Will Finland Leave Sweden In The Lurch & Go It Alone To Join NATO?
Andrew Korybko- The cat is already out of the bag and Finland probably does indeed have this “plan B”, however, the strategic motivation and soft power consequences of which will now be analyzed.
By publicly countenancing the scenario of decoupling his country’s NATO bid from Sweden’s despite backtracking under pressure just a day later, Finland’s top diplomat was very strongly signaling that he doesn’t expect the Swedish-Turkish deadlock to be resolved anytime soon. The cat is already out of the bag and Finland probably does indeed have this “plan B”, however, the strategic motivation and soft power consequences of which will now be analyzed.
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