The following report is by ZeroHedge:
SEE: Sweden And Finland Officially Join NATO
The newly inked Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) this week signals Stockholm finally and fully abandoning its its centuries-old policy of neutrality, given the Pentagon has confirmed that US forces can now “operate in Sweden, including the legal status of US military personnel, access to deployment areas (and) prepositioning of military materiel.”
Defense Lloyd Austin and Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson held a signing ceremony on Tuesday, and hailed that the deal will “create better conditions for Sweden to be able to receive support from the United States in the event of a war or crisis.”
At a moment Sweden is still waiting anxiously for its accession into NATO to be announced, the US State Department has said the DCA with Sweden will “apply seamlessly before and after Sweden’s accession to the NATO Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA).”
All of this is a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, which led both Finland (who is NATO’s newest member) and neighboring Sweden to drop their non-alignment policies. As the AP reviews:
Sweden’s strategically important Baltic Sea island of Gotland sits a little more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) from the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad.
The United States struck a similar deal with Sweden’s western neighbor, NATO member Norway, in 2021 and is currently negotiating such an agreement with NATO members Finland and Denmark, two other Nordic countries.
From the start of the war in Ukraine, the Swedish prime minister’s office has cited Russian aggression as making necessary a greater and broader readiness posture in case of a state of emergency, or even potential attack on the nation.
This has lately even included reintroducing conscription for Swedish civilians in the case of a national emergency.
As for the new DCA, Pentagon chief Austin said it “sends a strong signal that we remain committed to addressing security challenges together.” All of this has caused Russia to enter a defensive posture regarding its Scandinavian borders, and in the region of the Baltic Sea.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[1] Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; [2] Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. Psalms 140:1-2
The United States, just like the Roman empire, has vastly overextended itself, as it continues to try and foment more war and conflicts, while the home front rots away and breaks down.
At some point, I suspect that NATO eventually fizzles out and is disbanded, as the European Union, I believe will eventually betray the U.S. in the not so distant future.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Very interesting. This could be one of the reasons for making these wars. Try to get more people to be apart of NATO.
NATO, for all intents and purposes, is America’s shell group they use for their empirical conquest. At some point it will collapse. Turkey is a member, and they are very much a problem right now, for example. When America’s economy officially enters a “recession” (which really means the greatest depression has begun), I’d be willing to bet NATO members pull out and seek neutrality, and make new deals with the East and BRICS.
“At some point, I suspect that NATO eventually fizzles out and is disbanded, as the European Union, I believe will eventually betray the U.S. in the not so distant future.”
You know something Jacob, I believe you are right! The US and the rest of the West is going to crash and collapse and with that, NATO will go south.
As with Rome, so too with America; except America’s fall will be even greater than the fall of Rome I believe. It’s going to be colossal.
Famous last words; we get a foot in the door, we can start another war.
The US ,spreading itself thin is an understatement. It’s such an itch for the US to start a war, they can almost taste it, like that old tv commercial where that tough guy was begging ya to knock off the Eveready battery off his shoulder. If your under 40 ya might not know about it, but it proves this point of how the US is acting.
PS, the guy was on the TV show “Rat Patrol” anyone remember that one?
Probably come here and start a war, there is plenty of prophecys from sweden and Finland involving russia in future war.. some ending in rapture.
Well see if they come true..