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.
While the choice of suppliers is unfortunate, the reality is there are few manufacturers in other places that can meet demand on short notice. Finland needs to be prepared to defend itself from a vile imperialist who does not know the meaning of good faith negotiation. As continental armament spools up, one can only hope that it is a short term compromise.
In terms of reductions to social programs, that is again a deeply troubling, but unfortunate necessity in the face of existential threat. Finland is a front line nation, and I promise you, the elderly and disabled will not be better served by Russian artillery shells falling on their heads.
As for moral bankruptcy, that term is far more applicable to the great powers that are forcing Europe and others into rearmament in the first place, like the US, Russia and China. Putin and Trump are existential threats to humanity, and while Bibi is a war criminal in his own right, he is functionally small potatoes by comparison to the alternatives.
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I only believe western media when it suits my world view vibes
When media admits things that runs against their interests/narratives it is more believable than when it fits in with their narratives and interests generally yes. Is that really a controversial idea?
Or maybe you have a media literacy problem.
Taking bias and interests into account when evaluating how much stock to take in a piece of information and it’s source is a media literacy problem in your eyes?
Are you sure you’re not the one with the problem?
There is always a reason everything is published and it is never to “keep the public informed”. Just because you happen to agree with it doesn’t make it any more factual or less disinformation than the ones you don’t agree with.
When did I ever say it was? Infact my comments very clearly point to the reality of pushing narratives to forward the interests of those who own/control the media.
Fucking obviously. Thank you for the truism. But again literally entirely irrelevant to what I said.
just Sayin Shit, as you guys are wont to do
How does that change Russia being an imperialist country filled with neonazis of its own?
Russia is not an imperialist country at present, despite Western propaganda to the opposite. Previously:
And while Russia does have a few neonazis, as most countries do, they don’t hold a candle to the scale of Ukraine’s.
Ffs you guys are too much
here you can see the brain of a liberal under spontaneous combustion when reality hit em
That’s your reply lmfao?
Engage with at least one source.
What’s the problem? It’s literally full of sources and documentation that counters your worldview. How is it too much to present that? Just want to keep you and your thoughts inside a bubble?
Holy fucking braindead fascist take, I don’t even know where to begin with such a disgusting post.
First you excuse trading with a genocidal settler state, you’d be willing to sacrifice those in poverty and in need. With the excuse they’d be protected from Russian shells? Hello? Russia has not attacked Finland, and they had every right to attack Finland during WW2 because Finland was literally fighting with the Nazis. For fucks sake until a few years ago, their military emblem had the SWATSIKA!
Then your last paragraph, sincerely how is Russia an existential threat to humanity? In fact why the FUCK is China on the same level? What have they done to be treated like the monsters of Amerikan empire? China has not attacked anyone, they have not done anything but bloodthirsty liberals like you just delude yourselves into a panic over imaginary threats.
Meanwhile your countries, your empire has killed millions and inflicted suffering for decades, many, many decades! You enforce austerity and extract all their resources and anyone who fights back get painted as literal demons and suffer collective punishment.
And then you call Bibi a small potato in term of war criminal… compared to Russia and China? Are you fucking stupid?
Pick up a gun and follow your leader, thanks!
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Hitler particles off the charts
You talk like a bloodthirsty redditor who will treat these serious topics as just another debatebro distraction. You are genuinely reprehensible and you genuinely need to consider how this sounds to others.
WOW, fuck you. You don’t care about the Uyghurs, how about you focus on the real genocide happening in Palestine that you consider to not be a problem at all. Hong Kong? You mean the region England took over from China with force after the opioid war that England itself started? Tibet? Which its people suffered actual slavery, frequent amputations as punishments? Which was ruled by the Dalai Lama who is also all over the Epstein files?
Genuinely, take my advice from earlier; Pick up a gun and follow your leader.
you are not a tankie you disgusting piece of shit, you are exactly the kind of person who makes a perfect nazi. they’re not openly ideological about their shit, but just coincidence every opinion you spit out of mouth is the same opinion a nazi would have. your fucking colonial project will end, the whole west will rot out, all you filthy gringos, you will not be able to steal other people’s work anymore, and you’re too deep in your ass to see you’re fucking yourself. the century of humiliation is ahead of you, you better be ready.
God damn. I’ve never seen a liberal label themselves as a tankie until now. And the reason is because you want to kill Russians. Truly child-like levels of political understanding on top of deranged violent bigotry.
Have I missed something???
“Tankie” is just another pejorative for communist, which you most certainly are not. So you go around spouting bullshit and lies and fear mongering with war for what? Because you are a scared fool, just as these western governments want you to be. And next you’ll be cannonfodder for them. Just stop, go away.
So you say we should not be scared of Russia, yet you also say we will be cannonfodder for western governments.
… cannonfodder against what country? Since Russia is not a threat according to you.
what country? Whatever your empire decide to fight, could be Russia/China, any BRICS country, any middle eastern country, fuck if America paint a well put propaganda against Greenland you mindless beasts will fight and die like cannon fodder to protect capitalism.
Capitalism? Who is defending capitalism? This isn’t the 1900s, both capitalism and communism have proven incomplete and untenable. No wonder you people can’t win a war even with overwhelming numbers. Still stuck fighting last century’s wars.
“You people”? Who do you imagine you’re talking to?
Nice of you to use the propaganda that Nazi Germany loves to dehumanize the people of former-USSR.
Right… whatever you say “tankie”
You are exactly who Bari Weiss and Peter Theil want every “tabkie” to be.
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Disgusting. “dismantling the welfare state, condemning multiple of the marginalized and vulnerable to poverty, homelessness and hunger and working closely with the various fascist entities is bad and all, but have you considered the RuZzIaNs?”. I hope you get that fucking war you’re mongering for, and I hope you die in it, you fucking fascist.
Can I get a death wish from you to? Im tired.
It is perplexing what happen to Finns this last decade, I cannot understand. I think it has to be a very well coordinated traditional and specially social media campaign that was able to override 3/4 of a century of pragmatism and wise decisions.
But it is not just Finns, all Baltics and Scandinavians fell for it.
How come Moscow is more than a threat now than has been the Soviet times where they were really powerful and messing with countries right and left, near and f. Once Finland guaranteed no NATO in the 50s, Russia left Finland to prosper like no other country in Europe did… and now, this. Russia has been, for a decade say, year after year, after year… that they would consider NATO in Ukraine as a no-no. It is not just that Ukraine cannot choose its destiny, but that we dismiss Moscow’s concerns after being invaded multiple times by the West through Ukraine… a claim they may have! Especially when certain politicians have been mentioning for a decade to partition Russia into different microstates!
Funny enough, after decades admiring the Scandinavians, the most sanity in Europe seems to be in the PIGS countries now. Probably due to their skepticism to governments’ propaganda, it is what saved them from the abnormal levels of Russophobia that social media had been flooded with all these years