Putin Presses Reset Button on Sweden
Russia warns Sweden it will face military action if it joins Nato
By Zachary Davies Boren Friday 19 June 2015 Via The Independent
We’ll have them speaking Russian in no time. (photo credit: Getty)
(Scratch another destination for vacationing Russians. – LS)
Russian ambassador says they would “resort to a response of the military kind and re-orientate our troops and missiles”
Russia would take military “countermeasures” if Sweden were to join Nato, according to the Russian ambassador.
In an interview with Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Viktor Tatarinstev warned against joining the Nato alliance, saying there would be “consequences”.
Decrying what he called an “aggressive propaganda campaign” by the media, Tatarinstev stressed that “Sweden is not a target for our armed troops”.
But with a recent surge of Swedish support for joining Nato, the ambassador said: “If it happens, there will be counter measures.
“Putin pointed out that there will be consequences, that Russia will have to resort to a response of the military kind and re-orientate our troops and missiles.
“The country that joins Nato needs to be aware of the risks it is exposing itself to.”
Despite the swing in public opinion – 31 per cent of Swedes wants to join Nato, up from 17 per cent in 2012 – Russia is confident that the country will not opt to join the Western military organisation.
He said: “I don’t think it will become relevant in the near future.”
Tatarinstev blamed souring Swedish-Russian relations on a media campaign in which “Russia is often described as an attacker who only thinks of conducting wars and threatening others”.
Last year a series of reports indicated increased Russian military presence in the Baltic sea, with fighter-bombers spotted in Swedish airspace and a foreign submarine seen in Swedish waters.
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt referred to the former as “the most serious aerial incursion by the Russians” in almost a decade.
And Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist has since announced Sweden will be upgrading its navy fleet so it can better detect submarine activity.
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WarSclerotic 
June 19, 2015 at 9:05 PM
Increasing US presence in Baltics has little upside
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2015/06/17/increasing-presence-baltics-has-little-upside/cAQQKBCQeJeYNujYUiz9QI/story.html
U.S. plans to store heavy arms in Baltic, Eastern Europe – source
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/14/us-usa-military-europe-idUSKBN0OT0TR20150614
June 19, 2015 at 9:07 PM
2014
U.S. sends ‘Ironhorse’ tanks to NATO’s nervous Baltic front line
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/01/us-ukraine-crisis-baltic-usa-idUSKCN0HQ33720141001
June 19, 2015 at 9:09 PM
2014
US ponders military exercises in Baltics in bid to reassure Russia’s neighbours
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/18/us-military-exercises-baltics-russia
June 19, 2015 at 9:12 PM
NATO is set to break a 1997 treaty it signed with Russia by establishing permanent forces in Latvia, as it piles in more troops to the Baltic States.
http://sputniknews.com/military/20150528/1022656291.html
June 19, 2015 at 9:22 PM
Polish and Baltic hopes for permanent NATO bases frustrated by 1997 agreement with Russia
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/polish-and-baltic-hopes-for-permanent-nato-bases-frustrated-by-1997-agreement-with-russia/article20343316/
June 19, 2015 at 9:26 PM
It is just another power play of The USA to extend the encircling of Russia, poking the bear more and more.
Take a map and read this .
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/baltics/1931-10-01/baltic-states-germany-and-russia
June 19, 2015 at 9:29 PM
O by the way , just a detail
USA is pushing Europe to boycott Russia, but the USA trade with Russia has gained 10 % in the same time .
Ain’t that nice from big brother USA .
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html
On August 22, 2012, Russia became the 156th Member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). On December 14, 2012, the President signed legislation – which had been approved overwhelmingly by the U.S. Congress – terminating the application of Jackson-Vanik and extending permanent normal trade relations to Russia and Moldova. On December 21, 2012, the United States and Russia both filed letters with the World Trade Organization (WTO) withdrawing their notices of non-application and agreeing to have the WTO agreement apply between them. The application of the WTO agreement between the United States and Russia will benefit U.S. businesses and workers by improving market access for U.S. exports of goods and services and bringing Russia into a system of established, enforceable, multilateral trade rules. Here are a few of the United States’ export opportunities From Russia’s membership in the WTO.
https://ustr.gov/Russia
June 20, 2015 at 12:21 AM
Sweden probably faces curse after cursing the Jews : Just recently it was Sweden that recognised as the first EU – nation the socalled ” state of palestine”, a state, a nation, a people that never existed – an idea born by the arch terrorist arafat with the Goal to kick the jews out of Israel……The swedish city of Malmo doesn’t protect its jewish ctizens from muslim terror – so, the city of Malmo will soon be ”judenrein”. in WW2, Nazi Germany was allowed to use swedens railway system to bring troops and weapons TO Norway, while transporting norvegian Jews FROM norway to german death camps and transporting iron ore to Germany….Sweden CAN do all of this, but for sure the curse does work: ” He who curses Israel will be cursed”.
Russia was Training nuclear attacks on sweden in 2013 – one would think this is fiction, but I would say its the heavenly curse at work….
And I wouldnt be surprised if sweden would in fact be attacked by russia……..”You touch the Jews and you will face Gods wrath…….”