number one finland borders with russia. then you have sweden, follow the waterways, a key access to the baltic sea. this is what vladimir putin did not want. he thought four years ago it would split nato. some might object. others might say we don t want to spend the time, the resources on this. this is a diplomatic victory for president biden, it is a snub at vladimir putin. putin didn t want nato expanded along russian borders. that is exactly what they re getting with this movement for finland and sweden. as you know it has an 800-mile border joining nato. it can t be overstated how significant that is when you look at what putin was trying to accomplish and what, in fact, he was getting right now. it is also significant as caitlin was noting that the biden administration, european officials didn t necessarily expect this was going to happen today. so the fact that they were able to pull this off is significant and president biden was engaged diplomatically on this. but