Finnish Presidential Frontrunner Stubb: ‘NATO Needs To Be More European’
Alexander Stubb.
From its original military neutrality up until its present membership in NATO, Finland has moved substantially away from Russia and towards the West.
President Sauli Niinisto, the ‘Putin whisperer,’ is retiring after two six-year terms.
Niinisto kept open lines of communication with the Russian leader before the war, at which point relations with Moscow considerably deteriorated.
So, in a historic break with tradition, Helsinki joined NATO last April.
In the Finnish Presidential race, this same western-bound tendency is at play. Frontrunner Alexander Stubb stated NATO should become ‘more European’ and that his country will remain an important partner for the United States whether or not Donald Trump is re-elected.
