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Ambassador of 🇪🇪 to 🇫🇮. Former director of ICDS ( @ICDS_Tallinn ). Former director of NATO Cyber Center ( @ccdcoe ). Former POLDIR of @MoD_Estonia .
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A monument for “world peace”, a gift from the Soviet Union, was removed from Helsinki this morning. Soviet Union had as little to do with world peace as Russia has now. Pure propaganda. Source:
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84 years ago 🇷🇺 empire attacked 🇫🇮. Today, as we remember fallen 🇫🇮 heroes lets double our efforts to support 🇺🇦 in their struggle against the same beast.
#StrongerTogether
#SlavaUkra
ïni
#sisu
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Press freedom in the world. Best 5 are Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia and Finland. Very Northern affair.
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This is pure gold. Nazi Germany invaded 🇵🇱 using Czechoslovakian arms industry. If 🇺🇦 is lost Nazi 🇷🇺 will use 🇺🇦 arms industry to attack Europe🇪🇺. We are in 1938 again, but where Czechoslovakia fights. We need to help 🇺🇦 in order not to be in 1939 and world war again.
Worth listening to Timothy Snyder in Tallinn 🇪🇪 yesterday: We are in 1938 now. If Czechs had resisted Nazi Germany at the time, there would have been no WWII. If Ukraine gives up or we give up 🇺🇦 we will move to 1939. Ukraine helps us to extend 1938.
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I am old enough to remember that sending any lethal aid to 🇺🇦 was a red line; after that ATGMs were a red line, after that tanks were a red line, after that aircraft were a red line, now ATACMs are a red line. Will we ever learn?
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According to 🇨🇭president "Swiss weapons must not be used in wars". Next in news: Swiss chocolate is not meant to be eaten.
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These russians are not protesting against the war and genocide their country has carried out over the last 7 months. They did not protest over Bucha, Irpin or Izium. They are protesting now, because their own lives might be impacted by it. But Bucha was ok for them.
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Its really hard for 🇷🇺 politicians to understand the concept of elections where the current guy does not win. (and - Estonian PM Kallas just won a land-slide, Mironov can not even get basic facts right).
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There are ~30 million 🇷🇺 men eligible for mobilisation. People who say that 🇪🇺 countries should give asylum to those avoiding being mobilised need to specify, how many millions is his/her country ready to take.
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NATO should move from trip-wire force to forward defence in the Baltic States. We don’t want to be liberated later, we have all seen from Bucha what Russian occupation looks like.
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Proud of my country, 🇪🇪. 32 years ago we were still occupied by the Soviet Union. Now this
Liberal Democracy Index 2022
Top 10 Countries
Denmark🇩🇰🥇
Sweden🇸🇪🥈
Norway🇳🇴🥉
Switzerland🇨🇭
Estonia🇪🇪
New Zealand🇳🇿
Belgium🇧🇪
Ireland🇮🇪
Costa Rica🇨🇷
Finland🇫🇮
@vdeminstitute
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Really proud of 🇪🇪. Not just the first in per capita military aid to 🇺🇦, but also in sheltering most 🇺🇦 refugees per capita. In the end, of course, what matters are real numbers. But 🇪🇪 example shows that we all can do more. The source of this infograph:
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This is nice. Finnish city Lappeenranta is 20 km from the Russian border.
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Every single word McCain utters in this interview is pure gold. So don’t tell me that “no-one knew” of Putin’s plans, that it has been a shock to all of us. Oh God how I miss McCain
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22 000 candles for the Estonian victims of Soviet deportation 70 years ago. Names pf those 22 000 are scrolling on the screen. The list goes on and on and on
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This is your yearly reminder that OTD in 1939 Soviet Union, ally of Nazi Germany, invaded 🇵🇱.
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Lesson for all the other countries: don’t by any military kit or ammo from Switzerland. Because when you need your stocks to be resupplied during the war 🇨🇭 can block the delivery.
Switzerland blocks weapon supplies to 🇺🇦 if they have Swiss-made components.
Switzerland explains this with its wish to remain neutral. 🇺🇦 sees this not as neutrality but as undermining our defense capabilities.
We urge Swiss citizens to address their government on this issue.
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A message from Finnish Minister of Communications that FI will close its airspace to Russian air-traffic
Suomi valmistautuu ilmatilan sulkemiseen venäläiseltä lentoliikenteeltä. 🇫🇮🇺🇦
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As you might know 🇪🇪 and 🇫🇮 share the same national anthem (music, not the words). What you might not know is that 🇪🇪 flag day and 🇫🇮 Defence Forces flag day are both on June 4th. OTD 139 years ago first 🇪🇪 flag was blessed. OTD 156 years ago Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was born.
