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HitgeopoliticsIt will be known whether Sweden and Finland will apply for NATO membership before June 1, 2022.
A scored prediction by Peter Zeihan, made on .
Scored prediction
Hitgeopolitics“we're going to know very very soon probably before june 1st one way or the other”
It will be known whether Sweden and Finland will apply for NATO membership before June 1, 2022.
- Made on
- 2022-04-18
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 2 / 5
- Effect on score
- +1.84
What counted as right
- Status
- resolved
- Settled on
- 2022-05-18
By 2022-06-01, Sweden's and Finland's decisions on whether to apply for NATO membership are publicly known.
Criterion requires that by 2022-06-01 it be publicly known whether Sweden and Finland would apply for NATO membership. The criterion was clearly met: both countries announced their intent (15 May) and formally submitted applications (18 May), making their decisions publicly and definitively known about two weeks before the deadline. Resolved with criterion met. Primary source is NATO's own announcement; corroborated by NPR. No conflicting evidence.
Sources
Sweden and Finland Reconsider NATO
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Evidence of what happened
Finland and Sweden's leaders publicly announced on 15 May 2022 that they would seek NATO membership, and the two countries formally and simultaneously submitted their official NATO membership applications on 18 May 2022 — both dates well before the 1 June 2022 deadline. Whether they would apply was therefore publicly known before June 1.
NPR reporting confirms Finland and Sweden formally submitted their NATO membership applications on 18 May 2022, with the decision/announcement publicly made in mid-May 2022 — i.e., the decisions on whether to apply were unambiguously public before 1 June 2022.
Corrections
No public corrections.
Effect on the score
+1.84- How sure they sounded
- 80%
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 2 / 5
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Where this came from
It will be known whether Sweden and Finland will apply for…- Methodology version
- v1.0.0
- Last computed
- August 2, 2026
- Made on
- 2022-04-18
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