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Tartiflette Fan
Indeed ! A very warm welcome to your nation. Just out of interest, were there any political parties that voiced opposition as part of their programme ? Is it co-incidental that membership was finalised today , just two days after the election ?
This'll be very much OT in this thread, but none of the bigger "real" parties did. The support for joining NATO is historically high. And none of the marginal parties made it to the parliament.
The only real individuals that were shouting out pro-Russian propaganda and voted against joining NATO last summer weren't re-elected last sunday. Democracy works and showed what finns really think of vatniks and their cronies.
It is pure coincidence that Turkish ratification took place just before the NATO countries FM meeting .
As a side note, the first thing Finland did as a NATO member was ratifying Swedish application. It took exactly 30 seconds to hand the ratification to US Foeeign Secretary Blinken after Finland was announce a member.