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Finland set to join NATO
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mahnmutFinal holdout Turkey has given approval and Finland is set to join NATO. I feel sure some of our pro-Putin posters assured us this wouldn't happen.
Well done Vladimir Putin. Having started a war claiming it was about stopping NATO expansion he has succeeded in driving a nation that had been neutral since WW2 and is known for being fiercly independent into the arms of NATO. It is not that many years ago that only 18% of Finns wanted to join NATO, now that figure is closer to 90% and it is all down to Vlad and his stalled invasion.
Russia's border with NATO just got a LOT longer and the strategically important Kola Penninsula can be more easily disrupted in the event of conflict and the maritime approaches to Leningrad will be even more vulnerable. Oops! Bit of an own goal there.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65132527
Hopefully once Turkey's election is over Sweden will join Finland and further strengthen NATO. Maybe Ukraine will get some nice Grippen fighters to mark the occasion.
Well done Vladimir Putin. Having started a war claiming it was about stopping NATO expansion he has succeeded in driving a nation that had been neutral since WW2 and is known for being fiercly independent into the arms of NATO. It is not that many years ago that only 18% of Finns wanted to join NATO, now that figure is closer to 90% and it is all down to Vlad and his stalled invasion.
Russia's border with NATO just got a LOT longer and the strategically important Kola Penninsula can be more easily disrupted in the event of conflict and the maritime approaches to Leningrad will be even more vulnerable. Oops! Bit of an own goal there.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65132527
Hopefully once Turkey's election is over Sweden will join Finland and further strengthen NATO. Maybe Ukraine will get some nice Grippen fighters to mark the occasion.
