An investigative journalist, Wayne Madsen, suggests that NATO Secretary General Rasmussen wants to bring Finland and Sweden into the organization, and the “Arctic Sea” scandal may be a way of achieving this.
“We have this jurisdictional battle now between the Finnish police and the Swedish police, and we have NATO getting involved,” Madsen says. “And maybe this is a way to embarrass these two nations because we are being told that they’ve dropped the ball.”