“Posterity, stand here upon your ground and never rely on outside help,” reads the inscription on King’s Gate, the entrance to the imposing linked-island fortress of Suomenlinna in the Gulf of Finland, built in the eighteenth century, when Finland was part of Sweden. This dictum could be said to have guided Finnish foreign policy since […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/09/finlands-turn-to-the-west-gordon-f-sander/