With a easy alternate of paperwork, Finland on Tuesday turned NATO’s thirty first member state, a strategic defeat for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who was decided to dam the alliance’s enlargement however as a substitute galvanized Finland to affix amid Moscow’s devastating warfare in Ukraine.
Later within the day, Finland’s nationwide flag was raised at NATO headquarters, a deeply symbolic second and a stark show of the shifting international dynamics, because the West shores up its allegiances in response…
