Less than two weeks after visiting the Swedish city of Gothenburg, where I had the chance to observe perceptions of NATO from Scandinavia’s largest port on the North Sea, I found myself in the Baltic port of Riga. The contrast was striking – the medieval setting and apparent calmness of Riga is very different from […]
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