at wisconsin and a grocery store in new york and a flee market in texas,and what should be safe spaces but instead the sites of four mass shootings over the weekend. and then kim jong-un calling in the military to help with covid. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. we begin with a seismic shift for european security as russia faces its consequences on the war in ukraine. on sunday, finland s government formerly announced it intends to join nato and then hours later sweden followed suit. they are widely expected to endorse the nation, and nato leaders said the approval process could move very quickly. sunday s announcement mark an historic policy change for two countries that remained neutral for decades, and it s likely to anger vladimir putin who has long-time considered nato expansion a threat to russia. finland s ambassador said russia has changed the calculous. the situation has changed rather profoundly, and
reasons vladimir putin invaded ukraine was because he felt threatened by nato encroaching, and he will have nato right on his doorstep if finland ends up joining the western alliance, which looks likely. putin threatening retaliation. what form do you think that retaliation might take, do you think? rosemary, that s a really great question. it s very hard to predict what that will be, but it s clear as you just mapped out that everything putin suddenly claimed as his justification for further incursions on ukraine and it backfired, and he has people more committed, and more committed to an increased defense spending with public support behind that. as we saw with the situation in ukraine, the fact that ukraine was not a member of nato or the