A recent story in the American magazine Newsweek about Finland notifying reserve troops has moved the Defense Forces to make a statement about its position to the international media.(…)
Newsweek, though, might be taken with a grain of salt, since, according to its stories, Finland has already formed a government from the Centre and True Finns parties.
These parties are, according to the magazine, are pro-defence, but opposed to joining the military alliance NATO. Newsweek predicts that defence spending will see a dramatic increase.
Kalliomaa‘s comments were originally made to YLE.