On Thursday, Sweden formally became a NATO member, 11 months after Finland. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg believes that it makes the alliance stronger and safer. Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the whole thing a “meaningless step” in an interview with the state news agency Ria on Wednesday. In the same interview, he announces that Russia will send soldiers and weapons to the Finnish border. – We didn’t have forces there, now there will be. There was no weapon system there, now there will be. An announced maneuver When Finland and Sweden said two years ago that they wished to join NATO, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council was clear in his speech. Such a registration would put the two countries on Russia’s list of enemies. He said that in such a situation it would be relevant for the Russians to expand their ground forces, their air defense and naval forces in the vicinity of Finland. Nuclear weapons and the United States – Nuclear weapons exist to be used. We have our own principles. Putin also warned in the Ria interview that Russia is technically ready for a nuclear war. He added that if the US sends military forces to Ukraine, this will be seen as an escalation of the war. But the Russian president also stressed that this is not the situation today, and that he sees no reason to use nuclear weapons now. According to Reuters, Russia and the United States are the largest nuclear powers in the world, and control over 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons.
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