Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that NATO accession of Sweden and Finland would lead to serious problems of instability in Europe. Here’s what’s up.
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Russia warns: If the Sweden and Finland Joining NATO would mean that Europe would create serious problems of instability. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made this clear, emphasizing the military nature of the Atlantic Alliance. A rumor was published in the Times that both Stockholm and Helsinki would be ready to apply for membership by the summer. Accordingly, the two countries would also have received support from Washington.
Moscow would clearly not welcome such a decision. L’Expansion of NATO eastward in fact, it was one of the reasons for Russia’s increasingly aggressive foreign policy, which then led to the invasion of Ukraine. In fact, since the late 1990s, 14 Eastern European countries have become part of NATO: Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The last two countries, it should be emphasized, border directly on Russia.
And Finland too. Absolutely opposed to having NATO out in the open, Moscow reiterates the importance of neutral zones in Europe, Status that he had also applied for in Ukraine. Historically, Sweden and Finland have always been two neutral countries, refusing to side with either bloc, preferring to take a third position in relation to the geopolitical equilibrium that marked the second postwar period. Peskow said NATO is not exactly “the alliance that guarantees peace and stability, and its further expansion will no longer bring security to the European continent”.
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The Kremlin has warned that in such a situation, Moscow must “rebalance the situation through its own measures.” What they are is not clear. As early as last February, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said before the “political and military consequences“that there would have been in the face of NATO enlargement.