The Finnish government’s report on security policy on Wednesday has been widely reported in the West. Russia’s reaction is thought-provoking, but Russia is urged to look in the mirror.
Finland’s and Sweden’s reflections on NATO membership have been prominently featured in the European and US media today, Wednesday, when the Finnish government published its security policy report and the Prime Minister Sanna Marin visited Sweden.
– However, it is not expected that Moscow will sacrifice the idea that its own behavior will cause a fundamental change in the countries’ security policy, writes a reporter at the Frankfurter Allgemeine. Peter Sturm.
Sturm notes that by attacking Ukraine, Russia is getting exactly what it wanted to avoid: more NATO.
– Instead of being able to crush Ukrainian nationalism, Putin confirmed it. Instead of weakening the transatlantic alliance, he solidified it. Instead of dividing NATO and blocking its growth, he united it, the magazine writes.
Now the attack has driven previously non-aligned countries into the arms of NATO, The New York Times continues.
– The paradox is that the homeland of Finnishization ends up joining NATO and bringing the Western Union to the Russian border where Putin did not expect it.
“Russia should be considered a provocation”
“Looks like Marin gets what he wants”
– When the Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin came to meet her Swedish colleague on Wednesday, the message expressed in the language of diplomacy was clear: Now we are going to NATO, together, Barth-Kron explains.
– Everything suggests that he gets what he wants, Barth-Kron says.
– Wednesday’s message about Finland can be seen as saying yes to NATO, Knutson estimates.
He believes that Finland will end up saying yes to NATO, and as a result, Sweden will do the same.