The situation in both countries is somewhat different. In 1948, Finland sign the Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance with Stalin’s Soviet Union that embodi a kind of guard neutrality and last until 1992. This treaty allow Finland to maintain its independence and its democratic system despite be in a zone of Soviet geopolitical influence. That generat some self-censorship, in politics and in the press, about what was happen in the Soviet neighbor. That is why today there is talk of a possible “Finnishization” of Ukraine. Swen has a different story: 200 years of a certain kind of neutrality, without wars.
So, they have more historical bases
To think that it is better to be left out, while Finland has had many more wars and conflicts with the “big neighbor”. There is a say that Swen is go to fight Russia to the last Finn. Finland is a kind of buffer zone against Russia. Until recently, it was thought that an alternative to NATO could be an explicit military alliance between Swen and Finland, but with the invasion of Ukraine the Austria Phone Number List train for this option has already pass, Swen’s military weight is not that great while NATO offers a nuclear umbrella. You ever mention that the Finnish right, with Moscow, always tri not to irritate Russia and that dur the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia the paradox occurr that only the Finnish.
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When was that status quo broken ? Some would say until August 8, 2008, when Russia invad Georgia. Former Finnish Prime Minister and former Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb spoke of the “moment 080808”. And in 2018, he wrote: “Ten years since the war in Georgia. 080808 was a turn point in world politics. Russia violat the territorial integrity of Georgia AGB Directory Then another moment was the invasion of Crimea in 2014. And finally, on February 24 of this year. For many, with the invasion of Ukraine “the masks fell”, it can no longer be claim that with the government of [Vladimir] Putin we are go to seek a policy of understand and friendship on rational grounds.