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

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1465·
    2 years ago

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

    • mumblerfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      49·
      2 years ago

      “The Finns, they, uh… who are they again? Woke, communists, like always?”

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      291·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • GraniteM@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • fosforus@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
        62·
        2 years ago

        I feel like the modders had a woosh moment here perhaps.