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Soldiers, military equipment and roads in the Arctic: What Finland brings to NATO allies

2023-04-02 15:07:03Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Soldiers, military equipment and roads in the Arctic: What Finland brings to
What does Finland bring to NATO allies?

The Parliament of Turkey approved three days ago the entry of the Scandinavian country into the Atlantic Pact. Now there will be over 1300 kilometers of new borders with Russia.

Joe Biden sees it this way: "Putin thought NATO was being finnished, on the contrary."

The US president's joke, one of his favorites, dates back to last summer.

The rapprochement process took longer than expected, but two days ago the Turkish parliament also gave the "green light" to Helsinki.

Then it will be Sweden's time. At that point, the Baltic Sea will become a large space dominated by the Atlantic Alliance.

And this is perhaps the most glaring miscalculation of the Kremlin's number one.

Until now the cruisers, submarines part of the "Northern Fleet", based in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave split between Poland and Lithuania, have moved more or less freely, disturbing, indeed at best, harassing the traffic of the two neutral nations. of Europe.

From now on, NATO radars, satellites, spy systems, as well as US warships, will guard Europe's last free zone.

It will also have ramifications for the balance in the far north, in the Arctic, where melting ice is opening up new communication routes and sparking a heated international competition to search for underwater gas fields.

Russia is one of eight countries bordering the polar cap; the other seven are all part of the transatlantic alliance: the US, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Denmark and, of course, Sweden and Finland.

It is easy to imagine who will find the upper hand in the battle for military hegemony, which will inevitably accompany economic and commercial competition.

But the impact will also be deep on the ground. Finland shares a 1,340-kilometer border with its "heavy" neighbor.

For years it was one of the most distant frontiers of the Old Continent, with an intense movement of goods and people, as well as cultural exchanges.

Now the social democratic prime minister, Sanna Marin wants to build a wall along 260 kilometers unprotected by rivers, lakes or forests.

And then there is the military. And this is where accounting becomes disastrous for Putin.

Finnish governments have cultivated a system of 'dubious neutrality'. Many NATO members have removed conscription. Finland does not.

The Alliance's general command in Brussels is now able to mobilize around 40,000 soldiers within days.

The goal is to quickly reach 300,000. Helsinki, in case of emergency, can immediately deploy an army of 280,000 units, consisting of super-trained departments, with the most advanced technological equipment and, above all, able to integrate with the formations of other NATO countries (eg – called “interoperability”).

Of course, it is no coincidence that the United States of America enthusiastically welcomed the decision of the Finns.

The new European alliance will not be a burden for NATO. Rather, they will make a net contribution, in terms of resources and military assets.

Moreover, Finland is one of the best customers of the American war industry.

In December 2021, just to give an example, Sanna Marin's government ordered 64 F-35 fighter jets from the multinational company, Lockheed Martin.


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