Description:
Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou talk with Armando Mema about Alexander Stubb's unexpected call to Putin, Finland's turn from frontier state toward a bridge state, and Baltic tensions around Kaliningrad.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction with Armando Mema
00:01:03 Stubb unexpectedly calls Putin
00:02:43 Years of criminalizing calls for dialogue
00:04:36 Was the call requested by Washington?
00:07:57 Baltic tensions, Kaliningrad and blockade assurances
00:10:31 Finland's nuclear law and the French umbrella
00:13:57 Elbridge Colby and the risk of being left alone
00:15:26 Stubb rewrites history: frontier or bridge state?
00:18:18 Shifting public opinion inside Finland
00:21:10 Finland's economic crisis and the ice hockey row