What Will Finland Bring to NATO? A Warographics Analysis
Simon Whistler · April 27, 2023 · 21 min video · Europe & NATO
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One of his stated goals was to halt the eastward expansion of NATO, to ensure that no other European country would ever again seek shelter beneath the Alliance's nuclear umbrella. Instead, his unprovoked war achieved the exact opposite. On the 4th of April, 2023, NATO officially welcomed Finland as its 31st member.
With a handing-over of documents and raising of the Finnish flag, the Kremlin suddenly found itself with an extra 1,300 kilometers of NATO territory on its border. The Alliance's largest physical expansion since 2004. In a couple of weeks since, endless articles have been written about Putin's grand strategic failure.
Yet it's not just thanks to geography that Finland's accession has been such a failure for Moscow. It's also thanks to Helsinki's fielding one of the best militaries in Europe. Despite having a population of just 5.54 million, Finland's army is high-tech, experienced, and capable of quickly calling up over a quarter million troops.
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