MOSCOW, May 6The entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO will redraw the map of Europe, writes American political scientist Ann Slaughter in an article for the Financial Times. «The admission of these countries into a military alliance <…> peace and prosperity in the 21st century,” the expert suggested. As the author noted, in the previous century Europe was divided into two ideologically different camps. Capitalism was built in one of them, and communism was built in the other. NATO troops and the Soviet army stood on the demarcation line of the bipolar world. According to Slaughter, this division should be left in the past, and Russia should become part of the European continent. The only way out of the current situation in the region is through intensive economic cooperation and the development of security institutions. Ultimately, all European countries, including Russia, should become a single space, the browser concluded. , which NATO plans to destabilizeFinland and Sweden admitted the possibility of abandoning the neutral status and joining the North Atlantic Alliance after the start of the Russian military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. The head of the organization, Jens Stoltenberg, promised to provide these states with an accelerated process of admission to the bloc, and US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith expressed the hope that the decision to join would be made in the coming «months and weeks.» Russia has repeatedly stressed that the alliance is striving for confrontation. According to presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, further expansion of the military association will not bring greater security to Europe. At the same time, he noted that he does not consider the possible entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO an existential threat to Russia. everything to prolong the conflict in Ukraine
