BRUSSELS: Finland became the 31st member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday, in a historic strategic shift provoked by Moscow's war on Ukraine, which doubles the United States-led defense alliance's border with Russia.

Last year, the Kremlin's all-out invasion of Ukraine upended Europe's security landscape and prompted Finland — and its neighbor Sweden — to drop decades of nonalignment.

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