How allied Sweden and Finland can secure Northern Europe

 via Atlantic Council

This issue brief sets the stage by suggesting that the Alliance use the accession of Sweden and Finland to create an ambitious deterrence-by-denial “bubble” over Northern Europe. Such a strategy does not merely include military capabilities but must be underpinned by civil robustness and resilience that stretch across NATO territory. Operationally, allies in Northern Europe should prepare to assume greater responsibility as first responders in case of a severe security situation, below or at the level of Article 5. For this to succeed, political cooperation and agenda setting must intensify among Northern European allies.

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Read the whole thing but I have to point out one thing.

Western society has been ASSAULTED with irrational fear of one thing or another.

In this case the source of the manufactured fear is Russia.

This makes no sense.  30 nations allied against one?  Yet policy makers are adopting what they call a "deterrence by denial" bubble?

Why!

One nation, not 30 could effectively blunt a Russian assault.  The idea that 30 nations must band together to secure a deterrent affect against one is laughable.

Not even the United States could credibly claim to be able to invade Europe, control the landmass/citizens and extract whatever resources desired.

It goes down the line on the fear peddling too.

Crime?  Catch bad guy, lock up bad guy, keep him locked up and society is safer.  It isn't rocket science. Yet we have a continuing crime wave with political figures continuing to exercise weak on crime policies.

Covid?  Its beyond obvious that a passion play was at work there no matter what your politics.  We ruined children for a couple of generations.  We ignored the fact that this disease is deadly for the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions.  We instead shut down the Western economy.  FUCKING WHY! (What goes unsaid is that Africa was basically ignored and the deaths from Covid was extremely, extremely low - no investigation into how they managed that yet the West was lost....the same applies to non-urbanized Asia too).

I don't know why but the biggest drug that the Western world must kick is the fear poison being pumped into the publics bloodstream.

This report is just another example.