TEHRAN- Finland's NATO accession significantly expands the U.S.-led military alliance on Russian borders.

The Kremlin has warned of "counter-measures." 

It was NATO's eastward expansion to Eastern Europe that triggered Moscow's "special military operation" in Ukraine in February 2022. 

As fighting rages into its second year, it looks like the U.S. seeks to further aggravate and contain Moscow by more than doubling NATO's presence on Russian borders. 

Moscow and Helsinki share a border that stretches around 1,300 kilometers. 

It was no perhaps no surprise that U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was at the ceremony at NATO headquarters in Brussels to complete the final paperwork for Finland's accession. 

It was a historic shift for a country that had been seeking a non-military alliance for seven decades.
 
What's the advantage that now Finland has become NATO's 31st member? 

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says it will make Helsinki "safer".

He added that it will also make "our alliance (NATO) stronger".

Contrary to what Stoltenberg says, these are dangerous developments for Finland as well as Sweden, which is expected to join NATO soon as well.

The U.S. and its European proxies will potentially station their weapons in the country. 

War is not a video game. Civilians are the ones who bear the brunt of it.

Do Finnish people want to be caught in the middle of operations being orchestrated in Washington and designed by the CIA?

This development brings aggressive U.S. policies and those of America's proxy European allies to Finland’s territory.

Russia was never interested in war but was forced to take action in Ukraine because of the U.S.-led NATO policies that Moscow considered an existential threat to its sovereignty and territorial integrity. 

Again, Moscow will be compelled to (as the Kremlin said) "take counter measures" and possibly station its military near its border with Finland. 

This not only will be a threat to Finland's security but all of Europe's for the second time in as many years. 

Any country joining NATO means making the U.S. military on European soil even larger.

NATO should have been dissolved for the sake of international peace and security.

To end the Ukraine war, NATO must stop arms shipments to Ukraine. Pumping tens of billions of dollars of arms or expanding NATO to Russian borders will just expand and lengthen the conflict. 

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told his top military officials that Finland's move "creates the risks of a significant expansion of conflict."

Moscow says its military would be forced to adjust depending on the kind of military deployments and infrastructure NATO stations in Finland.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed out that “the expansion of NATO is an encroachment on our security, on the interests of the Russian Federation. That is exactly how we see it,” 

“We will apply countermeasures to ensure our security in a tactical and strategic sense,” the spokesman added.

In a statement?, the Russian foreign ministry said "Helsinki's policy of military non-alignment had long served Finnish national interests and was an important factor of confidence-building in the Baltic Sea region and the European continent as a whole. 

"This is now a thing of the past. Finland has become one of the small members of the alliance that doesn't decide anything, losing its special voice in international affairs. We are sure that history will judge this hasty step." 

Washington has been provoking Russia for nearly three decades, especially since 2014, by supplying arms for Ukraine to fight ethnic Russians in the country's Eastern Donbas region.

In February 2022, three days before the war broke out, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared at the Munich Security Conference that his country would no longer abide by the 1994 Budapest agreement which clearly stated that Ukraine would not acquire nuclear weapons.

Instead of denouncing the remarks, NATO representatives at the conference welcomed this announcement with applause. This is just one example that shows the aggressive nature of NATO towards Russia. 

Washington's refusal to accept or respond to security guarantees proposed by Moscow over the buildup of NATO military weapons in Ukraine and with a view to Kyiv joining the military alliance, this time months before the war broke out is another example of the dangers of NATO.

The roughly 1200 violations of the Minsk agreement to end fighting in the Donbas that sits on Russia's border was the other reason that forced Moscow to undertake its "special military operation" in Ukraine against NATO.

Finland joining NATO and serving the U.S. interests, logically, doesn't make sense for Helsinki's own security. 

Finland's $9.4 billion purchase of 64 Lockheed Martin F-35s last year only served the U.S. arms industry. 

So the wider question is how would joining NATO serve Finnish or Swedish interests? 

These are countries that had been praised for their neutrality in global conflicts, a policy that had served them so well for so many decades. 

They appear to have now sold out those values under pressure from Washington and at the expense of the security of their people.

Finland will also no longer have an independent foreign and security policy because, like other NATO members, it will now be under the guidance and instructions of the U.S.

The country will now most likely be forced to participate in U.S.-led NATO military missions and accept the imposition of advanced military hardware on its soil. 

The U.S. regime's deployment of weapons in Ukraine has brought nothing but suffering, displacement and poverty for Ukrainian civilians.

Is this what Finland wants for its people?

It's a major policy change and one that Helsinki may regret in the future.

Last week, Russia changed it foreign policy doctrine, outlining "unfriendly states" it considers hostile. Many of these are NATO members.

Russia will be closely observing the deployment of NATO weapons in Finland.

"Believe me, our military will inform us about everything in due time," Peskov said.

"We will closely monitor the developments in Finland and see how the North Atlantic bloc will use the territory of Finland regarding the deployment of weapons, systems, and infrastructure close to our border there, potentially posing a threat to us," he warned. 

He also emphasized that Moscow will take measures accordingly. 

Meanwhile, the country, deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov says "we will calmly disclose what we will do in response (to NATO expansion) when the time is ripe."

According to Russian news agency TASS, he added that some Western governments "all of a sudden decided for some reason that there will be no reaction from the Russian side."

"They are deeply mistaken," Ryabkov stressed. "A reaction will follow."

Critics argue that Western governments who believe Russia would fail to accomplish its military mission are living under some kind of illusion. Critics of the military alliance say Moscow has yet to use its more sophisticated weapons in the Ukraine war.

The war was instigated by the U.S. on European soil but has backfired massively on Western European countries. 

Washington's European allies are witnessing the most unprecedented strikes and protests in modern history, with inflation rising to record levels after the Ukraine war.

Finland's move into NATO is not something that's going to help its own economic recovery and the prosperity of its people.