Finland needs to be prepared to defend itself from a vile imperialist who does not know the meaning of good faith negotiation.

Previously:

• Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
• Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: audio | transcript
• Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
• Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
• Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
• NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide

Previously:

NATO expansion:

• George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
• Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
• Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
• Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
• Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine

 
NATO in general:

• The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
• CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
• Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
• Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
• Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

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!

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.

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

please stop spreading cia propaganda and stop trolling. the source uses a lot of valid data but i guess you libs are allergic to numbers and reality