NATO’s newest member, Finland, has announced it will sign a bilateral defence cooperation agreement next week with the United States.
The deal will allow Washington to station troops and store weapons inside the Nordic country, which shares a sprawling border with Russia.
Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen told a news conference in Helsinki on Thursday that Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen will sign the so-called Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) on Monday.
It should be noted that this agreement is completely separate from NATO.
Technically yes, but in practice the goal is to make the practical arrangements implementing of Article 5 security quarantees possible. There is not much use of NATO support, if alliance forces can’t operate in Finland in a practical way.
I am sure there are new operational agreements of similar nature will be made between Finland and Sweden as well as Finland and Estonia. That said, there is already a significant degree of defence cooperation between Finland and Sweden.
Finland is also already part of the british led JEF, and I would be surprised if the Nato framework would not change the nature of that cooperation.
Both Finland and Sweden are in Russia’s crosshairs for joining NATO.
I feel like they were in their crosshairs regardless.
At this point it just feels like a layup on Putin lol
Yeah, almost like a massive web of mutual defense treaties…where have i heard that one before? oh BTW Russia, India, Brazil for some fucking reason, and some other asian countries have a mutual defense agreement.
BRICS isn’t going to happen Gretchen, stop trying to make BRICS happen.
I’m not going to pretend I know what BRICS is.