Welcome back to New World next week.

I'm James Corbett of Corporate Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Pallado from MediaMonarchy.com.

The administration will continue working with agencies to wind down the national emergency.

We've got that story, plus the Green Kings genetically modified everything, but first, Finland

formally joins NATO doubling the alliance's border with Russia. We took this story from

anti-war.com. Finland formerly became the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, officially ending

Finland's post-World War II policy of neutrality and, of course, raising tensions between

Helsinki and Moscow. Finland has today become a member of the Defense Alliance NATO.

The era of military non-alignment in our history has come to an end. A new era begins,

the Finnish presidency said in a statement. The ascension into NATO was completed during a ceremony

attended by Finnish Foreign Minister Pika Javisto, Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and NATO,

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Finland joining NATO more than doubles NATO's territory that borders Russia.

Moscow has said it will respond by beefing up its military presence in the region

and will take more measures if other NATO countries deploy military assets to finish territory.

A major motive for Russian president Vladimir Putin's decision

to invade Ukraine was NATO's post-Cold War expansion and the alliance's cooperation with Kiev

following the 2014 coup that ousted Ukrainian president, Victor Yanukovych. More on that in a

moment. At the ceremony, Blinken appeared to say

he was thankful that Putin invaded Ukraine because it motivated Finland to apply for NATO membership.

Think about that. I'm tempted to say this is maybe the one thing we can thank Mr. Putin for,

because he once again here precipitated something he claims he wants to prevent by Russia's

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