, it is an alliance of democracy, which is based on our values ​​and ... as an alliance, we are readydefend the territory of each of our members, according to the fifth strategy, and as an alliance, we are ready to stand with ukraine until ... victory and this is the expression that i want to propose to the assembly for approval to stand with ukraine until victory, as the president of the nato parliamentary assembly , i want you to be sure and assure you that i will do everything possible for ukraine to become the 33rd member of nato, and there are still 110 days until the washington summit, and i will participate in him as president. nato parliamentary assembly, and we must do everything possible to bring ukraine closer to nato membership. we need to prepare for the next important steps towards membership. i think we should look for compromises, look for solutions to make the washington summit a success for nato. for the 302 members of the alliance, but also so that ukraine can participate in future summits as a member. thank you very much, mr. sherba, thank you personally, and your

what kind of signal does that send about alliance unity or disunity? yes, um, i think it send to main signal and it was widely used and exploited also by the russian propaganda and dependents. media that there is this, you need to uh about speed, especially speed and succession to, to make, to the vet or that argument was used to spread also division among the best and elias. i am not so certain, but the domino re, various arguments could be very, they'll use that. the russian domestic propaganda. so it was important for the kremlin, for domestic political reason that this happened. and why in the case of 13, i think we can be more robust sourcing. that's the power of calculations both based really on the regime interest. and in the case of, of hungry it will be use that the suppose partial, the a split dietrich service, the restaurant, the country has. i'm with the vector all for a policy, it's prize to have close cordial ties to strategic contender. so if its own best underlying system, russia and, and to china, and this 1st part of this power calcul

so it was hurting the alliance knots to have sweden as a member. and it's gonna help to implement those new defense plans, knowing that sweden is now in the lions. and as i mentioned, they have a highly, highly capable armed forces. unlike some other members of nato who are joining the alliance after the end of the cold war and state will improve the situation in the bolts baltic sea. we already talked about that. and the voltage states can feel mice much say for a now, because a sweden can help the to make sure that they can be there because there can be c in for reinforcements. so if needed, if there is anything, if russia would risk any miscalculation until now, the baltic states would needs to be provided with weapons and armed forces with very, very vulnerable border crossing between poland and lisa when yeah. and now the situation, the whole situation has a change. so i think there is no real challenge to integrate sweden. but what is of it's problematic if the whole process that it took so long. and that we saw that some, a member of the all

and so sweden join nato is a big win for the alliance. when we talk about a suite and they have a very highly capable armed forces and a geographic situation improve nato's a push, straightened, the baltic sea. and of course, in addition, you have to say that sweden has already been integrated to some extent into natal structures. they have been invited to meetings, they have participated in exercises and know that they are able to join the alliance is also showing the kremlin that the only finland wanting to be in the cloud was not an isolated incidents. so this is a reaction to russian submission against ukraine. daniel, when finland and sweden 1st applied to join. some analysts said that their membership would turn the baltic sea into a nato lake. would you agree with that? and what do you see as the geo political implications of the expansion? you know, the geopolitical implication is that nato is not on. frank is significantly strengthened. and especially the organizations ability to, to reinforce its positions within the past to cou

our nato alliance our defensive alliance is now stronger and larger than it's ever been. but, i think if you step back and think of where we were three years ago, none of this was fore ordained and in fact none of this was foreseeable. sweden had a 200-year-old policy of nonalignment. and before putin's re-invasion of ukraine in february of 2022, if you looked at the polling less than one third of swedes supported joining nato. this was part and parcel of sweden's history. after the invaition, three quarters of the swedish people made clear their desire to join. swedes realized something very profound. that if putin was willing to try to erase one neibor from the map, then he might well not stop there. and if he was allowed to proceed with impunity, not only would his aggression potentially continue but would-be aggressors everywhere would get the message that it was open season. and so, the swedish people stood up, stood up not only for their own country, but stood up to the common responsibility that we share to try to make sure that the very foundations of the internat

this military action was very significant indetering the aggressive alliance, the aggression allianceo occupy our country, to take control of our people and to confiscate their right in independence and freedom. it was also very clear that the enemy failed in. and destroying the military capabilities of our country, it was actually the opposite, it backfired, and from the beginning of the aggression, our dear brothers in the yemani armed forces began to develop the rocket force and the drone force as well, in addition to the defense, the air defense system force and the naval forces as well in various levels, which we need in order to manufacture what?

in the, as the military alliance is 32nd members. coming to years of to the northern country applies to join following russia's full scale invasion of hugh. i'm all of those attending suite as prime minister and nato's secretary general again stole. who had this when pressed on tooth and launched his full scaling nation 2 years ago. he won't the less nate, the more control over his neighbors. he wanted to destroy ukraine, southern states. but she said the nato is bigger and stronger. ukraine is closer to nathan membership than ever before. the security situation in our region has not been the serious since the 2nd world war. and russia would stay a threats to you. atlantic security for a foreseeable future. it was in these lights, sweden applied to join the native defense alliance to gain security, but also to provide security. the deputies process correspond to terry schultz has been at night. i had called us today and i also have people that are taking a victory lap now off the wall. it's been a rocky accession process for suite af

