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Saara Huhtasaari wrote that Sanna Marin had been in Italy promoting her book and told Corriere della Sera that she would likely not run for office unless Russia attacked Finland. In that case, according to Huhtasaari, Marin would have said she was available. Huhtasaari interpreted the statement as positioning herself rather than expressing a willingness to be a victim. According to her, Marin implied that conventional political work did not match her capabilities and that only a crisis threatening Finland's existence would be a sufficiently significant task. Huhtasaari compared this to the scale of historical leaders such as Kekkonen, Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Lee Kuan Yew, and George Washington, using the metaphor of the "Napoleon syndrome" to describe the phenomenon. She specified that she did not mean it as a diagnosis. Huhtasaari also criticized the contradiction between Marin's book discussing hope and the self-image conveyed in the interview. She argued that the role of politics was to build structures that functioned without a single politician. As examples of such builders, she mentioned Lee Kuan Yew, who influenced Singapore's development, and Mart Laar, who made economic and institutional decisions in post-independence Estonia. Huhtasaari believed that there had not been similar builders in Finland for decades and that Marin did not belong to their ranks. According to Huhtasaari, statesmen did not announce in advance when they would return to politics, but either did their job or stepped aside. She criticized Marin for traveling to present her book, which discussed decisions made behind closed doors, and for associating a potential return with Russia's attack. Huhtasaari described this as a fantasy of seeing herself as a historical exception. #SannaMarin #Politiikka #Historia (translated)

Yaron Nadbornik criticized Heikki Hiilamo's column published in Yleisradio, stating that it presented a one-sided image connecting the actions of Israel's leadership, Finnish Christian groups, and Minister Antti Häkkänen's visit to the structures of oppression. Nadbornik argued that the column's treatment of Israel and Zionism made Jews collectively responsible and expanded the criticism to also include Israel's supporters and Jews in general. According to Nadbornik, Hiilamo's text divided the parties into white and Christian oppressors and non-white and Muslim victims. He said this framing overlooked the Jewish roots, history, and vulnerability in the Middle East, as well as the fact that millions of people from various backgrounds lived in Israel. He also believed that the framework wrongly fit the conflict into a narrative of Western colonialism and racism and presented Israel as a refuge for a people without another homeland. Nadbornik wrote that the prejudices against Jews were based on their otherness. He noted that studies had shown that Jews living in the diaspora were unjustly held accountable for the actions of the state of Israel. He argued that Hiilamo's rhetoric, which connected Christian groups and ministerial visits with the suffering in Gaza, reinforced this framework. Nadbornik recalled the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, describing it as a massacre involving rapes, mutilations, and the abduction of civilians, including babies, festival-goers, and the elderly, into Israel. He called it the largest single act of violence against Jews since the Holocaust. According to Nadbornik, Hiilamo overlooked the fact that Hamas and Hezbollah openly sought the destruction of Israel in connection with Israel's military actions. He believed that framing the terror attack merely as a security threat or comparing it to Russia's invasion of Ukraine ignored the rights of Israeli citizens to exist and be protected. https://t.co/PFvBFdaoiQ #Israel #Juutalaiset #Rasismi (translated)

Donald Trump has ended many wars and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than anyone who has ever received it. "I have saved more lives than anyone in history and, as María Corina Machado, a truly admirable person, stated in front of the media when she handed me her Nobel Prize from last year: 'Donald Trump has ended many wars and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than anyone who has ever received it.' Given my record of peace, a record that no one else has ever achieved, I agree!" he declared. #Trump #NobelDeLaPaz #NaviPillay (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that the Ilta-Sanomat news about Jaakko Laakso's communication with the Turkish foreign minister reminded him of his trip to Ankara with Mika Aaltola in February 2023. Vanhanen said they had discussed at that time the obstacles and opportunities regarding Finland's NATO membership ratification. Vanhanen stated that based on their assessments from the discussions, Turkey was clearly more positive towards Finland's membership than Sweden's, and that a separate pathway could be opened for Finland. They had made their assessment public and raised the possibility that Finland could advance if necessary before Sweden. According to Vanhanen, the assessment turned out to be correct. He noted that at that time they were not aware that Laakso had already met with the Turkish foreign minister the previous spring and expressed his opposition to Finland's NATO membership. Vanhanen wrote that Laakso's actions raised serious questions: in his view, opposing NATO membership was the right of every Finn, but conveying anti-membership views directly to the Turkish foreign minister was a different matter. Vanhanen believed that the events related to Finland's NATO membership deserved clarification, especially when they raised difficult questions about Finnish actions. https://t.co/XGptAqzYmF #Suomi #Nato #Turkki (translated)

Tronk pointed out that Maruleone had shown the infraction history of the car of former deputy Romina Uhrig. According to the publication, it included numerous speeding fines and one of over $500,000 for not stopping at a police checkpoint; the fines were sent to Bambi. #Infracciones #Tráfico #Política (translated)

