{"id":47714,"date":"2022-06-15T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47714"},"modified":"2024-06-15T01:45:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T23:45:22","slug":"sweden-and-the-usa-are-preparing-to-defend-a-strategic-island-that-is-coveted-by-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/15\/sweden-and-the-usa-are-preparing-to-defend-a-strategic-island-that-is-coveted-by-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden and the USA are preparing to defend a strategic island that is coveted by Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia's threats against Sweden<\/a> 193. J\u00e4garbataljonen have led this traditionally neutral country to seek NATO membership, with an eye on Gotland.<\/p>\n

Russian military planes violated Swedish airspace carrying nuclear weapons<\/a><\/rel>
\nThe images of Russian combat aircrafts that violated the Swedish airspace<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

This island, located 90 km from the Swedish mainland and 130 km from Latvia, has a strategic position in the Baltic Sea<\/strong> and has therefore been coveted by Russia for centuries. In fact, the Russian Empire militarily occupied the island for a few weeks in 1808<\/strong>, in the Finnish War that confronted both countries and that ended with the Russian occupation of Finland until 1917. As you will remember, several Russian warplanes flew over the island on 2 March<\/a>, a few days after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the first threats from Moscow against Sweden. A few weeks later it became known that these Russian planes were carrying nuclear weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With this perspective, in recent days Sweden has joined NATO's Baltops 22 exercise this year, in which Swedish and US military forces have trained to defend the island of Gotland in the event of an invasion.<\/strong> Here you can see a video of these maneuvers published by NATO:<\/p>\n