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2022-04-05 International-UN-NGOs

Finland will decide whether to join NATO within weeks in reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite Moscow threats of retaliation

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Remember 11/30/1939 by any chance?

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-05 06:47|| 2022-04-05 06:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Russia's invasion pretty much guaranteed Finland would join and made Sweden's odds almost 50/50.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-05 08:56|| 2022-04-05 08:56|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Sweden is quietly working out behind-the scenes with their various political factions when and how - the 'if' has already been decided. Putin's harassment and the 'nuclear' intercept a week or two back did in thirty days what seventy-five years of NATO offers couldn't do.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-04-05 10:30|| 2022-04-05 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 The Rooskies and the Swedes surely have some score to settle from way back when.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-04-05 10:41|| 2022-04-05 10:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Great, more indefensible territory.

I thought NATO was supposed to be a *defensive* alliance. You don't defend anything by marching right up to the borders of a state.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-04-05 12:46|| 2022-04-05 12:46|| Front Page Top

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