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our nato alliance, our defensive alliance, is now strongean it's. but, i think if you step back and think of where we were three years ago, none of this was fore ordained and in fact none of this was foreseeable. sweden had a 200-year-old policy of nonalignment. and before putin's re-invasion of ukraine in february of 2022, if you looked at the polling, less than one third of swedes supported joining nato. this was part and parcel of sweden's history. and then everything changed. the invaition, three quarters of the swedish people made clear their desire to join. swedes realized something very profound. that if putin was willing to try to erase one neighbor from the map, then he might well not stop there. and if he was allowed to proceed with impunitot would his aggression potentially continue but would-be aggressors everywhere would get the message that it was open season. and swedish people stood up, stood up not only for their own country, but stood■ up to te common responsibility that we share to try to make sure that the very foundations of the

so it was hurting the alliance knots to have sweden as a member. and it's gonna help to implement those new defense plans, knowing that sweden is now in the lions. and as i mentioned, they have a highly, highly capable armed forces. unlike some other members of nato who are joining the alliance after the end of the cold war. and state will improve the situation in the bolts baltic sea. we already talked about that. and the voltage states can feel mice much say for a now because a sweden can help us to, to make sure that they can be there. because there can be c in for reinforcements. so if needed, if there is anything, if russia would risk any miscalculation until now, the baltic states would needs to be provided with weapons and on forces with very, very vulnerable border crossing between poland and lisa when yeah. and now the situation, the whole situation has a change. so i think there is no real challenge to integrate sweden. but what is a problem i took if the whole process that it took so long. and that we saw that some, a member of the allia

so it was hurting the alliance knots to have sweden as a member. and it's gonna help to implement those new defense plans, knowing that sweden is now in the lions. and as i mentioned, they have a highly, highly capable armed forces. unlike some other members of nato who are joining the alliance after the end of the cold war and state will improve the situation in the bolts baltic sea. we already talked about that. and the voltage states can feel mice much say for a now, because a sweden can help, but to make sure that they can be there because there can be c in for reinforcements. so if needed, if there is anything, if russia would risk any miscalculation until now, the baltic states would needs to be provided with weapons and on forces with very, very vulnerable border crossing between poland and lisa when yeah. and now the situation, the whole situation has a change. so i think there is no real challenge to integrate sweden. but what is a problem i took if the whole process that it took so long. and that we saw that some, a member of the alliance

but you know, the fact that it took sweden 2 years to get into the alliance. the fact that 2 allies held out until there were, you know, basically some transactions made in the end, it took the unit, the united states guarantee, guaranteeing jet fighters to turkey. and it took, took a new deal with hungry for, for groupings from suite in itself. those kinds of things sort of have brought up some ugly corners of how the alliance works. but in the end, as victor or bon agreed in the end, this means when they are altogether than it is all for one and one for all in the end. they are ready to fight and die for each other, which is what? joining nato really requires of every country and terry for looking at the potential of a russian military. right. what do sweden and finland bring to the table for nato? so these are definitely 2 of the best trained, best equipped militaries in nato. you know, sweden brings as, as you heard in that piece, just incredible military technology. it has a huge weapons manufacturing program in it, it on its own. and, and remember that t

that is the strength, both of sweden if and for the alliance.s a strong democracy, sweden will stand for the values in washington treaty, blocks fr5 years ago. freedom, democracy, individual liberty, and the rule law. sweden is, as was mentioned, now lead #-g00 years of neutrality in militaryalign -- is now leaving 200 years neutrality and military nonalignment b natural. membership means we are coming home to the alliance for peace and coming home to alie for free dm to which many belong. also home to our neighbors security cooperation. home to the circle of countries where we, for generations, have belonged. we will defend freedom together with the countries closest to us both in terms of values. the security situation in our region has not been this serious since the second world war. russia will stay a serious threat to the euro-atlanticture. it was in this light that sweden applied to join the nato defense alliance. to gain security, but also to s. we have unique capabilities to contribute, on land, in the air, at our support of ukraine is

the communist bloc is invited to join the alliance.eady on march 29, 2004 , the prime ministers of these countries handed over letters of ratification to the president of the united states. immediately... after the ceremony , the warplanes of the alliance began patrol flights on the territory of the new member states. when nato was founded, the peoples of these seven countries were captives of the empire. they survived bitter tyranny, fought for independence, won freedom with courage and perseverance. and today they stand with us as full and equal partners in this great alliance at that time i will squeeze. the nato investigation did not excite the kremlin either. experts from moscow were worried about whether the alliance had any intentions to build new military bases in the baltic region. although nature. it turns out that nato advances its advanced forces to our state borders, and we strictly fulfill the terms of the agreement and do not react in any way to such actions. i think it is obvious that the nato expansion process is not a

