Posted on 04/13/2022 6:31:25 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Finland will make a decision about whether to apply to join the 30-member NATO alliance in the next few weeks, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Wednesday.
Until now, Finland and fellow Nordic state and neighbor Sweden have shied away from joining NATO, the US-led alliance founded in 1949 to counter the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
But Russia's invasion of Ukraine has forced an urgent rethink.
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Hasn’t Russia already threatened Finland that they better not?
Timing is everything. The quicker they establish a fact, as opposed to speculation, the safer they’ll be as it will reduce the time that Russia has to take any action. When I say Russia, I mean Putin, as there really is no “Russia.” It’s just one guy and this is the most dangerous situation the world has been in for decades. The Soviet Union was never “just one guy.” Any decision was made by the Politburo. Thus, it was unlikely that group would make a decision that was off the wall crazy. But reduce the decision making of just one guy and you can’t avoid off the wall crazy if he’s crazy and we simply don’t know how far over the edge he may, or may not be.
It’s funny how the ‘doomsday clock’ was moved way up with Trump and there weren’t any problems. But now, with all this going on, no news at all. FAS and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists are nothing but political noise.
I think Russia is about to get the Finish finger.
But if I were Finland, I’d keep quite about it, until it was done. And I’d try to get those 64 F-35’s delivered, before I went public.
Don’t forget the SAMs, Patriot systems, hardened bunkers, and whole bunch of ATGMs.
The Finlandization of Finland is finished!
Sweden will follow Finland’s decision.
Those threats may be why the decision is coming sooner. Not the reaction Moscow wanted.
Russian Victory Day on May 9th would be a great day for the Finns to announce their desire to join NATO.
Yes they have.
I think that’s the plan.
A dumb, provocative decision if ends up happening.
There is coming a day when Russia will nuke the US. The US won’t even get off a retaliatory shot. Then Europe will just surrender to Russia.
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