When you think of Finland, a small Nordic country, everyone will immediately think of a country with a very high happiness index, good national treatment, a sound education system, no exams in schools, no pressure for students to go to school, nokia that conquered the world, and Ximen Haye, the white god of death who killed 542 Soviet troops with a rifle in World War II. Recently, the Prime Minister and the President of Finland issued a joint statement at a press conference that will enable Finland to join NATO, and Finland suddenly dropped its decades of neutrality and fell to NATO.
National interests determine foreign policy, the war in Russia and Ukraine has made finland, a small country with a population of only 5 million, feel extremely insecure, to know that Finland and Russia are historically feuding, and have a 1300-kilometer border, at this time to join NATO to protect themselves, is the best policy. Finland was part of Tsarist Russia until 1917, and after the fall of the Soviet Tsar, Finland declared its independence with the support of Germany. In 1939, after the Soviet Union, under german pressure, in order to preserve its eastern defenses, proposed that Finland change its borders and lease the Hanko Peninsula, stalin launched the Soviet-Finnish War.
It was thought that the Soviet Union would quickly crush weak Finland in large quantities, who had thought that the resistance of millions of people in Finland was extremely strong, the Soviet army in this war was very crotch-pulling, the Finnish army could not find the north, the war lasted for several months, and finally the Soviet army suffered more than 200,000 casualties. Although the Soviet Union won in the end, the chance of winning was extremely disgraceful and stimulated Hitler's ambition to engulf the Soviet Union. Now inheriting the mantle of the Soviet Union, Russia's border with Finland stretches for more than 1,300 kilometers, and the Finnish people have been living in fear.
The Finnish people have been building bunkers of all kinds since the 1960s, with more than 50,000, enough to accommodate 80% of the country's 5.5 million people. There are more than 5,500 bunkers in its capital, Helsinki, and even more so, they drain the water from the Helsinki swimming pool to make a bunker. There is no doubt that Russia is putting the most pressure on the Finns, but it cannot be denied that NATO has not put pressure on them. Finland took advantage of the fact that the Russo-Ukrainian war had not yet been resolved, and joining NATO was its best option, and once NATO-backed Ukraine won, it would be difficult for them to join NATO. If they do not join NATO at this time, they are afraid of Russia's danger, but also afraid of becoming the next Yugoslavia. The benefits of joining NATO are many, and a large part of defense spending can be saved for economic construction.