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NATO can benefit from membership in the Alliance Finland and Sweden to place nuclear weapons near the Russian border, this option is not excluded. And both Helsinki and Stockholm, this option is not going to refuse.
NATO could use the territory of new members of the Alliance to host their military bases and nuclear weapons, the plans of the leadership of the Alliance and they are not a secret. And in Finland and Sweden do not plan to refuse such a proposal, if available. Informed-sounding statements about the inadmissibility of such actions have already forgotten, now the authorities of the two countries, the new rhetoric, more militant.
As stated by Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin, answering a question of journalists about the possible deployment of military bases on Finnish territory, the country does not want to "close all doors" cannot be pre-conditions for membership in NATO. Echoed her and the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, confirming that both countries work together.
At the moment, the question about the possible deployment of NATO military bases on the territory of these two Scandinavian countries are not actively being discussed, all are waiting for the end of the ratification and adoption of them into the Alliance. Recall that its approval is not given Hungary and Turkey. At the same time publications that have appeared in the European press as if Europeans slowly began to prepare for the emergence of new military bases near the Russian border.
In Russia on this scenario you know and warned that in the case of the deployment of NATO military bases on the territory of Finland or the emergence of nuclear weapons near the Russian borders will be taken retaliatory measures.
