{"id":1472937,"date":"2022-05-12T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472937"},"modified":"2022-05-12T11:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:00:06","slug":"finland-says-it-intends-to-join-nato-without-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/finland-says-it-intends-to-join-nato-without-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland Says It Intends To Join NATO \u2018Without Delay\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffinland-says-it-intends-to-join-nato-without-delay%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472937&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Following the announcement, Russia warned that Finland joining NATO \u201cwill cause serious damage to bilateral Russian-Finnish relations and the maintaining of stability and security in the Northern European region,\u201d BBC News reported. The country continued on to describe Finland\u2019s announcement as \u201ca radical change in the country\u2019s foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7428074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7428074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (not pictured) hold a news conference, after signing a declaration between the UK and Finland to deepen their defence and security co-operation, amid Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, at the Presidential Palace, in Helsinki, Finland, May 11, 2022. Frank Augstein\/Pool via REUTERS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cRussia will be forced to take retaliatory steps, both of a military-technical and other nature, in order to neutralize the threats to its national security that arise from this,\u201d the Russian statement read, though it did not specify what the consequences would be.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s foreign minister also noted that \u201cHelsinki must be aware of the responsibility and consequences of such a move,\u201d NBC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Finland\u2019s plan to join NATO coincides with both Russia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/24\/congress-call-sanctions-russia-invasion-ukraine\/\">continued<\/a> invasion of Ukraine and fears that Russia may move beyond Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg noted that Finland would receive a warm welcome into the alliance. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/08\/28\/trump-said-finland-and-russia-have-had-a-good-relationship-for-100-years-but-russia-invaded-finland-in-1939\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Trump Said Finland And Russia Have Had A Good Relationship, But Relations Are Frosty And Russia Has Invaded Finland)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the announcement, Russia warned that Finland joining NATO \u201cwill cause serious damage to bilateral Russian-Finnish relations and the maintaining of stability and security in the Northern European region,\u201d BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":1482725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}