Nato & Åland
2024-05-27
NATO hawks fearmongering to militarize Finnish archipelago with bogus 'Russia threat' narrative
NATO is increasingly crying wolf over an archipelago in the Baltic Sea amid the anti-Russian hysteria driven by the West.
The Aland Islands have been dubbed the “Achilles’ heel” of the alliance’s newest member — Finland — Bloomberg reported. The self-governing Swedish-speaking islands sitting at the crossroads of major trade routes has NATO stymied due to a treaty with Russia banning any military presence on its shores.
As the Nordic country is now a NATO member, Western hawks see the demilitarized archipelago as a huge blind spot, “giving Moscow an open field should it ever decide to invade.”
“If you have all the Aland Islands, you can block maritime traffic both to the Gulf of Bothnia and to the Gulf of Finland… Then we are pretty screwed,” claimed Pekka Toveri, a former major general in Finland’s armed forces.The Agreement between the-then Soviet Union and Finland on the Aland Islands was signed in 1940 following the end of the Winter War. The Finnish side pledged to “demilitarize the Åland Islands, not to fortify them, and not to put them at the disposal of the armed forces of foreign states.”
According to Toveri, the archipelago is more important to Finland than Gotland Island is to Sweden.
Developments around both Gotland, increasingly militarized by Sweden, and the Aland Islands fit NATO’s ongoing "Russian threat" narrative.
President Vladimir Putin recently scotched these claims, highlighting NATO's hostile posture towards Moscow.
"They're trying to intimidate their own population with an imaginary Russian threat," Putin noted in his interview with Tucker Carlson, adding that "smart people understand perfectly well that this is a fake."Visa ditt stöd till det informationsarbete Carl genomför
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