Sauli Niinist\u00f6<\/a> var Finlands president fr\u00e5n 2012 till 2024. I sin nya bok \u201dAlla v\u00e4gar till s\u00e4kerhet\u201d ber\u00e4ttar Niinist\u00f6 att Rysslands president Vladimir Putin bara fr\u00e5gade honom en g\u00e5ng om Finlands Nato-medlemskap.\u00a0<\/p>\nDet var under hans f\u00f6rsta bes\u00f6k i Ryssland i juni 2012 d\u00e5 Putin \u201dpl\u00f6tsligt\u201d sade:<\/p>\n
\u2013 Varf\u00f6r \u00e5ker ni till Nato? Ni kommer inte att f\u00e5 tillbaka Karelen.<\/p>\n
N\u00e4r Finland blev sj\u00e4lvst\u00e4ndigt 1917 tillh\u00f6rde Karelen landet. Men efter andra v\u00e4rldskriget tvingades man avst\u00e5 stora delar av Karelen till d\u00e5varande Sovjetunionen.<\/p>\n
\u201dNi har gjort ett misstag\u201d<\/p>\n
Niinist\u00f6 sade att Finland avs\u00e5g att \u201dintensifiera\u201d partnerskapet med Nato och n\u00e4r Putin fr\u00e5gade \u201dvarf\u00f6r?\u201d fick han svaret:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2013 Eftersom varje sj\u00e4lvst\u00e4ndigt land maximerar sin s\u00e4kerhet.<\/p>\n
\u201dDetta var tillr\u00e4ckligt f\u00f6r Putin, s\u00e5 pass mycket att fr\u00e5gan inte diskuterades med honom f\u00f6rr\u00e4n den 14 maj 2022 d\u00e5 jag informerade honom om att Finland nu ans\u00f6kte om att g\u00e5 med i Nato\u201d, skriver Niinist\u00f6 i boken.<\/p>\n
Han blev dock \u00f6verraskad av Putins reaktion:<\/p>\n
\u201dN\u00e4r jag ber\u00e4ttade f\u00f6r honom att Finland nu g\u00e5r med i Nato var Putin f\u00f6rv\u00e5nansv\u00e4rt lugn och sade bara: \u2019Ni har gjort ett misstag\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201dPutin skrattade\u201d<\/p>\n
N\u00e4r den ryske ledaren sade att han \u201dhoppas att ni bevarar en del\u201d av Finlands sj\u00e4lvbest\u00e4mmande och fick svaret att Niinist\u00f6 skulle \u201dforts\u00e4tta utse generaler h\u00e4r\u201d s\u00e5 \u201dskrattade Putin\u201d.<\/p>\n
Enligt ex-presidenten uttalade Putin aldrig n\u00e5gra hot eller krav mot Finland, men ibland fick Niinist\u00f6 \u201dryska antydningar\u201d fr\u00e5n honom. Ordet Niinist\u00f6 v\u00e4ljer f\u00f6r att beskriva Putin \u00e4r \u201dfighter\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201dOm han sl\u00e5r m\u00e5ste man sl\u00e5 tillbaka. Putin f\u00f6rst\u00e5r det som respekt, och det \u00e4r viktigt. Man ska inte ge honom utrymme, f\u00f6r om man ger Putin ens en centimeter s\u00e5 tar han den och b\u00f6rjar jaga n\u00e4sta\u201d, skriver Niinist\u00f6 i boken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Publicerad 22 okt 2025 kl 03.42Uppdaterad kl 05.32 Putins reaktion p\u00e5 beskedet om Finlands Nato-medlemskap var \u201df\u00f6rv\u00e5nansv\u00e4rd\u201d. Det…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22,23,26,27,17,21,24,25,1302,274,28,29,15,16,1401,5719,203,18,34,55,31,33,32,30,19,20,51,52,53,54],"class_list":{"0":"post-61289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-varlden","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-huvudnyheter","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-location-finland","17":"tag-location-ryssland","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nyheter","22":"tag-organization-nato","23":"tag-person-sauli-niinisto","24":"tag-person-vladimir-putin","25":"tag-rubriker","26":"tag-se","27":"tag-sections-varlden","28":"tag-svenska","29":"tag-sverige","30":"tag-sweden","31":"tag-swedish","32":"tag-top-stories","33":"tag-topstories","34":"tag-varlden","35":"tag-world","36":"tag-world-news","37":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}