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The response to whether their country should militarily aid another NATO country if it were to get into a serious military conflict with Russia was also mixed. Roughly half or fewer in six of the eight countries surveyed say their country should use military force if Russia attacks a neighboring country that is a NATO ally.
Once members agree that a country meets the requirements, NATO can issue that country an invitation to begin accession talks. [125] The final accession process, once invited, involves five steps leading up to the signing of the accession protocols and the acceptance and ratification of those protocols by the governments of the current NATO members.
Finland has been a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) since 4 April 2023. [1]In the aftermath of World War II, following the formation of NATO in 1949 and throughout the Cold War, Finland maintained a position of neutrality, in what became known as Finlandization, in the face of its often complicated relations with the Soviet Union.
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
Finland officially joined NATO on Tuesday, in a nightmare scenario for Russia, which views the military alliance as a threat. Map shows how Russia's border with NATO more than doubles with Finland ...
Nato chief Mark Rutte echoes incoming US president Donald Trump's call for members to spend more.
Ukraine applied for NATO membership in September 2022 after Russia proclaimed it had annexed the country's southeast. [148] Georgia was promised "future membership" during the 2008 summit in Bucharest, [149] but US president Barack Obama said in 2014 that the country was not "currently on a path" to membership. [150]
Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) border with Russia, joined NATO in April 2023 in a historic move following decades of military non-alignment.