>"Finland has joined the NATO military alliance. The move deals a major blow to Russia with a historic realignment of the _...Read More_

[https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/29/politics/joe-biden-nato-day-2/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/29/politics/joe-biden-nato-day-2/index.html) >"NATO formalized its invitation to Sweden and Finland to join its alliance Wednesday, a historic expansion of the defense bloc that directly undercuts Russian _...Read More_

"Finland has prepared for decades for a Russian attack and would put up stiff resistance should one occur, its armed forces chief said."

>"Putin, speaking on the 350th anniversary of Tsar Peter's birth, compared himself with the _...Read More_

"It's just as well that Turkey isn't applying for NATO membership. There's something very questionable about their motives/values."

>"Finland's government announced Sunday it will apply to join NATO, ditching decades of wartime neutrality and ignoring Russian threats of _...Read More_

>"STOCKHOLM (AP) — Turkey´s president on Monday complicated Sweden and Finland´s historic bid to join NATO, saying he cannot allow them to become members of the alliance because of their perceived inaction against exiled Kurdish _...Read More_

"Finland, who has traditionally remained neutral, has sought to join NATO, further escalating tensions with Russia."

"Finland, long known for such implacable nonalignment that “Finlandization” became synonymous with neutrality, had been signaling that Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine was giving the Finns a reason to join NATO."

Russia has slammed Finland’s plans to apply to join NATO imminently, claiming it would “be forced” to retaliate if the long-neutral country joined _...Read More_

"From what I've read and seen, the Finns have been getting ready for this the last 3 decades at least. If the Russians think this will be a walk in the park, they have no idea. They got Ukraine wrong, but this will be much, much worse."

‘Meanwhile, a recent poll by public broadcaster Yle found 53 percent of Finns now support joining NATO, a dramatic rise from merely 19 percent five years ago. And a citizens’ petition on holding a referendum on Finland’s NATO bid gathered _...Read More_

“Russia has threatened its close Arctic neighbours Sweden and Finland with 'military consequences' if they join NATO.”

Finland's Prime Minister is 36 years old, went out clubbing till 4am, left her work phone at home and was therefore unreachable to get a text telling her she needed to quarantine.

>"Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin apologized to the public on Wednesday after a photo surfaced of her in a nightclub following the foreign minister testing positive for Covid-19."