Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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Ka-pi96 said:

forest-spirit said:

I don't know about Finland but from what I've read Sweden won't have any guarantees from Nato until we're a full member, so there will be a window during the application process where Russia could attack without risking war with Nato.

They're both EU countries though, right? So they should have a guaranteed defensive pact with the rest of the EU due to that already.

Had to look it up. I’d figured that yes, the EU would intervene if a member state was attacked but I didn’t think there was a specific obligation to like Nato’s article 5. I was wrong. Treaty of Lisbon Article 42(7) covers such an eventuality.