HughMananatee t1_jed45xw wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:24 AM

Nice work Russia, managed to double your borders with NATO once Sweden is in too

cgaWolf t1_jedm723 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 6:39 AM

No, the border is doubles with Finnland alone. Sweden doesn't have a land border with Russia.

HughMananatee t1_jeefec0 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:42 PM

Yeah I noticed, for some reason though Russian diplomats are including Sweden when they make this complaint? Are they counting the coast?

randompantsfoto t1_jeeivtt wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:10 PM

Sweden controls a significant portion of the Baltic Sea. (Including the island of Gotland), a sea which essentially becomes a NATO lake as soon as they join. Any Russian ships based in St. Petersburg become trapped/useless in the event of a conflict with NATO.

Granted, they weren’t getting out into the North Sea and Atlantic past Denmark and Norway anyway, but now they wouldn’t even have room to steam out to the middle of the Baltic and pretend to be a navy without being under constant threat of land-based anti-ship missiles anywhere they go.