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Will Sweden and Finland Feel Safer After Joining NATO?

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Will Sweden and Finland Feel Safer After Joining NATO?

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst


NATO expansion has been the main culprit behind all instability in Europe for the last 30+ years. Of course, NATO’s aggression against many countries, either as an organization, or separately, by each of its member states resulted in the deaths of millions, with orders of magnitude more of those whose lives may not have been physically lost, but they certainly have been ruined by the Alliance’s actions. The absolute havoc and the trail of death and destruction left in the wake of NATO invasions across the Middle East, always euphemistically dubbed “humanitarian interventions“, stand as a grisly testament to that.

The expansion of this supposedly “defensive alliance” which has not conducted a single truly defensive operation in well over 70 years of its existence, has first destroyed the relatively prosperous Yugoslavia, which was subjected to nearly a decade-long siege throughout the 1990s. During the 2000s, Russia’s attempts to create an atmosphere of trust and cooperation with the North Atlantic Alliance have been futile. No matter what Russia did, the alliance kept creeping closer to its borders. By the early 2010s, it was clear that NATO had no intention of stopping. The conflict in Ukraine is NATO’s latest brainchild, although there has hardly been any actual thinking behind it. It has been more like bulldozing its way towards Russia.

The last 8 years have shown where all this leads to, with the last nearly 2 months reaching a boiling point between the Russian Federation and the ever increasingly belligerent alliance. A recent announcement by both Sweden and Finland that they feel supposedly “threatened” and that they are very likely to enter NATO seems rather strange, especially given that they did not officially join NATO during the Cold War, when the USSR had undisputed control over the Baltic region.

An obvious question arises, why would Sweden and Finland feel threatened now, when the strategic situation has all but reversed, with Russia’s presence in the Baltics limited to relatively tiny areas around Saint Petersburg and Kaliningrad? It’s quite obvious that this can only be seen as another encroachment on Russia’s borders, another part of NATO’s larger geopolitical offensive. Still, although it may seem that NATO’s further expansion into Scandinavia is going to jeopardize Russia’s northwestern areas, Russia doesn’t seem particularly fazed by this prospect. While certainly not happy with this turn of events, Russia’s decision makers and strategic planners aren’t exactly pulling their hair out and running in circles over this.

First, it should be understood that both Sweden and Finland are neutral countries in name only. During the Cold War, both Scandinavian countries served as a hotbed of NATO intelligence activities, with the CIA and MI6 operating extensively in both countries. Soviet and later Russian intelligence were well aware of this.

During the 1990s, this became even more prominent, when both countries entered the EU, but also increased their official cooperation and interoperability with NATO. Naturally, over the years, this cooperation grew to unprecedented levels and the Russian military acted accordingly. The strategic military command structures in the Kremlin have treated both countries as de facto NATO member states for decades.

This is especially true for Finland, particularly after it announced it will be acquiring at least 65 F-35A fighter jets from the US military industrial giant Lockheed Martin. This jet, despite hundreds if not thousands of critical flaws and other shortcomings, is a serious ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) asset. The jet is bristling with sensors, all of which are connected to a massive network-centric warfare system, the center of which is located in the Pentagon. By operating this jet, Finland is effectively giving up on the sovereignty over its own air force and ceding it to the United States.

The Russian military is perfectly aware of this and has already made plans to react accordingly. Earlier, Finland’s official neutrality from a military standpoint complicated this. But now, rather ironically, the Scandinavian country might even make things easier for Russia’s strategic military planning by joining the ever expanding “defensive” alliance.

However, does this change anything for Finland and Sweden? Will NATO really make both countries safer? The short answer is simply no. By joining the North Atlantic Alliance, countries effectively cede much of their sovereignty to the US. Given the US’ strategic obsession with encircling Russia, the Kremlin feels strongly about this matter and it simply doesn’t take any chances.

Thus, the only “benefit” Sweden and Finland get is becoming meat shields for the US in the case of a nuclear exchange, because Russia is simply going to dedicate a portion of its thermonuclear arsenal to these countries. And if Russia doesn’t have a shortage of something, it’s nuclear weapons. Given the US’ and NATO’s track record, who is to blame then?

