Georgia's South Ossetia Conflict - Political Commentary

[jmm99]

from Stan
as Finland joins the former soviet Republics -- joining NATO -- a possibility which could not be viewed impassively

NATO and other alliances have been pushed by more than one leading politician - mutta, the leading political parties have not adopted that as a formal plarform item + about 2/3 of Finns are adverse.

Or, have I missed something since Mar 2008 - which is quite possible.

Finnish security policy: No Joy, but Finland Joins Nato Force
By Kyösti Karvonen
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Finland is ready to contribute to Nato Response Force (NRF), but only in a supplementary role. The painful compromise was reached after a long vacillation, just in time before Nato's Bucharest Summit, writes Kyösti Karvonen, Managing Editor of newspaper Kaleva.

http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/ne...readPosition=4

also

http://formin.finland.fi/Public/defa...&culture=en-US
http://www.mil.fi/perustietoa/julkai.../chapter_9.dsp
http://www.mil.fi/perustietoa/julkai.../chapter_0.dsp

Georgia may change that - mutta, which way will that cut is another question. We shall see.

Finland has helped Estonia - good to help cousins.

Choke off Gulf of Finland sounds good in theory. Last time we were able to do that was before Charlie the Great screwed everything up in the Great Northern War - and we still remember the consequent Great Wrath.

Sorry to be a little gloomy here.

Kiitos paljon.