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Ramón Espinar stated that the Broad Front was recovering from the supposed wound after holding a packed rally in Usera, a popular neighborhood in Madrid. He also accused Podemos of meeting in a basement to spread lies and urged not to waste votes on November 29, referring to what, he said, they had already endured. #FrenteAmplio #Madrid #Elecciones29N (translated)

At the same time that Russia carried out large-scale attacks on our energy infrastructure, unfortunately, a decision was made in the United States to completely disregard Lindsey Graham's bill. Russia attacked over 15 energy sector targets across western and central Ukraine last night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. #Ukraina #Venäjä #sota (translated)

Henri Vanhanen considered it shameful that, according to him, Donald Trump had decided not to implement actions approved by Congress that would have enabled tariffs of up to 100 percent on Russia's oil and gas for its largest purchasing countries. According to Vanhanen, Trump justified his decision with the national interest of the United States, and in Vladimir Putin's inner circle, the solution had already been described as a historic achievement. Vanhanen wrote that Russia's energy exports were significantly financing the country's war economy. He also reported that Ukraine had reported a shortage of Patriot missile defense systems, that Russia had continued bombing cities and killing civilians, and that Trump had demanded Ukraine stop attacks on Russian oil refineries. Citing sources from The Telegraph, Vanhanen wrote that Elon Musk had suggested to Trump limiting military-important Starshield satellite communications for Ukraine, which Trump had accepted. According to him, the restrictions would also hinder Ukraine's defense against Russian drone attacks. According to Vanhanen, Trump's negotiators were said to believe that concessions could bring Putin back to peace talks, even though, in his view, Russia had not shown a similar willingness to give up its military objectives. He assessed that concessions could strengthen Putin's perception of the profitability of continuing the war and that peace talks would require concessions from Russia as well. https://t.co/tTVKB82aQB #Trump #Ukraina #Venäjä (translated)

Arkady Moshes, program director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, states that Ukraine could indeed lose the war if the situation continues to deteriorate and serious internal issues, such as disputes within military leadership and corruption, hinder the receipt of international support. #Ukraina #Venäjä #sota (translated)

Saara Huhtasaari asked whether Finns had begun to wake up to the fact that, according to her, Trump had said that Volodymyr Zelensky was ruining Ukraine and that Alice Weidel's support for Ukraine from Germany should be stopped. She criticized the ongoing discussion in Finland, in which, according to her, the use of tax money for Ukraine was justified, and it was suggested that the war in Ukraine was Finland's war and Ukraine was fighting on Finland's behalf. Huhtasaari believed this was not the case and stated that Finland should remain neutral and only offer peace negotiations. She mentioned that she was still waiting for Finns to understand this. #Suomi #Ukraina #Politiikka (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that Trump has repeated Russian propaganda by blaming Ukraine, claiming that Volodymyr Zelensky is unwilling to make peace, and depicting Vladimir Putin as an easier negotiating partner. According to Vanhanen, Trump called Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries shameful, even though Russia continued to bomb Ukraine's energy infrastructure. He also referred to a Reuters report on the restrictions imposed by the United States on the Starshield satellite system used by Ukraine. Vanhanen said he did not remember Trump condemning Russia's systematic winter attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in the same way. He described the consequences: according to him, newborns had to be warmed with hot water bottles, and elderly people had been trapped in their apartments as elevators stopped working. He also mentioned the murders, rapes, and other war crimes committed by Russian troops against civilians and assessed that Trump was particularly concerned about the price of diesel and the global availability of oil. According to Vanhanen, Trump could not credibly act as a neutral peace broker if he only pressured one side of the conflict, the victim of the attack, rather than the aggressor. He wrote that Russia started the war and continued it, and he believed that peace would not be achieved by weakening Ukraine's defense capabilities and rewarding Russia for the attack. #Ukraina #Trump #Venäjä (translated)

Weidel said that a peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine was needed as soon as possible. She wrote that the war in Ukraine posed a huge risk to national security and called for an end to the war so that Ukrainian and Russian soldiers would no longer die. #rauha #Ukraina #Venäjä #FI #RU #UA (translated)

The author claimed that the Finns he described as war hawks were trying to get citizens to support the continuation of the war in Ukraine to the last man and to reject the peace proposals of 2022 or similar proposals. He wrote that hundreds of thousands of people had already died in the war. #Ukraina #rauha #sota #FI #UA (translated)

Dennis Mitzner criticized Timo Stewart for the fact that Yle interviewed him in a news story about the war in Gaza just a day after Stewart's column was published. Mitzner saw this as an example of Stewart shifting from being a Yle columnist to being an outside researcher interviewed by the media in less than twenty-four hours. According to Mitzner, Stewart spoke in favor of open discussion and opposed the idea that hate speech should silence others. Mitzner found this position contradictory because, in his opinion, Stewart had long avoided debates on X where he and other researchers could have been directly challenged. He also claimed that the responses of researchers to critical citizens had not been convincing. Mitzner criticized Yle and Hesari journalists for allegedly supporting Stewart's message in sympathetic interviews where he was not challenged. He argued that Stewart warned against silencing discussion while avoiding situations where someone could question his views, and presented potential critics as a threat to free discussion. #keskustelu #vihakieli #mediakritiikki (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that NATO's commander for European forces, Alexus Grynkewich, had described the alliance's strategic thinking in preparation for a possible Russian attack without revealing classified operational plans. According to Vanhanen, the speech aimed to convey that an attack on NATO territory would fail, and to reassure Europeans. He noted that the speech did not indicate, in his view, that NATO was anticipating an immediate attack. Vanhanen mentioned that Grynkewich summarized the theory of victory in three phases: the attack would be halted, its advance would be paralyzed, and if necessary, the military system supporting the attack would be broken. According to Vanhanen, this could mean strikes not only against the attacking troops but also against their logistics, command, and other support systems, if necessary, within Russian territory. The goal, in his interpretation, would not be to defeat Russia as a state, but to prevent it from seizing even part of NATO territory and pressuring the alliance to accept the situation. Vanhanen also highlighted from the speech that the plan took into account a situation where U.S. forces would be tied up in another war. He considered this a crucial issue for Europe and referred to the limited military resources of the United States and Trump's Russia policy, which he believed had made Washington's decisions difficult to predict. Vanhanen proposed that alongside NATO's plan, Europe needs its own plan for victory. Its goal would be for European NATO countries to be able to repel and defeat a large-scale conventional Russian attack over the next ten years even without U.S. combat troops. He believed this would require a joint assessment of the shortcomings in European defense, regular exercises without the assumption of U.S. participation, and binding decisions to correct the deficiencies. Vanhanen wrote that the purpose of a credible deterrent would be to make the initiation of war unprofitable for Russia. #Nato #Venäjä #turvallisuus (translated)

The author pondered how the matter would go and wrote that Germany would charge a Ukrainian officer with the explosion of Nord Stream. According to him, the act was considered a war crime ordered by Kyiv, and Serhii K. appeared in a Hamburg courtroom on the same day as the first person to face trial for the explosions of 2022. #Ukraina #NordStream #sotarikos #DE #UA #KZ (translated)