That's the news coming out of the media today.
Good? Bad?
I guess like anything else, there will be conflicting opinions. My gut feeling is that it's good. Finland's not much of a military power... but it's another border on Russia. Putin calls this a threat, which I've never understood. When was the last time anyone invaded Russia? World War II? With Hitler's ill-advised visions of world conquest? Other than that... nothing. Just Putin's madman machinations laughingly dressed up as national security. I guess Putin's threats to Finland landed on deaf ears.
On NATO's effectiveness... well Trump, for all his blowhard blustering, had made some valid points on NATO, most notably the inequality of funding among member nations. Has this been fixed to some extent? Is there any intention of leveling the playing field on this? Regardless... I think the overwhelming consensus is that NATO remains a good thing, all factors being taken into context. It's probably the only thing preventing Putin from invading other neighboring nations.
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