{"id":1509992,"date":"2022-06-09T18:34:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T22:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509992"},"modified":"2022-06-09T18:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T22:34:58","slug":"finland-plans-to-fortify-its-border-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/finland-plans-to-fortify-its-border-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland Plans To Fortify Its Border With Russia"},"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-plans-to-fortify-its-border-with-russia%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=1509992&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/finland\">Finland<\/a> took preliminary steps Thursday to fortify its 830-mile border with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\">Russia<\/a>, just weeks after applying to join NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers amended border legislation to allow for construction of barriers along its eastern border as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ukraine-russia-war\">Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/a> has Russia\u2019s neighbors increasingly nervous. The amended legislation will permit\u00a0fencing and new roads to facilitate border patrolling amid concerns Russia could flood Finland with asylum seekers as a means of applying political pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">\u201cLater on, the government will decide on border barriers to the critical zones on the eastern border, on the basis of the Finnish Border Guard\u2019s assessment,\u201d minister of internal affairs Krista Mikkonen said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Helsinki\u2019s concern that Russia could send asylum seekers to overwhelm the border, which is currently just marked with signs and plastic lines, has precedent: The European Union accused Belarus of sending a wave of migrants into Poland at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/11\/10\/world\/poland-belarus-border-migrants\">end of 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Current EU rules dictate that migrants have the right to apply for asylum at any given point of entry to an EU member state. Finland\u2019s proposed legislation would concentrate asylum seekers to a smaller number of entry points to make such a scenario more manageable.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, both Finland and Sweden applied for NATO membership after long histories of neutrality. Finland has spent the majority of the last few centuries under the Swedish and Russian empires and only gained independence in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The small Scandinavian nation fought off a Soviet invasion during the Winter War (1939-1940), but in the post-war period, the looming threat of Russian military reprisals kept it from formally aligning with the West, despite extensive cultural and economic ties.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has responded negatively to Finland\u2019s prospective NATO membership, which would expand its contentious land border with the alliance by hundreds of miles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia will be forced to take retaliatory steps, both of a military-technical and other nature, in order to stop threats to its national security arising,\u201d the\u00a0Russian Foreign Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/05\/12\/russia-threatens-retaliatory-steps-if-finland-joins-nato.html\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a statement last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland took preliminary steps Thursday to fortify its 830-mile border with Russia, just weeks after applying to join NATO. Lawmakers amended border legislation to allow for construction of barriers along its eastern border as Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has Russia\u2019s neighbors increasingly nervous. 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