NATO vs Russia: Why Germany Just Sent Troops to Gotland 🇩🇪🇸🇪

Описание: In September, more than 500 German soldiers landed on Gotland, a Swedish island in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Since Finland and Sweden joined NATO, every Baltic country but Russia is in the alliance, and Germany's military calls Gotland "key terrain for NATO." Here's the history and the recent moves behind it.

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Sources (facts as of Sept 26, 2026): Bundeswehr Joint Force Command (Sept 17, 18, 23, 2026); Bundeswehr, 45 Armoured Brigade (Apr/May 2025); NATO Strategic Concept (June 2022); NATO, Baltic Sentry (Jan 2025) and Eastern Sentry (Sept 2025); NATO Hague Summit Declaration (June 2025); Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Aug 2022); Swedish Riksdag, Bill 2004/05:43; Swedish Armed Forces, Gotland Regiment; Lund University, Defence Studies; TASS (July 2023). The exercise used a fictional aggressor; drone and patrol markers are illustrative. Crimea is shown as part of Ukraine.

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