Question for people who know something about NATO and joining
Can Putin for example before Finland joins NATO, attack Finland and announce war operations in Finland teritory and on that way block Finland to enter Nato?
It would take months to actually join Nato anyway, even if fast tracked, so if he wanted to attack, nows the time without drawing the whole of Europe into war, although after today, Boris saying he'd help Finland and Sweden with the UK's military if anything happened, its starting to sound like the Poland situation in 1939, especially if Finlands talks with France, Spain, Germany and Turkey end in the same defence agreements in the coming days or weeks
He either attacks right away and "only" has to deal with Finland and UK, or waits and has other European countries signing up to defence pacts, or does nothing and let's Finland join Nato. He has no good options really
I'd love to see him make the mistake of trying to pick a fight though