A senior Swedish diplomatic official told Newsweek: 'For many in Sweden, the case for joining NATO is stronger now than half a year ago.'
The talk prompted a threat from Moscow of"serious military-political consequences" if either made moves towards NATO membership, threats that both Finnish and Swedish leaders dismissed as routine Russian belligerence.
, they said,"is trying to bundle up all these aspirations—in terms of their own security perceptions—and now put them on the table and finally get them signed off." The president accused the U.S. of militarizing the European continent and signaled that Russia would re-emerge as a dominant post-Soviet global political force.
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