For decades, Finland and Sweden built their security on neutrality, staying outside military alliances and maintaining strict national restrictions on nuclear weapons. That era ended in 2023 and 2024 when both countries joined NATO in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now, two years later, the two Nordic neighbors are moving at different speeds to adapt their laws and defence postures to the new reality. Finland’s current legislation, dating back to the Cold War, prohibits