Northern Europe Finland and Sweden announced on the 18th that they will both apply for NATO membership.



Finland and Sweden have both been military-neutral, but this month following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, they changed their policies one after another and applied for NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization. I decided to do it.



The accession of both countries requires the agreement of all NATO member countries, and Western countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom have expressed their support, but Turkey is reluctant.



Atsuko Higashino of the University of Tsukuba, who is familiar with the relationship between Russia and Europe and the United States, pointed out that "NATO's centripetal force has increased significantly following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A major turning point in European security is about to be reached." To do.



It is a commentary by Mr. Higashino.

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・ Successive “de-neutral”


・ Switzerland is also a “historical shift”


・ Russia's miscalculation, what will happen in the future



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