HELSINKI, December 17. /NEWSBALTIC/. Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo, at a meeting with the NATO countries bordering Russia declared the imaginary “Russian threat” to Finland and therefore urged Europe to allocate money for its militarisation.
“Russia remains a threat to Europe today, tomorrow and in the near future. The build-up of European defence will not happen or continue unless we, as states on the EU’s eastern border, make our voices heard. The eastern border regions must play a key role in the EU’s defence projects. Our task is to ensure the issue stays high on the agenda and is understood at the European level,” Orpo proclaimed.
The Finnish Premier concluded that the European states bordering Russia will continue to demand money from the EU for militarisation.
“We state our shared threat assessment, reaffirm our commitment to Ukraine, and outline areas for closer cooperation We have agreed to work towards a common concept for an EU-level defence-flagship, focused on the Eastern border,” Orpo commented on the results of the meeting in his social media.
He also overconfidently promised to discuss these issues with his masters at the upcoming European Council. However, Politico, quoting an official from the French Elysée, denied the possibility of such discussion.
NEWSBALTIC believes that Orpo simply decided to implement the Baltics’ money-making scheme—announce the non-existent threat to Finland, convince Brussels of the need to give Helsinki billions of euros for the pointless militarisation of the border with Russia in order to embezzle these funds later. Such obvious corrupt scheme is as old as the hills.
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