The Provocation of NATO in Sweden

Sweden has had a track record of consistent neutrality since the world wars. It's not a backward country and it has one of the world's major defense industries. But on the other hand, part of me thinks that NATO is has so exposed itself as nothing but an American puppet,. That it's a joke. I just can't put myself in in the position of a rationally thinking Swede wanting to join after years of a consistent neutrality policy.