Posted on 02/28/2024 7:27:06 AM PST by Dr. Franklin
NATO officials have long feared that the Baltic region in northeastern Europe is one of its most vulnerable areas, and if Russia wins in Ukraine, its next move could be to launch an attack on the region.
Oscar Jonsson, a defense specialist at the Swedish Defence University, told Business Insider, that Sweden would provide NATO with a large range of new options for striking back.
"Sweden will bring the strategic depth needed for launching air operations and missiles against Russian operations, but also be a difficult target across the Baltic Sea," he said.
"Moreover, Sweden brings an already interoperable Armed Forces that are highly competent in terms of technology and training although not in great quantity."
Sweden's membership of NATO means the alliance is the dominant force in the Baltic Sea.
For hundreds of years, the region has been a vital corridor for the Russian navy, Nima Khorrami, a Research Associate at the Arctic Institute, told Business Insider
He said that Sweden's "extensive coastline and numerous islands provide NATO with a unique advantage in navigating and controlling" the sea, and curtail potential Russian naval operations from its bases in the Baltic.
Khorrami added that, with Sweden's membership, NATO's borders have drawn even closer to Russia, meaning it could more effectively strike St Petersburg, Russia's second biggest city, and Kaliningrad, the Baltic enclave where Russia has nuclear-capable Iskander missiles.
"This adds another layer of deterrence against potential Russian aggression, as NATO forces can effectively respond to threats in real time," said Khorrami.
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Sweden has long lived under the threat of Russian aggression. After World War II, it adopted a "total defense" strategy, which states that every part of society, from school pupils to pensioners, has a role in the event of a war.
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NATO should have been shut down after the fall of the Soviet Union .
Not to mention, the Baltic Sea becomes the NATO Lake.
NATO is the bodyguard for woke, Davos Globohomo
The longer it exists, the more Europe will destroy itself with multi-culti open borders and post-modernism.
Sweden is falling to the muzzoids.
A lie!
“The Swedish Armed Forces is made up of 24,400 active personnel, 11,400 military reserves, 21,500 Home Guard and 5,200 additional conscripts yearly into the Reserves (set to increase to 8,000 conscripts yearly by 2024) as of 2022.”
*😂*
It should have been broken up into 2 or 3 defensive alliances. The US would have observer status (like Sweden did for years in NATO) in one or two if them.
We have to protect Europe from being invaded by Russians so it can safely be invaded by non-whites
Trump said “one of the presidents of a big country” at one point asked him whether the US would still defend the country if they were invaded by Russia even if they “don’t pay.”
“No, I would not protect you,” Trump recalled telling that president. “In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.”
“if Russia wins in Ukraine, its next move could be to launch an attack on the region.”
What a crock. NATO needs a boogyman.
NATO needs to be dissolved, starting with it’s sugar daddy leaving. That would be us, as in US.
There is the true fundamental issue.
Every single white majority country on Earth is being invaded by low IQ non whites, and their nations babble about Russia and Israel…
“We have to protect Europe from being invaded by Russians so it can safely be invaded by non-whites”
That’s the plan.
And in the meantime, chew up a lotta White lives in the meatgrinder.
Makes their legs all tingly to think about it.
“if Russia wins in Ukraine, its next move could be to launch an attack on the region.”
Yeah yeah, let me know when NATO countries start paying their dues and radically increasing their military budgets and personnel.
ABBA is dead to me.
The best way to counter Russia is to drill baby drill.
Exactly
Irrespective of an opinion on responsibility for this stupid war, it is interesting what happens when “Putin’s Rules of Historic Ownership” are applied by others. Belgians should start brushing up on their Spanish, and Spaniards on their Maghrabi Arabic. And China? Digging for that old deed on everything east of the Urals.
“effectively strike St Petersburg”
International law prohibits attacks on civilians.
That was not the case during WW2.
Stalin moved most arms factories to the Urals in WW2.
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