The communal enforced forgetfulness of the long time USSR enemy is flat out amazing to me.
Obviously not in recent years in many ways.
That was when they were communist. Now that they are more fascist itâs much better.
Disagree, MAGAs love Netanyahu.
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hate Palestinians more
Dammit, we hated fascists too, killed a bunch of them. Havenât these woke-ass Trumpkins watched âPattonâ?
That was only like 5 years. We were scared of communists for 40 or so.
tl;dr: Finland will now be formally admitted into Nato at its next summit, taking place in July in Lithuania.
How in the world was Finland not already in? They border USSR/Russia⌠youâd think that would be powerful motivation to join.
I mean, I know they werenât⌠been following the story a bit, but it just seems crazy to me that they werenât.
Well, itâs a long storyâŚbut it has at least something to do with âdonât poke the bearâ.
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I figured that must be the reason⌠didnât realize there was actually a pejorative term to describe the phenomenon though. TIL.
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I think i remember when the Ukraine invasion started, Russia threatening NATO ( or threatening Finland), if they were admitted
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Well they were hot & bothered about Ukraine joining, for sure.
I think that thereâs basically an unstated requirement to join NATO that your borders have to be undisputed, which was never really the case for Ukraine. IIRC Russia has been griping about Crimea and Donbas essentially since the USSR broke up in 1991. But I think NATO has an unstated goal of not wishing to get involved in border disputes.
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I would love for Russia to respond symmetrically. Its asymmetric actions are the destructive ones. Also note article date is June 2022, so âfreshâ in headline isnât relative to today.
OK, âloveâ is a little exaggeration. If symmetric meant âfor defenseâ I am totally cool with that. However, troop buildups arenât always for defense.
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Sanna Marin out as prime minister Finland.
Whatâs the real story with that UN report that supposedly calls for pedophilia to be globally normalized or whatever? There arenât many links on it (and the few that are out there seem to be very fringe-y so I donât want to link them), which means either theyâre trying to cover it up 
or that Mike Moon is exaggerating things so he can run for Secretary General.
I know that The Blaze is fringe trash, but just in case you donât know what Iâm talking about:
Iâve skimmed the report and read a couple articles about it, I donât see anywhere about pedophilia. Specifically thereâs no language surrounding adults having sexual relations with minors.
I would presume that the intent here is, âEven if your country says that you cannot consent until 18, we claim there are cases where people younger than 18 can consent.â Take 2 average 16-year-olds for example. In general Iâd say both are capable of consent.
The stronger point that seems to be emphasized is that any enforcement of sexual relations regarding minors should be applied without discrimination on sex or gender. I.e. We should not assume that a 16-year-old male is capable of consent while an otherwise identical 16-year-old female is not.
Similarly, we shouldnât assume that a trans child can consent (and therefore might be punished) but an otherwise identical cis child cannot.
The reporting by Fox et. al. appears to just be âgroomerâ-style paranoia.
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Ah. So itâs basically just the UN asserting that children have rights (which theyâve already done) and not the Build-a-burgers meeting up for pizza in DC.