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NATO Prepares for Battle

Babadag, Romania – June 24, 2018: Romanian special forces military take part at a drill, near the Razim Lake, south eastern Romania, on June 24.
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Posted: May 16th, 2022

By The Cipher Brief

In an apparent reversal of more than 200 years of military neutrality, Sweden’s governing party on Sunday, announced that it will support an application to join NATO.  The bid follows an announcement from neighboring Finland, that it will also seek membership in the alliance.

The move will undoubtedly upset Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched a bloody invasion of Ukraine in February – in part – to keep NATO as far as possible from Russia’s borders.  “He’s caused Germany to double their defense budget,” Cipher Brief Expert and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.) told CNBC.  “Every NATO nation is now going to hit its 2 percent goal that we’ve been chasing for years,”  

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