Juan Jesús indicated that Raphinha's starting position on Tuesday against Galatasaray was in doubt. He wrote that Flick did not want to take risks with the Brazilian due to the injuries he suffered last season. He added that Raphinha was expected to return to training at the beginning of the following week, a timeline he considered too tight for him to be a starter. Anthony Gordon and Gabriel Jesus were being considered, according to Juan Jesús, as the main alternatives. #Raphinha #Galatasaray #Fútbol (translated)

Tuulia Alanko wrote that the Finns Party had risen to become the second largest party and noted that there were just over six months until the elections. According to her, voters recognized who could take responsibility and commit to balancing the economy while prioritizing Finns. Alanko claimed that only one party was independent of interest groups and could implement significant tightening in immigration and crime policy as well as advocate for the interests of ordinary taxpayers. She said she aimed for Riikka to become Prime Minister. #vaalit #politiikka #Suomi (translated)

Jari Sarasvuo wrote that, in his view, equality appeared to manifest in different ways for different women. He urged to consistently support the empowerment and agency of historically oppressed groups, even if one's own feelings were against it. #naistenoikeudet #voimaantuminen (translated)

The True Finns reported that they have risen to become the second largest party in Yle's poll and assessed that their work has produced results. According to the party, immigration and criminal policy had been tightened historically thanks to them, and they had worked to balance Finland's economy as well as to defend the interests of Finnish taxpayers. The party noted that there is just over half a year until the elections and stated that they aim to have a Prime Minister from Riga. #perussuomalaiset #ps #perussuomalaiset #vaalit #Suomi (translated)

The True Finns wrote that they warned about the problems of immigration at a time when other parties described immigration and multiculturalism as a richness. The party claimed to be the only one that took the downsides of immigration seriously and was able to offer solutions to them. According to the True Finns, the problems were not solved by virtue signaling or by aiming for 45,000 new work-related immigrants annually, but by acknowledging the facts and basing politics on them. The party stated that under the leadership of its interior minister, immigration policy had been tightened historically, and practically all tightening of the government program had been implemented. It referred to a 24-point list of changes in policy. #ps #perussuomalaiset #maahanmuutto #maahanmuutto #perussuomalaiset #politiikka (translated)

Jari Sarasvuo believed that now was a historically opportune moment to get licensing authorities to change their practices. He justified his view with the well-being of the entire nation and called for mines, factories, and other sources of prosperity in Finland. Sarasvuo advocated for the reindustrialization of the country and the streamlining of licensing practices. #hyvinvointi #teollisuus #kaivokset (translated)

Dennis Mitzner criticized Timo Stewart for suggesting that he believed Israel was an obstacle to the two-state solution. Mitzner argued that the Palestinians had not accepted Israel's state proposals in direct negotiations, the latest of which were the Camp David and Taba offers in 2000–2001, as well as Ehud Olmert's offers in 2008. He added that Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005. According to Mitzner, the PLO's decades-old support for the two-state solution did not indicate that the Palestinians accepted Israel's existence as a Jewish state. Mitzner wrote that Stewart viewed the destruction of Hamas's ideology as unrealistic without killing all people. Mitzner interpreted this to mean that Stewart considered all Gazans as supporters of Hamas's ideology, but he himself said he would not go that far. He referred to Hamas's election in Gaza and claimed that no Gazan had attempted to help Israeli hostages in the past couple of years. Mitzner compared the situation to the Allies' victory over Nazism and the defeat of Japan, as well as the actions of the United Arab Emirates against the Muslim Brotherhood. He stated that the Western left should stop rewarding Palestinian violence and anti-Semitism. According to Mitzner, Stewart claimed that there was no Palestinian state because Israel occupied the territory and did not allow it to become independent. Mitzner denied this and described the area's history: according to him, it belonged to the British mandate from 1917 and prior to that to the Ottoman Empire. He wrote that the Arab leadership rejected the UN's 1947 partition plan, after which Jordan controlled the West Bank and Egypt controlled Gaza without establishing a Palestinian state. According to Mitzner, the territories came under Israeli control in the 1967 war, which Jordan, Egypt, and Syria initiated with the intent to destroy, and the Arab world's negative attitude towards Israel continued with the Khartoum resolution of the three no's. Mitzner claimed that Stewart ignored Palestinian actions and concluded by asking whether the dispute ultimately related to the fact that the opposing side was the Jewish state of Israel. #IsraelinVastaisetAsenteet #Palestiinalaiskysymys #KansainvälinenPolitiikka (translated)

Apple is implementing changes to how full disk access permissions are granted on Mac to protect users' private data in light of the rise of AI agents, as this access can allow them to read messages, emails, and history without the user's full knowledge. #Apple #IA #Privacidad (translated)

Jukka Lepikkö wrote that there was less than a calendar month, specifically 22 trading days, until the United States midterm elections. According to him, the historically weak pre-election period for the stock market ended about three weeks before the elections, after which the strongest six-month period of the entire four-year presidential cycle began. https://t.co/uTch4VY7yT #välivaalit #pörssi #USA (translated)