remember, if you look at the does the alliance have?steel in finland itself adds 830 miles of border th■v we need to defend, how many missiles do we have in our stockpiles? how many rounds do we have in our stockpiles? if he doescabout the life of his tank crews and decides to break the fence and drive, every tank takes a javelin or a round or whatever. what happens if you run out and he keeps driving? 20 miles from the border. helsinki is a rock■ throw. i keep preaching every time i am in europe, wake up, end this complacency because this is a russians are doing, they're fully committed, defense spending, mobilization. this is a warti economy. we are up also against an alliance that not only includes the russians and chinese but also the iranians, also the north korean the axeician of dictatorship. put that against the size of our joint force, what the authorization is, our rate of defense spending and most of our defense industrial capability that has been degraded significantly over the last 30 years. just in ti f of that nonsense. w

. the alliance endured after the cold war ended, it expanded after it did.hink that this summit will not only be a look into the past, but rather it will be looking to the future. so, i would like to ask a question to each of our panelists, say a few words about their expectations for the work of the alliance in the future. i wanted first of all, to address benedetto berti, you have the floor, thank you very much, albeit virtually, and i am glad to join your conversation, i really hope that i will come next year. our chairman of the committee spoke before you yesterday. so what do we expect from the washington summit? i'll start by saying that i agree with your analysis, it's not just a historical review of 75 years of success, we will focus. political to the future, this is a very complex world in which we live, very mobile, the world that we have seen since the end of the cold war, i expect that the nato summit in washington will be a serious crop, a step in the development of the position, the position that was formulated ten. .. we will have to continue

so they're bringing very, very strong militaries into the alliance. and frankly, as soon as they decided they wanted to join, many other countries said, great, we're going to learn from finland and sweden, how to be resilient, how to be self sufficient, and how to keep its extraordinarily good discipline in our ranks. and so everyone is very much looking forward to the day now when that northern flank is sealed and you've got finland in sweden firmly under the needle umbrella. is brussels correspondent, terry schultz. the report from nathan headquarters. thank you very much, terry. so one of the most pressing issues facing nato members is of course the war in ukraine, and keith's repeated plays for more. for germany, that debate is now focused on a british proposal to swap cruise missiles. it would see it germany give its taurus myself to britain, who would in turn send ukraine more of its own stalled shadow miss thoughts, germany's for him and a sub. i know not that bulk has a said she is open to the idea about shots that one of the shots has sofa bl

but it's the threats of only pushed more countries to join the alliance. when pressed on tooth and launched is full scaling nation 2 years ago. he won't the less nate, the more control over his neighbors. he wanted to destroy ukraine as a sovereign states, but she said nato is bigger and stronger. sweden now has security guarantees from nation. remember, states shouldn't come under attack from russia or anyone else in the future. in return sweden's military capability makes it a powerful new member, boasting cutting edge aircraft and anti aircraft missiles, as well as the state of the art tanks and submarines. it also has a considerable slate of ships of sweden's geographical position is another advantage. firstly, as a land transit route to reinforce feller, members, norway, and finland. and secondly, by allowing nate her to take control of the baltic sea in any conflict with russia via sweden's enormous coastline. sweden's military has taken its 1st steps in the alliance, joining nato, whose biggest drills since the cold war. the exercises across the blo

seven countries of the former communist bloc are invited to join the alliance. and already on march 29. in 2004, the prime ministers of these countries handed over letters of ratification to the president of the united states. immediately after the ceremony , the warplanes of the alliance began patrol flights on the territory of the new member states. when nato was founded, the peoples of these seven countries were captives of the empire. they survived bitter tyranny, fought for independence, gained freedom through courage and perseverance. and today they stand with us as full and equal partners in this great alliance. at that time, close proximity to nato did not excite the kremlin either. experts from moscow were worried about whether the alliance had any intentions to build new military bases in the baltic region, although naturally, they appeared there. it turns out that nato is advancing its advanced forces to our state borders, and we are strict. terms of the contract and do not react to such actions, i think it is obvious that the nato expansion process i

