By John Owen Nwachukwu The Finnish government has said that it has a strong traditional military and equipment such as their F-35s a...
By John Owen Nwachukwu
The Finnish government has said that it has a strong traditional
military and equipment such as their F-35s and so forth, but expressed worries
that it cannot match the threat posed by Russia’s nuclear weapons.
The country’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, also told CNN
that the war in Ukraine has broken Europe’s security architecture.
He spoke to CNN about the new world order few days after his
country, Finland was formally invited alongside Sweden to join the NATO.
The Minister said his country could not maintain neutrality
as Russia becomes a security threat.
“The loose talks about the nuclear weapons, the chemical
weapons, leading the world back to the Cuba missile crisis during the Cold War.
“Yes we have a strong traditional military. We have our
F-35s coming and so forth. But what if we’re threatened by unconventional
weapons?
“I really think that the European security architects has
been broken. There’s a new kind of iron wall between Russia and the other
countries.
“And of course, it’s based on Russia’s aggression against
its neighbor Ukraine,” he said, adding that the war “has changed the security
atmosphere.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has since said that his
country is not threatened, neither are they bothered about Finland and Sweden
becoming members of the NATO alliance.
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