Baltic countries

Global security

02.march 2024 CSR

The Baltic Sea as a NATO lake: Sweden's accession to the alliance is a game-changer

Perhaps the most obvious advantage of Sweden joining NATO is that the Baltic Sea essentially becomes something of a "NATO lake" with the military alliance surrounding the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and controlling both sides of the Gulf of Finland that leads to Russia's second-largest city of St. Petersburg.

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17.December 2021 M.M

"Forcing" the Balkan states into NATO: Putin's "red lines"

Moscow demands that NATO give up "pushing" the Balkan countries and Ukraine into the alliance, stop grouping troops on Russia's borders, and reduce its presence in the Black Sea and the airspace of the Baltic countries. Russia criticizes NATO's policy in the countries of the Western Balkans, such as supporting the establishment of the "Kosovo Army", and assures that such military preparations by NATO "cannot remain without an adequate Russian response".