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[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 42 points 2 years ago

Yeah Finland always had it easy, nothing bad ever happened there for generations!

[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

That’s because even the snow speaks Finnish.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago
[-] Kallioapina@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago
[-] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, like a fucking bloody civil war with these people in same wavelength.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This but a little bit unironically. They and their Scandinavian neighbors went unaligned during the Cold War and reaped an enormous peace dividend.

Now that the country is getting sucked into the Ukraine-Russia mess, they're pivoting towards domestic spending cuts and tighter immigration rules and a big new military budget.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

went unaligned during the Cold War

Finland didn't have many options in the matter, you know

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Strange that, when a country invaded another country, invades that same country again a handful of years later, and then that same invading country threatens to invade your country if you try to join a certain group of people, that you might go ahead and try to prevent that country from invading you.

Very strange.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

you try to join a certain group of people, that you might go ahead and try to prevent that country from invading you

Wouldn't be the first time Finland teamed up with a bunch of fascists.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger

Operations Chief within the general staff of the High Command of the German Army in the Wehrmacht from 1938 to 1944.

Chairman of NATO Command from 1961 to 1964

And it only gets worse from there.

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