Boris Johnson has promised to support Sweden and Finland against potential Russian threats in any way necessary as he travelled to both countries to sign mutual security agreements, with their governments mulling Nato membership in the wake of the Ukraine invasion. Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.

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