In this week’s episode we speak to leading Swedish defence expert Joakim Paasikivi.
In a conversation with The Local's Nordic editor Richard Orange, the retired lieutenant colonel talks about tensions in the Baltic Sea, possible intelligence smokescreens on suspected Russian hybrid warfare, Donald Trump’s sabre rattling on Greenland, and the prospect of a peace deal in Ukraine.
Speaking after Sweden seized a ship suspected of damaging a data cable in the Baltic Sea, Paasikivi belives Swedish authorities are sending a message to Russia that the costs of causing damage in the Baltic are increasing:
"I think that we're starting, in a better way, to lay the entire jigsaw puzzle," he says.
"We have to connect this to, what I believe at least, is Russian hybrid warfare, which is in all domains from space, cyber, air, ground, sea and subsea, in order to see what are the possible desired effects from Russia. And how do we counteract these?
"And I think that the latest decisive acts by the Swedish authorities are very good because, as the police say, they do send a message."
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