Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Putin’s aggression in Ukraine has been a spectacular blunder. It has drawn NATO allies closer and induced European members to step up their own defense spending and wean themselves from Russia oil.
last week that the “open door” to NATO membership might now become a busy thoroughfare: “Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, speaking Wednesday in Stockholm in a joint news conference with her Swedish counterpart Magdalena Andersson, said Finland is ready to make a decision on NATO ‘within weeks’ rather than months following an extensive debate in the 200-seat Eduskunta legislature.”
Marin stressed that Finland and Sweden, two neighboring Nordic countries that have close economic, political and military ties, will make independent decisions regarding their security policy arrangements, including whether to join NATO. The Post reported that the ruling Social Democratic Parties in Finland and Sweden “are expected to announce their NATO views in early and late May, respectively.
noted, “Lithuania said Russia’s threats were nothing new and that Moscow had deployed nuclear weapons to Kaliningrad long before the war in Ukraine.” The prime ministers of the Nordic countries refused to give in to Putin’s intimidation.in an interview with Business Insider: “Putin has only himself to thank. You know, I should probably be grateful to Putin, as a strong advocate of Finnish NATO membership, I was giving up hope.
Witnessing skillful leadership from the United States as well as decisive and coordinated action from NATO’s European members, Marin and Andersson recognized the new world they are living in. Rather than cower, they are now poised to defy Putin, enhance their nations’ security and add to the list of Putin’s calamitous failures as a result of his war.
For standing up to Putin’s bullying and making common cause with Western democracies, we can say, well done, Prime Ministers Marin and Andersson.
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