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Sweden and Finland join Nato's biggest military exercise in decades
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68535762
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
It’s the alliance’s largest since the end of the Cold War, involving 90,000 military personnel and taking place right across Europe’s eastern flank over the next few months.
Steadfast Defender is also the first test of Nato’s new military plans - designed to move troops and equipment at speed and scale to bolster any ally under attack.
Donald Trump may have called that into question, but America remains the backbone of that pledge and has committed huge resources to prove it.
Eivor, a 21-year-old Norwegian medical student and part-time soldier, says her grandparents had to flee this same area when the Nazis invaded in World War Two.
Though in truth Finland’s membership has also brought Russia closer to Nato - with a shared border of more than 800 miles, which allies too will now have to be ready to defend.
Vice-Admiral Doug Perry, one of the senior US military chiefs overseeing the exercise, says it’s clear to him “the European continent’s already at war”.
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