’ll have new demands. He’ll demand Sweden form a space agency and plant the Turkish flag on the moon or something like that, mark my words.

A couple of things.

• Our defence has historically been coordinated to a high degree with Finland, and with only one of us in NATO it makes this coordination more difficult. So, in some ways, we are worse off than before the process started.
• As it is now, Sweden is generally not worried about a land invasion. The danger is how exposed we are from the baltic.
• A large part of why we want in is for continued solidarity and support of Finland. It is much better for Finland if we are in than if we are not.

What year is this?!

I think this is on balance good, but the swedish context makes it a bit problematic in some aspects.

The right has essentially weaponized some sort of perfect utopian image of nuclear as the answer to all questions on climate policy. The unstated gist of it is this: “Since we’re doing nuclear, we don’t need to take any other actions to mitigate climate change”. This allows them to take short-sighted, populist positions on carbon taxation and other “green” reforms that cause more harm than their push for more nuclear mitigates.

So yeah, as I said, this in itself is good, but watch out for the results on non-nuclear environmental policy.

This is one of the few news stories I’ve followed in my life that has made me feel myself physically reacting to how horrifying it is. Absolute, undiluted, unironic nightmare fuel.

Following this on Twitter gives me existential dread.

Anti-vax sentiment dominates the threads, carried by some of the most influential people in the world and an army of blue check sycophants. Genuinely horrifying.