NATO: We have no plans to establish a military base in Sweden

After many struggles and obstacles in the process of Sweden’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Stockholm finally managed to enter this military alliance as the 32nd member. However, Russia, as the largest holder of nuclear weapons arsenal in the world in the eastern neighbor of Sweden, is not happy about this issue at all; This has forced NATO to try to implement a policy of reducing tension with Moscow.

According to Teletrader, Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO today (Monday) tried to justify the policy of expanding NATO to the East and considered it to be contrary to the effort to contain Russia.

Stoltenberg said in this regard: NATO currently has no plans to deploy combat units or establish a permanent military base in Sweden near the Russian border.

NATO Secretary General announced that NATO has no plans to increase the number of allies with nuclear weapons, without mentioning any details.

Praising the advanced defense capabilities of Sweden, which became a member of NATO last week, he added: We see that Stockholm invests more than 2% of its GDP in defense, which is one of NATO’s goals. is considered. Before the country’s membership in NATO, the Swedish army also participated in our military exercises. NATO’s military is now at its largest since the Cold War.

Previously, the former American presidents, including Barack Obama and Donald Trump, criticized NATO member countries for not investing enough in the field of defense. During his tenure in the White House, Trump threatened the European members of NATO if they do not allocate 2% of their GDP to the defense sector, the United States will reconsider its support for this military alliance.

According to the fifth article of the NATO charter, an attack on one of the members of this military alliance is considered an attack on all the member countries, and therefore, this article is known as the spirit of NATO. Trump announced the lack of military support for countries that do not spend 2% of their GDP on the military.