Nukeless Sweden and Finland need NATO

They are small countries that Russia could eventually overwhelm by sheer numbers, but they are rich and the Finns, at least, reckon that their well-trained armed forces could make a Russian conquest slow and expensive.

The only way Finland and Sweden can get protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear blackmail is to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which has three members with nuclear weapons of their own.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 30, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—Another 15 million people joined the NATO alliance on June 28. Finland and Sweden, formerly neutral countries but geographically near to Russia, gave in to Turkish blackmail, and that cleared the way for them to join the western alliance. (Every North Atlantic Treaty Organization memb...

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