{"id":41809,"date":"2024-03-11T13:49:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=41809"},"modified":"2024-03-11T13:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:49:05","slug":"sweden-now-nato-member-means-putins-ukraine-war-strategy-has-failed-nato-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/03\/11\/sweden-now-nato-member-means-putins-ukraine-war-strategy-has-failed-nato-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden now NATO member means Putin&#8217;s Ukraine war strategy has failed &#8211; NATO Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nato\u2019s secretary general,\u00a0<strong>Jens Stoltenberg<\/strong>, said that\u00a0Sweden\u2019s accession to the alliance\u00a0shows Vladimir Putin \u201cfailed\u201d in his Ukrainian war strategy of weakening it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kremlin\u2019s invasion not only prompted formerly non-aligned nations Sweden and Finland to come under Nato\u2019s defence umbrella, but now \u201cUkraine is closer to Nato membership than ever before,\u201d Stoltenberg said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His comments, made next to Sweden\u2019s prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, came just before Sweden\u2019s flag was to be run up a flagpole outside Nato\u2019s Brussels headquarters in a ceremony sealing Sweden becoming the alliance\u2019s 32nd member country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen President Putin launched his full-scale invasion two years ago, he wanted less Nato and more control over his neighbours. He wanted to destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state, but he failed,\u201d Stoltenberg was quoted by AFP as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nato\u2019s secretary general,\u00a0Jens Stoltenberg, said that\u00a0Sweden\u2019s accession to the alliance\u00a0shows Vladimir Putin \u201cfailed\u201d in his Ukrainian war strategy of weakening it. The Kremlin\u2019s invasion not only prompted formerly non-aligned nations Sweden and Finland to come under Nato\u2019s defence umbrella, but now \u201cUkraine is closer to Nato membership than ever before,\u201d Stoltenberg said. His comments, made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6728,1904,5335,5252,9907,1152,12085,4802,3805,6242,3174,71,3457,1378,5180,5521,5555,694,5251],"class_list":["post-41809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-alliance","tag-brussels","tag-finland","tag-invasion","tag-jens-stoltenberg","tag-kremlin","tag-nations","tag-nato","tag-president","tag-president-putin","tag-prime-minister","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-sweden","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukrainian","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41811,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41809\/revisions\/41811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}