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A. Finland shares an 830-mile border with Russia, and it joined NATO in 2023. Finland’s neighbor, Sweden, gained NATO membership a year later. Sweden does not border Russia, but Norway has a 121-mile border with Russia in the far north. Norway was a founding member of NATO in 1949.
C. The North Atlantic Council voted to invoke NATO’s collective self-defense provisions after the September 11 attack killed 2,977 people. Islamist terrorists hijacked four airliners, crashing two of them into New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and one into a Pennsylvania field. Most casualties were in New York.
A. European nations committed a total of $387.2 billion in aid to Ukraine since Russia’s full invasion. The United States committed $128 billion, the biggest contribution by any single nation. Germany, France, and the UK were the next largest individual contributors.
A. For every 1,000 Estonians, 58.2 of them are enrolled in the forces to defend the small Baltic nation from its huge Russian neighbor. It’s 47.8 defenders per 1,000 people in Finland; 11.9 in Norway; and 6.2 in the United States. Estonia also committed 4% of its GDP to aid Ukraine, a bigger share of its wealth than any other nation. The United States spent 0.55% of its GDP.