"Finnish patriots" and their collaborators have been very active on this platform in recent days. Russia's power and its demand for us to obey or be destroyed has been presented in various ways. We are not in danger. Russia is. (translated)
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Janne Riiheläinen 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺
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British Prime Minister Burnham announced yesterday in his UN speech the establishment of the National Centre for Information Defence. It will bring together intelligence, police, and social media giants to track and disrupt foreign influence operations. (translated)
Violent far-right ultra-supporter groups are a familiar phenomenon from around the world, and now they have arrived here too. (translated)
I have long presented pessimistic assessments that Russia needs to try to change the situation to its advantage by striking in a controlled manner at a NATO country. Now I am thinking about what the situation requires from the citizen. (translated)
Finland has at least two policies regarding Israel. The Foreign Minister advocates for a two-state solution and opposition to illegal settlements. The Defense Minister supports illegal settlements and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza by meeting with his colleague who promotes them. (translated)
Recent research: Hate speech directed at female politicians in Finland aims at misogynistic social control through intimidation, whoring, and belittling. Hate speech in this form is a direct threat to democracy and women's participation. (translated)
The administration in the United States does not acknowledge far-right extremism and terrorism. It's pathetic to see that the one responsible for coordinating anti-terrorism efforts doesn't even want to dare to admit its existence. (translated)
Central Finland police warns: Far-right thinking is spreading among young people. (translated)
It would happen with a shared situational picture, a stronger deterrent, sanctions, and if necessary, active countermeasures. The starting point is that the EU lives not in a state of peace, but in a situation where hostile states operate below the threshold of armed conflict. 2/X (translated)
The European Parliament is currently discussing a report on Russia's hybrid activities. According to it, the situation should no longer be addressed as isolated cases, but as a coordinated form of warfare that the EU should respond to. 1/X (translated)
At Donald Trump's wedding on a paradise island in May, there were very few guests, but there was a group of Russian speakers whom others did not know. And they cannot be found in the photos published from the celebration. One of them, a close oligarch of Putin, paid for the celebration. (translated)
Finland has decided to join the nuclear deterrence initiative launched by France, which is significant for European security. Everyone is informing about "Finland's decision." Who decided, based on whose preparations? However, it is a very big decision. (translated)
The US State Department has frozen the approval of France's new ambassador in retaliation for a summer tweet in which the French UN representation criticized the USA for human rights. The current ambassador would like to retire, but a successor is not being allowed into the country. (translated)
The AfD, like many other European far-right and extreme-right parties, began cooperating with Putin's Russia a long time ago. This article from 2018 discusses the AfD's activities in Russian information influence even back then. (translated)
"AfD sees open praise from both the White House and the Kremlin. No wonder: the ideology and anti-immigrant stance connect AfD and the MAGA movement that supports Trump. Many of AfD's goals are the same as those of the Kremlin." (translated)
"We must win the cognitive war against Russia. The opponent cannot carve new holes in the wall, but can advance through the existing cracks. They should be patched." (translated)
A group of experts is demanding a new defense model for Finland – "Cognitive warfare is ongoing all the time" (translated)
A message like this has been pushed all day long, that the victory of the far right was some kind of reluctant but necessary reaction to the fact that one cannot even talk about immigration, and that it is happening in Finland as well. Strangely, these folks have completely overlooked the current government's actions and words. (translated)
The background of the Nazis' rise to power in the 1930s included, among other things, severe austerity politics and economic discipline, as well as the petty bourgeoisie's fear of losing their social status. Additionally, Jews were seen by the Nazis as an economic and cultural threat and as promoters of oppression ideology. (translated)
It feels like those who view AfD's victory positively explain the party's win with something other than its far-right ideology and politics. Yes, it achieved its victory precisely with those, and on top of that, there was the friendship with Russia and the abandonment of Ukraine. (translated)