Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedevthreatened this Thursday Deployment of nuclear weapons in the Baltic If Sweden and Finland join NATO.
“It will be necessary to strengthen the ground forces group, the anti-aircraft defense, to deploy significant naval forces in the waters of the Gulf of Finland. And in this case It will no longer be possible to talk about a nuclear-free Baltic.. The senior official wrote in his Telegram account that the balance needs to be restored.
Medvedev, who was Russia’s former prime minister and president between 2008 and 2012, emphasized that “it is not that important how many countries are 30 or 32 in NATO” for Moscow. population, they don’t make much of a difference.”
But he stressed that if Sweden and Finland join NATO, the length of the land border between Russia and the Atlantic Alliance will double, so he – he stressed – needs to be strengthened.
Medvedev stated no point in thinking about it Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine Responsible for Sweden and Finland joining NATO.
“It’s not like that. First, there have been attempts to lure them into NATO before, and secondly, the important thing is that we don’t have territorial disputes with those countries like we did in Ukraine.”
The former Russian president noted that public opinion in Sweden and Finland is almost equally divided over the need to join NATO. “Nno sane person wants prices and taxes to go up; Tensions rise across borders, Alexander (missiles), hypersonic (guns) and nuclear-armed ships are literally a stone’s throw from your home,” he added.
“We will trust that the common sense of our northern neighbors prevails. And if it’s not as they say, they brought it themselves,” he summed up.