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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.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It should be noted that this agreement is completely separate from NATO.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Both Finland and Sweden are in Russia's crosshairs for joining NATO.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I feel like they were in their crosshairs regardless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At this point it just feels like a layup on Putin lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

BRICS isn't going to happen Gretchen, stop trying to make BRICS happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I'm not going to pretend I know what BRICS is.