Russia now threatens Sweden, Finland – are they next?

No I would think the Baltic States are the top of the concern list. Not sure the -stan's are where Russia wants to go again.

jfengel · 4 years ago

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are already in NATO. If Russia attacks them, the other NATO countries are obligated by treaty to defend them.

Sweden and Finland are not in NATO -- largely because they didn't want to be. They appear to be rapidly changing their minds about that.

masonic · 4 years ago

>the other NATO countries are obligated by treaty to defend them

Like how Britain and the USA are obligated to defend Ukraine already due to the 1990s nuke surrender agreement?

neverminder · 4 years ago

Sweden and Finland are in EU which has mutual defence agreement.

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jleyank · 4 years ago

32mb · 4 years ago

Although Sweden and Finland like to remain neutral, they have to take a side in this in order to avoid more wars, and this is the best time for them to join NATO. They can simply say they’re scared of Russian aggression and are scared their country is going to be invaded by Putin.

bell-cot · 4 years ago

NO - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

(Admittedly, the article is in American Military News. And thinking about and being ready for situations where "forecasts of peace proved over-optimistic" is a pretty basic function of any military establishment.)

ChrisGranger · 4 years ago

I saw the story in The Telegraph.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/25/russia-thr...

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