Ready for the next 冷淡な War: Swedish and Finnish 軍隊／機動隊s join US 兵士s for 抱擁する 北大西洋条約機構 war games just days after Putin's 冷気／寒がらせるing 脅し to Scandinavia comparing himself to Peter the 広大な／多数の／重要な

Sweden and Finland have joined 14 北大西洋条約機構 countries for Baltic Sea war games まっただ中に 高くする，増すd 緊張s in the 地域, as the two countries hope to join the Western 同盟 in 返答 to Russia's on-going 侵略 of ウクライナ共和国. Pictured:?wedi sh and Finnish 兵士s 成し遂げる 海軍の 模擬実験／偽ること 演習s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s (Baltops 22) on June 11

About 7,000 軍の 職員／兵員 and 45 ships took part in the 演習 that 伴う／関わるd 空気／公表する 減少（する）s and 水陸両性の 上陸s on Gotland - an island that is strategically 位置を示すd in the middle of the southern part of the Baltic Sea. Pictured: A 兵士 is seen 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing a machine gun during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday

Gotland has seen foreign 侵略s throughout its history, the most 最近の one in 1808, when ロシアの 軍隊s 簡潔に 占領するd it, and the 年次の BALTOPS 演習s saw 軍隊／機動隊s practicing not just how to defend the island with a 全住民 of 58,000, but how to take it 支援する from a foreign 攻撃者. Pictured:?Swedish and Finnish 兵士s 成し遂げる 海軍の 模擬実験／偽ること 演習s

The 14 参加するing 北大西洋条約機構 nations 含む the 部隊d Kingdom, 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, フラン, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Turkey. Pictured: 兵士s are shown operating a モーター on the island of Gotland during 軍の 演習s

A Swedish 海軍 軍の hovercraft travels during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s (Baltops 22) on June 11, 2022

PicturedL A group of 兵士s are pictured carrying out an 演習 of the Swedish island of Gotland on Saturday

In テレビ放送するd comments on day 106 of his war in ウクライナ共和国, he compared Peter's （選挙などの）運動をする with the 仕事 直面するing Russia today.?'明らかに, it also fell to us to return (what is Russia's) and 強化する (the country),' he continued.

'And if we proceed from the fact that these basic values form the basis of our 存在, we will certainly 後継する in solving the 仕事s that we 直面する.'

Though the 年次の BALTOPS 演習 isn't held in 返答 to a 明確な／細部 脅し, this year's 版 comes まっただ中に 高くする，増すd 緊張s with Russia に引き続いて its 侵略 of ウクライナ共和国.?

にもかかわらず their 非，不，無-提携させるd status, the two Nordic have practiced 定期的に with 北大西洋条約機構 countries, and their 政府s decided in the wake of the ウクライナ共和国 war to 捜し出す 十分な 会員の地位 in the Western 軍の 同盟.?

'I'm feeling really 用意が出来ている. I mean, we have made a big （軍隊などの）展開，配備 on Gotland, and we will defend Gotland,' Swedish Col. Magnus Frykvall, the island's 連隊 指揮官, said as 軍の 金物類／武器類 was 存在 （軍隊を）展開する，配備するd on th e coast. 'It's a really hard 仕事 to take a defended island.'?

Having to defend Gotland against a foreign 侵略 seemed such a far-fetched notion to Swedish 決定／判定勝ち（する）-製造者s at the start of the century that they 非武装化するd the Baltic Sea island.?

But after the 冷淡な War ended, Sweden felt the 危険 of a ロシアの 侵略 was so remote it refocused its 武装した 軍隊s on foreign peacekeeping 操作／手術s rather than 領土の defence. The Gotland 連隊 was の近くにd in 2005 as Sweden downsized its 軍の.

A Swedish 兵士 sits on a 軍の boat with a machine during the BALTOPS 22 共同の 軍の 演習s on Saturday

Finnish 兵士s 成し遂げる war 模擬実験／偽ること 演習s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday

A Finnish 兵士 is seen 成し遂げるing war 模擬実験／偽ること 演習s during the BALTOPS 演習s on Saturday

Swedish and Finnish 兵士s 成し遂げる war 模擬実験／偽ること 演習s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday

兵士s are seen inside a （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕 overlooking the sea?during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday

A Swedish 海軍 軍の hovercraft travels across the water?s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday

Russia's 併合 of ウクライナ共和国's Crimea 半島 in 2014 led to a rethink, and a new 連隊 was 設立するd on Gotland in 2018. There are now around 400 Swedish 兵士s 永久的に based on the island. その上の 増強s are planned に引き続いて Russia's 侵略 of ウクライナ共和国.

Nonetheless, many Gotlanders feel Sweden would not be able to defend the island on its own.

'If we were to be 侵略するd, we wouldn't stand a chance because our defence is too small. We have a really modern and good defence, but it's too small,' said Lars Soderdahl, a 33-year-old chef in the island's main town, Visby.

