There hasn't been any debate, if I may say so. Or if it has been, no one has particularly been part of it. It's not that 99%, 999%, 99.9% of Sweden's people want to join the NATO. There is a significant number, almost half of the country have the reservation. So, I think they will be at this point of time when the Ukraine war is taking place and Russia is such a hugely sensitive topic in this country.
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UnHerd to talk about why so few voices in public life and the media have spoken out against the shipment of cluster bombs, and about the recession of anti-war sentiment more widely, is the academic and writer Ashok Swain. A professor of peace and conflict research at Uppsala University in Sweden, he is one of the world’s leading experts on conflict resolution. His nation of residence is now set to join Nato, and he sat down with Freddie Sayers to unpick how Sweden’s proposed membership goes against its history of neutrality.
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