Finland formally joined NATO on Tuesday, its flag unfurling outside the military bloc’s Brussels headquarters, in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that drew a threat from Moscow of “counter-measures.”
The post-Cold War perpetuation and expansion of NATO is an agenda that is as dumb as it unnecessary. Russia and Finland have not posed a serious threat to each other in decades. Now Finland has joined an anti-Russia military alliance that is at war with Russia. Finland now poses a threat to Russia. Now, Russia will have to pose a threat to Finland. None of this makes Finland or NATO safer. None of this helps the world in any way.