Source: InfoBrics



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    • Slimey

      YES! There is strength in NUMBers. An attack on one is an attack on ALL. Ukraine was disarmed by a Negro and was NOT a member of NATO standing there all alone and a big bad BEAR attacked it. :lol:

    • Daughter of the Church

      This comment is going against the flow, and will certainly be dismissed, but there it is:
      God’s way to punish is often to use His enemies against His people, to a certain limit. An other way for God to punish is to manipulate the heart of a rebellious people in order for those rebellious people to make unholy alliances with God’s enemies, then again, goes God’s chastisement.

      Who are the ‘rebellious people’? Sweden & Finland. Both have been rebellious to God’s laws starting in the 60′s by adopting the ‘sexual liberation’: who from the GI generation does not remember the boys from the south abandoning their girls for a summer flint at sleeping with the easy-lay Swedish blonds? The sexual liberation’s trailer was abortion and the inevitable string of venereal diseases. To those impurities, God send His first punishment through an invasion of colored people of all sorts, ranging from the negroes to the sand niggers. Now God’s second wave of chastisement against those once pure, but still rebellious nations of Sweden & Finland, is made in the form of a mortal alliance of the European Great Babylon against Holy Russia.
      Holy Russia? Yes Holy Russia from the Tsarist era, is back at having returned as Holy Russia after its 70 years long crucifixion under the tyranny of the Soviets. Russia has been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on May 2. 1991 (by an authentic Vicar of Christ, and NO! it was not by the KGB agent, Polish antipope, The “Saint” JP2)….

      • Daughter of the Church

        - – - continuation – - -

        … Russia has been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on May 2. 1991 (by the authentic Vicar of Christ, the sole Vicar of Christ of that time, and NO! it was not by the KGB agent, Polish antipope, Antipope “Saint” John-Paul II).
        By having become ‘holy’ again, the Adversary to all holiness, the hijacked Europe by the devil or Satan, ‘Babylon the Great’ may not suffer the existence of Holy Russia, which nation, returned under God will prevail, and it does not matter if Putin is or is not a Christian. In fine, if Sweden & Finland make an alliance with NATO, which is a diabolical alliance; a military pact of the NWO, it will become a sign that God will punish Scandinavia with great severity.

        • Daughter of the Church

          Correction: “Russia has been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on May 2. 1991″. It was done on May 13, 1991. The day ‘#13′ corresponded to the day of May 13, 1917 at Fatima, when the demand was made by the Virgin to Consecrate RUSSIA (not the world, nor Russia & Ukraine). Russia at that time was a backward and forgotten nation, soon to become martyred by the Soviets who with their leaders Lenin & Trotsky took control during the October Red Revolution of 1917.

          The said “Consecration of Russia” was done on May 13, 1991 by His Holiness Pope Gregory XVIII, the legitimate successor to Pope Gregory XVII (Cardinal Siri). The consecration was done in an ultra secret ceremony somewhere in Rome. It met the divine requirement. The effect of the Consecration was immediate. The next month, Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President of the Russian federation. He brought an appeasement to the maffias’ run nation. Russia has returned to Christianity ever since.

          A link for more information about the (authentic) Roman Catholic Church: http://todayscatholicworld.com/

      • Daughter of the Church

        Ad Addendum: To the one or two who have read my comment above: your predictable reaction is to roll the eyes, shake the head or have a long sigh, unless, you’re one of those stiff-neck who are vitriolic against the Blessed Virgin, then this reaction will be abusive, but in all case you will remain uncredulous. Here are two fact from the Bible, both Ancient & New to answer your objections of rationalist modern men.

        1: God once punished the Philistines by inflicting all of them with painful hémorroïdes. This was after they had stolen the Arch of the Covenant. The council of the Philistines has an emergency reunion due to this ‘shameful sore’ to discuss of what to do with the Arch (of the Covenant). During this reunion, none of the princes could sit, due to the pain inflicted by God. The Philistines decides to rid of the Arch by putting it (the Arch) on a cart with ox driving alone. The Arch eventually returned to Israel.

        2. The Immaculate Heart of Mary, is the ‘woman clothed with the sun’ of the Book of Revelation. She is also the ‘woman bruised at the ankle who crushes the head of the ancient serpent’ (Satan)

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