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As it says there, the membership process itself would be problematic. Russia would use maximum pressure before Finland joins. One possible solution currently c
by nabla9 5y ago
As it says there, the membership process itself would be problematic. Russia would use maximum pressure before Finland joins.
One possible solution currently considered is to ask Article 5 protections from NATO for the duration of the membership process.
- ceejayoz 5y agoDo it fast, then, and now, while Putin is massively tied up and likely to be for a decade pacifying a well-funded and equipped insurgency. https://yle.fi/news/3-12272467 https://yle.fi/news/3-12272467 > "If Finland and Sweden applied for membership, we could decide on it overnight. You could be a member the very next day because you meet all the necessary membership criteria," said Rasmussen, who was Nato Secretary General from 2009 to 2014.
- laurent92 5y agoIf half of the world can be at war at once because of a single soldier being killed in those countries, then haven’t we repeated the 1914 mechanism?
- ceejayoz 5y agoNo; we've tested this numerous times. Turkey shot down a Russian aircraft in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shoo...) without a world war; there've been US on Russian engagements in Syria as well.
- fmajid 5y agoThey did wait for him to (probably inadvertently) fly for a few minutes over sovereign Turkish air space. They wouldn't have dared if he had stayed entirely on the Syrian side. More interesting is that just a couple of years later all is forgotten and Russia is selling Turkey its most advanced S-400 air defense system, thus precipitating a diplomatic crisis with the US. Middle Eastern politics: never a dull moment.
- bluetech 5y ago> One possible solution currently considered is to ask Article 5 protections from NATO for the duration of the membership process. The report discusses this, and mentions two reasons against doing that: - What happens if you do it, and then the referendum votes against joining? You're screwed from both ends. - Due to the previous reason, there will be extreme pressure to vote for joining in the referendum, making it not very democratic.