Lithuania and Finland reject Russian nuclear intimidation
Vladimir Putin controls the world's largest nuclear arsenal, but Lithuania and Finland have taken legal and policy steps that reduce the Kremlin's leverage. Lithuania's Seimas legal affairs committee voted 7-2 to back scrapping constitutional article 137 that bans hosting weapons of mass destruction, and Finland removed nuclear-hosting prohibitions in July before joining France's forward deterrence initiative that allows exercises and temporary hosting of strategic aircraft. The Kremlin warned of a "very serious" escalation, yet Baltic and Nordic officials dismissed the threats; analysts say Russia could still respond with exercises, alert changes, or dispersal of nuclear-capable forces.
Baltic and Nordic states are removing legal barriers to nuclear hosting
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Russia invaded Ukraine and then used nuclear rhetoric. Countries changed laws and joined deterrence initiatives. Next, Russia could take physical steps like exercises or raised alert levels.
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