• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/majority-swedes-favour-joining-nato-poll-2022-03-04/

    2022 polls started showing a majority in favor with support increasing after that

    Majority of the Parliament was in favor since December 2020 (only MP truly against, V wanted a referendum) with elections happening in September 2022 (after applying in May), two years prior to officially joining… If Swedes were so against it then Andersson wouldn’t have gained seats during that election.

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      12 hours ago

      seems i’ve been a bit mistaken. on page 68 of the GU SOM-census you can see the enormous shift in the public opinion. unfortunately it doesn’t go beyond 2022. i’d be interested in seeing how it changed through the application process. Officerstidningen says support went down after 2022 but they don’t have a graph.

      i still think it was a brexit-style peek above the surface for the join side, because the stuff we’ve had to give up to join has not been popular.