The Nordic Сountries: More Militarism and Confrontation Where Creativity, Security and Peace Were Eminently Possible
... leaders to Mikhail Gorbachev about not expanding NATO one inch eastwards if he accepted a re-unified Germany in NATO. The NATO-Russia deadlock that has led to the conflict in Ukraine served only a pretext to what has been going on the last roughly three ... ... heightened tensions in the region (and the Arctic) and, as I predicted right after Russia’s military operation in Ukraine , Finland’s and Sweden’s panicking, rushed and fatal decision to join NATO. Why Sweden and Finland are joining NATO Andrey Kortunov: ...