Stubb Credits Trump for Ukraine Peace Push, Dismisses Russian Attack Risk on Finland's 1,340-km Border
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 27
Stubb Credits Trump for Ukraine Peace Push, Dismisses Russian Attack Risk on Finland's 1,340-km Border
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 27
Summary
Alexander Stubb said Ukraine peace efforts are in a better place since Trump "doubled down" over the past 18 months, with U.S. envoys and Nordic back-channel diplomacy helping revive talks.
At the same time, Stubb rejected Volodymyr Zelenskyy's warning that Russia could strike another European state soon, saying Finland sees no factual basis for a direct attack despite sharing Russia's longest border in NATO.
Finland's deterrent rests on 280,000 wartime troops, mandatory service, shelters for 4.4 million people and 64 F-35s—two of which arrived this month—along with NATO membership.
Stubb said Russia is still waging a broader hybrid campaign in Europe through cyberattacks, sabotage and Baltic undersea cable damage, even if a kinetic assault on Finland looks unlikely.
He also tied Ukraine to a wider security crisis, backing Trump's stance that Iran must not get a nuclear weapon and arguing Moscow-Tehran military cooperation links conflicts from Ukraine to the Gulf.
If Finland’s massive military buildup prevents direct invasion, could Moscow's invisible war of cyberattacks and arson ultimately fracture NATO from within?
With secret back-channel peace talks underway, what hidden compromises are being negotiated to end the interconnected crises spanning from Ukraine to Iran?
As Russia shifts to covert sabotage, what hidden vulnerabilities in Europe's undersea infrastructure remain completely exposed to shadow operations?