Finland will deploy US troops on the border with Russia, should the circumstances of its entry into NATO require it.
"On 18 December, the country will sign an agreement on defence cooperation," Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said.
U.S. troops will be able to enter Finland quickly to help it in the event of a conflict.
Moscow is worried about an uprising within its territory
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the US is increasingly focused on changing the government and organizing internal unrest in Russia.
"The US has not only launched a hybrid war against Russia, which is being waged, apparently, down to the last Ukrainian, but it still has the task of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia by demonstrating an increasing focus on changing the government here by organizing an internal Russian insurgency," Rybakov said.
According to him, "under these circumstances, the scenario of a confrontation between Moscow and Washington has become 'a real situation from which to start.
At the same time, the Russian official did not rule out that a further escalation by the United States could lead to the termination of Russian-American diplomatic relations.
On the other hand, several Western media outlets have for several days been publishing information that the Russian president's regime is panicking about the upcoming 2024 elections.
According to analysts, it is clear to Putin that his "position is shaking" in the sense that he no longer has such clear and broad support because more and more Russians are dissatisfied with the war in Ukraine and more and more reports are being signed by the mothers of Russian fighters who were taken to the front.
The signatures collected, as reported, amount to hundreds of thousands. It was noted, as reported by Western media, that the Russian propaganda machine has already begun to use the narrative of US interference in the Russian elections.
Russian and American elections are in the same year in both countries, so we can expect many sensationalist moves by Biden and Putin to convince their voters. At this point, however, we could see a lot of different things and perhaps a US revenge operation for the nationalist invasion of the Capitol.
