- Nations say they’ve been forced into decision by Ukraine invasion
- Biden backs move: ‘I strongly support the historic application’
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Will Nato get its two new members, Sweden and Finland? We’ll get an update shortly from Joe Biden and the Nordic nations’ respective leaders, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and President Sauli Niinistö, who’ve been meeting Thursday morning at the White House.
The US is all in on expanding the western mutual defense alliance, Biden tweeting yesterday that he “strongly supported” the applications following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.