Member of NATO

neutrality havent really worked out for you

Europe was a little different back then.

NATO sucks ass

You were invaded by Germans during ww2, it was your best bet to stay on the side that didn't want a strong aggressive Germany or Russia conquering it's neighbors unchecked.

NATO's run by a Norwegian guy.

That doesn't really answer my question

Sure, it made a lot of sense back then. I dont honestly know the extent of the diplomatic benefits we enjoy for being a founding member of the alliance and sticking with it, but continued membership is weirdly never up for debate, so its a hard subject to argue.

norway was invaded to stop an ongoing anglo invasion, your fjords were mined by britain
then you picked the better bad option

there were plenty of conflicts in europe since, crimea, georgia, yugo wars

a few thousand russians suddenly wanting an "independant" republic up north would be an excellent excuse for russia to get its hand on your oil, water and other minerals

Its a non-issue outside of the political left fringe.

kek you wouldn't exist if NATO wasn't founded user

None of those conflicts have anything to do with us. Like I said, we were never in the Soviet sphere of influence and we dont have any ethnic russian population to speak of. Theyre not interested in us. Nothing about Russias conflict pattern suggests they would ever fuck with Norway.

NATO also protects you from France, Germany and the UK

Lmao, last time we were at war with Russia most of the future NATO members were allied with them. Fuck you mutt, NATO sucks ass.

It's butthurt axis-ally-tier country writes stupid shit again

Why are they building bases up North and trying to control the Arctic?

because nobody fucks with nato countries
and if you think there would be no bidder for a small and rich in resources country up for the taking by clever political moves, then you either dont read the news or just naive

Don't question your master (US) unless you want a new master (Russia).

Because the arctic is strategically and economically important and its where they have their main coastline.

And then the soviets turned in to the closest thing to any "ally" finland had, Thats some stockholm sindrome right there

Yes we put the war behind us and set up good relations with our neighbours. Nothing wrong with that, it's what civilized peoples do.

That might make finland the most civilized nation on earth desu
If Nato monkeys could do that insted of constatly pertending russia is a massive boogie man maybe we woulf stop being under the US boot

Yeah and you were allied with the Nazis. The world is different now.