{"id":260420,"date":"2022-10-27T06:09:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T06:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260420"},"modified":"2022-10-29T07:27:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T07:27:43","slug":"finland-will-allow-nato-to-place-nuclear-weapons-on-border-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260420","title":{"rendered":"Finland Will Allow NATO to Place Nuclear Weapons on Border With Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Bickerton \u2013 NEWSWEEK Oct 26, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

In a move that could risk infuriating Russia, nuclear weapons could possibly be positioned in Finland if the country’s application to join\u00a0NATO<\/a>\u00a0is approved, according to a report from a Finnish newspaper,<\/p>\n

Both Finland and Sweden submitted applications to join NATO in May, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the Helsinki-based newspaper\u00a0Iltalehti<\/em>, the bill regarding potential NATO membership the Finnish government will put before parliament doesn’t include any opt-outs for nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the paper, defense sources said Finland’s foreign and defense ministers, Pekka Haavisto and Antti Kaikkonen, gave a “commitment” to NATO in July that they wouldn’t seek “restrictions or national reservations” if Helsinki’s application is accepted.<\/p>\n

Foreign policy insiders told\u00a0Iltalehti<\/em>\u00a0this means NATO nuclear weapons could transit through, or be based on, Finnish territory. Additionally, there are no restrictions on establishing NATO bases in the country.<\/p>\n

The U.S. already has around 100 nuclear weapons in Europe, positioned in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey according to the Federation of American Scientists.<\/p>\n

Britain and France, both NATO members, also maintain their own independent nuclear arsenals.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Polish government said it had held discussions with the U.S. government about hosting U.S. nuclear weapons, though this hasn’t been confirmed by Washington.<\/p>\n

Polish President Andrzej Duda claimed there is a “potential opportunity” for his country to engage in “nuclear sharing.”<\/p>\n

According to its website, NATO is a “nuclear alliance,” which uses its nuclear arsenal to “preserve peace, prevent coercion and deter aggression.”<\/p>\n

The importance of a nuclear deterrent was confirmed in NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept, adopted by the alliance at its Madrid summit in June.<\/p>\n

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This was what sparked Russia\u2019s ‘special operation’ in Ukraine \u2013 the threat of having NATO nukes deployed on its borders. Now Finland, which is in the process of joining the military alliance, proposes allowing NATO nukes on its soil. The Kremlin will see this as a direct threat. Like Russia or China deploying nuclear missiles to Mexico <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":260423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260420"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260430,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260420\/revisions\/260430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}