Russian neighbor Finland announces it wants to join NATO

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BREAKING: Finland’s president and government have announced that the Nordic country intends to apply for membership in NATO, paving the way for the 30-member Western military alliance to expand amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.

is again being discussed despite dire warnings from Moscow about the consequences if its neighbor becomes part of NATO.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said her country and others made clear during a dinner late Saturday that they would be willing to fast-track the national ratification process for Finland and Sweden.Denmark’s foreign minister dismissed suggestions thatcould hinder the alliance from letting in new members.

“We see now a world where the enemy of democracy number one is Putin and the thinking that he represents,” he said, adding that NATO would also stand with other countries, such as Georgia, which he said were being “instrumentalized” by Russia. Britain’s top diplomat said NATO members would also discuss security issues beyond Europe during their meeting Sunday — a reference to growing unease among democratic nations about the rise of China.

 

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It's all well and good that Finland wants this but the NATO memebers have to approve it. Turkey has already said they will blackmail the other members for them to pay for thier vote.

Go Russia 🇷🇺, we can use the added company in our little group. THANKS

Death cult…Out if control!

Fanning the flames of WWIII.

A broadening European conflict should not be considered a positive move.

Good luck to Finland and to the European mainland. While the Americans sit comfortably a continent away.

Trump called Putin a genius. No wonder he's failing so badly

Breaking: CNN purchases pay-per-view streaming rights to broadcast WWIII

Just talk so far. Do it!

The very thing that Putin went to war to stop, is actually now happening all because of his own actions....one hell of a self own.

Now is the time to do it! We can’t wait until another Putin shows up on the scene.This should include Ukraine! We can’t exclude Ukraine from being a part of the NATO alliance after making it possible for others to join & for NATO to be strengthened at a great cost to Ukraine!

I think it’s interesting that we more or less created the entity the Nazis wanted to create it’s just there to fight Russia though which is pretty much Florida with nuclear weapons.

Good news. Just a matter of time before Russia wants to join.

Great news. It rightly tells Russia to go fuck themselves.

Finland, Sverige and NATO Good, they will be able to 'export democracy' in the mondo bombing and occupying sovereign states. Killing women and children without being offending from any court of the Aja. Excellent choice👍

Check their financial statements!

The West is on a death spiral by taking decisions to spite Moscow which eventually comes back to hit them. The impact of these sanctions that were supposedly meant to hurt Russia is like lifting a huge stone to throw at the enemy but ending up dropping it on your own two feet.

The world as we know it would still be over if WW3 erupted tomorrow. We can only die once, regardless of how big the alliance is.

That’s how you beg for WW3…

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