 Russia, Finland joining NATO, fraught with conflict between nuclear powers. Finland's decision to join NATO is a strategic mistake as such policy is fraught with the risk of a direct confrontation between nuclear powers. Alexander Tokovinin, Russian ambassador to Belgium said, This course towards whipping up confrontation with our country has been adopted by all of NATO's European countries. This is a strategic mistake, a policy which regrettably adds to the threat of a direct conflict between nuclear powers. And naturally any talk about enhancing security is out of the question, he said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 television channel. He stressed that building security in Europe, not together with Russia, but against it is a tragic strategic mistake. As history has shown us, such policies have never yielded success, he added. Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership in May 2022, but their bids were blocked by Turkey, which demanded that the Nordic countries declare Kurdish organisations as terroristic as well as extradite individuals accused of terrorism or having participated in the attempted coup d'etat in Turkey in 2016. On March the 30th, the Turkish parliament ratified a protocol on Finland's joining the alliance and Helsinki was officially admitted as the 31st member of the alliance on April 4th.