🇸🇪🇫🇮 A further expansion of #Nato could only stoke #Russia’s concerns about its national security — concerns that underpinned the #Ukraine crisis.
✒️ Scott Ritter

#Sweden #Finland
https://thealtworld.com/scott_ritter/nato-looks-north-for-expansion

🇫🇮 There’s an ulterior motive driving #Finland’s membership in the bloc and that’s the precedent established by the US extending so-called “security assurances” to it in the interim period before it formally joins.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

#NATO
https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/finlands-ambassador-to-nato-just-discredited-his-countrys-pretext-for-membership

🎥🇫🇮🇸🇪 A few quick points about #Sweden and #Finland joining #NATO:
✒️ Brian Berletic

https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/sweden-finland-joining-nato-a-few-quick-points

🇫🇮 This is a great demonstration of the Finns' motivation and their willingness to participate in the defence of the country, if necessary.
✒️ Leonid Savin

#Finland #NATO
https://thealtworld.com/leonid_savin/finland-in-nato

🇸🇪🇹🇷🇫🇮 The historical ignorance captured in the actions of #Finland and #Sweden was astounding regarding the role played by #NATO in triggering the very conflict political leaders
✒️ Leonid Savin

#Turkey
https://thealtworld.com/scott_ritter/turkey-rains-on-natos-parade

🎥🇸🇪🇫🇮🇷🇺 Russia has called Finland's move a great "mistake," saying there are no threats to #Finland's security from #Russia.
🎤 Brian Berletic

#Sweden
https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/the-point-nato-goes-north

🎥🇫🇮🇸🇪 A few quick points about #Sweden and #Finland joining #NATO:
✒️ Brian Berletic

https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/sweden-finland-joining-nato-a-few-quick-points

🎧🇫🇮🇸🇪🇹🇷 Erdoğan has officially withdrawn #Turkey's objection to the addition of #Finland and #Sweden to #NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit
✒️ Caitlin Johnstone

https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/empire-to-expand-nato-in-response-to-war-caused-by-nato-expansion

🇷🇺🇸🇪🇫🇮 There are few fatal flaws in this narrative that discredit the point being put forth.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

#NATO #Russia #Sweden #Finland
https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/is-natos-northern-expansion-really-a-major-defeat-for-russia

🇷🇺 🇸🇪🇫🇮 Putin’s acceptance of #NATO on Russia’s border for another 832 miles is inconsistent with #Russia’s protests of NATO on her borders.
✒️ Paul Craig Roberts

#Sweden #Finland
https://thealtworld.com/paul_craig_roberts/more-evidence-of-russias-lack-of-political-realism

🇫🇮🇸🇪 The cat is already out of the bag and #Finland probably does indeed have this “plan B”, however, the strategic motivation and soft power consequences of which will now be analyzed.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

#Sweden
https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/will-finland-leave-sweden-in-the-lurch-go-it-alone-to-join-nato

⚡️🇪🇺🇫🇮🇷🇺 The latest dynamics suggest that #NATO is conspiring to place more pressure on #Russia along the bloc’s new Finnish member’s frontier
✒️ Andrew Korybko

#Finland
https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/finland-is-hellbent-on-positioning-itself-as-a-frontline-nato-state-against-russia