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According to the author, Sanna Marin told Italian media that she would be available in an emergency situation, for example, if Russia attacked Finland. The author thanked Marin and described her as exceptionally noble. He mentioned that Marin also stated in the same interview that she had left politics, but did not mention the reason in his message. #SannaMarin #Politiikka #Suomi #FI #IT #RU (translated)

Mats Uotila claimed that the justifications presented to the Italian press were noble, but in his opinion, Sanna Marin had left politics immediately after the lost parliamentary elections. According to Uotila, Marin betrayed her voters because Finns did not want her to continue as prime minister, and the role of a regular member of parliament was not acceptable to her. https://t.co/Z2Nxz4yHBE #poliikka #Suomi #vaalit (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that Donald Trump's Russia policy may not have been guided by a coherent strategy. According to him, Trump made decisions one by one, seeking quick political gains, and then had to fix the consequences. In his assessment, Vanhanen linked Trump's diminished commitment to arming Ukraine, the energy price increases resulting from the war in Iran, and the recent diesel trade with Russia. He believed that trade could bolster the Russian economy and give Vladimir Putin a means to pressure Ukraine into halting strikes on Russia's oil refineries. Vanhanen also criticized Trump for condemning strikes that he claimed weakened Russia's war economy. Vanhanen noted that Trump’s administration had not sought significant new funding from Congress for arming Ukraine. According to him, previously agreed deliveries had continued, and European countries had purchased American weapons for Ukraine. He stated that Trump was not fundamentally on the side of Ukraine or Europe but was primarily pursuing his own interests. According to Vanhanen, Finland's security should not be built on the assumption that there is a plan behind Trump's decisions that would turn in favor of Europe. He urged preparedness for the possibility that U.S. aid could be delayed or smaller than expected, to strengthen the availability of defense equipment and air defense, and to deepen cooperation with Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Britain, Poland, and the Baltic countries. He also believed that Europe should be able to support Ukraine and maintain economic pressure on Russia by its own means. #Trump #Venäjä #Ukraina (translated)

Joakim Vigelius said he participated in the True Finns' tent at the Tampere Hämeenkatu Appro, where the party was, according to him, involved for the fourth time. He mentioned that sausages and overalls badges were distributed at the tent and that politics was discussed. According to Vigelius, students specifically talked about the upcoming parliamentary elections and the rise in the True Finns' poll support. He reported that students encouraged the party to continue on the same path and opposed the return of the left to power. During the three hours at the tent, Vigelius noted that there were a few boos directed at the party, but in his estimation, there was at least one hundred times more encouragement, supportive messages, and joint photos taken. He thanked the students for their support and said it helped him continue his work for the good of Finland. #Opiskelijat #Politiikka #Tampere (translated)

Jari Sarasvuo criticized the increase in retirement age and claimed that as a result, more people would die of working age before reaching retirement. He wrote that people would have paid into others' pensions their whole lives without ever receiving a pension themselves. Sarasvuo described this again as a consequence of the politics against prosperity, which he claimed the country supported. #eläke #politiikka #ikääntyminen (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that Vladimir Putin turned 74 today and reminded that journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot in the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow on Putin's birthday, October 7, 2006. According to Vanhanen, Politkovskaya had documented the atrocities of Russian troops in Chechnya, torture, and abuses of power, and was one of the sharpest critics of Putin's Russia. Vanhanen assessed that Politkovskaya's murder on Putin's birthday could have been a message or a grotesque gift from the mafia state he described to the pinnacle of power. He wrote that the murder reminded of the system that Putin built: power became concentrated, violence became a tool of politics, and those defined as enemies of power could pay for their resistance with their lives. Vanhanen urged to remember also those who tried to tell the world what kind of Russia Putin was building, according to him. #Putin #Politkovskaja #Venäjä (translated)

Three years after the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett admitted in an interview with the Russian-language Postimees that the country failed in its primary task – protecting Jews from pogroms. #Iisrael #NaftaliBennett #politiika (translated)

Matias Turkkila said that the trailer for the movie *Me and Riikka Purra* had been released. He mentioned he was excited to see what events related to the True Finns had made it into the actual film. According to Turkkila, director Liisa Akimof had spent six months with Riikka Purra and the True Finns starting in August 2025. He relayed a description of the film, which portrayed it as a fast-paced and at times humorous do-it-yourself documentary. It followed an idealistic green-leftist through the mundane aspects of politics at a shooting range, in parliament, in Brussels, and in town squares. The description noted that the film dealt with crises and featured anti-fascists, leftists, and a lonely cultured bourgeoisie while highlighting the media's tendency to grind down issues. https://t.co/oWtJErH4ze #elokuva #dokumentti #politiikka (translated)

