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HughMananatee t1_jeefec0 wrote

Reply to comment by cgaWolf in Turkey ratifies Finland’s NATO membership by For_All_Humanity

Yeah I noticed, for some reason though Russian diplomats are including Sweden when they make this complaint? Are they counting the coast?

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randompantsfoto t1_jeeivtt wrote

Sweden controls a significant portion of the Baltic Sea. (Including the island of Gotland), a sea which essentially becomes a NATO lake as soon as they join. Any Russian ships based in St. Petersburg become trapped/useless in the event of a conflict with NATO.

Granted, they weren’t getting out into the North Sea and Atlantic past Denmark and Norway anyway, but now they wouldn’t even have room to steam out to the middle of the Baltic and pretend to be a navy without being under constant threat of land-based anti-ship missiles anywhere they go.

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