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NATO is about to get bigger and Putin is unhappy: Here are 3 ways Moscow could react
With Finland and Sweden both announcing their bids to join the Western military alliance NATO, ending a decades-long history of military non-alignment, all eyes are on Russia and how it might react. Moscow has already expressed outrage at the idea of its old foe NATO’s potential imminent expansion soon after Finland announced its intention to apply to the organization last week. Now that Finland has officially confirmed that it will apply — with Sweden’s governing Social Democratic Party similarly backing a bid to join NATO — Moscow has wasted no time in making its feelings known, with a top Kremlin official ... (full story)