Finland U Turn? Baltic Tensions Rise w/ Armando Mema
Follow Armando Mema: https://www.youtube.com/@UCjK0-RQphH7M7vHlffh3TDwFinland's most hawkish leader picked up the phone and called Vladimir Putin. Armando Mema unpacks why President Alexander Stubb made the call, whether Washington pushed for it, and what it means for Baltic tensions, Kaliningrad, nuclear weapons in Finland and an economy suffering record unemployment. Is this the start of a real shift in Finland's Russia policy, or just a message from Washington?
00:00:00 Introduction with Armando Mema
00:01:03 Stubb unexpectedly calls Putin
00:02:43 Years of criminalizing calls for dialogue
00:04:36 Was the call requested by Washington?
00:07:57 Baltic tensions, Kaliningrad and blockade assurances
00:10:31 Finland's nuclear law and the French umbrella
00:13:57 Elbridge Colby and the risk of being left alone
00:15:26 Stubb rewrites history: frontier or bridge state?
00:18:18 Shifting public opinion inside Finland
00:21:10 Finland's economic crisis and the ice hockey row
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