“A day after Finland’s leaders declared unequivocally that the nation would join NATO, the Swedish government signaled on Friday that it could soon follow suit, issuing a scathing report outlining how Russian aggression in Ukraine had fundamentally altered the security equation in Europe and saying that only NATO membership would offer the nation stability and protection,” the New York Times reports.
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