With Helsinki on the brink of a major policy shift, the Standard looks at the impact of Finland joining Nato.
However, an anonymous Nato official told the Associated Press that the process could be expedited and completed in a “couple of weeks” as “these are not normal times”.Finland shares a 1,340km border with Russia and the two countries fought twice between 1939 and 1944.
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