The only way Finland and Sweden could get protection from Russian nuclear blackmail was to join Nato.
Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson hailed a 'very good agreement' with Turkey to back Swedish and Finnish membership in NATO. Photo: AFP/Turkish Presidential Press Service/Murat Cetin Muhurdar
They are small countries that Russia could eventually overwhelm by sheer numbers, but they are rich and the Finns, at least, reckon that their well-trained armed forces could make a Russian conquest slow and expensive.Then suddenly, it wasn’t.The two Baltic countries have no nukes of their own and now President Vladimir Putin and his enablers hint at nuclear strikes every time anything goes wrong with his war.
There have, of course, been the usual warnings from the usual sources that letting Sweden and Finland into Nato will make the Russians even more paranoid and therefore even more prone to attack their neighbours.The Russians are indeed paranoid, but that is a state of being, not a response to some particular act they interpret as aggressive.
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