sweden, the newest member of nato, raised its flag at the headquarters of the alliance in brussels. the lifting ceremony at the beginning of the week, you can now see it on the screen. jen stoltenberg, nato secretary general, said that with sweden's membership, the alliance will become stronger and safer. by the way, volodymyr zelenskyi also welcomed sweden's membership and said that another country in europe has become more protected from russian evil. the country applied in may 22 , along with finland, after russia's full-scale war against ukraine. and sweden and finland officially became members of nato. remember, one of the reasons... what vladimir putin explained the full-scale invasion of ukraine by its possible accession to nato, that is, the alliance approaching the borders of russia, but precisely because of the beginning of the great war in the 22nd year, this border increased by another 1,300 km, precisely because of the accession of finland to the alliance, as can be seen on this map. and here is the statement made by the prime minister of finland, peteri orpo, about the

but the alliance doesn't really address arctic region very much. your paper mentioned, the first time the word arctic was mentioned in a formal nato paper was 2022. there is not a lot of plan around that but could you talk a little bit about the real threat putin poses in the actic region and -- arctic region and some countries like china are trying to make a move there as well. peter: we toyed with putting a map in of the arctic which has grown dramatically. russia is putting major investments in the arctic ocean and building up military capabilities there in its research and development wing. obviously it considers this potentially an interesting route for commercial trade as well and a way to -- allows them to bypass the straits of hormuz and the suez, the choke points that exist. so for that reason, the arctic has been something they've eyed for quite some time. the arctic council is defunct at this point because of russia's aggression but we hope that this can -- when there is an opportunity in the months ahead to trigger a little bit more exi

but the threats of only pushed more countries to joining the alliance. when pressed on tooth and launched is full for scaling nation 2 years ago. he won't, the less, nate, the more control over his neighbors. he wanted to destroy ukraine, southern states. but see, fade. nato is bigger and stronger. sweden now has security guarantees from nation. remember, states shouldn't come under attack from russia or anyone else in the future. in return sweden's military capability makes it a powerful new member, boasting cutting edge aircraft, and n t a croft and these files as well as the state of the art tanks and submarines. it also has a considerable slays of ships of sweden's geographical position is another advantage. firstly, as a land transit route to reinforce feller, members, norway, and finland. and secondly, by allowing nato to take control of the baltic sea in any conflict with russia by sweden's enormous coastline. sweden's military has taken its 1st steps in the alliance, joining nato, whose biggest drills since the cold war. the exercises across the

hungarians will have a lot of questions when the ukrainian state will join the north atlantic alliancehis is a big question and a big problem, not only, a big challenge not only for ukraine, but for the european union and for of the north atlantic alliance, because hungary is a country subsidized by the european union, where european democrats. and they do their best to ensure that hungarians live with dignity and are worthy members of the european union, but orbán always says that he has his own opinion and is ready to impose his own rules in the european union, and this also causes, honestly in other words, there is absolutely no such sincere misunderstanding of the euro'. of the peian union and the north atlantic alliance, because one country for some reason constantly dictates the terms to everyone, one country for some reason constantly says that ukraine should deal with the russian federation on its own, everything should revolve around hungary and the interests of the hungarian side. there are a lot of questions for viktor orban, and obviously these questions should also be aske

it was in these light, sweden applied to join the native defense alliance to gain security. but also to provide security since rushes full scale invasion of ukraine. 2 years ago, nato has sought to develop defense plans. the eastern and nordic members, russia claimed to have launch the war imparts because of nature is a split expansion. but it's the threats of only pushed more countries to joining the alliance when pressed on tooth and launched is full for scaling nation 2 years ago. he won't the less nate the more control over his neighbors. he wanted to destroy ukraine as a sovereign state. but she said the nato is bigger and stronger. sweden now has security guarantees from nation. remember, states shouldn't come under attack from russia or anyone else in the future. in return sweden's military capability makes it a powerful new member, boasting cutting edge aircraft and anti aircraft missiles, as well as the state of the art tanks and submarines. it also has a considerable slate of ships. sweden's geographical position is another advantage. firstly, as a land transit rou

but the alliance doesn't really address arctic region very much. your paper mentioned, the first time the word arctic was mentioned in a formal nato paper was 2022. there is not a lot of plan around that but could you talk a little bit about the real threat putin poses in the actic region and -- arctic region and some countries like china are trying to make a move there as well. peter: we toyed with putting a map in of the arctic which has grown dramatically. russia is putting major investments in the arctic ocean and building up military capabilities there in its research and development wing. obviously it considers this potentially an interesting route for commercial trade as well and a way to -- allows them to bypass the straits of hormuz and the suez, the choke points that exist. so for that reason, the arctic has been something they've eyed for quite some time. the arctic council is defunct at this point because of russia's aggression but we hope that this can -- when there is an opportunity in the months ahead to trigger a little bit more coo

