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.

    • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
      151·
      11 months ago

      The best defense against war is the ever-present threat of overwhelming retaliation.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      The best way to prevent war is to have extremely deadly force on display, with the implicit promise of punishment to anyone who attacks.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          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.