Sweden Deploys Troops and Gripens to Finland to Reinforce NATO's Northern Flank

✈️ NORDIC — Sweden sends troops to Finland; Russia notices who's home. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Stockholm responds to Helsinki's formal request — institutionalizing bilateral defense as NATO reflex. With Patriot stocks drained by the Iran war and Russia naming UK sites as strike targets, physical presence fills gaps hardware can't. Gripen coverage extends the northern detection layer without drawing missile reserves already at critical floor.