As the Ukraine crisis continues to intensify, an old diplomatic term is resurfacing as a possible solution. It’s called “Finlandization,” and a lot of Fins detest the term and don’t think it applies at all to Ukraine. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with the former prime minister of Finland, Alexander Stubb, about the term, its history and what it could mean for Ukraine.
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