As thousands of international troops line NATO borders with Ukraine, two Nordic countries have been invited to join NATO's force against Russian President Vladimir Putin..Official invites have been extended to Finland and Sweden to join the alliance at the NATO summit in Madrid Wednesday morning, reported NBC..Jonathan Eyal, associate director at England's Royal United Services Institute, said NATO's clauses must be updated for other countries to have greater responsibility when their allies are attacked.."Now that the Russians have shown they are perfectly willing to invade a country and use force, the West cannot rely on the old system that said countries who were attacked would be helped later on," he said.."You have to have the troops on the ground there and then. So in that respect, it's an acknowledgement about how the security in Europe has changed." .American President Joe Biden attended the summit and spoke on the permanent American forces stationed in Poland — hundreds of thousands of troops on high alert..Biden said that NATO was sending an “unmistakable message” that the alliance “is strong, united, and the steps we’re taking during this summit are going to further augment our collective strength.”.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday the Madrid summit is meant to create a plan for the alliance to navigate “in a more dangerous and unpredictable world.”.The Western alliance also called Russia its "most significant and direct threat” in a joint statement, according to NBC.
