Analysis: To turn stolidly non-aligned Finland and Sweden into members would join pantheon of great strategic blunders
By the end of the year it is conceivable that Nato’s land mass, GDP and territorial borders with Russia may expand by nearly as much as it would have ifhad achieved its distant goal of eventual membership of the western defence alliance – if not more.
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