Sweden, which has stayed out of 軍の 同盟s since the Napoleonic Wars, 適用するd for 北大西洋条約機構 会員の地位 together with Finland in a historic move last month. 北大西洋条約機構's 存在するing 30 members are 始める，決める to discuss the 問題／発行する this month. Turkey has 脅すd to 停止する the 使用／適用s over the two countries' perceived support for Kurdish groups.

Finland and Sweden have sought 安全 保証／確信s from the U.S. and other 北大西洋条約機構 countries during the 使用／適用 period.

A 偽装するd 軍の boat is hidden の中で the 激しく揺するs during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday

Swedish and Finnish 兵士s 参加する in a war 模擬実験／偽ること 演習 during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s

Finnish 兵士s 成し遂げる war 模擬実験／偽ること 演習s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday

Pictured: A Swedish 兵士 is seen during?during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday?

A 兵士 is seen 偽装するd behind a bush on the Swedish island of Gotland during 軍の 演習s on Saturday

Kicking off the BALTOPS 演習s last 週末 in Stockholm, U.S. Gen. 示す Milley, chairman of the 共同の 長，指導者s of Staff, said it was important for the 北大西洋条約機構 同盟（する）s 'to show 団結 with both Finland and Sweden.'

Their 会員の地位 in the 同盟 would leave Russia in a difficult 軍の position, with the Baltic Sea encircled by 北大西洋条約機構 members except for in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad and the ロシアの city of St. Petersburg and its surrounding areas.

The 戦略の importance of Gotland, a popular summer vacation 位置／汚点／見つけ出す for Swedes, is often 見解（をとる）d in relation to the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which are 特に worried about any ロシアの 侵略 foll 借りがあるing the ウクライナ共和国 侵略.?

Gotland is about 60 miles from 本土／大陸 Sweden and 100 miles from the coast of Latvia.?

'The thing is, from here, you make 供給（する）ing and supporting the Baltic 明言する／公表するs a lot easier or a lot more difficult, depending on who is in 支配（する）／統制する of the island,' Mikael Norrby, an Uppsala University academic, told The Associated 圧力（をかける）.

兵士s 準備する for war 模擬実験／偽ること 演習s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday

A 兵士 is seen with a 武器 perched on a 激しく揺する in woodland during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday

A 兵士 is seen through the trees on the Swedish island of Gotland during the?Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s

Swedish and Finnish 兵士s 成し遂げる war 模擬実験／偽ること 演習s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s on Saturday

同時に起こる／一致するing with the 北大西洋条約機構 演習s, Russia's Baltic (n)艦隊／(a)素早い 開始する，打ち上げるd its own 軍の 演習s this week. The (n)艦隊／(a)素早い's 圧力（をかける） service referred to the manoeuvres Tuesday as a scheduled 演習 焦点（を合わせる）d on 'さまざまな types of 安全 仕事s,' 含むing the 跡をつけるing and 破壊 of enemy 潜水艦s.

'There are more than 20 軍艦s and boats in the sea 範囲s of the Baltic (n)艦隊／(a)素早い, 成し遂げるing 戦闘 仕事s both 個々に and as part of ship search-and-strike groups and ship strike groups,' the 圧力（をかける） service said in a 声明.

It said that 60 ships and 40 航空機 were taking part in the manoeuvres which will also take place on land at training grounds in the ロシアの 飛び領土 of Kaliningrad.

It 追加するd that corvettes, patrol ships, small ミサイル 運送／保菌者s, anti-潜水艦 大型船s, 掃海艇s, and 上陸 hovercraft were の中で the 大型船s taking part in the 演習s.??

The 演習s （機の）カム after Sweden's?外務大臣 Ann Linde said on Friday her country was 捜し出すing to make 建設的な 進歩 in 会談 with Turkey on Ankara's 反対s to the Nordic country's 使用／適用 to join the 北大西洋条約機構 defence 同盟.

The 反対s caught Finnish, Swedish and many 北大西洋条約機構 公式の／役人s by surprise and have dimmed prospects for 早い 進歩 on the 会員の地位 企て，努力，提案s ahead of a 北大西洋条約機構 首脳会議 in Madrid later this month.

A Finnish 兵士 ふりをするs 存在 負傷させるd and 避難させるd by 同僚s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s

A Finnish 兵士 ふりをするs 存在 負傷させるd and 避難させるd by 同僚s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s

A Finnish 兵士 ふりをするs 存在 負傷させるd and 避難させるd by 同僚s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s

A 兵士 crouches 負かす／撃墜する の中で the trees on the Swedish island of Gotland, with a ロケット／急騰する 発射台 on the ground beside? him, during the Baltic 操作／手術s N ATO 軍の 演習s on Saturday

A Finnish 兵士 ふりをするs 存在 負傷させるd and 避難させるd by 同僚s during the Baltic 操作／手術s 北大西洋条約機構 軍の 演習s

'Our 使用／適用 has received 幅の広い support の中で 北大西洋条約機構 members,' Linde said in a 外交政策 宣言 in the Swedish 議会. 'Our ambition is to, in a 建設的な spirit, make 進歩 on the questions that Turkey has raised.'

