Swedish and Finnish Security Awaiting NATO Membership
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Did Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Affect Security Perceptions?
Sweden does not border russia, but we have a long history that contains several wars with russia throughout the centuries. And did the russian invasion of ukraine reveal something to to swedish the general public and the government about r Russian intentions? Indeed it did. We started to change our defence policy that had for decades been focused on cut downs and on minimizing the territorial defence of swedemand. That started to shift after two thousand and 14, but slowly. Like in many countries europe, russia's illegal annexation of crimea was not taken seriously enough. But with the open aggression towards ukraine, the open invasion of uKraine in feb
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