NATO memberships for Sweden and Finland will transform the Baltic Sea to a "NATO lake," said analyst Daniel Hamilton at the Brookings Institution, allowing the alliance to increase its military ...

NATO memberships for Sweden and Finland would transform the Baltic Sea to a "NATO lake," said analyst Daniel Hamilton at the Brookings Institution, allowing the alliance to increase its ...

The Baltic Sea has been dubbed the "NATO Lake" following the accession to the alliance of Sweden and Finland. Countries ...

"Just looking at the map, if you add in Finland and Sweden, you essentially turn the entire Baltic Sea into a NATO lake," with just two smaller bits of Russia lining it, said Zachary Selden ...

Both Sweden and Finland’s NATO memberships would be ... of North Central Europe and transform the Baltic Sea into a “NATO lake,” said Ian Brzezinski, a senior fellow at The Atlantic Council.

Sweden is the last puzzle piece for near-total NATO control of the ... "The NATO Lake is crucial for our security. Because, of course, Finland has joined NATO fully and Finland is one of the ...

“Just looking at the map, if you add in Finland and Sweden, you essentially turn the entire Baltic Sea into a NATO lake,” with just two smaller bits of Russia lining it, said Zachary Selden, a former ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first surprise, for the Finnish conscripts and officers taking part in a NATO-hosted military exercise in the Arctic this spring: the sudden roar of a U.S. Marine ...