The more that President Erdogan exposes the manipulative means through which countries like those two NATO aspirants support terrorism against the Turkish people, the more that their international reputations will be damaged, which will in turn harm their influence seeing as how Finland and Sweden’s are disproportionately derived from their soft power. Turkish President Erdogan…
Russia should ignore Zelensky and the Finnish biker and let the EU know what its choices are. Although Satan 11, Russia’s latest super‐heavy RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), packs a lethal punch, it is not of itself a game changer. Because leopards don’t change their spots, NATO won’t stop its war mongering until it…
Though Ukraine still suffers the fallout from that foolish war to end all wars, the criminal stupidity over Kola of these NATO handmaidens will all but ensure that the fallout for all of them will be nuclear. When considering Finland throwing down the nuclear gauntlet over Russia’s Kola peninsula, Finland’s metamorphosis from placid puppy to…
Tuomioja’s alternative to appease Finns and Swedes’ artificially manufactured support of NATO membership through the regional alliance compromise that he proposed – including through the US’ potential role as a third party within it – could present a “face-saving” exit from this security dilemma if it comes to pass. It would fall just short of…
This region is arguably one of the targets of ‘Shadow NATO’, a concept that refers to the de facto inclusion of countries into the US-led military alliance. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed concern over the weekend about NATO’s efforts to expand into Sweden and Finland. She warned that “It’s quite obvious that Finland…
Relations between Russia and the West remain tense in spite of the Kremlin’s best efforts to improve them without compromising on its interests so it would be best if these drills were suspended or at the very least reduced in scale and not held so close to its borders. NATO carried out its third Ramstein…
