{"id":6480,"date":"2015-03-13T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2015-03-13T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T00:00:18","slug":"estonia-fears-being-overrun-by-russia-in-minutes-sweden-sends-troops-to-baltic-sea-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6480","title":{"rendered":"Estonia Fears Being “Overrun By Russia In Minutes”, Sweden Sends Troops To Baltic Sea Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Estonia Fears Being “Overrun By Russia In Minutes”, Sweden Sends Troops To Baltic Sea Island<\/a><\/h3>\n

“Gotland is a big worry for us.\u00a0It could be overrun by Russia in minutes and then all of us would be highly vulnerable to an attack<\/strong>,”<\/em>\u00a0warned one politician recently as it appears NATO fear-mongering and Russia sabre-rattling is having a significant effect on many of the Baltic Sea’s border nations.\u00a0As The FT reports<\/a>,\u00a0Sweden will put troops back on the strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland after a decade-long absence<\/strong>\u00a0and will also step up military exercises around the island involving the army, navy and air force.\u00a0\u201cHunting submarines is a priority area,”<\/em><\/strong>Sweden’s defense minister explained, adding that “everything we do is a part of underlining Swedish sovereignty.”<\/p>\n

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As The FT reports,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Peter Hultqvist, Sweden\u2019s defence minister, said he would\u00a0recommend placing a company of about 150 soldiers on Gotland,<\/strong>\u00a0which lies almost midway between mainland Sweden and Latvia in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Sweden will also\u00a0step up military exercises around the island involving the army, navy and air force.<\/strong><\/div>\n

\u201cGotland has a strategic location in the Baltic Sea and this is also an indication to the outside world that we recognise that Gotland is very important.\u00a0Everything we do is a part of underlining Swedish sovereignty,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>he told Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Estonia Fears Being “Overrun By Russia In Minutes”, Sweden Sends Troops To Baltic Sea Island “Gotland is a big worry for us.\u00a0It could be overrun by Russia in minutes and then all of us would be highly vulnerable to an attack,”\u00a0warned one politician recently as it appears NATO fear-mongering and Russia sabre-rattling is having a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4154,3806,4153,553,694,771,4138],"class_list":["post-6480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-baltic-states","tag-estonia","tag-gotland-island","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-sweden","tag-war-mongering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6481,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions\/6481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}