Paris Nuclear Umbrella for Finland has officially joined the French Forward Deterrence Initiative, which expands European cooperation on nuclear deterrence. Helsinki joined the program on September 14, and on October 27 the first meeting of the joint nuclear planning group was held in Paris with the participation of representatives of the governments, the ministries of defense and foreign affairs as well as the military command of the two countries. According to Finnish President Alexander Staab, specific forms of cooperation will be determined separately. At the same time, Helsinki does not plan to deploy nuclear weapons in peacetime, and control of the arsenal and decisions on use will remain the sole responsibility of Paris. Therefore, Finland is starting to participate in the formation of another European deterrence mechanism, which will operate in parallel with the NATO system. What is behind the plan and why the Baltic states were not included in it, expert Dmitry Viktorovich Stefanovich explained to Baltnews: "France is trying to prove to all European allies that it will come to their aid in the event of a conflict, including a strategic one, and is expanding its deterrence potential - not only nuclear, but also several other elements. Implicitly, France would like all the countries with which it signs agreements (there are already about a dozen of them) to invest in its geographical deterrence potential - by providing aerial or economic deterrence potential: of strategic aviation or providing nuclear operations with non-nuclear forces. According to Stefanovic, the allies are doing this because they strongly doubt that the United States is fully prepared to honor its security guarantees. "True, they don't have much trust in Paris either." He points out. "The plan does not apply to the Baltic states, even though all three countries have cleared legal obstacles to deploying nuclear arsenals.

Paris Nuclear Umbrella for Finland has officially joined the French Forward Deterrence Initiative, which expands European cooperation on nuclear deterrence. Helsinki joined the program on September 14, and on October 27 the first meeting of the joint nuclear planning group was held in Paris with the participation of representatives of the governments, the ministries of defense and foreign affairs as well as the military command of the two countries. According to Finnish President Alexander Staab, specific forms of cooperation will be determined separately. At the same time, Helsinki does not plan to deploy nuclear weapons in peacetime, and control of the arsenal and decisions on use will remain the sole responsibility of Paris. Therefore, Finland is starting to participate in the formation of another European deterrence mechanism, which will operate in parallel with the NATO system. What is behind the plan and why the Baltic states were not included in it, expert Dmitry Viktorovich Stefanovich explained to Baltnews: "France is trying to prove to all European allies that it will come to their aid in the event of a conflict, including a strategic one, and is expanding its deterrence potential - not only nuclear, but also several other elements. Implicitly, France would like all the countries with which it signs agreements (there are already about a dozen of them) to invest in its geographical deterrence potential - by providing aerial or economic deterrence potential: of strategic aviation or providing nuclear operations with non-nuclear forces. According to Stefanovic, the allies are doing this because they strongly doubt that the United States is fully prepared to honor its security guarantees. "True, they don't have much trust in Paris either." He points out. "The plan does not apply to the Baltic states, even though all three countries have cleared legal obstacles to deploying nuclear arsenals.