“In an unprecedented move, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland have signed a defense pact that is likely to anger Moscow. The 4 Scandinavian countries have issued a Joint Declaration of Intent (DJI), which states their intent to combine their respective air forces into one unified air defense unit.”
This is a big deal. These nations are combining their separate national sovereignties into one, in the most meaningful area possible, their military identities. By joining all their air forces under one united command, they’ve enabled themselves to carry out much larger, more focused and concentrated attacks against any Russian aggression against any one of their nations.
This greatly increases their overall ability to counter any Russian attempt to invade any one of them and I have no doubt that this will soon be extended to a merging of their entire militaries.
Several of these nations are already NATO members with Finland just being approved for membership and Sweden’s application being held up only by Turkey, which insists that Sweden hand over a few people who have spoken badly of Dictator Erdogan, and which Sweden will not do. But that won’t matter if Sweden is attacked by Russia and their 3 NATO allies rush to defend them, because all NATO members are obliged to defend each other, and an attack on Sweden would then be an attack on the other three as well.
So yes, you bet, this “is likely to anger Moscow”. Anger is too mild a word, I bet they’re absolutely enraged at this further blocking of their efforts to recreate the Soviet Union.
Why this is an ESPECIALLY BIG DEAL is because this is going to encourage other small E. Europe nations to form similar alliances that could easily merge into just two or three separate, combined NATO-type alliances, and all of them with only one purpose, to protect each other against Russian aggression.
What always happens when nations join forces like this is that they then also form economic alliances which increases their power even more, because when they increase as an economic buying power they can get better deals, sell at higher prices and inflict sanctions and embargoes to enforce contracts and stop the bad practices of other nations. Russia has held too much of this power for too long and now everything is going to change entirely because Putin invaded Ukraine.
So many “pundits” are giving their conflicting views on this war, that it is all for profit, will last for many years because of this, and so on. This war did start because Putin wants to recreate the Soviet Union, but it’s real purpose is to cause regime change in Russia, to put an end to Putin-style rule, and it will. Keep watching.
Watch what happens to Russia once Putin is kicked out and a new government takes over, a Liberal one. First, the Chinese are going to just swarm right in, followed by millions of Africans and that will permanently end any chance of another Soviet Union.
