Over the last several years, Russian analysts and commentators have talked about islands in the Baltic Sea – Gotland, the Aaland Island and Bornholm – and in particular two archipelagos in the North Atlantic – Denmark’s Faroes and Norway’s Svalbard as possible targets of future Russian moves against the West.

Russian writers have devoted especial attention to the Faroes and Svalbard because while they belong to two NATO countries, they have special legal regimes, the first a 1920 treaty which gives signatories the right to engage in economic activity there and the second because of an arrangement by which the Faroes are not always subject to EU arrangements.

(For background on these two objects of such interest, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/12/with-trump-again-talking-about.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/12/moscow-promises-response-to-faroe.html for the Faroes........

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