but it's the threats of only pushed more countries to joining the alliance. when pressed on tooth and launched is full for scaling nation 2 years ago. he won't, the less, nate, the more control over his neighbors. he wanted to destroy ukraine, southern states. but see, fade. nate is bigger and stronger. sweden now has security guarantees from nation. remember, states shouldn't come under attack from russia or anyone else in the future. in return sweden's military capability makes it a powerful new member, boasting cutting edge aircraft and anti aircraft missiles, as well as the state of the art tanks and submarines. it also has a considerable slate of ships. sweden's geographical position is another advantage. firstly, as a land transit route to reinforce feller, members, norway, and finland. and secondly, by allowing nate her to take control of the baltic sea in any conflict with russia via sweden's enormous coastline. sweden's military has taken its best steps in the alliance, joining nato, whose biggest drills since the cold war. the exercises across the b

seven states of the former communist bloc are invited to join the alliance. and already on march 29, 2004, the prime ministers of these countries delivered the instruments of ratification to the president of the united states. immediately after the ceremony , the warplanes of the alliance began patrol flights on the territory of the new member states. when nato was founded, the peoples of these seven countries. were captives of the empire, they survived bitter tyranny, fought for independence, won their freedom through courage and perseverance, and today they stand with us as full and equal partners in this great alliance. at that time, close proximity to nato did not excite the kremlin either. experts from moscow was worried whether the alliance has no intentions to build new military bases in the baltic region? although naturally, they appeared there. it turns out that nato is advancing its advanced forces to our state borders, and we strictly fulfill the terms of the agreement and do not react in any way to such actions. i think it is obvious that the nato

but the alliance doesn't really address arctic region very much.our paper mentioned, the first time the word arctic was mentioned in a formal nato paper was 2022. there is not a lot of plan around that but could you talk a little bit about the real threat putin poses in the actic region and -- arctic region and some countries like china are trying to make a move there as well. peter: we toyed with putting a map in of the arctic which has grown dramatically. russia is putting major investments in the arctic ocean and building up military capabilities there in its research and development wing. obviously it considers this potentially an interesting route for commercial trade as well and a way to -- allows them to bypass the straits of hormuz and the suez, the choke points that exist. so for that reason, the arctic has been something they've eyed for quite some time. the arctic council is defunct at this point because of russia's aggression but we hope that this can -- when there is an opportunity in the months ahead to trigger a little bit more coord

do you worry that the alliance looks weak to russia, as well as the alliance is growing? thanks to russia, we have no finland and sweden in the alliance. a thanks to russia's aggression in europe. as we see in germany, elsewhere, governments are actually quite massively stepping up investments in their own defense, thanks to russia's war in ukraine. our defense interest, the although slow is making the investments now and where we are behind the russian curve because they knew they were going to weather on the work footing. we're getting there a so i'm inside nato is on the low 50 foot thing or should be on a war footing. it is moving in that direction. now we in the baltics and then last year from, for 2 years, even before, before this, this outbreak were started, we were arguing that russia is a real security threat. a russia is, is a challenge to all of us. and for many years, we were told by many of our good friends and colleagues and allies that maybe were a little bit alarm, as it turns out. unfortunately that we were right i, i wish i was wrong in this regard and i

to be formed and.. .were stable and were formalized and so on, because alliances are still formed andevelop mainly in peacetime, during a war er few people risk, so to speak , to intervene in a fight after it has started, i think that many european politicians crossed their minds when putin attacked ukraine and.. .. they mentioned that at one time they did not, did not accept ukraine into nato or did not start its movement even in nato, by and large, because that would have required them to already intervene in the fight, enter the war, and we can talk about that , that maybe putin would not have attacked, but what is happening there in the baltic region, a threat that loomed over its individual nato member countries. shows that such a calculation is also, so to speak, controversial. so, if we talk about the future security configuration in our part of the world or in central, eastern europe, it will be determined mainly by the results of the russian-ukrainian war. how ukraine will come out of this war, how russia will come out of this war, so to speak. these will be key factors that

orbán now looks like such a trojan horse for the european union and for the north atlantic alliance,w how much hungary does, well, in quotes, does it so that ukraine does not receive aid from the european union, one can only imagine how many more claims there will be in hungary in the event that ukraine begins its journey regarding changes with the european union, regarding joining ... this alliance, and of course, of course, the hungarians will have a lot of questions , when the ukrainian state will go to the north atlantic alliance, this is a big question and a big problem, not only, a big challenge not only for ukraine, but for the european union and for the north atlantic alliance, because hungary is a subsidized country. european union, where european democracies do their best to ensure that hungarians live with dignity and are worthy members of the european union, but orbán always says that he has his own opinion, and he is ready to impose his rules in the european union, and this also causes , to be honest, absolutely so sincere. there is no sincere misunderstanding in the eur

