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@schizoidman
There is Finland, a country that was committed to neutrality since WWII. Then, in 2023, it joined Nato, and now this. I am wondering why this is?
Isn't it obvious?
edit: damn, a troll just used the same line in a related matter. I am not a troll so I better explain:
Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This was perceived as a threat to Europe as a whole, and rightly so. There, that is why shortly thereafter Finland (and Sweden) joined NATO and has been ramping up its defenses. Not that they weren't aware of the threat from the East before that.
Sometimes it's hard to portray satire and sarcasm over the web. Just look at OP's post history, their contributions have all the same anti-European, pro-China/pro-Russia spin.
My question was rhetorical, I apologize for the confusion ;-)
Neutrality was always a gamble that 'they' won't go after you next. Alliances were always a gamble that you would be sucked in eventually anyway (or that by losing a major partner your life would be worse even if they don't come)
sweden played neutrality after wwii but had private assurance from various nato powers that if anything happened they would be there, but neutrality was better for nato. (We fortunatly have no idea if those promises meant anything)
Finland's "neutrality" was very different from Swedens.
To put it very shortly:
And there was concrete reason for that, the SU had Finland by the balls, or at least by one ball, but I don't remember right now why or how exactly that was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland-NATO_relations