Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and described the surprising call during a CNN interview after it was announced that Finland plans to join the NATO alliance.
“How concerned are you that he may retaliate?” asked CNN’s Dana Bash. Niinistö confirmed “now the situation has changed” and that Finland is in fact applying for NATO membership. The President said Putin expressed that he thinks it’s a mistake for Finland to join NATO, but Niinistö reiterated to Putin that joining “is not threatening you.”
Niinistö said overall the conversation was “calm and cool” and that Putin did not repeat his earlier threats of retaliating against Finland for joining NATO. “Did he say anything that did surprise you?” questioned CNN’s host.
BREAKING: Russia moves nuclear missiles towards Finland border in backlash over Nato bid. https://t.co/fgzgXnwjqK
— Metro (@MetroUK) May 16, 2022
“Actually the surprise was that he took it so calmly” Niinistö responded. “Do you believe that?” Bash asked, “that his tone will actually match how he feels?”
“You have to keep in mind that what he said doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be all the time quite, well, aware and to follow up with what really is happening” but “so far it seems there is no immediate problems coming.”
Being aware as to what really is happening is exactly right. Metro.co.uk tweeted video Monday that appears to show Russia is in fact moving nuclear missiles “towards Finland border in backlash over NATO bid.” For years Russia has deemed Finland “friendly” so long as it did not join NATO.
Seven launchers are thought to be en route according to commentary on a dash cam video broadcast by Russian media.
A person is heard to say: ‘As soon as the president of Finland said they were joining Nato, a whole division of Iskanders, seven of them is moving towards Vyborg.
‘Looks like a new military unit is about to be formed in Vyborg or the region.’
The footage emerged as it was claimed on Russian state television that Moscow could launch nuclear weapons on its European border if Sweden and Finland allow military bases on their territories.
Someone needs to quitely remove putin from office and remove biden from office and put someone in charge of this country that actually has a backbone and will stand up to these thugs of the world and let them know we as a country will not put up with their threats of nuclear war everyone needs to start looking to the heavens and the Lord Almighty for his help because the Lord is the only one that will get the world out of this radical thinking that biden has begun and allows to continue if the radicals in congress and the white house want to live this way then heres a piece of advice find yourselves go to a country that lives like this because the American people do not wish to live in a socialist country especially with a bunch of brainless morons thinking they know what everyone wants to HELL with that
AMEN!
Finland had no enemies until it drunk the US Kool Aid!
Remember how the US responded during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
‘appears” is code for propaganda. lol
At the end of WW2, Finland was allowed autonomy and sovereignty by Russia, even though it had joined with Germany and attacked Russia, on condition that it remain neutral and not join any military coalition in perpetuity. That treaty has been abrogated by Finland.
I do not know what penalties in the treaty were to be imposed should Finland break the treaty, but those conditions still apply. Finland unilaterally broke the agreement on military levels in 1990 and now is further increasing military threat. They may well include, wiping Helsinki off the map.
The Canard that NATO is a ‘defence’ agreement is nonsense as Serbia (Iraq, Afghanistan et al) found out.
Well said!