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Sweden and Finland are in NATO. Leverage from turkey and Hungary is decreasing, if you haven't seen it.

Democracy may be slow, but it's still the best system.

Additionally, now support for Ukraine can increase and it should go faster.

God, I really hope it goes a lot faster...

Because NATO (for most key decisions) works by full consensus, adding new members (a process which involved Turkey and Hungary using their leverage for concessions, especially Turkey) does not substantially reduce the leverage of existing members (this is also why Russia's bid to move to the front of the line and be admitted ahead of other Easter European applicants, without a readiness process--the real root, not the fact of expansion into Eastern Europe, of Putin's resentment against NATO--was rejected.)

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