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While the United States liberally sells weapons of war over the counter, Ukraine is pleading for all the military hardware it can get. As the world marked 90 days of war, it was the week when the eastern city of Severodonetsk emerged as the new Mariupol. Surrounded on three sides, Ukrainian forces now endure a pounding while Russian forces shell the country's second city of Kharkiv at a distance.
We ask about the Quad's new guy, Australia's freshly-elected prime minister and whether the language will be as blunt as with his predecessor. We also gauge reaction out of Beijing.
After Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu described Finland and Sweden's NATO applications as "threats" to Russia, Tuppurainen acknowledged that Finland wishes to obtain membership "swiftly": "We don't have the Article 5 security guarantees yet. This is a grey zone and I think it is in the best interests of all parties to keep that grey zone as short as possible, so we really appeal for swift adoption of our accession treaties."
The number of troops under NATO command stationed across the alliance's eastern flank has reached 40,000, nearly 10 times what it was last year.
The Turkish government's assertion that they have issues agreeing to let Finland and Sweden join NATO has raised eyebrows in Helsinki and Stockholm in a week where the Nordic nations are submitting historic letters requesting NATO membership.
Is it a miserable own goal by Putin, or further fodder for the "us versus them" siege mentality that is the cornerstone these days of a Russian propaganda machine that has gone full throttle? How will he really react and will public opinion continue to follow him? At a time when neither side wants to negotiate, should the West double down or offer Putin an exit ramp?
The Kremlin has now succeeded where the Soviet Union never did in pushing neutral neighbours Finland and soon Sweden to apply for NATO membership. The stunning reversal has got Moscow threatening a "military-technical" response.
As Sweden ponders joining NATO, a remote holiday destination in the Baltic Sea is once again bolstering its defences.