President: Finland Will Join NATO by July

Re:President: Finland Will Join NATO by July – Yle Uutiset by sorokod on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:43PM (#34767368)

Finland and Sweden are keen to join Nato. What is their motivation in your opinion?

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Re:President: Finland Will Join NATO by July – Yle Uutiset by purututu on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:15AM (#34775426)

I'd love to know the reason why they want to join! I would assume through some sort of pressure, but I am only guessing now.

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Re:President: Finland Will Join NATO by July – Yle Uutiset by gus_massa on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:36PM (#34780024)

I don't discard pressure because Americans do that all the time.

Anyway, for Finland, they lost 9% of their territory in 1940 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War and they may be afraid of other invasion.

For Sweden I have no idea. But after playing a Risk-like game with ships for too many years while I was young, I think that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland is a nice place.

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Re:President: Finland Will Join NATO by July – Yle Uutiset by purututu on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:20AM (#34801654)

Valid reasons! What alternative however could they consider to NATO? So to protect their own interests, Sweden's and Finland's, they need to join a, to my eyes, warmongering organization.

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