• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This but a little bit unironically. They and their Scandinavian neighbors went unaligned during the Cold War and reaped an enormous peace dividend.

    Now that the country is getting sucked into the Ukraine-Russia mess, they’re pivoting towards domestic spending cuts and tighter immigration rules and a big new military budget.

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      10 months ago

      went unaligned during the Cold War

      Finland didn’t have many options in the matter, you know

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      10 months ago

      Strange that, when a country invaded another country, invades that same country again a handful of years later, and then that same imaging country threatens your country if you try to join a certain group of people, that you might go ahead and try to prevent that country from invading you.

      Very strange.