RT – May 13, 2022
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics has said his country approves of Finland and Sweden joining NATO, noting that their addition to the alliance turns the Baltic Sea into “a NATO sea” in a Friday interview with the Financial Times.
Along with his counterparts in Estonia and Lithuania, Rinkevics expressed his eagerness to ratify the membership applications of the two Nordic countries. All three told the Times they would benefit from Finland and Sweden’s military strength, particularly Finland’s US fighter jet fleet.
Despite his unmitigated support for the accession of Russia’s northern neighbors to NATO, however, Rinkevics is hoping for more NATO troops in his country. The transformation of the Baltic into a NATO asset “does not change our demands for NATO increase in [the] Baltic region,” the FM said, adding that “there are still issues to be addressed” and that “the current security situation requires bolder plans by the alliance.”
While NATO sent 1,000 extra troops each to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from European member states earlier this year, the countries have demanded more, calling for brigades of 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers and an air defense upgrade that would let them shoot down Russian planes in case of aggression.
Before the invasion of Ukraine, the Baltics claimed to be concerned about Russia potentially invading their region via the Suwalki gap, the comparatively short (65km) border region between Poland and Lithuania sandwiched between Belarus and Russia’s Kaliningrad province, also located on the newly-christened “NATO sea.” All three nations are reportedly increasing their defense spending to 2.5% of GDP, compared to the NATO requirement of 2%.
Russia warned on Thursday that Finland joining NATO would pose a direct threat and require a response from Moscow following the country’s announcement that it planned to seek such membership with an eye toward submitting a formal application as soon as next Monday. Finland shares an 833-mile (1,340-kilometer) land border with Russia and while Helsinki has admitted that its neighbor poses no direct threat, membership in the bloc represents a direct escalation, placing a hostile alliance directly on Russia’s border.
Sweden reportedly plans to make its own formal request to join NATO next week, though some factions of the government are more enthusiastic than others regarding the prospect.
So far two NATO members say they’ll block Sweden and Finland joining NATO. The latest being Turkey.
The Eastwards expansion of NATO isn’t good for Turkey. We can’t see these moves just yet, but let’s say NATO tries to expend Eastwards beyond Turkey, this might sound far fetched right now, but such moves would weaken Turkey’s geographical position. After Finland, there are only two routes to expand, South, not ready, or East.
Turkey might be using their NATO veto to get a deal with the US. Turkey’s economy is being trashed by the US. Collapsing currency and inflation, when the basics of a sound economy are better than the UK and US.
This won’t fix the fact that Sweden, at least, like the rest of Western Europe, is demographically doomed, and degraded to the point of retardedness.
We really need to expand the term THICKbrit to THICKOwesterners.
What is the point of having a military if there is nothing to defend but Social Implosion?
They should have thought of that before they Guinea-pigged Bestial Pornography – and Duolingo daily informs me that Swedish (I am learning Roo-sian on there – I am the only one on there who displays the Russian flag that is supposed to show what language you are learning – duuuh!) is their fastest growing language- mostly from ‘refugees'(well, who ELSE?)
Hurdy-hurdy- hurdy!
– and that show ‘Vikings’ turned out to be correct in its Woke assumption that a lot of their best ‘fighters’ were actually Big Girlies –
Next year in St. Petersburg!
looking at the map of the Baltic, it strikes me that Tallinn (Estonia) and Helsinki (Finland) have less than 100 km of water separating them, therefore the idea of sucking Finland into NATO rests on garroting Russia’s ability to use the Baltic sea freely.
Russia had better preload the Kaliningrad Oblast with all the weaponry and supplies required for the big shootout, specifically the air defense batteries capable of incinerating the Baltic asshole states and Poland.
No pussyfooting “Ukrainians are our bros, go easy on them”, because these are not, they can be vaporized in a hurry before they can do major damage.
Looks like the “Thick” virus has jumped the Channel from ZOGUK…
with Euro’tards now marching in lockstep to The Abyss
This NATO business, Plain owd provocation they way they are going about ‘recruitment’. There will be a huge negative consequence.
There seems no other way, but to annihilate the perpetrators, The self confessed Satanist’s, The world financiers, the occupying deviots of the stolen lands.
That’s the same characters all rolled into One.
Why don’t the Commies like Russia–because Russia stopped being Commie? No, because when Russia still was Commie we had a Cold War, at least on the surface. To pretend you need security, you need an enemy, so you invent one. I can hardly be bothered with these ideas. “We want your oil and crops but we hate you”?
Need to get a new link to RT – this one is dead – the Intel pratts have obviously f****d with the links to prevent people reading something that is not either sentimental manipulation or the kind of Atrocity Porn that only a a THICKbrit would fall for.
90% of western countries want Russia destroyed, that’s what this is all about. It doesn’t matter that Russia is by and large globalist and more or less goes along with the Covid scam. But Putin is too keen on protecting Russia’s culture and heritage, it just won’t do to the maniacs in the west, such as Biden and Trudeau. Nope, they want Russia brought down to western standards and change its culture to Woke, like the rest of the deplorable West.
Didn’t putin say he’d do something or other if finland joined nato? Let’s hope he does. Drop a few nukes on the uk if possible. Oh how I hate this place and all that sail in it.
sweden, finland,baltic,german
are feminiced asshole states
ready to be f..d by moslems+afros !
BALTIC &FINLAND have to be
protectorates of russia as it always
was ! BASTA !
to rescue the white race there is only
one first step : to abolish jewish spirit
USA+Europa must throw out all
women from police,military, courts +
politics !
More bombastic absurdity. Russia could blot out the Baltic states in minutes. Russian missiles mean that the Baltic is a death trap for NATO shipping.
> 90% of western countries want Russia destroyed
90% of THE OWNERS OF THE western countries want Russia destroyed
There, I fixed it for you.
Putin is hated because
he wont allow rothschild fractional reserve lending
he wont have kids taught homosexual perversion in schools
he has rebuilt the churches
and christians and muslims can now pray and
visit churches and mosques
good on him
Stephen on May 14, 2022 at 2:54 pm
That comment makes massive sense to me.
• Guy Reid-Brown on May 14, 2022 at 8:00 am
This won’t fix the fact that Sweden, at least, like the rest of Western Europe, is demographically doomed, and degraded to the point of retardedness.
We really need to expand the term THICKbrit to THICKOwesterners.
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• Peter Petherington on May 14, 2022 at 9:47 am
Looks like the “Thick” virus has jumped the Channel from ZOGUK…
with Euro’tards now marching in lockstep to The Abyss’
Interesting, Peter – with full acknowledgement, I have consistently utilised your ‘THICKbrit’ appellation.
I quite like ‘Euto’tard’ as well, better then my own suggestion, but I feel very protective of the genuinely mentally damaged who are frequently insulted by the ‘Retard’ label.
So I will personally go along with my own ‘THICKOwesterners’ for the time being, until something better comes along-