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OTD 82 years ago Winter War ended. Yet another example of totalitarian Soviet Union/Russia attacking its democratic neighbour and the latter putting up a fierce fight. Soviet Union lost ~150 thousand KIA and missing.
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I made it to Savonlinna. First stop -
@olafbrewing
- to buy its world-famous OTAN beer. “A taste of security with a hint of freedom”. Otan olutta means “I drink beer” in Finnish.
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Congrats to 🇫🇮 for a quick accession process to NATO. New dawn for the 🇪🇪-🇫🇮 bilateral and Nordic-Baltic regional defence cooperation. Lets now join our efforts to help 🇸🇪 over the finish line. I very much hope that at Vilnius Summit there will be 32 of us.
#StrongerTogether
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🇪🇪 PM explaining the difference between peace and 🇷🇺 peace. The latter is torture, executions, rape, mass deportations, depravation. The biggest deportation to Siberia from the occupied 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 took place in 1949 - deep in peacetime. 🇷🇺-organised Holodomor in 🇺🇦 was in peace-time
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In case you were wondering whether 🇪🇪 special forces training includes listening to long lectures in classroom settings
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10% of Estonians singing together at
#Laulupidu2019
. This particular Song is about honey-bees (thousands will fall, but thousands will get to the bee-hive). First Song Festival took place on 1869. This is in the DNA of the nation
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One of the most humane, touching and tragic picture of all times. If you haven’t done so already please follow
@AuschwitzMuseum
A heart-breaking moment saved in an SS picture of deportations of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It was taken 79 years ago, most likely in late May 1944.
A little child found a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older boy. All the people in
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With such good friends we are invincible! Congratulations to the 13th President of 🇫🇮!
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90% of 🇫🇮 Finns say no to normalising relations with 🇷🇺 as long as Putin is in power. 84% agree that the only way to end the war is to drive 🇷🇺 forces out of 🇺🇦. 79% want heavier weapons delivered to 🇺🇦. Link:
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Having the misfortune of growing up under the Soviet occupation I remember vividly, that 2/3 of the popular songs in late 70s and early 80s were just copied from the (imperialist-decadent etc) West. Of course no royalties were paid, they were just stolen.
Another super original, definitely-not-Western song on Russia's state TV. What is the name of it? I bet it's "Russians in the night."
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🇷🇺 general tells the audience of state TV that 🇺🇦 is just the beginning of 🇷🇺 imperial conquest. If we have learned anything from the 1930s we should know that aggressor never stops. It has to be stopped. Doing that is getting harder the more you dither and wait.
#ArmUkraineNow
🇷🇺General Andrei Mordvichev interview:
- The war will take a long time. There is no point in talking specific dates... If we talk about Eastern Europe, what we have to do - of course it will take longer...
- Is 🇺🇦 just a stage?
- Yes, exactly. It's just the beginning.
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Today is a good day for European security
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@elonmusk
.
@TwitterSupport
, this account was suspended because trolls mass-reported her for fighting dis-information. Please fix that.
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105 years ago 🇪🇪 War of Independence began. We remember our ally 🇬🇧, volunteers from 🇫🇮 (Pohjan Pojat ja Suomalainen Vapaajoukko) and from some other countries. The main enemy was the same that 🇺🇦 faces today - russian imperialism. We won and so will 🇺🇦!
#OTD
, in 1918, the Estonian War of Independence began. The newly established 🇪🇪 democratic republic, with the help of allies, especially 🇬🇧, managed against all odds to push back the Bolshevik invasion.
Freedom & democracy remain as priceless as they were 105 years ago.
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🇫🇮 will ban entry of 🇷🇺-registered cars from midnight. Exeptions for 🇪🇺 citizens who reside in 🇷🇺. 6 months for russian cars already in 🇫🇮 to get out
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I hope this simple graph showing assistance to 🇺🇦 as share of the GDP will be of help for those Americans who think that the 🇺🇸 is shouldering a disproportionate share of assistance to 🇺🇦. The problem with my beloved 🇪🇪 is not the share of GDP but the size of the whole GDP. 😔
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Kaja Kallas: “Heti kun saimme itsenäisyytemme takaisin 1990-luvun alussa, päätimme, ettemme halua olla enää koskaan yksin. Toisessa maailmansodassa yritimme olla puolueettomia, eikä se toiminut”.
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Putin escalates when he sees that to be in his interest, not because someone said something.