The author believed that the intrusion into the homes of members of parliament was an attack on the core of democracy and should not influence decision-making. He stated that he intended to continue making politics and expressing his opinions as before, and hoped that other representatives would act the same way. https://t.co/qtnzu6eJfo #demokratia #politiikka #ajatukset (translated)

The True Finns wrote that it was easy to operate within the party because it did not have to change its positions based on opinion polls, but could rely on its own line. The party stated that it had consistently warned about the consequences of mass immigration, deepening EU integration, and ideological education policies, even when bringing them up was not popular. The True Finns considered themselves the only option for those who wanted more sensible immigration policy, savings on secondary expenses, and prioritization of Finns in Finland. The party justified its views with its consistent policies and the knowledge of whom it was working for. #perussuomalaiset #ps #perussuomalaiset #politiikka #Suomi (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Timo R. Stewart's column, stating that Stewart had already decided in advance that those who disagree are stupid and racist. According to Mäkäräinen, Stewart defined racism as evaluating individuals based on their ethnic or religious background and concluded that such individuals had nothing useful to say about international politics. Mäkäräinen mentioned that the column likened the observation of group differences to climate denialism, young Earth creationism, vaccine resistance, and reptilians. He also claimed that it had asserted that the Finnish media, researchers, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had adopted their Middle Eastern stance from Hamas. Mäkäräinen argued that the claim about the absence of pure races did not refute the phenomena indicated by statistics, attitude surveys, and street views. He highlighted religion, cousin marriages, concepts of honor, fertility, and renouncement of religion, adding that the common goals of Muslims could be examined from their own polls. According to Mäkäräinen, explaining unpleasant phenomena solely with prejudices and labeling dissenters as racists was essentialism. He criticized a sense of moral superiority and argued that it led to a lack of fact-checking, distinguishing between immigrant groups, or noticing that one's own media repeated Hamas's casualty figures. He believed that placing morality above observations weakened empathy. https://t.co/dglVfEEw2o #rasismi #media #ilmasto (translated)

Kimmo Matikainen wrote that in political discussion, the demand that education should not be cut should be abandoned, in his opinion. He argued that Finland is accepting students with their families from poor developing countries to ensure the funding of educational institutions, even though, according to him, the decrease in the number of young people would support the closing of schools. #koulutus #politiikka #kehitysmahot (translated)

Mikael Lith wrote that the SDP would not say directly that the vote of no confidence regarding its government's policy on Israel was related to the mobilization of foreign language voters. He claimed that the SDP was trying to appear, especially to Muslim voters, as their guarantor and that chairman Antti Lindtman was a kind of "caliph." https://t.co/8ZJ0GLFJIA #Politiikka #Suomi #Israel (translated)

A Swedish ballot went up my nose when I told how political researcher @hanna_wass referred to the complaints about the Swedish elections as "election interference." I just checked, and she wasn't even the only one who thought so in that broadcast. https://t.co/3xS9eHmnJI #politiikka #vaalit #Ruotsi (translated)

I must say that the scale of the discussion surrounding Häkämies' visit to Israel is starting to frustrate me. The task of security policy is not to make decision-makers look good, but to keep the country safe. We have a neighboring country to the east that is at war, the security of Europe is in its most serious situation in decades, and Finland must at the same time strengthen its defense, preparedness, and alliance relations. In this world situation, I would prefer politics to focus less on proving its own moral purity and more on taking responsibility for how Finland's security is actually ensured. We do not have to like all our partners, nor do we have to approve of all their actions. Nevertheless, defense policy must be able to be conducted in a world as it is. Right now, we have more important matters to attend to than gathering political points from our supporters. Virtue signaling does not deter a single ballistic missile. https://t.co/6ME2hwb1Nd #turvallisuuspolitiikka #Suomi #puolustus (translated)

Tämähän on aivan sekaisin. Fatahia tai Hamasiako olisi pitänyt käydä tapaamassa kun ostetaan israelilaisia puolustustarvikkeita?! En ihmettele että teki paskoja kauppoja saksalaisten kanssa. Ja mitä kaikkea hänestä Oulussa puhutaan politiikan ulkopuolisiin asioihin liittyen. #Politiikka #Israeli #Oulu