NATO Says It Has No Plans to Send Troops to Sweden and Finland

A NATO official told AFP on Tuesday (July 5) that the alliance has no plans to send troops to Sweden and Finland if they complete their membership process, which officially started this week.

“We don’t plan to have an additional presence in either country, they have formidable national forces. They’re capable of defending themselves,” NATO Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana said.

“We don’t plan to have NATO bases in these two countries, because they have a very high level of military and strategic maturity,” Geoana added.

“We don’t have problems with Sweden and Finland as we do with Ukraine,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week. “If Finland and Sweden wish to, they can join. That’s up to them. They can join whatever they want.”

But Putin warned that “if military contingents and military infrastructure were deployed there, we would be obliged to respond symmetrically and raise the same threats for those territories where threats have arisen for us.”

? Source: Antiwar.com

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