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Branko Milan said there was no intention to attack Russia, which he described as an irrational course of action. Citing history, he argued that avoiding war required being prepared for one, and said Finland’s military resources were entirely defensive and welcome. #Finland #Defense #InternationalRelations #RU #FI

Branko Milanović wrote that Russia was ruled by a dictator who needed an external conflict to remain in power and had signalled a desire to restore the Soviet sphere of domination. He said Finland and the Baltic countries therefore had reason to be afraid. #Russia #dictatorship #Finland #RU #FI #BY

Sywert van Lienden stated that surrogacy was prohibited in countries like France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Finland. He questioned what arguments there were to find surrogacy, which he described as the separation of mother and child, acceptable. According to him, personal insults did not affect him. #Draagmoederschap #Ethiek #MoederEnKind (translated)

The author of the post described the situation as very dangerous and claimed that Ukrainian drones attacked Petersburg, coming in from the direction of Finland and Estonia. He wrote that both states maintained that they knew nothing about it, while the Russians asked why they had not activated alarms. He also accused the Ukrainians of making the recipients "idiots" by claiming that the Russians were behind the attacks. #Ukraina #Rosja #drony #UA #RU #FN #EE (translated)

A citizen of Poland :) cited a Finnish joke, according to which, in the event of a war with Russia, Finland should first destroy the railway line in Murmansk to prevent Americans from sending aid to Russia via that route. He also asked if the people he referred to as "righteous and just" were still chanting the name he referred to on Wiejska street. #Finlandia #wojna #humor (translated)

Marco Setaccioli challenged Marco Travaglio's calculations on European and Russian military spending, stating that Travaglio had indicated 450 billion euros for Europe and 150 for Russia and had argued that Russia had reason to fear Europe, which had invaded it four times in the last 200 years. According to Setaccioli, in the current year Russia would have spent around 17 trillion rubles on defense, equivalent to 181 billion euros, a figure indicated, according to him, by most analysts. He noted that the nominal comparison did not take purchasing power into account: applying indices developed by specialized research centers, Russian spending would rise to 574 billion international dollars, compared to about 700 billion for the entire EU. He added that the EU would have three and a half times the population of Russia and a GDP nine times greater. Setaccioli argued that the Russian federal budget did not show all military costs. He cited studies by economist Craig Kennedy, according to which part of the spending would be financed through subsidized loans and would thus remain on the banks' balance sheets. He also recalled an investigation by Dozhd', which, according to him, had documented pressures on private companies to hire people before signing contracts with the military and to supplement salaries with corporate funds. He added that at least three militias would be linked to Gazprom, which would cover part of the costs. For these reasons, he dismissed as false the claim that Russia spent less than the EU. Historically, Setaccioli criticized Travaglio's reconstruction, according to which the Napoleonic and Nazi invasions, along with interventions in Crimea and support for the Bolsheviks, would justify Russian fears toward Europe. Setaccioli listed Russian troop interventions in Poland in 1939, Finland in 1939-1940, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania in 1940, Bulgaria in 1944, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Moldova in 1992, Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. He stated that there were no Russian regions occupied by European countries, while eight regions—one in Moldova, two in Georgia, and five in Ukraine—would be under Russian control. Finally, Setaccioli accused Travaglio of presenting a selective and misleading reconstruction to make Russia appear not dangerous, portray Europe as a threat, and argue that rearmament was unnecessary and risky. In his view, that reasoning could legitimize a potential Russian attack on Europe and constituted a form of collaborationism. #Russia #Europa #Difesa (translated)

The taxi service exclusively for women, known as Wowo, has expanded throughout Finland in response to the growing perception of insecurity among female passengers and drivers, offering a transportation model that promotes safe travel among women. #SeguridadFemenina #TransporteParaMujeres #Wowo (translated)

Of course, we do not agree with the purchase of diesel from Russia by the United States, as diesel and oil are what drive and fuel the Russian war machinery. In the same vein, Finnish President Alexander Stubb expressed his disagreement with the decision of the U.S. president. "Of course, we do not agree with the purchase of diesel from Russia by the United States, as diesel and oil are what drive and fuel the Russian war machinery," Stubb pointed out. #Ucrania #Trump #UniónEuropea (translated)

The Swedish junior teams in group gymnastics won two gold medals and one silver medal at the junior European Championships in Esbo, Finland, where the men and women won their respective classes and the mixed team finished in second place. #truppgymnastik #juniorEM #gymnastik (translated)

The Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo, criticized the recent decisions of Donald Trump, which he believes are contradictory to logic, stressing the necessity of supporting Ukraine in the face of threats from Russia and appealing to the USA to remember its European allies. #Ukraina #Trump #Rosja (translated)

The author wrote that Finland is preparing a strategy and creating opportunities for conducting cyber-informational retaliation actions as part of a proactive defense against the escalation of Russian hybrid attacks. He considered it the right direction for building an effective counter-hybrid defense. https://t.co/Z6BzIGEIGd #Finlandia #cyberbezpieczeństwo #obronaprzedhybrydami #FI #RU (translated)