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.
It should be noted that this agreement is completely separate from NATO.
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.
Both Finland and Sweden are in Russia’s crosshairs for joining NATO.
I feel like they were in their crosshairs regardless.
At this point it just feels like a layup on Putin lol
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.
BRICS isn’t going to happen Gretchen, stop trying to make BRICS happen.
I’m not going to pretend I know what BRICS is.
I am very much against really almost any kind of warfare. That said, ahem, Suck It, Russia!!
The best defense against war is the ever-present threat of overwhelming retaliation.
The best way to prevent war is to have extremely deadly force on display, with the implicit promise of punishment to anyone who attacks.
We should give a whole bunch of nukes to them also Ukraine also Poland. Just like so many and with ways to deliver them. Then Biden should take selfies with the nukes in storage there and have them emailed to Putin while Biden eats an ice cream cone.
Poland yes and Ukraine as soon as there’s peace there. I don’t know how I feel deploying nukes into an already-active warzone.
Nukes make more sense to me when it’s quiet. Of course if you put a nuke in Ukraine, it’s sort of like defining the wall in Go. All the play has to now avoid that line. So maybe immediate nuclear deployment in Ukraine could work. I just don’t know. Haven’t thought it through.
So, Ukraine should give up?
No, Russia should
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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Astrologists proclaim the week of great geopolitical victories and news from Russia about how Finland should beware
Which mob stack grows?
Propaganda tier
