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.
An election on this issue would not have changed a thing. At the time, polls showed that 84% of the population was for joining. The decision was made by the parliament with 188 for, 8 against and 3 who didn’t care.
It’s a representative democracy working as intended. If you’re unhappy with how your representative represented your vote, you need to vote for someone else.
That is literally the problem with western “democracy”. Incredible you consider this a good thing. Time and time again people are disappointed in their current political situation but hey, after a set amount of years a ritual called “VOTING(western style)” will initiate and you get to choose a pre-approved selection of candidates who promise things but will never deliver and also do completely different things in service of CAPITAL.
Oh we don’t even get to remove any politicians that are astoundingly unpopular until that ritual starts, what a “democracy” it is!
Instead of having direct voting on policies like any actual democratic country like China, DPRK or former-USSR. What a fucking idiot you are.
Voting doesn’t change shit you fucking imbecile, representative democracy is part of the problem along with capitalism.
So if not by voting, how exactly do you propose that they should have asked the population?
that’s the crux of my argument i’d say. there is no alternative for the people but to agree with their leaders, even if they personally disagree. My solution now would be a communist revolution with an armed vanguard party, followed by an immediate disentanglement from the west, NATO, EU and Euro, with stronger ties to both the AES countries and Russia, though Russia might not trust us for obvious reasons. This would facilitate the improving of the local workers’ material conditions and thus improve the living conditions degraded for the capitalist class’ interests. The revolution and armed class struggle is needed because without it we’d subject ourselves to possible coups by foreign capitalist forces empowering the local fascist elements. Though they’d keep trying this never the less obviously. NATO needs its frontline, after all. Unfortunately for us, no such vanguard party seems to exist in Finland and the workers are left forced to agree to whatever whims the rulers have for us.
So… if people can’t trust the leaders that they elect, who is going to lead your communist revolution?
I ain’t gonna engage in a bad faith argument with you, but good luck in the war to you.
Lol. See you at the front.
yeah, you go ahead and sign up for the Ukrainian foreign legion fash