but in the format of the north atlantic alliance, we cannot be members of nato in the near future, while the war is going on, but in the format of a new european security structure, where we will play a significant role can we play a greater role than in the north atlantic alliance, is such a scenario possible? the scenario is definitely possible, but there are many prerequisites for it to... be realized, and frankly speaking, the end of the war with a positive result for us, i will say optically, for... victory in this war, is a necessary condition for that such alliances were formed and were stable, and were formalized and so on, because alliances are still formed and developed mainly in peacetime, during war few people risk, so to speak, interfering already in the fight after it started. er , i think that many european politicians crossed themselves when putin attacked ukraine, and they remembered that at one time they did not, did not accept ukraine into nato or did not start its movement even in nato, by and large, because this would require them to intervene in the fight, to enter

the ag stands for democratic alliance. this into right party headed by luis montenegro to set to lead the government montenegro ran on a platform that promised tax cuts for companies and the middle class and a voice to night. portugal released the socialist party whenever it speaks to so angrily was a part of the portuguese population i'd. then it seems to be of montenegro now has to try to form a coalition, but he's ruled out cooperating with the far right check up party check. which means enough is headed by ex football commentator andre ventura. she ran on an anti immigration platform that focused on stamping out corruption and using tax burdens for ordinary people. the party came in 3rd, but also so 3 fold search and votes. no becomes too much qual because have another 4 years of socialism in portugal. at this time, the people have said what they want you guys to think they set the right wing must go better. and that's the right wing to govern deals as you put the just north wind up on monday, just a given point. you g

do you worry that the alliance looks weak to russia, as well as the alliance is growing a thanks to russia, we have no finland and sweden in the alliance. a thanks to russia's aggression in europe. as we see in germany, elsewhere, governments are actually quite massively stepping up investments in their own defense, thanks to russia's war in ukraine. our defense interest, the although slow is making the investments now and where we are behind the russian curve because they knew they were going to where they're on the work footing. we're getting there a so i'm inside nato is on the low 50 foot thing or should be on a war footing. it is moving in that direction. now we in the baltics and then last year from, for 2 years, even before, before this, this outbreak were started, we were arguing that russia is a real security threat. a russia is, is a challenge to all of us. and for many years, we were told by many of our good friends and colleagues and allies that maybe were a little bit alarm, as it turns out. unfortunately that we were right i, i wish i was wrong in this regard and it is taken.

harmel's report later appeared, known as the report on the future north atlantic alliance. talked about finding ways to reduce tensions, and to solve the underlying political reasons dividing europe, the term dialogue appeared. in general, the fourth concept lasted until the ninety-first year. there will undoubtedly be fanfare during the anniversary. the most powerful and successful. alliance in history and so on, but the real mood is not entirely festive, the ukrainian front is crackling, forcing the most desperate, like emmanuel macron, announce their readiness to get involved in a fight themselves, to the horror of other allies. german artist pepsch gadscheber, is it worth sending troops to ukraine? the difference in positions, a man who looks like the german chancellor writes. emmanuel, something needs to be discussed, this is an urgent matter, peter schrank for the british magazine the economist, the drawing is called macron's plan for europe. a man resembling macron snatches the banner of the european union from the hands of angela merkel. another british magazine sec

but the threats of only pushed more countries to join the alliance. when pressed on tooth and launched is full for scaling nation 2 years ago. he won't, the less, nate, the more control over his neighbors. he wanted to destroy ukraine as a southern states. but she said nato is bigger and stronger. sweden now has security guarantees from nature and then the states shouldn't come under attack from russia or anyone else in the future. in return sweden's military capability makes it a powerful new member, boasting cutting edge aircraft and anti aircraft missiles, as well as the state of the tanks and submarines. it also has a considerable slaves of ships. sweden's geographical position is another advantage. firstly, as a land transit route to reinforce feller, members, no way in finland. and secondly, by allowing nate her to take control of the baltic sea in any conflict with russia . fy sweden's enormous coastline. sweden's military has taken its 1st steps in the alliance, joining nato, whose biggest drills since the cold war. the exercises across the bl

, the alliance is really central with - alliance is really central with policies _ alliance is reallyreally central with policies and they think for i policies and they think for democratic— policies and they think for democratic solidarity- policies and they think for democratic solidarity withj policies and they think for - democratic solidarity with partners, it shows _ democratic solidarity with partners, it shows that — democratic solidarity with partners, it shows that aligning _ democratic solidarity with partners, it shows that aligning solidarity- it shows that aligning solidarity with biden _ it shows that aligning solidarity with biden administration - it shows that aligning solidarity with biden administration and i it shows that aligning solidarity. with biden administration and the government— with biden administration and the government is— with biden administration and the government is taking _ with biden administration and the government is taking a _ with biden administration and the government is taking a lot- with biden administration and the government is taking

