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Well, what can one do, if one has the Russia as one's neighbour.

Anything the Russia conquers, it mines extremely thoroughly, with zero maps. Several mines on every single square metre along the front.

If you have mines, the Russia will advance much slower, and that means you will have less mines to worry about.

The question is: do you want an area to have 5000 mines of your own with a map showing each one's location or 30 000 Russian mines with no maps of their location whatsoever?

I prefer having less mines. Therefore, I am happy that Finland left the Ottawa agreement. And any other country neighbouring the Russia should definitely do the same, because mines are horrible things and the less of them are in the ground, the better.

Germans, you have been where we are. You know, all too well, where this road leads.

Nope. Germans will not help. They have seen where this road leads, and they've decided that they must never do anything military again. They prefer allowing all of the rest of the world to turn 100 % fascist over doing one single small thing that somehow hints towards militarism. Germans allow the road to lead where it leads, as long as that does not happen in Germany.

Also, for the same reason, in Germany it is extremely impolite calling someone a nazi. As long as they aren't openly showing a swastika or publicly calling for a genocide with that specific word, or lifting their arm in the specific way done by Germans in 1930's and 1940's, they are allowed to do what they do. If you call someone a nazi, you are comparing their acts to what Germany did in 1940's, and it's considered a grave insult towards the victims of those times. It is not acceptable in Germany to say to someone is behaving just like a nazi, and therefore, it is de facto not acceptable calling out a nazi.

Germany is the last country you can expect to stand up against nazis, precisely because they're so traumatized by their own past. It's also why I expect Germany to eventually fall under a nazi rule again some day. When you cannot talk about a danger, you cannot stop it.

Not really. European NATO countries are currently strong enough to repel a Russian attack if we so wish. Taking into account how strong the Russia is at the moment. It will be stronger in the future, but we are easily able to increase our strength more than the Russia can.

And if USA withdraws from NATO, then the rest of EU, not only Finland, Baltics, Sweden, and Poland will be forced to take defence seriously. This will make NATO more like it was supposed to be, and it will no longer be used for offensive wars.

But... USA withdrawing from NATO would of course have negative sides:

• a war with the Russia would not end in two days with a decisive victory for us as it would with USA in, but would drag on for weeks at least, likely years. And thousands or tens of thousands would die.
• USA's allies in Asia would not dare to trust USA anymore and would turn towards China for coöperation, regardless of China's imperialism. This would make China stronger, which would be bad for Europe.

But still: The EU is the biggest economy on this planet. We are absolutely able to win a war against a country with an economy only as big as one of our 27 member states. We just need to bother to do so. Which means we'll need to change our mindset. Heh.

Denmark and Finland and Netherlands definitely are not doing this in order to gain political control or economic concessions. They are doing this to keep war away from EU. Your claim that they do it just to exploit Ukraine is absolutely ludicrous. As is the claim that instead of stopping a war that threatens us, we'd somehow "choose Israel in a heartbeat". Where did you get this idea?

(Also, how are Finns "imperial stooges"?)

At least the Siku cars I checked just a few weeks ago in a shop were all made in China 😢

The Majorette cars I've bought to my children are all made in Thailand.

So, the war in Ukraine is a proxy war between North Korea and USA?

A lot looks like we and champignons share a common ancestor that had already separated from plants. But, it's not sure.

No unclarity regarding that, don't worry :)

What is this the decisive factor you're talking about? You can have several.

Good luck finding a presidential candidate with good policies in USA.

Uh... If the misogyny was enough to remove enough votes from them to allow the worse candidate to win, then obviously it was a decisive factor. Being a decisive factor does not equal being the only factor.