Howdya like that border, Vlad? The Russian president’s imperial adventurism has not succeeded in bringing Ukraine back under Kremlin control. What it has succeeded in doing is doubling Russia’s land border with NATO. Except Finland did that for him (Washington Post): Finland is set to formally join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Tuesday, a historic shift for a country that once insisted it was safer outside the military alliance, a dramatic rebuke to Russia and a sign of how President Vladimir Putin’s gamble in Ukraine is upending the post-Cold War order. Finnish membership will double NATO’s land border with Russia, adding more than 800 miles. It will also bolster the alliance’s presence around the Baltic Sea and enhance its position in the Arctic. To justify his unprovoked attack on Ukraine, Putin cited the possibility of NATO expansion. Now, his war has brought a bigger, stronger NATO to his door. Whoops. Putin was this close to gutting NATO when his bootlickin’ apologist occupied the Oval Office. Helsinki was not a NATO member — making it neutral territory — when the two met there in 2018. The world watched an American president suck up to the Russian autocrat. The display was “such an unbelievable, indelible moment that many deflated White House officials didn’t even bother to defend or explain it,” wrote Jonathan Swan of Axios. Putin had Trump’s number. But so did American voters by 2020. Putin misread both Ukraine’s resolve and NATO’s when he invaded Ukraine in February 2022. His invasion…