This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchler. Here's John Batchler.

The NATO-Summited Vilnius now concluded gathering of vehicles. What is to be done? We begin

with the addition. Finland is in NATO. It's now 31 strong. Finland has an 830 mile border

with the Russian Federation. What does that mean for NATO and for Russia? I welcome Cliff May,

writing most recently, he is the president and founder of the Foundation for the Defense

of Democracy, about Finland in 20th century and 21st century history. Cliff, a very good

evening to you. What does Finland's addition mean for NATO and for Russia? Good evening.

Well, it strengthens NATO enormously and it is exactly the kind of thing that Putin

didn't want. Now there is, as you suggest, 830 mile long border between NATO and Russia.

That is not what Putin wanted to see. Also, Finland has long been neutral. We'll dig into

that a little bit more. Same with Sweden. Sweden was neutral for 200 years. Sweden should

soon be part of NATO. We believe that Turkey, Erdogan, is now no longer objects to Sweden

coming in, so we hope to have that soon. That means all the North nations now part of

NATO. That's very important. It means that it will mean that the Baltic Sea becomes essentially

a NATO lake and that cleaning ground, which is where the Russian naval fleet for the Baltic

is headquartered, will literally be surrounded by NATO nations, because cleaning ground, as

you know, is something I 400 miles from Russia, proper. You have to go through Belarus and

Lithuania. This is a land area that was taken for the Germans in 1945, the other World

War II was Kodigsberg, which part of Prussia at one point. One thing that I want to add

that I get into in the peace is probably the least well-remembered war of the 20th century,

in 1939, after Stalin and Hitler made their non-aggression pact. They also, as part of that,

kind of divided up the lands between them, everyone remembers Poland, but also Stalin wanted

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