US policy toward Russia continues to be plagued by lack of rhetorical discipline. First calling for regime change, now goal of weakening Russia. This only increases Putin’s case for escalating & shifts focus away from Russian actions in Ukraine & toward Russia-US/NATO showdown.
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Personal news: Leaving Tallinn for Helsinki. Been designated to become the next Estonian ambassador to Finland. Fantastic country to head to, wonderful late indian summer wheather, calm seas. Thank you
@ICDS_Tallinn
for 3 great years! Exited to join the team of
@SaatkondSoomes
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Schrödinger's Baltic cats – they are both insignificant vassals of Washington and they control everything, they are both weak and all-powerful, both servants and masterminds. 🐈🐈⬛🐈
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Why on earth does Arts’ Institute need uniforms?
🇷🇺 Moscow Industrial Arts Institute’s new uniforms. Anyone else think the Fall Fashion has palates of fascism with hints of 1940s?
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OTD 80 years ago soviet russian bombers bombed Tallinn, destroying 1/5 of the city. Civilian targets, civilian victims. Terror-bombing. Sounds familiar?.
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This video featuring 🇺🇦 defender from February 25th needs to be put back into circulation. Beautiful prose in plain language with staightforward message. Enjoy!
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Hm, how convenient. Terrorussia just banned investigations of accidents at hydeoelectrical structures in temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine.
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I was asked by Estonian ERR to try to make sense of NATO debate in Finland. Link here:
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Tourism is not a fundamental right. RF citizens can travel for humanitarian reasons. But not for fun, while a brutal war is waged in their name. This decision is made in coordination between 🇪🇪 , 🇱🇻 , 🇱🇹 and 🇵🇱 .
#SlavaUkraini
!
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Premier of Sofi Oksanen’s play “Mansikkapaikka” (Strawberry Place) at 🇫🇮 National Theatre. Many different threads come together in this play - 🇷🇺 aggression against 🇺🇦, human trafficking, human rights. Well recommended! Oh, and the company during the break was just supreme!
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Estonia to send 100 military personnel to assist Poland. Pioneers, MP, intel + drones.
#ERR
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Exactly! “If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the window and find out which is true.”
My latest article for the
@AtlanticCouncil
C- why does the press take
#Moscow
at its word? The language writers use to describe the war in
#Ukraine
needs to be updated, reflecting what we know now about the nature and origin of the conflict.
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We will never forget, we will never forgive
On 14 June 1941, 10 205 Estonians, including infants and elders, were deported to Siberia by the Soviet regime.
Most of them died, only a few managed to return. But we remember them all.
Today, Russia uses deportations as a weapon against Ukraine.
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Celebrating 🇫🇮 Defence Forces’ flag day (Mannerheim’s birthday) with 🇫🇮 CHOD General Kivinen. In all fairness: there were hundreds of other guests besides me 😉
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OTD 100 years ago Red Army attacked newly independent Estonia and thus our War of Independence commenced. We won.
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Close to 4000 🇪🇪 volunteers fought for 🇫🇮 and against our common enemy in the so-called continuation war. Their slogan was “for 🇫🇮 freedom and 🇪🇪 honour”. President
@alexstubb
paid his respect to fallen heros in Tallinn cemetry today.
Sain kunnian laskea seppeleen Suomen-poikien muistomerkille. Soomepoisid olivat virolaisia vapaaehtoisia, jotka taistelivat jatkosodan vuosina Suomen puolesta. Emme unohda heidän uhraustaan. Aitäh.
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Human price of Soviet occupation and communism in one picture
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Germany is actually geographically closer to Ukraine than Estonia, but otherwise yes
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Finnish President Niinistö: Nato membership is between applicant and Nato — not Putin
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Estonian Parliament convened for an extraordinary session today in order to ratify accession of Finland and Sweden to the North Atlantic Treaty. With that Estonia declares security of FI and SE to be its own. 79 MP-s voted in favour, zero against
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So let me try understand this. If the West sends 🇺🇦 long-range missiles and tanks 🇷🇺 might escalate and terror-bomb civilians?
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Putin immitating Stalin in everything but the moustache.
#RussiaisATerroistState
The dam in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya after being blown up by the Soviet secret services in 1941. From 20,000 to 100,000 people died in the ensuing flood.
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Nice
⚡️For a Russian citizen who shouted insulting phrases towards Ukrainians in Germany, Booking canceled her booking in Vienna
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Yesterday was 🇪🇪 birthday. Also the first anniversary of 🇺🇦 war of independence. 3400 🇪🇪 volunteers fought in 🇫🇮 continuation war under the slogan “for 🇫🇮 freedom and 🇪🇪 honour”. Today 🇺🇦 are fighting for their independence. We are supporting them, “for 🇺🇦 freedom and our honour”
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Never forget that 🇷🇺 was one of the two countries that unleashed the horrible tragedy of WW2 on humankind. 9 week after this joint victory parade with Nazi Germany 🇷🇺 attacked 🇫🇮.
