The Wall Street Journal from the United States visited Finland's eastern border and wrote an extensive article about the relations between Finland and Russia.
Russian the attack on Ukraine has changed Finland's previously neutral attitude, neutral approachto its eastern neighbor, writes The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
According to the WSJ, Finland's changed Russia policy is underlined by the president known as the “Putin whisperer” Sauli Niinistön retreat and follower by Alexander Stubb taking office.
An American magazine that visited Finland's eastern border states in its extensive article that the additional name is due to the cautious attitude of Niinistö, who has been in power for a total of 12 years, towards Moscow and frequent meetings with Russia Vladimir Putin with.
Niinistö started as the president of Finland in March 2012. Putin and Niinistö met for the first time in the same summer in St. Petersburg. After that, the presidents met several times during Niinistö's presidential terms.
WSJ also writes Stubb about an open attitude to the idea of enabling the transit of nuclear weapons in Finland. According to the newspaper, Finland fully accepts its new NATO membership and the nuclear deterrent that it brings with it.
WSJ writesthat according to the Finns, Russia is waging a hybrid war at the same time as its troops are attacking in Ukraine.
The newspaper writes about asylum seekers organized by Russia to Finland's eastern border. According to the WSJ, at the end of 2023, Finnish border guards contacted their Russian counterparts through a rarely used “direct line” and demanded an explanation. According to the WSJ, the line has previously been used, for example, to search for lost hunting dogs. The Russians' answer was that those aspiring to Finland were acting legally from Russia's point of view.
Finnish government boat earlier in April, that the eastern border will remain closed for the time being, as the situation in Russia has not changed according to the government's assessment.
“We now have a hostile relationship with Russia, and that is a big risk, maybe not in the short term but in the long run”, Finland's former ambassador to Moscow Heikki Talvitie says in the article.
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