Russia Poses a Significant Military Threat, Say 84% of Finns
- More than 90% of Finns see Russia as ‘unstable’ dictatorship
- Finnish government is seen applying within weeks to join NATO
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Finns are making a somber assessment of their eastern neighbor: 84% think that Russia poses a significant military threat after it attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24 and began waging a full-scale war.
That’s up 25 percentage points from a year earlier, according to a survey measuring attitudes in the second and third weeks of Russia’s invasion, published on Tuesday by Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA. In 2005, fewer than one in three considered Russia a significant military threat.