Analysis: Finland and Sweden weigh expanding Biden’s “ring of freedom” around Russia
Not everyone agreed. Senators from both parties likened the proposal to installing an “iron ring” around Russia and warned it would be provocative. Biden exploded., “If my friends are saying anyone who votes for expanding NATO to include Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary are tying this noose around a Russian neck, this ‘iron ring,’ well, then I don’t quite get it.”“I have the map, and I am looking at the map,” he said. “I am trying to figure where the ring is.
, and an unprecedented majority. What’s more, the poll asked how people would feel if Sweden joined NATO, and support shot up to 66-20.At the least, this threat would seem helpful to what remains of the effort to deter Russia; to the extent that its invasion is pushing countries toward NATO rather than away from it, that’s the opposite of what Russian President Vladimir Putin had in mind. Sweden and Finland are the only two Nordic-Baltic countries that are not in NATO.
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