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sThe countries who joined were to do so anyway should anything happen.
Sweden was always a de facto NATO country, during the cold war the US air force assets in germany should relocate to sweden in case of nuclear exchange and continue fighting from there. Not exactly something a neutral country would agree with, which Sweden pretended to be at that time.
And Finland moved towards NATO after the end of the USSR, the socdems there paved the way and the right wingers afterwards nailed it in, not remotely unexpected.
Likewise switzerland throwing out its neutrality, they were US lapdogs for a while already. With US state visits to switzerland getting away with outright disrespecting the local government. Once a country sinks that deep, it will come when its master calls.
Any other NATO expansion? Nah.
How great NATO is doing is obvious by not one, but two batshit increases of defense spending, first 2% and now 5%! While all NATOcountries have decrepid infrastructure, underfunded education and recessive economies.