North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Sweden is a member of the NATO defense alliance. The last two expansions of NATO to Finland and Europe are a consequence of Russia’s brutal assault on a neutral country. Finland and Sweden have a long tradition of being outside defense alliances in order to maintain their neutrality. The Russian invasion of Ukraine on…
Recently, Trump caused great concern when he said that some NATO countries that pay too little for defense cannot count on help from the US. The question is actually how much the US itself contributes. To calculate this, I have looked at what some NATO countries spend on defense in terms of Gross National…
Today, Finland was admitted as a NATO member. Welcome to Finland and a clear kick in the butt to Russia. Putin openly believed before the invasion of Ukraine that the brutal assault would lead to a split in NATO. It hasn’t happened. On the contrary, Russia’s aggression has led to a more united Europe….
Yesterday, a Russian-built rocket crashed into the Polish village of Przewodow. 2 people lost their lives. What actually happened is currently unclear. The missile is manufactured in Russia. At the same time, the US says that the rocket was unlikely to have been launched from Russia. Belarus or the occupied territories of Ukraine are…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sends Finland and perhaps Sweden to NATO. Finland is probably only weeks away from submitting an application for membership, while Sweden may follow suit. Putin’s attempts to pull NATO further away from Russia’s borders may thus have the opposite effect. 1340 kilometers is the border between Finland and Russia. Finland…
No sooner have we digested the gruesome images and videos of executions of civilians in Kyiv’s suburbs than rockets slam into the railway station in Kramatorsk. The question then is what will be next. Where does the red line go for NATO? The red line of ethnic cleansing? Is the red line for NATO…