and that, so the nato alliance is a preventative alliance. it's not supposed to fight a war, although it's fully capable of doing so. it's supposed to prevent a war which it has done for many years. and it's right now we have, we have to increase our capability to stop the rushing more machine before the war is a broader and to stop it in ukraine. well, yes, i mean, there isn't an idea. well, there won't be a war, but just an idea of what that wouldn't be the war that we already have in, in europe. you mentioned the president microns recently suggestion, but fonts could conceivably send troops to ukraine not on his own, but as part of a multi lateral deployment would latvia and principal be prepared to join such a mission to this. these are very sooner escalations. you're talking about what my calls a suggestion. i think that the strength of this suggestion is it starts to create strategic ambiguity for russia. and my con does have a point in nato. in democracies, we have all the time, put down red lines. what we won't do, what we won't do, w

to worry that the alliance looks weak to russia, i'm. well, the alliance is growing. thanks to russia. we have no finland and sweden in the alliance. a thanks to russia's aggression in europe, as we see in germany. elsewhere, governments are actually quite massively stepping up investments in their own defense, thanks to russia's war in ukraine. our defense interest, the although slow is making the investments now and where we are behind the russian curve because they knew they were going to weather on the work for they were getting there a. so i'm inside nato is on the low 50 foot thing or should be on a war footing. it is moving in that direction. now we in the baltics and then last year from, for 2 years, even before, before this, this outbreak were started. we were arguing that russia is a real security threat. a russia is, is a challenge to all of us. and for many years, we were told by many of our good friends and colleagues and allies that maybe were a little bit alarmist. it turns out, unfortunately that we were right i, i wish i was wrong in this regard and i

but it's the threats of only pushed more countries to join the alliance. when pressed on tooth and launched is full for scaling nation 2 years ago. he won't the less natal. i'm more control over his neighbors. he wanted to destroy ukraine, southern states, but she said nato is bigger and stronger. sweden now has security guarantees from nation. remember, states shouldn't come under attack from russia or anyone else in the future. in return sweden's military capability makes it a powerful new member, boasting cutting edge aircraft and anti aircraft missiles, as well as the state of the art tanks and submarines. it also has a considerable slate of ships. sweden's geographical position is another advantage. firstly, as a land transit route to reinforce feller, members, norway, and finland. and secondly, by allowing nate her to take control of the baltic sea in any conflict with russia via sweden's enormous coastline. sweden's military has taken its best steps in the alliance, joining nato, whose biggest drills since the cold war, or the exercises across the b

but it's the threats of only pushed more countries to joining the alliance. when pressed on tooth and launched is full for scaling nation 2 years ago. he won't, the less, nate, the more control over his neighbors. he wanted to destroy ukraine as a sovereign state. but she said nato is bigger and stronger. sweden now has security guarantees from nature and then the states should have come under attack from russia or anyone else in the future. in return sweden's military capability makes it a powerful new member, boasting cutting edge aircraft and anti aircraft missiles, as well as the state of the art tanks and submarines. it also has a considerable slate of ships of sweden's geographical position is another advantage. firstly, as a land transit route to re enforce feller, members, norway, and finland. and secondly, by allowing nato to take control of the baltic sea in any conflict with russia via sweden's enormous coastline. sweden's military has taken its 1st steps in the alliance, joining nato, whose biggest drills since the cold war. the exercises across t

on march 7 , sweden officially joined the nato alliance as the 32nd ally.nister of foreign... affairs ulf kristerson and foreign minister tobias bollström visited washington to finalize the accession process. the acceptance of sweden into the alliance takes place against the background of the largest nato exercises. statfast defender 2024 since the cold war. sweden's membership in nato will strengthen the alliance , vice admiral douglas perry, commander of the joint forces command in norfolk, told the voice of america during the nato exercise statfest deventer in poland. sweden has a phenomenal military and has been a nato partner of the united states for many years, but was not a nato ally. they provide incredible opportunities. they are a northern nation, their defense industry will strengthen the united states and the nato alliance. with sweden joining the alliance, nato has gained a significant presence in the baltic sea, a key oil trade route for russia and the base of one of its fleets. in northern poland, not far from the european union's border with

and especially even this last year when finland was admitted to the alliance. having gotten all the, the approval from all the other allies a year ago that live sweet and in a position where it felt very vulnerable, almost like it had a target on it. there was new member of finland on one side in norway on the other side. but sweden was not in and so there's a huge relief sense of relief. you're around nato headquarters, both swedish prime minister of christmas, and the secretary general again, stolen berg were, were clearly happy, even laughing a little bit. and you don't see that very often here at nato, so everyone is really in a good mood that this finally, this process finally has come to an end with the right raising of the swedish flag here. now we heard a moment ago from the swedish prime minister, and he said the russians threat to euro atlantic security tip the scales for a sweden to join nato. and that brakes for the long tradition of neutrality. why the sweet and st joining nato is a safer bed and staying neutral? well, one of the points he made thi

