Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Finland ta sami wasu maganganu masu mahimmanci daga Rasha don ko da la'akari da yiwuwar shiga NATO, tare da nazarin 2009 da ke nuna cewa wannan na iya haifar da tasiri ga dangantakar Rasha da EU da NATO gaba ɗaya. Bayan Yaƙin Rasha da Georgia na 2008
, Firayim Ministan Finland Matti Vanhanen ya sake nanata cewa Finland ba ta da shirin shiga NATO, kuma ya bayyana cewa babban darasin yakin shine bukatar samun kusanci da Rasha. A wata hira da aka yi a watan Yunin 2014 a cikin jaridar Finnish "Hufvudstadsbladet", wakilin sirri na Vladimir Putin Sergey Alexandrovich Markov ya zargi Finland da tsananin "Russophobia" kuma ya ba da shawarar cewa Finland shiga NATO na iya fara Yaƙin Duniya na III. A watan Yulin 2016, Putin ya bayyana a ziyarar da ya kai Finland cewa Rasha za ta kara yawan dakarun da ke kan iyakar Finland idan Finland ta shiga NATO. Ya kuma yi gargadin cewa NATO za ta "yi yaƙi har zuwa Finn na ƙarshe a kan Rasha".