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Adding Sweden and Finland to the alliance should serve as a turning point in how the Nordic nations plan out their defense strategies, writes analyst Robbin Laird.
Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson the Minister of the Environment, Energy and Climate and Peter Hultqvist the Defense Minister of Sweded signed a mutual agreement about the cooperation of Iceland and Sweden in security and defense matters.
Finland and Sweden have traditionally preferred to be militarily “nonaligned.” But Russia’s war in Ukraine has shaken their security notions to the core.