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The author assesses that violence has escalated in the Middle East. According to him, the chief rabbi of the settlers issued a religious statement on October 16, stating that Jews were allowed to collect Palestinian olives in the West Bank to demonstrate Jewish ownership of the entire area. The author also began to claim that gunmen killed someone on October 23, but the message ended mid-sentence. #lähiitä #palestiina #rauha #IL #PS #IL #PS (translated)

Joakim Vigelius wrote that the National Coalition Party did not answer again in A-studio whether the party supported increasing net immigration to over 45,000 arrivals per year. According to him, the party supported removing the labor availability test, which would allow the recruitment of workers directly from abroad without first offering the job to Finns. https://t.co/P1V6Xqahkc #maahanmuutto #puolueet #työmarkkinat (translated)

Otto Juote wrote that Finland should time its economic crisis to coincide with that of France. According to him, the collapse of France would force the ECB and the eurozone into exceptional rescue operations, allowing Finland to integrate its crisis into a broader solution and shift part of its costs onto the eurozone. Juote assessed that Finland would be at the mercy of others if it faced a crisis alone, but could benefit from France's negotiating power. He argued that it would be better for Finland to be part of the rescue operation than to be left to be saved alone later, and emphasized that this strategy is essential, in his view. #talouskriisi #Ranska #Euroalue (translated)

Otto Meri, a city council member of the National Coalition Party in Helsinki, has received a warning for publishing a list of students' names on social media, which raised criticism regarding the exposure of information about minors. #Politiikka #Maahanmuutto #Opiskelu (translated)

Sture Fjäder stated that he had moved away from Helsinki but still appealed to his party, which he said was the largest in the capital. He demanded discipline in the situation and wrote that the National Coalition Party should be frugal in financial matters. Fjäder described the example he linked as a shocking waste and assessed that no one would likely act in such a way with their own money. #talous https://t.co/j1dXLjiZxJ #talous #Helsinki #politiikka (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that the discussions held in St. Petersburg once again demonstrated, in his opinion, the difficulty of negotiating with Russia. He reported that the Kremlin considered the proposals prepared in Oslo to be almost useless but simultaneously stated its willingness to continue negotiations and spoke about the approaching end of the war. Vanhanen described this as contradictory and believed Russia was holding its demands steady without revealing what it would be willing to compromise on. According to Vanhanen, Moscow sought to shift the discussion to the post-war European security order and the security guarantees that would be given to Russia. He regarded the guarantees as absurd because, according to him, Russia had started the largest offensive war in Europe in decades. Referring to previous Russian demands, he assessed that the guarantees could practically grant Moscow influence over which countries would join NATO and what kind of defense arrangements neighboring countries could make. He added that the U.S. President could not promise such things on behalf of other NATO countries or independent European states. Vanhanen argued that European security should not be built by giving an aggressor the right to dictate the defense of other countries. In his view, mutual arms control and the reduction of military risks could be negotiated, but Russia's demands for a sphere of influence should not be presented as security guarantees. He reported that Zelensky had announced Ukraine was ready to freeze the war at the current front lines. Vanhanen considered this a significant practical compromise and clarified that it did not, in his opinion, involve a legal cession of territories to Russia. He compared this to Russia's stance and wrote that Ukraine had indicated what it would accept, while Russia had stated what it would not accept. Vanhanen described the situation as revealing regarding Trump's negotiation tactics. He wrote that the United States had already loosened the pressure of sanctions on Russia and had agreed to diesel cooperation, but he assessed that there were no signs of similar political concessions from Moscow. According to him, the continuation of negotiations could benefit Russia by keeping Washington interested in economic cooperation, giving time to advance military objectives, and providing an opportunity to wait and see if Trump's impatience would again be directed toward Ukraine. Vanhanen asked how many times Trump would be willing to reward Putin for his willingness to negotiate without substantial changes in his actions. He considered the diplomatic work of Stub and Støre the previous day to be important because, in his opinion, they had restored the Americans, Ukrainians, and Europeans to a common preparation. However, he warned that a single successful negotiation day should not obscure the fact that Moscow's public demands remained unchanged. Vanhanen concluded by stating that in peace negotiations, what mattered was not the number of meetings with Putin but what he was willing to do to end the war. #Venäjä #neuvottelut #rauha (translated)

Kalervo Kummola wondered whether logging forests for a 400-hectare data center and creating hectares-sized clearings for wind turbines was the green transition he meant. According to him, a nuclear power plant would save nature. #VihreäSiirtymä #kestävyys #ilmastonmuutos (translated)

