Sweden’s entry into NATO is more than a political milestone—it’s a strategic transformation. With its advanced military and ...

With Finland and Sweden in NATO, the alliance extends along all Finland’s 830-mile land border with Russia—and also nearly encircles the Baltic Sea. The latter is key.

Although the differences between Greece and Sweden are important, geography and geostrategy still hold the fundamental keys to understand both situations.

The alliance’s expansion, with Finland last year and soon Sweden, was a consequence from the invasion of Ukraine that Russia’s president may not have calculated.