territories adjacent to russia they re creating a hostile anti-russia. this is how he views it, the encroachment on his tear towers. the question is what will russia do. the foreign ministry has warned about retaliatory steps of a military technical nature. on that point let me go back to nic. i don t know if you heard in terms of what the next steps would be from russia or how putin may view this, but one of the questions that was put to the president there and as well to mitch mcconnell was about this gray period between acceptance and obviously being fully on board with nato. a fully fledged member. what s the security concerns if you are living in finland? reporter: that russia could act militarily along the border, could try to create attention, could try to, you know, influence the mood in finland. that there could be, you know, a potential cyber threat. one of the reasons that politicians here have kept their
Russia has accused the United States of launching an anti-Russian messaging campaign across social media over the war in Ukraine, saying the move resembles the World War Two Nazi propaganda machine run by Joseph Goebbels.
it kind of does feel like on social media, it seems like if you are anti-russia, you are automatically pro nato. i feel like at lo of people are making a lot of assumptions about what putin is thinking. personally, i have yet to see evidence of him wanting to invade finland. what do you think the consequences of this decision are going to be? if and when we join nato and if we are admitted to nato, what kind of relationship will we have with russia? and that s the big question to me at least. the geography is always there. the decision is ultimately going to be taken by parliament. 200 members at the moment are estimated. 123 are in support of joining nato. the constitution doesn t call for a referendum. and the president has indicated or officials at least have indicated that it s not necessary to have a referendum, but it s quite clear some of the questions that the students are