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Meit Fohlin, the de facto mayor of Gotland. | Victor Jack\/POLITICO<\/p>\nFollowing the recent hybrid attacks, Meit Fohlin, the regional government chief, said she meets \u201cevery week\u201d with the coast guard, police, firefighters, army, hospital, water and energy operators to map out responses to every possible scenario \u2014 ranging from energy shortages to supply blockades to an armed attack on the local harbor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to be on top of everything,\u201d she said from her office in the island\u2019s medieval capital Visby, adding she now works with all 92 parishes on the island to instruct them on how to react to every crisis scenario.<\/p>\n
Gustafsson, the Gotland regiment chief, said he was drawing immediate lessons from the Ukrainian drone unit. \u201cI was quite surprised [by] the numbers that they actually use and face every day,\u201d he said. \u201cMy main takeaway is that we have to train with drones a lot more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meit Fohlin, the de facto mayor of Gotland. | Victor Jack\/POLITICO<\/p>\n
But given the importance of Gotland for the alliance, some capitals still say NATO could do more. The alliance should consider placing permanent long-range air defense systems on Gotland to deter Russia, said two NATO diplomats, granted anonymity to speak freely.<\/p>\n
The key is to not let Moscow take the initiative, said Claesson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should not sit on our hands and wait for this and that level of regeneration of Russian armed forces to happen,\u201d said the Swedish defense chief, \u201cbut instead be constantly on our toes and prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n
CORRECTION: This article has been updated on May 28 to correct the name of the Gotland regiment\u2019s commander. It is Andreas Gustafsson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the recent hybrid attacks, Meit Fohlin, the regional government chief, said she meets \u201cevery week\u201d with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[460,896,274,897,60,535,57,13,898,703,899,462,900,7,20,136,901,71,49,222],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-air-defense","tag-artillery","tag-baltic-sea","tag-baltics","tag-defense","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-drones","tag-eu-us-military-ties","tag-finland","tag-military-exercises","tag-missiles","tag-munitions","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-sweden","tag-tanks","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}