Alexander Stubb

But, you know, I'm a Finn.

I thought you'd ask the first question that, you know, what do you do?

I said, in these kinds of situations, you take a deep breath, you go in the sauna and you take an ice bath.

And that's what we're missing here.

That's not what it was about at all.

Okay, so...

Yeah, I think there was probably a misunderstanding, or not probably, there was.

So basically, let me explain.

There is something called Arctic Endurance, which is basically a NATO training exercise.

That exercise has eight different components, all of which...

the United States is present.

We were asked by our allies to go and do a reconnaissance mission to check out the territory, the landscape, and how it's going to work out.

This is completely normal procedure.

And obviously, I can't talk about the specifics of that exercise, but trust me, it is not trying to protect anything westbound.

It's more eastbound.

Well, I think, you know, diplomacy, a lot of times when people analyze diplomacy, they look at it on a state-to-state relations.

You know, what's the values, interests, power, culture, history, geography?

But they forget diplomacy.

that a lot of it is actually about person-to-person engagement.

And the fact that I'm able to communicate directly with the president puts me as president of Finland into good position.