Sweden became NATO’s newest member on Thursday (7 March 2024), upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the Government of the United States in Washington DC. With Sweden’s accession, NATO now counts 32 countries among its members.
Because it includes countries that are routinely looking for trouble, such as the US and Turkey. One of these days Turkey is going to try and drag us into a conflict with Syria or Iran like the US did with Afghanistan.
Maybe it’s just me, but it felt like the US fought Afghanistan without much help from NATO.
Plenty of NATO countries had troops in Afghanistan since 2001 onwards as part of the US-led campaign:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participants_in_Operation_Enduring_Freedom