On one side of the Atlantic, you have a 79-year-old former game show host who believes windmills cause cancer, personally ended a war that hasn’t ended, and that crowd sizes at his inauguration defied the known laws of mathematics.
On the other side, you have a 72-year-old ex-KGB man who has just accused Finland of secretly plotting to invade Russia.
Finland. Famous for saunas, reindeer, and minding their own business since approximately the Bronze Age.
Putin’s reasoning, delivered with the solemn authority of a man who hasn’t slept since 2003, was this: Finland joined NATO because they were waiting. Biding their time. Lurking. Ready to swoop in and grab Russian territory the moment Russia collapsed.
“Swoop in and grab what they could,” he said.
This is a man who sent 200,000 troops across an internationally recognised border, seized territory by force, and has spent four years reducing Ukrainian cities to rubble. Describing someone else as the type who swoops in and grabs what they can.
The psychological term is projection. The clinical term is considerably less polite.
Meanwhile, across the ocean, the other one is imposing tariffs on islands inhabited exclusively by penguins and receiving world leaders at a golf club in Florida as though the White House is simply too far to drive.
Two old men. Two fantasy worlds. Zero connection to observable reality.
The Cold War at least had the decency to be frightening. This is just embarrassing.
When your entire worldview runs on paranoia, grievance, and whatever the Kremlin version of Fox News feeds you at 3am, a fence looks like an invasion. A neighbour looks like a threat. And five million Finns quietly getting on with their lives looks like a geopolitical conspiracy.
Sotaveteraani Hannes Tuovinen, 101 v, välittää arvostavat terveisensä suomalaisille vapaaehtoistaistelijoille Ukrainassa. Hän muistuttaa että vapauden puolustaminen vaatii rohkeutta ja yhteistä tahtoa.
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Me suomalaiset ymmärrämme Ukrainan taistelun vapauden ja itsenäisyyden puolesta. Ukrainan asia on meidän.
We Finns understand Ukraine’s struggle for freedom and independence. Ukraine’s cause is ours.
#SupportUkraine
‼️How Russia lies
Exactly 3 years ago, on February 10, 2022, Lavrov publicly announced that after the exercises in Belarus, Russian troops would not invade Ukraine but return to their territory.
Two weeks later, Russian troops invaded Ukraine.
Russia always lies.
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Suomi on kieltänyt rahankeräykset Ukrainan asevoimien hyväksi.
Sama kielto koskisi Suomen puolustajia, jos venäjä tänne hyökkäisi.
Lakia on muutettava!
The fact you've let us occupy parts of countries for over 30 years & still pursued "pragmatic relations" with us in no way influenced our belief that you thought invasions & occupations were not things that bothered you.
Actually, we noted your inaction.
@elonmusk The AfD is a putin party.
The AfD wants to expel all foreigners from Germany.
The AfD spreads hate and lies.
The AfD has many characteristics of Hitler's party.
Elon Musk either has a gap in education or he likes hate and oppression.
On absurdia miten Ukrainan asevoimia, eli tahoa joka puolustautuu
hyökkääjää vastaan, ei saisi tukea.
Oleellinen kysymys: jos siviilien suojelemista ei katsota yleishyödylliseksi,
miten kävisi jos venäjä hyökkäisi tänne?
Thanks to @TimothyDSnyder, @MarkHamill and our donors, over $480,000 has been raised towards demining robots via the #SafeTerrain fundraiser
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They will robots will assist sappers in clearing Ukrainian land from russian explosive ordnance. Thank you to everyone who joined in!
Hallinto-oikeus kieltää Ukrainan asevoimien auttamisen.
Ensin tuli epäselkeä rahankeräyslaki, jonka kiharainen tulkinta ulkoistettiin Poliisihallitukselle. Poliisi teki tulkinnan, joka ei tue Ukrainan oikeutta puolustautua venäjää vastaan..