As a Finn I say this is fine. Every military resource that is tied down and not raping and destroying Ukraine is net positive.

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    As an American I’m waiting for Republicans to start randomly saying anti-Finnish opinions. My bet is in about a week.

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      It will take a while, you can’t expect christ-- sorry Republicans to know the basic geography of a place that was one of the most discussed areas in terms of Cold War policy for decades.

      Fox news sometime in a month will have some blonde or angry Irish background guy looking like a confused dog saying how the PM there went to a party.

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      Cornelius Hawthorne: You’ve got a wide brow. What are you, Scandinavian?

      Britta: Yeah, Swedish!

      Cornelius Hawthorne: spits Swedish dogs. Your blood is tainted by generations of race-mixing with Laplanders, you’re basically Finns.