The newspaper article claims that Finland and Sweden want to provide a safer environment for themselves, but "in the end it will become more insecure."
“Membership in NATO will lead to the fact that Finland and Sweden, especially the first, will lose autonomy in relations with Russia.
Can a country after joining NATO continue to determine its policy towards Russia, based on its own national interests?
- reports the publication.
The article also emphasizes that Finland and Sweden, when they officially become members of the alliance, will have to conduct relations with Russia "passively, in accordance with US interests", and not actively, based on their own interests.
When more European countries are closely aligned with US security interests, Europe will be more inclined to compromise with the US in other areas, the paper concludes.