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.

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    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.

    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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        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.

        Uyghurs, to Hong Kong, and what China did to Tibet before his time (or at least, those he isn’t able to stop from knowing).

        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        “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.

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          Because you are a scared fool, just as these western governments want you to be. And next you’ll be cannonfodder for them.

          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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                No wonder you people can’t win a war even with overwhelming numbers.

                “You people”? Who do you imagine you’re talking to?

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                No wonder you people can’t win a war even with overwhelming numbers.

                Nice of you to use the propaganda that Nazi Germany loves to dehumanize the people of former-USSR.

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                both capitalism and communism have proven incomplete and untenable.

                Right… whatever you say “tankie”

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        You are exactly who Bari Weiss and Peter Theil want every “tabkie” to be.

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        The whole world knows what happened to the Uyghurs, to Hong Kong, and what China did to Tibet before

        Previously:

        The UK’s 99 year lease to subjugate the people of Hong Kong ended, a lease which had been forced upon Imperial China at gunpoint during the century of humiliation. Hong Kong reintegration after the lease expired was a foregone conclusion. The last minute, US-backed attempt at color revolution failed. It was the so-called “revolutionaries” who brought the brutality, by the way.

        Previously:

        The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing Salafi terrorist into Xinjiang, and once its efforts failed, it made lemonade out of its lemon by concocting and promoting a genocide narrative.

        The only countries pushing this narrative are the “always the same mapimperial core countries, which just so happen to be largely the same ones supporting Israel’s genocide.

        Almost no predominantly-Muslim country buys the Uyghur genocide narrative, because they know it’s bullshit, because they talked to the Uyghurs themselves.
        https://twitter.com/un_hrc/status/1578003299827171330 #HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on holding a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of #China, was REJECTED.

        Previously:

        I’m pretty sure virtually all of the Tibetan people are happy to no longer be suffering under theocratic feudalism. Happy to no longer be illiterate serfs and slaves living in depredation under a god-king. I doubt many of them are sad that CIA asset Dalai “suck my tongue” Lama is in exile.[1]