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00:00 Intro
01:00 Geostrategic pause
04:27 The key to the Baltic's defense
09:15 Breaking strategic neutrality
13:40 Outro
2016 Sweden concerned about Russian provocation → Gotland - BBC > .
Gotland ((
listen); Gutland, local dialect), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the north, as well as the Karlsö Islands (Lilla and Stora) to the west. The population is 58,595, of which about 23,600 live in Visby, the main town. The island of Gotland and the other areas of the province of Gotland make up less than one percent of Sweden's total land area. From a military viewpoint, it occupies a strategic location in the Baltic Sea. As of 2018, the Gotland Regiment has been re-raised and it is the first time since WW2 that a new regiment has been established in Sweden.
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The current Lithuania–Poland border has existed since the re-establishment of the independence of Lithuania on March 11, 1990. Until then the identical border was between Poland and the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. The length of the border is 104 kilometres (65 mi). It runs from the Lithuania–Poland–Russia tripoint southeast to the Belarus–Lithuania–Poland tripoint.
It is the only land border that the European Union- and NATO-member Baltic states share with a country that is not a member of the Russian-aligned Commonwealth of Independent States. To the military planners of NATO, the [chokepoint] border area is known as the Suwalki gap (named after the nearby town of Suwałki), because it represents a tough-to-defend flat narrow piece of land, a gap, that is between Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and that connects the NATO-member Baltic States to Poland and the rest of NATO.
"Eastern Europe"
Sweden adopted neutrality for years, but the present times pose new geostrategic challenges for the Swedes. So Stockholm joined NATO.
00:00 Intro
01:00 Geostrategic pause
04:27 The key to the Baltic's defense
09:15 Breaking strategic neutrality
13:40 Outro
Funding NATO ..
Sweden's NATO Question ..
listen); Gutland, local dialect), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the north, as well as the Karlsö Islands (Lilla and Stora) to the west. The population is 58,595, of which about 23,600 live in Visby, the main town. The island of Gotland and the other areas of the province of Gotland make up less than one percent of Sweden's total land area. From a military viewpoint, it occupies a strategic location in the Baltic Sea. As of 2018, the Gotland Regiment has been re-raised and it is the first time since WW2 that a new regiment has been established in Sweden.https://www.foi.se/report-summary?rep... .
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https://www.politico.eu/article/swede... .
https://euobserver.com/foreign/150363 .
https://www.reuters.com/article/swede... .
https://neweasterneurope.eu/2020/09/2... .
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... .
https://thebulwark.com/why-sweden-sho... .
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https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs... .
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It is the only land border that the European Union- and NATO-member Baltic states share with a country that is not a member of the Russian-aligned Commonwealth of Independent States. To the military planners of NATO, the [chokepoint] border area is known as the Suwalki gap (named after the nearby town of Suwałki), because it represents a tough-to-defend flat narrow piece of land, a gap, that is between Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and that connects the NATO-member Baltic States to Poland and the rest of NATO.
In July 2016, two years after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the beginning of the War in Donbass, NATO's member states agreed at the 2016 Warsaw summit to forward NATO Enhanced Forward Presence. A 2017 NATO exercise was for the first time focused on defense of the gap from a possible Russian attack. As well in 2017, Russia and Belarus had the Zapad 2017 exercise. In 2020, Ben Hodges and Heinrich Brauss wrote a study for the think tank Center for European Policy Analysis.
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