{"id":1475879,"date":"2022-05-15T12:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475879"},"modified":"2022-05-15T12:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:44:41","slug":"finland-moves-to-join-nato-despite-russian-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/finland-moves-to-join-nato-despite-russian-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland Moves To Join NATO, Despite Russian Warnings"},"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\">16<\/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-moves-to-join-nato-despite-russian-warnings%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=1475879&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1240595843.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kremlin\">Finland<\/a> formally declared its desire to join NATO in a move likely to enrage the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kremlin\">Kremlin<\/a> and which comes as Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine appears to be faltering.<\/p>\n<p>President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin made the announcement during a joint news conference in Helsinki. The long-neutral nation shares an 830-mile-long border with Russia, which has spooked neighboring nations with its attack on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a historic day,\u201d Niinsto said. \u201cA new era begins.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Finland confirms it is applying to join NATO to &#8216;maximise&#8217; country&#8217;s security  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nC6smAsGxI\">https:\/\/t.co\/nC6smAsGxI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1525781902157824000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A formal application to the Brussels-based defensive alliance could come as soon as next week, once the Finnish Parliament ratifies the decision. The move is both an affirmation of the western world\u2019s condemnation of Moscow\u2019s invasion and evidence non-NATO countries believe they may need protection from a bellicose Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe brutal invasion (by) Russia is losing momentum,\u201d NATO Deputy-Secretary General Mircea Geoana told reporters Sunday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"leader-plus-outstream-middle\" class=\"ad-leader-plus-outstream-middle ad-wrapper\" data-ad=\"leader-plus-outstream-middle\" data-ad-unit=\"\" leader-plus-outstream-middle>\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/8264\/aw-cbsnews\/world_1__container__\">\n<p>Sweden has also expressed interest in joining NATO. The countries have long been seen as partners, or allies, of the 30-member alliance, though not full members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinland and Sweden are already the closest partners of NATO,\u201d Geoana said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-leader-plus-inc ad-wrapper\" data-ad=\"leader-plus-inc\" data-ad-unit=\"[\" leader-plus-inc>\n<p>Norway, another Nordic nation, is already a NATO member. Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt said Finland\u2019s desire to join NATO was a \u201ca turning point\u201d for the region\u2019s long-term security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinnish membership in NATO will be good for Finland, good for the Nordic region, and good for NATO. Finland has Norway\u2019s full support,\u201d Huitfeldt told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Huitfeldt said the Norwegian government will support \u201ca swift consent to ratification by the Norwegian Parliament\u201d for Finland\u2019s accession into NATO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now seeing unprecedented unity in NATO. With the Finnish membership, we will further strengthen the Nordic flank of the military alliance,\u201d Huitfeldt said.<\/p>\n<p>German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said her country and others have agreed to fast-track the national ratification process for both Finland and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf these two countries are deciding to join, they can join very quickly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">While Putin has not specifically threatened Finland over its prospective NATO membership, the Russian foreign ministry has warned it will retaliate. Russia has already suspended supplying electrical power to Finland, which depended on its neighbor for 10% of its needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">NATO was founded in 1949 to counter the threat from the Soviet Union. Putin has complained that it is encroaching on his country, and blamed Ukraine\u2019s desire to join as one of the reasons for the ongoing invasion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland formally declared its desire to join NATO in a move likely to enrage the Kremlin and which comes as Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine appears to be faltering.President Sauli Niinisto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1480192,"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-1475879","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\/1475879","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}