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.
Actually, I believe I’m what the Brits refer to as a “Tankie.” Someone so far left that violence is back on the table. Putin is actively involved in an attempt at genocide in Ukraine and actively threatening Poland and the Baltic states. He is as much of a monster as Bibi and just as much a war criminal, and he doesn’t need America to fund and arm him so yes, he’s a bigger threat. The fact that Putin is also so arrogant he picked a victim that had claws of its own doesn’t make that less true. It is Russia that is the Fascist threat of the day right now, and one that’s rattled the nuclear sabre more than once recently, but you’re clearly not ready for that conversation. Xe is more cautious, and I find that concerning because he is not incapable. His choice not to fight does not, however, mean he is peaceful. The whole world knows what happened to the 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). Spare me the propaganda in its defence. I see the logic, I fail to see the humanity in it. He’s almost more concerning than the others, because he’s competent on a level neither Trump nor Putin can hold a candle to. Unlike the rest, I don’t think peace with China is impossible, but that’s a long way from trustworthy.
You are exactly who Bari Weiss and Peter Theil want every “tabkie” to be.
“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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