Author: Assassin
After the conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, Moscow regarded the expansion of NATO as touching the red line of war. NATO has also clearly rejected the application of Ukraine and Georgia to join. However, Finland and Sweden have been requesting to join NATO out of fear of Russia. In order to test Russia's bottom line, the United States and NATO have successively expressed support for the membership applications of the above two countries.
Finland is a neighbor of Russia, and the two countries have a border of more than 1,300 kilometers. Once it joins NATO, Moscow's borders with NATO will double. This is not only of great military significance, but also a great insult to Putin and the Russian people.
Therefore, according to a report from Global Network 13, the Russian State Electric Power Company recently stated that the company will stop supplying power to Finland starting on May 13. The reason given by the company is that Finland has not paid the company's arrears.
Is it as simple as "arrears"? Obviously, things are not that simple. Russia has previously warned Finland and Sweden that if they dare to join NATO, they will face a strong response from Russia. Therefore, the fact that Russia cut off power to Finland at this time should not be a coincidence, but that Russia has decided to take action against this neighboring country.
It doesn’t actually matter what serious impact it will have if Finland’s power supply is cut off by Russia. Importantly, Moscow has demonstrated zero tolerance for NATO's eastward expansion. After all, Russia's behavior has always been " people are ruthless but don't talk much ". Ukraine serves as Western anti-Russian cannon fodder. Moscow does not engage in diplomatic entanglement with it too much, but directly takes action.
Finland, like Ukraine, is also a neighboring country of Russia. It would be a lie to say that we are not afraid of this neighboring country that always takes action whenever we disagree. Otherwise, the country would not need to take the risk of joining NATO and seeking military asylum from the West. However, although Russia's attack on Finland this time is not an action at the military level, it has at least released some terrible information about polar bear 's response to NATO's eastward expansion.
Therefore, after the Russian power company cut off power to Finland, the country responded quickly. According to the " Global Times " report on the 13th, although Finland claimed that it "has not given up its desire to join NATO," the country's permanent representative to NATO Korhonen said on the same day that Finland has not seen a direct military threat from Russia. The border is completely secure.
In addition, Finnish Foreign Minister Haavisto also said: "Russia is an important neighbor of Finland, and the relationship between the two countries has been positive." Although Finland still refuses to give up its commitment to join NATO, judging from the information released by the country's diplomats, at least for now, they do not want to become enemies with Russia like other European countries.
This was not the case in Finland before this. Not only has the country actively applied to join NATO, despite Russia's repeated warnings, it has also recently enacted legislation to remove the traces left by the Soviet Union in history to create conditions for its application to join NATO. However, for Finland, this is very dangerous. Russia's cutting off power supply may be just the beginning of its counterattack. Helsinki If it insists on joining NATO, the price it will pay may be more serious than being cut off from the power supply.
In the past few days, some high-level Russian figures, including Vice Chairman of the Russian Security Council Medvedev and Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Poliyansky, have issued unusual warnings to the West on different occasions. : NATO's supply of weapons to Ukraine will increase the likelihood of a direct conflict between NATO and Russia. The conflict between the two sides may escalate to nuclear war , which will have disastrous consequences.
Finland insists on joining NATO. Once it touches Russia's war red line, it will cause serious consequences. Therefore, the recent statements made by some Finnish diplomats are more like sending a signal to seek to ease tensions with Russia and avoid "catastrophic consequences" caused by over-stimulating Russia.
However, even if Finland is determined to join NATO and risk retaliation, it may not be able to get what it wants.NATO member Türkiye took action at a critical moment. According to overseas reports, Turkish President Erdogan stated during a televised speech on the 13th that Ankara does not support Finland and Sweden joining NATO. For this reason, Turkey can use its one-vote veto power against the applications of the above two countries.
Turkey regards the PKK as a "terrorist organization", but the latter is a "guest" of Finland and Sweden. Erdogan's retaliatory action is equivalent to closing the door for Sweden or Finland to join NATO. In fact, Turkey put the brakes on NATO's eastward expansion at a critical moment. In a sense, it was resolving a conflict between Russia, NATO or Finland with unpredictable consequences. After all, whether it is NATO or Finland, if they take this as a step down and press the pause button on NATO's eastward expansion, it will avoid a disaster caused by it.