Korson Jussi wrote that according to him, the Järvenpää conservative had acted in accordance with "the way of the land" as early as 2017 and continued the same line in the management of the hv area. He added that people craved a little luxury around them. According to the writer, the news reinforced his perception that the women of the conservative party were not right-wing but social democrats with more expensive drinks. https://t.co/hiRmmMf4Mh #Järvenpää #kokoomus #politiikka (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that in the United States, Russia was understood more than its own allies, in his opinion. He assessed that Hillary Clinton's words from ten years ago had gained new weight. Vanhanen reminded of the 2018 Helsinki summit, where Trump, in his view, appeared to trust Vladimir Putin's assurances more than the U.S. intelligence community's assessments of Russia's interference in the presidential elections. Vanhanen wrote that Russia had actively sought to promote Trump's victory in the same elections. According to Vanhanen, U.S. Russia policy changed after Trump's return: Russia was once again brought to the center of great power diplomacy, and Washington sought normalization of relations as well as economic arrangements. He also pointed out that the United States voted in 2025 at the UN against a resolution concerning Ukraine alongside Russia and that Putin was welcomed with a red carpet at the Alaska summit while Russia's invasion war continued. Vanhanen assessed that Russia had benefited from political decisions made during Trump's presidency and wrote that the United States was ready to pressure Ukraine. He wondered why Trump spoke warmly of Putin, who in Washington defined the direction of Russia policy, and why Trump occasionally showed more understanding to Putin than to his allies. According to Vanhanen, these decisions could no longer be explained as mere individual blunders or the president's unpredictability. #Trump #Venäjä #Yhdysvallat (translated)

Z the boot around the World wrote that he left at 8:00 and had already covered 35.6 km. He described the morning as tough but added that it was gradually brightening up. The author estimated that he probably wouldn't reach Vanrhynsdorp, as he was about 67 km away from Nuwerus, where he spent the night. However, he intended to cover 55 km. He wrote that to reach Cape Agulhas and Cape Town before the end of the journey, he needs to cover about 43 km a day. He admitted that the 30 days granted to him complicated the expedition, and 90 days would allow him to travel more peacefully. He informed that he regularly checks two sailing websites but hasn't found a suitable cruise there. The nearest one would probably take place in December or January and be very expensive. He added that he would like to spend three days in Cape Town, visit Table Mountain, and send postcards. He wrote that he is 99 percent sure that he will fly to Punta Arenas, so he needs to buy a ticket and prepare the cart for transport. Although, as he noted, he hasn't finished his trip in Africa yet, he was already thinking about Chile. #podróże #afryka #Chile (translated)

Samu Mökillä wrote that he found it laughable to claim that the National Coalition Party has had a strict immigration policy since 2015. He reminded that in June 2017, Juha Sipilä and Petteri Orpo announced that the government could not continue with the Finns Party led by Jussi Halla-aho, citing values. #maahanmuutto #politiikka #Suomi (translated)

Tanja Aidanjuuri wrote that the National Coalition Party and the left supported an increase in foreign labor, but according to her, only the Finns Party talked about what kind of labor markets would be built at the same time. Aidanjuuri reported that the Construction Union had announced that 30 fake entrepreneurs had been uncovered at a state-commissioned school construction site in Helsinki. According to her, labor rights had gone unchecked, wages had been paid below the collective agreements, and overtime and Sunday compensations had been left unpaid. She claimed that an individual worker could be missing about 1,500 euros from their salary per month. Aidanjuuri said that one of the companies operating on the construction site was managed from a prison in Estonia, and that according to an STT investigation, the company's trail led to organized crime in Estonia. She also criticized the expensive projects in cities, citing the Vantaa tram as an example. According to Aidanjuuri, the projects were justified by the promise of new jobs in the construction sector, but cheap labor was used on the jobs and they did not employ Finns. Aidanjuuri reported that authorities had conducted a total of 1,817 inspections of companies using foreign labor in 2025 and had filed 60 preliminary investigation reports against employers for the unauthorized use of foreign labor. She stated that authorities had assessed that bogus and forced entrepreneurship had become widespread, especially in the construction sector, and was part of labor-related exploitation. According to Aidanjuuri, exploitation harmed foreign workers, put honest Finnish companies in an unfair competitive position, and forced Finnish workers to compete for jobs under conditions that could not be met by adhering to Finnish labor standards. She considered it particularly serious that this occurred on a state construction site and deemed the discussion of increasing foreign labor without significantly stricter oversight irresponsible and detrimental to the labor conditions improvements advocated by unions. https://t.co/HXw2wzki3U #työvoima #rakennusala #työehdot (translated)

Jari Sarasvuo wrote that a person who expresses their own inadequacy as malicious envy poisons themselves and easily finds like-minded people. According to him, this could lead an entire culture to become chronically poor, as envy, in his words, even takes the fish out of the water. #kateus #kulttuuri #sielunkumppanit (translated)