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.

  • 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