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When you're a small country living next to a very powerful one, you learn to mind your manners.
Are you Finnish? I'm not convinced many Fins would love that characterisation.
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When you're a small country living next to a very powerful one, you learn to mind your manners.
Are you Finnish? I'm not convinced many Fins would love that characterisation.
It’s certainly not a nation of very thin-skinned people.
It's worth noting that Finnair hasn't lost an aircraft since 1963, and are by some measures thus the safest airline out there. They're no minnow either: while not huge in the US, they've made a killing by exploiting their geographical location as the fastest transfer hub between northern Asia and Europe. https://www.finnair.com/hu/gb/home/rakastevagen
Not sure what this means. How is Helsinki better suited for this than Moscow to serve AsiaEurope? Aeroflot is one of the most underrated airlines.
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So that begets the question, why do the Fins allow the Russian to use their planes as target practice by keeping silent?
When you're a small country living next to a very powerful one, you learn to mind your manners.
It's worth noting that Finnair hasn't lost an aircraft since 1963, and are by some measures thus the safest airline out there. They're no minnow either: while not huge in the US, they've made a killing by exploiting their geographical location as the fastest transfer hub between northern Asia and Europe. https://www.finnair.com/hu/gb/home/rakastevagen
I love how "rakastevagen" => "rakaste vägen" is Swedish for "the shortest path", but also sounds a bit Finnish to me, a non-Finnish speaker. Reminiscent of "rakastan", which a Swede would know from "minä rakastan sinua", or "I love you".
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Very true. A similar incident, also from Finland, was the downing of the passenger plane Kaleva. It was shot down by Soviet warplanes during peacetime. The vague publicly stated reason for the crash was that there was an explosion of foreign origin. The Finnish government knew that the plane was shot down by the Soviets, but chose to withhold this information for foreign policy reasons. The airline's CEO confided the…
So that begets the question, why do the Fins allow the Russian to use their planes as target practice by keeping silent?
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Are you Finnish? I'm not convinced many Fins would love that characterisation.
I'm Canadian and agree that having a Great Power for a neighbor has a profound impact on federal policy, both foreign and domestic.
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When you're a small country living next to a very powerful one, you learn to mind your manners.
Are you Finnish? I'm not convinced many Fins would love that characterisation.
I'm a realpolitik guy, so I don't often mince my words.
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When you're a small country living next to a very powerful one, you learn to mind your manners.
Or join NATO, which the Baltic states did at the first opportunity. Finland has always refused, although apparently they did think about it in 2007. Ukraine also had the opportunity, didn’t take it, and it didn’t work out so well for them.
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I'm Canadian and agree that having a Great Power for a neighbor has a profound impact on federal policy, both foreign and domestic.
Meh... Canadians love to define themselves as "not Americans".