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Re:Sweden starts largest military exercise in over 25 years by actionfromafar on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:42PM (#35608124)
Finland finally took a stand, how can it not be relevant? Russia gaining a huge NATO border. Finland and Sweden has always coordinated their defense. Sweden has top notch Air Force and great submarines in the Baltic Sea. Finland has thousands of modern artillery pieces. Russia can't lean on Finland anymore. Finland didn't want to join NATO for fear of provoking the "Bear".

If this is not a ripple in northern geopolitics, I don't know what is. I'll give you that it currently isn't as important if Sweden joins or not. Erdogan made the impossible possible - having Finland join before Sweden.

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Re:Sweden starts largest military exercise in over 25 years by pphysch on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:10PM (#35617619)
Finland joined the EU almost 3 decades ago, despite Helsinki being only 300km from St Petersburg.

The standard for Russian satellite state is Belarus, not Finland.

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Re:Sweden starts largest military exercise in over 25 years by actionfromafar on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:00AM (#35625583)
Nobody implied Finland is or was a satellite state. In fact, it's balancing act was so striking, it got its own name: Finlandisation. I'm sorry, I just lost faith in your honesty.
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