Don't Call the Baltic a 'NATO Lake'
Sweden and Finland's decision to join NATO is truly a big deal, and both their application and their likely admission are indeed worthy of being called a sea change - or Zeitenwende - in terms of security policy. The process, however, has been accompanied by an improper attribution: the idea of the Baltic Sea becoming a ‘NATO lake' on Sweden and Finland's accession has been mentioned extensively, be it in international