Sweden and Finland apply for NATO entry, applications backed by US | USA TODAY

Finland and Sweden look to join NATO, a move the U.S. backs, as Republican leader Mitch McConnell says it will make NATO "even stronger than it was."

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After over 200 years as a nonaligned nation, Sweden will join neighboring Finland in applying for membership in NATO, a potentially historic shift motivated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson warned that the Nordic country would be in a “vulnerable position” during the application period and urged her fellow citizens to brace themselves for the Russian response.

“Russia has said that that it will take countermeasures if we join NATO,” she said. “We cannot rule out that Sweden will be exposed to, for instance, disinformation and attempts to intimidate and divide us.”

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  2. Secretary Anthony Blinken should consider campaigning for the president of the United States in 2024.

  3. Human Have Become Lower than Animals…

    What animals murder their own children? 
    This means that these so-called humans are lower than animals. Regarding abortion Srila Prabhupada writes are follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam,  5th Canto, Chapter 14, Text 9:
    The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not allow anyone to act against the stringent laws of material nature; therefore illicit sex is punished life after life. Illicit sex creates pregnancies, and these unwanted pregnancies lead to abortion. Those involved become implicated in these sins, so much so that they are punished in the same way the next life. Thus in the next life they also enter the womb of a mother and are killed in the same way. All these things can be avoided by remaining on the transcendental platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In this way one does not commit sinful activity. Illicit sex is the most prominent sin due to lusty desire. When one associates with the mode of passion, he is implicated in suffering life after life.”
    So, those who abort have to suffer the karma of being aborted.

    They Demand the Right to Murder their Children.

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  4. For almost 50 years NATO stood as a deterrent to war. For the better part of the last 3 decades, since the mid 90’s NATO has been the key instrument of virtually every military action undertaken by the US and thier partners, from the former Yugoslavia twice, Iraq twice, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and others.
    NATO has become what it once sought to prevent.
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