Linde 追加するd that there should be no 疑問s that Sweden stood together with 同盟（する）s against テロ行為.

'We take Turkey's 安全 very 本気で and we will as a 北大西洋条約機構 member 与える／捧げる to 安全 for all 北大西洋条約機構 members, Turkey 含むd,' she told a news 会議／協議会 later in the day.?

Sweden's 政府 生き残るd a no-信用／信任 投票（する） on Tuesday with the help of a 国会議員 whose 需要・要求するs for support for Kurds in Northern Syria could 複雑にする its 試みる／企てるs to join 北大西洋条約機構, all of whose members must 認可する any new entrants.

Ankara has also 攻撃する，衝突する out at Swedish 当局 for 停止（させる）ing 武器 ex ports to Turkey in 2019 as the country 開始する，打ち上げるd a 軍の 操作／手術 in northern Syria.

While not referring 直接／まっすぐに to Turkey, Linde said Swedish 会員の地位 in 北大西洋条約機構 could 'change the 条件s for 武器 輸出（する）s within our 国家の regulatory 枠組み'.

US and Swedish 軍隊／機動隊s 避難させる a 負傷させるd comrade on a ヘリコプター as they take part of a war 模擬実験／偽ること, June 9

US and Swedish 軍隊／機動隊s 避難させる a 負傷させるd comrade on a ヘリコプター as they take part of a war 模擬実験／偽ること, June 9

US 軍隊／機動隊s on Gotland beach に引き続いて 水陸両性の 上陸 演習, part of BALTOPS 年次の Baltic Sea 軍の 演習 in Tofta, Gotland, Sweden on Wednesday, June 7

A US 海洋 is seen 船内に a 軍の armoured 乗り物 as US and Swedish 軍隊／機動隊s 参加する a war 模擬実験／偽ること, June 9?

A 軍の 戦車／タンク 運動s through the Endre village as US and Swedish 軍隊／機動隊s 参加する a war 模擬実験／偽ること, June 9

The 大臣 said 会談 between 代表者／国会議員s of Sweden, Finland, Turkey and 北大西洋条約機構 were 存在 held in a 建設的な spirit. Asked at the news 会議／協議会 in what way 会談 were 建設的な she replied: 'They are not called off.'

She said she had been very surprised by Turkey's 反対s, which were first 発言する／表明するd 公然と すぐに after 使用／適用s were 手渡すd in.

'We had had 会談 (before) with Turkey where they had said that 'we certainly have 見解（をとる）s on さまざまな thing s that we can discuss where we aren't of the same opinion, but we welcome Sweden and Finland',' she said.?

一方／合間, speaking at the Copenhagen 僕主主義 首脳会議 on Friday, 北大西洋条約機構's 副 長，指導者 said he sees no 即座の 軍の 脅し to Sweden and Finland from Russia and is 確信して that the aspiring 北大西洋条約機構 members will join the 同盟 にもかかわらず Turkey's 反対s.?

An 航空 Boatswains Mate (底（に届く）) signals to the 操縦するs of the MV-22 Osprey 強襲，強姦 support 航空機, 割り当てるd to the 22nd 海洋 Expeditionary 部隊, as it approaches to land on the flight deck of the Wasp-class 水陸両性の 強襲，強姦 ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) on June 7

The USS Porter (L) and the Wasp-class 水陸両性の 強襲，強姦 ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) are pictured on June 6, 2022, during the BALTOPS 22 演習 in the Baltic Sea

航空 Bo atswains Mates work on the UH-1Y Venom 公共事業（料金）／有用性 ヘリコプター 割り当てるd to the 22nd 海洋 Expeditionary 部隊, onboard the Wasp-class 水陸両性の 強襲，強姦 ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) on June 5, 2022

The 北大西洋条約機構 軍艦 Kearsarge ARG-22 MEU is seen ドッキングする／減らす／ドックに入れるd on June 4, 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden

'We are 確信して that Sweden and Finland will join our 階級s,' 副 長官-General Mircea Geoana said. '同盟（する）s have 関心s. And Turkey has some 関心s that are 合法的 when it comes to テロリストs,' he 追加するd.

Sweden and Finland have said they 非難する テロ行為 and are open to 対話.

Asked about 安全 保証（人）s 供給するd to Sweden and Finland in the period up until they become 十分な-育てる／巣立つd members of 北大西洋条約機構, Geoana said he did not see any real 危険 to the countries from Russia.?

'We don't see 調印するs from Russia of having the 能力s or 意向 at this point to be 積極的な in 軍の 条件 against these two 候補者 countries,' he said.

'We can 扱う／治療する this period with 警告を与える in a proactive way, but we don't see real 危険s from a 伝統的な 軍の 見地 for Finland and Sweden.'

Finland said on Thursday it 計画（する）s to 修正する 国境 法律制定 to 許す the building of 障壁s on its eastern frontier with Russia in a move to 強化する preparedness against hybrid 脅しs.