The Finnish government is now a substantial way through its programme to cut €9 billion of public spending by 2027, including large reductions to social security (including housing, child, and unemployment benefits) healthcare, education, and municipal funding budgets, while it also increasing taxes on average earners. Cuts to healthcare provision have been particularly brutal, including a large reduction in hospital staff numbers, elderly care and disability services while redefining “minimum service obligations” to justify providing patients with lower quality care. The government has also slashed funding for organisations working on peace and initiatives which would address the new cold war-style relations with Russia.
And among the beneficiaries of a new tooled-up and aggressive Finland are the arms dealers of the Israeli apartheid-genocide complex, which in 2024 sold Finland its questionably functional “David’s Sling” air defence system for €316 million. Finland has also bought tank and ship missiles from the Israeli company Rafael which supplied most of the weapons and equipment used to commit the genocide of Gaza. The Finnish government said Israel’s genocide of Gaza would not stop it buying weapons from the country, a position which is par for the course among the morally bankrupt leaders of Europe.
The government here loves to just do things. There was no public referendum before joining NATO, the government just chose to do so and only informed its population afterwards. This is how it has been for as long as I can remember. They mentioned having hosted “Israeli” weapon manufacturers last May, but only after-the-fact, and also they mentioned that they’ve been working with Palantir for the past decade already. They don’t care, they do whatever the fuck they want up there. This country is so cooked bro, and its completely every single politicians’ fault. They should all face firing squads. I hate this fucking place.
That’s just how democracies™ are supposed to operate. You get to vote for which group of guys will just do things.
It’s deeply morbid and perverse how when a guy that just “does things” can seemingly only do things that enrich some corporation at the expense of the citizenry. We never have a guy that just arrests corporate board members of energy firms, or weapons manufacturers.
because the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie will not allow for someone who is not a bourgeois to get into power. you just choose who’s going to rob you, democratic centralism is a true form of democracy, not this bullshit.
That’s exactly right. As the article itself shows it was a liberal and “social-democratic” and women-lead government of Sanna Marin which laid the groundwork for the local (far-)right to drive us into the fascist NATO’s arms. The votes are made up, it’s the money that matters. But the finnish people are too proud and too propagandized to consider that their country could actually be one of the bad ones, and that they too could be mislead by said countries. Also finns are inherently racist and xenophobic, and have a long and outstanding history with fascism