Finland and Sweden may take unhurried route to NATO membership – By Gerard O’Dwyer (Defense News) / March 4, 2022
HELSINKI — Nordic governments are scaling up defense cooperation and preparedness planning against the backdrop of regional tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Nordic states are looking to accelerate the deepening of joint defense measures that may lead to more serious discussions around the need for a Nordic-styled solution modeled on the North Atlantic Treaty’s Article 5, which considers an attack on one member state to be an attack on all states.
Political leaders in Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen are becoming increasingly concerned that Ukraine may be a deliberate first step by Moscow to use military force to reconstruct the Soviet Union empire that collapsed in 1991.
