"It is very politically important that you have neighboring countries as big as Finland and Sweden, and powerful as they are, in the same alliance," said Tsahkna, who previously served as Estonia's defense minister in 2016-17. The situation in northern Europe "has changed," Tsahkna said, to one more challenging for a Kremlin that now considers itself at war with the "collective West." Speaking with Newsweek on the sidelines of the Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, on Saturday, Margus Tsahkna-the leader of the liberal Estonia 200 party and a coalition partner of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas-said the accession of Finland to NATO, plus the imminent addition of Sweden to the alliance, is "tremendously important." Russia is facing a difficult military situation in northern Europe thanks to NATO's encirclement of the Baltic Sea, Estonia's foreign minister has told Newsweek, with the strategic region now effectively a "NATO lake."
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