Sweden became NATO’s newest member on Thursday (7 March 2024), upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the Government of the United States in Washington DC. With Sweden’s accession, NATO now counts 32 countries among its members.
I don’t expect they’re going to be eager to repeat this exercise for a long time, even if they do manage to grab part of Ukraine. If they don’t, it’s more a question of even surviving as a regime.
If they do manage to grab a part of Ukraine that won’t be the end. They’ll be fighting a western backed resistance movement. The USA and allies sank over two million million dollars and twenty years trying to hold Afghanistan after and failed. If Russia ‘wins’ in Ukraine they’ll be in for a far rougher time.