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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
World
Giorgio Cafiero

With NATO move, is normally neutral Finland boosting security?

Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin is leading her country's historic shift towards NATO membership [File: Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency/via Reuters]

Finland and Sweden’s path to NATO marks a major step forward in the military alliance’s growth – and has sparked a sense of unity among many existing members.

Aside from Turkey, the United States and most other members of NATO, which has not expanded on this scale since the 1990s, have welcomed these two Nordic countries to Europe’s premier security organisation with open arms.

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