Russia and the NATO it didn’t want: A disaster, or ‘no problem’?
Amid Russia’s aggressive actions in Ukraine, the perennially neutral Nordic states of Finland and Sweden have reversed decades of policy and applied for membership in the NATO military alliance.
For Moscow this is, at least on the symbolic level, a disaster.
Editor’s note: This article was edited in order to conform with Russian legislation criminalizing references to Russia’s current action in Ukraine as anything other than a “special military operation.”
Not so long ago, Russian diplomacy aimed to revise European security architecture to make Ukraine of a buffer zone between East and West. Now, with Finland ditching its neutrality under the present circumstances.
