think twice about how much saber rattling they will do about finland joining nato. finland has basically built a whole other second city underneath their capital, just in the event russia starts a war that targets helsinki, incredible stuff. more on that tomorrow night. but again both of these stories, targeting u.s. gps technology, and the upset in russia over finland and sweden potentially joining nato, both of those are worth keeping an eye on. lots more to gets to tonight. stay with us. ts more to gets tot stay with us
perhaps unsurprising, given the fact that russia has full scale invaded a nato that wasn t a nay, invaded a european member that is not a nato member. and the kremlin is already warning of severe consequences if they do so. we ll tell you, with sweden and finland both of these countries super interesting prospect and it is provocative to russia but also fascinating in terms of the potential implications for the north american treaty alliance, finland specifically though does share an 800-plus mile border with russia, they are better prepared than most countries, in russia, in terms of how to deal with their much larger neighbor. finland and russia have a fascinating history, and one that has some erie parallels for what is playing out right now in ukraine and that history has led to all sorts of recent war preparation on behalf of the fins that might make russia
ukraine but gps systems used by civilian aircraft that have flown along the russian border with finland. and that brings us to this next story that i think is worth watching. we are now seeing increasing and increasingly clear indications that the nations of finland and sweden may try to join nato. and soon. these two countries are formerly independent, they re militarily unaligned. they have long held off on joining nato. but russia s invasion of ukraine has changed everybody s calculus, annual the finnish prime minister now says she expects the fins will make a decision before mid-summer on whether or not they are going to seek membership in nato. the bbc reports that sweden s ruling democratic socialist party are rethinking that position in light of russia s attack on ukraine. now, the fact that finland and sweden are making these moves is