Source: Taiwan Newspaper
Author: Li Yizhong
The Peace Index (GPI) proposed by the Australian Think Tank Economic and Peace Research Institute (IEP) has been widely used. Since the announcement of the appraisal for more than ten years, the Nordic Navia country has been listed as a stable and peaceful state.It meets our general cognition.The three major indicators of IEP measuring peace are: the level of social security, domestic and international conflicts, and the degree of national militaryization (totaling more than 60 details).
The complete social welfare system of Nordic countries is well known that there is almost no conflict between the country. The problem is that the general army of the Nordic five countries is only about 20,000, Sweden 25,000, Norway 30,000, and 41,500 in Finland.Iceland does not even have a standing troops, and only Sweden's defense mobilization power can be compared with large powers. How can they be adjacent to Russia, how can they be among the best on peace indicators?
For a long time, regardless of the Cold War or the disintegration of the Soviet Union, for more than 20 years in Putin, Russia, who has been in poor soldiers, has always stared at Arctic resources, saying that it is the biggest threat of the Nordic countries after World War II.He had played a catastrophic winter war under the invasion of the Soviet Union.Nordic countries naturally hope to use diplomatic means and Russia. When they enjoy 70 years of peace in the past, they and Russia did show several signs of "ice breaking". Therefore, they believed that when Russia's domestic economy continued to grow, people's lives improved, regional pressureIt should be reduced.
But the Russian autocratic system and the Nordic democracy, human rights, and freedom of freedom are simply different. After the economy of the Nordic countries was developed (Norway was still the number of poor countries in Europe), it created the highest quality living environment of human beings.The purpose is to improve the military and military war.Therefore, when Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, the Nordic countries on the side have a new assessment of Russia. If Putin's governing logic of the country is so, the security situation in Europe will change.There are more and more warnings in the Nordic newspapers and magazines that "if we do not recognize the threat, it is too naive".
2014 Krimea was invaded, which stimulated the largest military exercise since the establishment of the NATO country in 2018. Once Russia abandon diplomacy and arms (Crimea has proved it), the border with the Russian border with the Russian borderFinland, with a length of 1340 kilometers, was especially the first, so he participated in the exercise with Sweden, which was originally taken neutral and not joined by NATO.This action was used by Putin for domestic publicity "NATO threat theory."
In 2022, Russia launched a war against Ukraine, and it also shows that the NATO military exercise in 2018 is indeed a plan. At this moment, even if Western countries want to avoid the third world war or even nuclear war, no one can understand PutinWhat are the bottom lines that launch two and swallowing in eight years.The only way to ensure the minimum crisis damage is to strengthen defense to face the worst results.At the 350th anniversary of Putin at the birthday of the Emperor Peter of the Tsar, he paid tribute to him in expressing the "Retaining Territory in Russian History" and listened to it in the ears of the Nordic countries.After Putin's conversation, NATO countries once again conducted large -scale military exercises and directly expected how to counter the Russian army to occupy a Baltic islands.
Even if Putin's historical outlook and "sense of mission" have already impacted the security of the Nordic countries, but until 2022 IEP announced the global peace index, the Nordic countries still maintain the original high -level and peaceful color label (light green), IEP peace standard.The degree of militaryization of the country should play an important role.Although the Sakan Navia country is separated, Russia can get almost every country, but when a few small nations gather and rely on NATO, it will inevitably increase the concerns of Russia's invasion. Among them, Finland can become close to "redThe "black area" (most peaceful) under region "(the most discordant) is a rare different number (the other is Japan).
At the beginning of the year, the well -known military website "Global Fire Power (GFP) announced its military ranking in 2023. The top three are the United States, Russia, China, and Ukraine ranked 15th.Leap forward), Taiwan ranked 23, all Nordic countries were all 30, Finland still fell 51st.If compared with the global peace index, Finland is ranked 14th and Taiwan is ranked 30. Finnish military and military rankings are more peaceful and safer than Taiwan.Essence
The Finnish model was accused of being a weak country in the past, and decided to follow the policy of strong neighboring countries (Russia) to ensure that sovereignty and territorial integrity.Paradise is threatened by Russia as a mirror. When you can't change Russia's attitude towards you, you must be able to protect yourself. Who can persuade Beijing in the world today to give up the force to attack Taiwan?The United States noted Taiwan's defense and carried out military performances and military exercises on the Taiwan Strait's security. It is clear whether Taiwan is peaceful or manufacturing, and the answer is clear.Taiwan can be Finland, but of course it is a new Finland.
