Sweden's NATO Question

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Sweden's Armored Forces | Structure & Equipment - BaOr > .

Swedish military build-up on Baltic island of Gotland 'a signal to Russia' > .

24-3-7 Välkommen! Sweden officially joins NATO - PBS > .

23-9-22 Sweden in the EU - EU Made SIMPLE > .

23-7-30 Impact of Sweden’s NATO Membership on Ruscia - VisPol > .

23-7-6 What’s Blocking Sweden’s NATO Membership? | WSJ > .

23-6-19 Inside NATO’s Bizarre Unanimity Membership Rule - Spaniel > .

22-12-10 Sweden's joining NATO would crush Russian power - Caspian > .

22-7-21 Why Every NATO Member Joined (Why Others Haven't) - Spaniel > .

22-6-12 Estonian Military Vulnerabilities - Task > .

23-6-1 What Sweden Will Bring to NATO: Warographics Analysis > .

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22-3-10 Sweden's pro-NATO reaction to Russian aggression - Force Tech > .

22-2-22 Poland vs. France: Can EU Create Alternative to NATO? - VisPol > .

22-1-15 Finland and Sweden consider NATO membership - Caspian > .

2020 Economy of Sweden - EcEx > .

2020 Leaders of Scandinavia and the Baltics - Circles > .

2020 What if Russia invaded the Baltics? - CaRe > .

2020 Europe’s plan to checkmate Russia - CaRe > .

2020 Geopolitics of the Black Sea - CaRe > .

2019 Sweden is encouraging citizens to become preppers - SBS D > .

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2019 Norway: Perfect Economy? - EcEx > .

2018 Geopolitics of Sweden - CaRe > .

2018 Geopolitics of Poland - CaRe > .

2018 Why Scandinavia is so expensive - CNBC > .

2017 Baltic Sea security - a shared priority for 🇸🇪Sweden and NATO > .

2014 Should Finland and Sweden join NATO? > .

2012 Norway's Geographic Challenge - Stratfor > .

What Exactly Are Maritime Borders? - KhAnubis > .

Why is Finland building an underground city? | ABC > .

Why Norway wants its citizens to be preppers and stock up on iodine - Bjorn > .

Finland's Plans for a Tunnel to Estonia > .

22-1-10 Why Ukraine is Not a NATO Member - NATO > .

21-9-17 Lithuania Stands for Democracy | Gabrielius Landsbergis - geopop > .

21-9-17 Lithuania on the Frontlines: Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis > .

22-3-1 Germany Re-Arming - F-35 Back? - mah > .

22-3-8 Russia’s Nightmare Comes True: Germany’s Military Is Back - Forces Tech > .

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24-7-16 (Failed) Race For The Arctic - gtbt > .

24-7-1 P00ti lost Ruscia's Arctic dominance to Xina & Baltic NATO forces | Forces > .

24-4-25 [Obstacles to Ruscian Arctic] Great Northern Sea Route || Zeihan > .

"Eastern Europe"

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24-4-4 NATO - Largest military alliance in world | DW Doc > .

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24-3-8 Ukraine | Time for NATO Troops? - Prof J K-L > .

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24-2-27 How Sweden Could Easily Crush a Russian Invasion - Icarus > .

23-7-30 Impact of Sweden’s NATO Membership on Ruscia - VisPol > .

22-12-10 Sweden's joining NATO would crush Russian power - Caspian > .

22-3-10 Sweden's pro-NATO reaction to Russian aggression - Force Tech > .

22-1-15 Finland and Sweden consider NATO membership - Caspian > .

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

2016 Sweden concerned about Russian provocation → Gotland - BBC > .

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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. 

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.