Sweden Joining Finland in Bid to Join NATO

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Turkey does not support the additions to NATO. From the story: Despite repeated threats from Russia, Finland is poised to join the U.S.-led NATO military alliance. The historic move — set to be mirrored by Sweden — will effectively double the length of NATO’s land border with Russia. Russia, and Putin in particular, has long considered NATO a threat. The Kremlin has defended its war in Ukraine partly as a means of pushing the Western alliance back further from its borders — a tactic which, given Finland and Sweden’s accession bids, appears to have backfired spectacularly (CBS). New York Post: On Monday, Putin said he sees no direct threat to Russia from Finland and Sweden joining the alliance but warned NATO against bolstering the military capabilities of the two nations. “The expansion of the military infrastructure to this territory will definitely provoke a response,” Putin said at a summit of the pro-Moscow Collective Security Treaty Organization, which includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. “And we’ll see what it’s going to be like depending on the threats this would pose to us” (New York Post). Wall Street Journal: If approved, analysts say the move would significantly enhance the bloc’s military capabilities on land, sea and in the air (Wall Street Journal).