The long-discussed, longer-heralded, and often misrepresented case of Swedish "alliance-less-ness", sometimes elaborated into the famous adage of "pertaining to neutrality in wartime", or just "neutrality" in one ubiquitous term, finally reached an undoubted end with the accession - some would say long overdue, others long since a reality - in the White House before the presence of Secretary of State Blinken (one would hope, in this, a better representation of the Washington regime than his master) this Thursday. This Thursday, regardless of opinions of why and now and how it was accomplished, as well as the lingering, "slingering" path of appeasing erstwhile Turkish and Hungarian autocrats-turned-brothers in arms, will be remembered as the one when Sweden almost gracefully, snuck into the alliance of free states, "free" being the epithet so challenged by , as it has been before by Greece and Portugal, ignoring the wider question of colonial possessions (eyes on Portugal, or its vast southern and distant eastern provinces).
While much in this process may be condemned, or more humbly not arouse so much admiration for its efficacy, elegance or adherence to democratic process - yes, I am of the view that just as the Swedish people was asked, and seemingly even respected in their consent or lack of the same, with regard to the dependence on Brussels bureaucrats and German(-hosted) bankers,
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