Alexander Stubb
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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.