Finals week edition of Campus Tracks let's gooooooo! School is now out and these were the songs that got me here this past week. "Heavy Stunts" Yeat ft. Don Toliver- This song was new as of a couple weeks ago and it features a duo I wasn't really expecting. I…
heard from the secretary of state, blinken. let s play this. listen here. i m tempted to say this is maybe the one thing that we can thank mr putin fork. because he once again here is precipitated. something he claims to want to prevent by russia s aggression. causing many countries to believe that they have to do more. to look out for their own defense and to make sure that they could deter possible russian aggression going forward. now nick, part of the rationale that putin offered for initiating his evasion in invasion of ukraine. was this fear of nato expansion? this seems the exact opposite of what putin was going for. 100% he sold it to the russians that he was going to go into ukraine to force essentially forced nato back. what s really fascinating here is that it s the fins, not anyone else that decided they
finland s military assets. unlike many members of the military alignment alliance finland did not cut back on military spending. after the cold war, the country has upwards of 257,000 troops, both active and in reserve. as well as hundreds of tanks and combat aircraft. it s also important to remember the original goal of nato, formally known as the north atlantic treaty organization. the group was formed in 1949 to challenge soviet expansion in europe. after world war two. the treaty was signed 74 years ago. today and at the heart of that treaty is article five. the principle of collective defense, which is an attack on one member of nato is quote shall be considered an attack against the all this article has only been invoked once in history after september, 11th. finland s membership coincides with a meeting of nato foreign ministers that includes secretary of state tony blinken . let s go to cnn s nic robertson in london for much more on this, nick. we just