Their accession would mean that the Baltic Sea coastline would be surrounded by NATO members, with small lanes around the Russian cities of Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg.
The accession of Finland and Sweden in NATO will bring Russia to a difficult military position in the Baltic Sea, he said today US Secretary of Defense General Mark Miley during a visit to Stockholm in view of military high schools.
The two Nordic countries, both of which have long borders in the Baltic Sea, applied to join the North Atlantic Alliance last month amid security concerns following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, although their objections have been challenged. from Turkey.
Their inclusion would mean that its coastline Baltic Sea will be surrounded by NATO members, with small lanes around Russian cities Kaliningrad and Saint Petersburg.
“So from a Russian perspective, that’s going to be a lot problematic for them, militarilyand it would be very beneficial for NATOSaid Miley.
“The Baltic Sea is one of the world ‘s most important sea lanes,” he said in a joint news conference with his Swedish counterpart, the Swedish prime minister and the Swedish defense minister. in the Baltic Sea involving Sweden and Finland.
With Sweden and Finland hoping to join NATO, the war in Ukraine sparked the very enlargement of the Alliance to the Russian border following the invasion of the Russian president. Vladimir Putin tried to prevent.
Putin said last month that there was no threat to Russia if Sweden and Finland joined NATO, although he warned that Moscow would retaliate if the US-led Alliance strengthened military infrastructure in its new Nordic members.
The Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Anderson described the US military visit as a tangible testament to the assurances given by US President Joe Biden to herself and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto when they visited Washington in May.
