Geopolitics depends on geography. If you are a smaller country bordering Russia, major powers like China, India, and the US are far away and ultimately not that

Geopolitics depends on geography. If you are a smaller country bordering Russia, major powers like China, India, and the US are far away and ultimately not that relevant. Russia, on the other hand, is an unavoidable fact of life. It would be much better to be in friendly terms with them. At least in Finland, the economy is good basically whenever trade with Russia is good. But that's not always possible. Right now, Russia is a country waging a war of conquest. Regardless of what they say, they are making it unambiguously clear that they do not recognize the sovereignty of their neighbors. It's not possible to be in friendly terms with such a neighbor, until there is a regime change. Or until enough time has passed that the supporters of the regime waging the war have become irrelevant. Then there are bigger entities like NATO and the EU. From their perspective, geopolitics means having to choose between being in friendly terms with some of their eastern member states and Russia. They cannot choose both.