Sweden’s most important asset is probably their island of Gotland. Located in the middle of the Baltic Sea, this island may be the main landing ground for aircraft, which cannot be sunk even if you want to. Building a NATO base here means turning the Baltic Sea into a ‘NATO lake’ or NATO lake, just as Britain’s control of Malta during World War II turned the Mediterranean into an Allied lake.
A fear has long lingered in the minds of NATO planners. That is, if a war breaks out for any reason, it will be difficult to resupply weapons in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Because, Moscow has gathered all their weapons in Kaliningrad. The Russian enclave is located between Poland and Lithuania. With Sweden and Finland allied, the situation will change, with the northern battlefield leaning in NATO’s favor.
NATO should move away from troop deployments to countries on the front lines of the battlefield. Instead, troops should be permanently deployed in these countries. Specifically, the Baltic republics are vulnerable. Because their geographical location is adjacent to Russia. Besides, there are Russian-speaking people in these countries; That would be Vladimir Putin’s excuse to launch an ‘aggression’.