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Traditional dinner for ambassadors accredited to Helsinki 🇫🇮. Thank you
@niinisto
and
@Ulkoministerio
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Ukrainian friend sent a recipy for a new version of a classic dish
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I hope this is the first among many parliamentary inquiries in Europe and beyond.
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Latest poll from Finland. 68% in favour of NATO membership, 12 against. If President and the Government would recommend it, then 77% are in favour, 11 against. In short: SUPPORT for NATO is OVERWHELMING!
MTV:n kysely: Nato-jäsenyyttä kannattaa 68 prosenttia suomalaisista
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Had a chance to chat with a formidable PM of 🇫🇮
@MarinSanna
at the Helsinki Security Forum. 🇪🇪-🇫🇮 friendship and cooperation has never been stronger.
#StrongerTogether
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🇪🇪 revoked Kremlin activist’s residency permit and issued a 10 year Schengen ban. She will be able to enjoy her beloved TerroRussia for years to come.
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Annual 🇪🇪 ambassadors’ conference this week. Today in the border city of Narva. Europe starts from here. Or ends. Depends on which way you look.
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Gold standard for the ages. Worth watching at least once a year. Here is your 2024 spring doze of McCain. Helps against week knees and soft spine.
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In this video you see portaits of the 10 Estonian heads of state between 1918 and 1940. 4 of them were killed by Soviets in 1941; 4 perished in concentration camps in Siberia in 1942. 1 died in 1956 in Soviet mental asylum and 1 managed to escape to Sweden and lived until 1963.
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Terveatuloa! 🇪🇪 skies are very hornet-friendly.
Four Finnish F/A-18 Hornets will fly training missions
#together
with NATO Baltic Air Policing detachments and visit Ämari Air Base in Estonia on 29 March 2023. 🇫🇮🇪🇪
Read more:
#ilmavoimat
#StrongerTogether
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Everything set up for a signing ceremony for the purchase of sniper rifles for
@EstonianDefence
from 🇫🇮 company Sako Ltd . Picture is illustrative, it will b signed from 🇪🇪 side by
@magnus_saar
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A lot of Chamberlains have surfaced during the last couple of days. Here is a warning from the past
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🇺🇦 fighter: “We can either fight for Ukraine against Russia, or we will be overrun and forced to fight for Russia against Europe” . Now let that sink in.
from The Economist
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Several leading politicians in 🇫🇮 have recently said, that if there is going to be a European consortium providing 🇺🇦 with Leopard tanks 🇫🇮 will contribute.
#FreeTheLeopards
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Estonia will send a “very large quantity” of anti-tank mines to Ukraine.
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If you wonder why russian occupiers leave their wounded behind
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It might be the case that we love our dotted vowels too much.
ä, ü, ö and especially õ.
Today we celebrate Mother Tongue Day in
#Estonia
🇪🇪!
Some facts:
🔹Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language;
🔹It has no gender nor future tense, but 1⃣4⃣ noun cases;
🔹Estonian is spoken by about 1⃣.2⃣ million people.
Quick guide to our language ⤵️
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Fine example of small countries’ cooperation in arms procurement. Previously 🇪🇪 has bought radars and SPHs together with 🇫🇮. 🇪🇪🤝🇱🇻
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Yeltsin asked Clinton to give Europe to Russia. Yeltsin was, especially in retrospect, the reasonable one, quite Western-friendly, quite democratic-minded. Now let that sink in.
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Finland sending arms to Ukraine. Revolutionary decision for Helsinki.
#Finland
🇫🇮 will deliver to
#Ukraine
🇺🇦
*2,500 assault rifles
*150,000 cartridges for the assault rifles
*1,500 single-shot anti-tank weapons
#turpo
#s
äkpol
#WeStandWithUkraine
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If Sofi Oksanen did not exist we would have to invent her. But inventing Sofi Oksanen would be impossible. Launch of her new book at 🇪🇪 Embassy in 🇫🇮. “The Same River Twice. Putin’s War Against Women”.
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Good summary of why TerroRussia should not be allowed to compete at the Olympic Games in Paris.
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Estonian CHOD General Herem for the FT. In UA deterrence failed. NATO has to be able to defend every inch of its territory ftom day one, not liberate occupied territories later. Link here:
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