Phillips P. OBrien
The first post from The Europe Dispatch by Minna Alander.
Hello Everyone,
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, I have been closely following the changes it forced on Europe in terms of how Europeans think about the security and defence arrangements on the continent. Still in Berlin in February 2022, I moved back to Finland in the summer of 2022. It was a historic moment to return to Finland and a unique experience to be working at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) in the middle of Finland’s NATO accession process. The workload was quite something due to the high demand for expertise on Finland internationally (as it happened, very few people knew anything about Finland) and domestically on NATO. It’s hard to describe just how intense the mood in Finland was, especially in spring 2022, when many thought that Russian tanks might just as well roll over the Finnish border next.
Yours, Minna
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