Finland’s Nordic neighbour Sweden, on the brink of joining NATO, signed a similar deal last week.

NATO’s newest member, Finland, has announced it will sign a bilateral defence cooperation agreement next week with the United States.

The deal will allow Washington to station troops and store weapons inside the Nordic country, which shares a sprawling border with Russia.

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen told a news conference in Helsinki on Thursday that Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen will sign the so-called Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) on Monday.

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1001·
    10 months ago

    Special thanks to Vladimir Putin for making this possible, you fascist cunt.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    181·
    10 months ago

    It should be noted that this agreement is completely separate from NATO.

    • wizzor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      Technically yes, but in practice the goal is to make the practical arrangements implementing of Article 5 security quarantees possible. There is not much use of NATO support, if alliance forces can’t operate in Finland in a practical way.

      I am sure there are new operational agreements of similar nature will be made between Finland and Sweden as well as Finland and Estonia. That said, there is already a significant degree of defence cooperation between Finland and Sweden.

      Finland is also already part of the british led JEF, and I would be surprised if the Nato framework would not change the nature of that cooperation.

      • Sagifurius@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, almost like a massive web of mutual defense treaties…where have i heard that one before? oh BTW Russia, India, Brazil for some fucking reason, and some other asian countries have a mutual defense agreement.

  • lad@programming.devEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    Astrologists proclaim the week of great geopolitical victories and news from Russia about how Finland should beware

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    169·
    10 months ago

    Fuck it, let Ukraine join. Its at the point where we’re complicit in all this. Why the fuck hasn’t Interpol arrested his progeny for the time being and leverage the fuck out of them (in the most civil fashion)?

    ’ Be a real goddamn shame if they were to be

    1. Stripped penniless + “personal assets” converted into numerically exact number of Rubble(s)— minus conversion feez and preferably smouldering and to be withheld indefinitely via escrow (maybe the Swiss can help with this…)

    2. If unarrestable/undetainable, Qatartined to a shitty wasteland like fucking USSR empire or some shitty desert hellhole where they’ll be put in their place (only Russia altho we know there’ll be boot-self-Sodomizers) 🙄

    3. Actually positive for the girlz if they have “Daddy” issues (like Daddy is implicating me to guilt by association a d maybe won’t let me leave to live a seperate, peaceful life

    4. Bomb us, bomb yourself asshole

    War over, a-check fucking a-MATE!!!

    !

    Edit: Just cuz Russians are so “good” at Chess DOES NOT mean they are impervious to a bigger asshole fucking ripping the board off the table and beating them till death by anal impalement and symbolically safely neutralizing the much-implied+threatened explosive-potential by releasing all that vast worthless pent-up natural gas(ski) they sell and talk

    Edit: I kinda like the sound of QATAREENA 🤣 Fuck them,🌵oo

    • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      173·
      10 months ago

      Letting Ukraine join now would immediately trigger war between NATO and Russia. That could easily become nuclear.

      In NATO, an attack on one is an attack on all. There’s a good reason nations cannot join NATO with ongoing border disputes.

      • K[r]ukenberg@feddit.chEnglish
        31·
        10 months ago

        There’s a good reason nations cannot join NATO with ongoing border disputes.

        Good thing Greece and Turkey are BFFs.

      • no banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        Tbf Ukraine could be let in with the current conflict as it stands the day they become members. What that would probably do is freeze the conflict. But you’re right that it may also escalate it. I don’t know if that is a risk worth taking, to anyone.

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
        45·
        10 months ago

        There’s exceptions to every rule, including no exceptions. Russia is banking on US (both us and the United States) to facilely play by “the rules” and keep letting Hitler (noun) Hitler (verb)

        That’s on us, we should be so lucky to further box in Russia till they get alternative leadership with a new vision

        They’re not gonna bomb shit, that would take away any remaining leverage and is essentially akin to reifying Pascal’s wager at the nation state level and the SOOOOO not rhetorical realm in which bullies like and specifically Russia so fluorish in unopposed. And he knows how far more terrifying the loss of control that would represent and gurantee for him.

        We need to stop playing by Putinz/our rules and throw the fucking rulebook at him. Set a precedent that NATO will pull up its goddamn big girl panties and plug the fucking bloodshed regardless of the soverignty of whatever orifice from which it orginates

        Everybody needs to stop appeasing and take control. He can’t KGB or dirty-trix his way out of this, we have to realize we’re an elephant on a leash spun of imaginary silk and we are very much violently allergic such substance

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Finland’s Nordic neighbour Sweden, on the brink of joining NATO, signed a similar deal last week.

    NATO’s newest member, Finland, has announced it will sign a bilateral defence cooperation agreement next week with the United States.

    The deal will allow Washington to station troops and store weapons inside the Nordic country, which shares a sprawling border with Russia.

    Finland joined NATO in April after decades of military non-alignment, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

    Under the deal, Finland will allow US soldiers access to 15 military areas and facilities covering the entire Nordic nation.

    Last week, Finland’s close Nordic neighbour Sweden, which is on the brink of joining NATO, signed a comparable deal.

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