Sweden isn t the only Baltic Sea nation getting increasingly nervous about Russian agression.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The Swedish Armed Forces regularly conduct qualified exercises together with partners to strengthen its defense capabilities across multiple domains. These recent exercises integrated both partner nations’ SOF capabilities with conventional force missions to improve upon overall collaborative initiatives.
Sweden has never been a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), but for more than twenty-five years the Scandinavian nation has worked closely with the United States and its allies to maintain military readiness in Europe. This dates back to the Partnership for Peace in 1994 and, since the Wales Summit in 2014, Sweden has increasingly cooperated with NATO in the wake of increased Russian aggression in the Baltic region.
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Emmanuel Jean-Michel MacronWill Ocasio-Cortez challenge Biden or Harris in 2024?WHO calls European vaccine campaigns unacceptably slow France extends COVID-19 lockdown nationwide for one monthMORE lately has been touting his vision of what he terms Europe’s “strategic autonomy.” Insisting that he is not advocating a chasm inside the NATO alliance, he has argued that for Europe truly to be “a common and relevant” partner to the United States, it must ramp up its common defense capacity. Indeed, he asserts that it is in America’s interest that its NATO partners do more together on “a European scale.”
In the past, Macron adds, the United States was “the only one in charge.” Burden-sharing was unequal, while the U.S. dominated trade in defense equipment. This arrangement, in his view, ultimately has been “lose-lose.” Europe must be more in charge of its neighborhoods, which includes the Middle East and North Africa. Indeed, he points out that Europe has done lit