will become the 31st member of on Tuesday, in a historic strategic shift provoked by Vladimir 's illegal invasion of Ukraine.The Nordic country's ascendancy to the western military alliance - set to be marked by a flag raising ceremony at its Brussels headquarters later today - means NATO's border with Russia will roughly double in length, from the Baltic states to the Arctic.Last year, the Kremlin's all-out invasion upended Europe's security landscape and prompted Finland - and its neighbour Sweden - to drop decades of non-alignment.
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