membership means you are coming home to the alliance for peace _ are coming home to the alliance forreedom, to which many democracies _ peace and for freedom, to which many democracies already belong. also home _ democracies already belong. also home to — democracies already belong. also home to our neighbours' security co—operation, home to a surfeit of countries — co—operation, home to a surfeit of countries where, for generations, we have belonged. we will defend freedom together with the countries closest _ freedom together with the countries closest to— freedom together with the countries closest to us both in terms of geography, culture and values. the security— geography, culture and values. the security situation in our region has not been _ security situation in our region has not been this serious since the second — not been this serious since the second world war. russia will stay a serious _ second world war. russia will stay a serious threat to the euro atlantic security— serious threat to the euro atlantic security for — serious threat to the euro atlantic security for

demanded that ukraine be in the sphere of influence of russia, so that... to the north atlantic the alliance did not accept new members and he demanded many, many things, but all this blackmail that was in the 21st year was ignored by the world, this blackmail was ignored by the united states of america and the countries that are part of the north atlantic alliance. now , two years later, putin returns to talking about guarantees, although he understands very well that these... two years he simply lost, that he has already lost this war, and the only question is how this war will end for him and in which way i mean personally for him, that is why he is talking about guarantees, he wants guarantees for himself personally, obviously oleksandr lukashenko also wants guarantees for himself, who suddenly started talking about the fact that if he lost power in 2000... in the 20th year, then a nuclear war would start between russia and the west. let's listen to another self-proclaimed president of belarus. god help us in 2020. and if we didn't resist then, there would be a war here. they would drag

to be formed and were sustainable and were formalized. and so on, because alliances are still formed developed mainly in peacetime, during war few people risk it, so to speak to get involved in a fight after it started, i think many european politicians crossed themselves when putin attacked ukraine, and they remembered that at one time they... no, they didn't accept ukraine into nato or start it movement even in nato, by and large, because it would require them to already intervene in the fight, enter into a... war, and we can talk about the fact that maybe putin would not have attacked, but what is happening there in the baltic region, the threat looming over individual nato member countries shows that such a calculation is also, so to speak, controversial, therefore, if we talk about the future security configuration in our part of the world or in central, eastern europe. then it will be determined mainly by the results of the russian-ukrainian war, how ukraine will come out of this war, how russia will come out of this war, so to speak, there will be key factors that will influen

should the alliance be cheering that it's expansion looking over its shoulder? i'm wondering how russia will respond. i'm feel gaily live and this is the day i of the suite and is now part of nato. so for this going to be good for. and the more things that just felt like the reasonable step to take the 1st the, unless it would be safe. but if you like, think about it, the a why and it smells that. sure. i feel it's really a mistake, a historic mistakes with this making right now right now to wall calling to make also on the day i last is movie going experience was dominated by the single time use release of 2 block bustos, unknown together as bob and time in the end though, only one of them triumphed at sundays off cuz we made a film about the amount of created the atomic bomb and for better or for worse, we're all living in oppenheimer's world. so i would really like to dedicate this to the peace makers everywhere. welcome to the day and night service. welcome to the newest member, raising the swedish flag over its headquarters in brussels. they took chief inst

do you worry that the alliance looks weak to russia, as well as the alliance is growing a thanks to russia, we have no finland and sweden in the alliance. a thanks to russia's aggression in europe, as we see in germany. elsewhere, governments are actually quite massively stepping up investments in their own defense, thanks to russia's war in ukraine. our defense interest, the although slow is making the investments now and where we are behind the russian curve because they knew they were going to weather on the work footing. we're getting there a so i'm inside nato is on the low 50 foot thing or should be on a war footing. it is moving in that direction. now we in the baltics and then last year from, for 2 years, even before, before this, this outbreak were started, we were arguing that russia is a real security threat. a russia is, is a challenge to all of us. and for many years, we were told by many of our good friends and colleagues and allies that maybe were a little bit alarm, as it turns out. unfortunately that we were right i, i wish i was wrong in this regard and it is taken. so in

and the, so the nato alliance is a preventative alliance. it's not supposed to fight a war, although it's fully capable of doing so. it's supposed to prevent a war which it has done for many years. and it's right now we have, we have to increase our capability to stop the russian war machine before the war is broader and to stop it in ukraine. well, yes, i mean, there isn't an idea. well, there wouldn't be a war, but just an idea of, well, that wouldn't be the war that we already have in, in europe. and you mentioned the president microns, recently suggestion that fonts could conceivably send troops to ukraine not on his own, but as part of a multi lateral deployment would latvia and principal be prepared to join such a mission. this is a very sooner escalation, as you're talking about what my calls a suggestion. i think the strength of this suggestion is it starts to create strategic ambiguities for russia and mccaul does have a point in nato. in democracies, we have all the time, put down red lines. what we won't do, what we won't do, what