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#Sweden signed a defense deal with #US to allow US access to ALL military bases across Sweden and bolster #regionalSecurity.

#Swedish island of #Gotland sits < 200 mi from #Russian #Kaliningrad.

US struck similar deal with #Norway & is currently negotiating such an agreement with #Finland & #Denmark.

#Turkey is blocking Sweden from joining NATO ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

#Hungary is blocking #Ukraine’s #EUMembership ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

#InternationalDynamics

apnews.com/article/sweden-unit
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Mastodonrameshgupta (@rameshgupta@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image ⬆️ #NATO be damned, #Putin's goal is to isolate #Moldova, #Romania, & #Bulgaria at the least. And #Orban is quite happy to oblige. Putin's #RevanchistDreams ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111434739906526615 Orban's affinity toward #Russia ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111434764452759087 #Hungary sabotaging #Leyen's campaign ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111443344434314272 Balkans are stirring too ➡️ https://apnews.com/article/croatia-serbia-aleksandar-vucic-government-and-politics-cd0df2b306721ff57b342a11441c6796 #Serbia just expelled a #Croatian diplomat. Tit-for-tat is possible #Turkey is helping too ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111434739906526615 @milan_zimmermann

Pay heed to political shifts and evolving #InternationalDynamics - Part 8

#BongBong #MarcosJr of #Philippines got an “unprecedented love-bombing” from #Biden as tensions with #China rise in #AsiaPacific.

#Marcos’ predecessor, #Duterte, was openly hostile to #US and attempted to bring his country closer to #communist China.

Philippines, as #Taiwan’s neighbor to the south, would be an indispensable staging point for US military to aid Taiwan in case of a Chinese attack.

reuters.com/investigates/speci

ReutersHow the U.S. courted the Philippines to thwart ChinaAmerica needs the Philippines on its side as tensions with China rise. Reuters got inside the U.S. 'love-bombing' of its former colony.

Pay heed to political shifts and evolving #InternationalDynamics - Part 3

#Iran was fighting #proxy wars against #SaudiArabia (#KSA) since 1970s

In March 2023, #China SECRETLY brokered their #rapprochement

After newly restored relations, Iran's #Raisi & KSA's #MBS meet at a summit

#Syria's #Assad is also there in a sign of its rehabilitation among #Arabs

After Arabs' own China-brokered normalization, Assad criticized normalization between Arabs & Israel

#Hamas #Gaza
cnn.com/2023/11/11/world/iran-