NATO’s newest member, Finland, has announced it will sign a bilateral defence cooperation agreement next week with the United States.
The deal will allow Washington to station troops and store weapons inside the Nordic country, which shares a sprawling border with Russia.
Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen told a news conference in Helsinki on Thursday that Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen will sign the so-called Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) on Monday.
Remind lemmy next time someone is bitching about US defense spending.
Yes, we could do shitloads better, but the most expensive thing on planet Earth is a 2nd rate military.
Quite literally 189 countries manage fine with being second best or less.
3rd. the worlds second best army is the US Navy
They benefit from the nuclear standoff. Just like unarmed people in a room with a few armed guys. Nobody’s beating anyone else up in that room.
The most expensive thing on the planet is a second-rate military. Think on that.
Until a person is forced to grapple with violence aimed at them, they will shy away from recognizing deterrence as a reliable method. Until they’re forced to, they won’t choose to face the existence of those they can’t reason with.
I can’t think of any way around that.