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President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö’s New Year’s Speech

• everybodyknows 5y ago
  > ... Henry Kissinger’s lessons also come to mind. According to his cynical statement, whenever avoidance of war has been the primary objective of a group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of its most ruthless member. This principle may also be put to the test in the dialogue due to start in the second week of January.
  • raxxorrax 5y ago
    Avoidance of war with Russia is pretty sensible though. Also the rhetoric about Russian misinformation was a bit much and did impart an extremely bad image of Russia in the more easily influenced populous. Some of that has reasons of course, but to me this mirrors Iraq invasion media manipulation to deflect domestic issues. Although there were cases of political murders withing EU territory which are vastly more relevant and must result in a reaction in my opinion.