#finlandization — Public Fediverse posts

And the same pic of the OG hipster with alt text I forgot to paste. This is the look of someone who had just been able to say “nah, I don’t wanna campaign for a presidency anymore” - and 5/6ths of the parliament votes to extend his term by 5 years. That’s #finlandization for you.

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And the same pic of the OG hipster with alt text I forgot to paste. This is the look of someone who had just been able to say “nah, I don’t wanna campaign for a presidency anymore” - and 5/6ths of the parliament votes to extend his term by 5 years. That’s #finlandization for you.

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And the same pic of the OG hipster with alt text I forgot to paste. This is the look of someone who had just been able to say “nah, I don’t wanna campaign for a presidency anymore” - and 5/6ths of the parliament votes to extend his term by 5 years. That’s #finlandization for you.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3me6ieqyn6k24

And the same pic of the OG hipster with alt text I forgot to paste. This is the look of someone who had just been able to say “nah, I don’t wanna campaign for a presidency anymore” - and 5/6ths of the parliament votes to extend his term by 5 years. That’s #finlandization for you.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3me6ieqyn6k24

And the same pic of the OG hipster with alt text I forgot to paste. This is the look of someone who had just been able to say “nah, I don’t wanna campaign for a presidency anymore” - and 5/6ths of the parliament votes to extend his term by 5 years. That’s #finlandization for you.

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Fourth political theory, foundations in geopolitics plan all along 🤷🏽 #natsec failure 🇺🇸 #finlandization #dugin #Putin

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Fourth political theory, foundations in geopolitics plan all along 🤷🏽 #natsec failure 🇺🇸 #finlandization #dugin #Putin

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Powerfromspace1/115761477250422254

Fourth political theory, foundations in geopolitics plan all along 🤷🏽 #natsec failure 🇺🇸 #finlandization #dugin #Putin

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Fourth political theory, foundations in geopolitics plan all along 🤷🏽 #natsec failure 🇺🇸 #finlandization #dugin #Putin

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Fourth political theory, foundations in geopolitics plan all along 🤷🏽 #natsec failure 🇺🇸 #finlandization #dugin #Putin

2025-11-03: A thread illustrating #Finlandization with an example from the history of computer #gaming in the 1980s. bsky.app/profile/jmko...

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2025-11-03: A thread illustrating #Finlandization with an example from the history of computer #gaming in the 1980s. bsky.app/profile/jmko...

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2025-11-03: A thread illustrating #Finlandization with an example from the history of computer #gaming in the 1980s. bsky.app/profile/jmko...

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2025-11-03: A thread illustrating #Finlandization with an example from the history of computer #gaming in the 1980s. bsky.app/profile/jmko...

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2025-11-03: A thread illustrating #Finlandization with an example from the history of computer #gaming in the 1980s. bsky.app/profile/jmko...

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2022-04-19: An illustrative example of Finnish #ColdWar political maneuvering, whose #1 goal was to avoid Soviet occupation or Soviet-sponsored Communist takeover. And #Finlandization. President Koivisto was much sneakier operator than his public image suggested. bsky.app/profile/jmko...

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2022-04-19: An illustrative example of Finnish #ColdWar political maneuvering, whose #1 goal was to avoid Soviet occupation or Soviet-sponsored Communist takeover. And #Finlandization. President Koivisto was much sneakier operator than his public image suggested. bsky.app/profile/jmko...

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2022-04-19: An illustrative example of Finnish #ColdWar political maneuvering, whose #1 goal was to avoid Soviet occupation or Soviet-sponsored Communist takeover. And #Finlandization. President Koivisto was much sneakier operator than his public image suggested. bsky.app/profile/jmko...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yxj5dhr6fys4ots3wifc3t6n/post/3lcafqqpil32b

2022-04-19: An illustrative example of Finnish #ColdWar political maneuvering, whose #1 goal was to avoid Soviet occupation or Soviet-sponsored Communist takeover. And #Finlandization. President Koivisto was much sneakier operator than his public image suggested. bsky.app/profile/jmko...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yxj5dhr6fys4ots3wifc3t6n/post/3lcafqqpil32b

2022-04-19: An illustrative example of Finnish #ColdWar political maneuvering, whose #1 goal was to avoid Soviet occupation or Soviet-sponsored Communist takeover. And #Finlandization. President Koivisto was much sneakier operator than his public image suggested. bsky.app/profile/jmko...

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Upping this for visibility, as I think it is a great encapsulation of many reasons why #finlandization is AT BEST a desperate survival strategy. Not anything to celebrate, let alone emulate!

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Upping this for visibility, as I think it is a great encapsulation of many reasons why #finlandization is AT BEST a desperate survival strategy. Not anything to celebrate, let alone emulate!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3m4rzhcz4rs2s

Upping this for visibility, as I think it is a great encapsulation of many reasons why #finlandization is AT BEST a desperate survival strategy. Not anything to celebrate, let alone emulate!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3m4rzhcz4rs2s

Upping this for visibility, as I think it is a great encapsulation of many reasons why #finlandization is AT BEST a desperate survival strategy. Not anything to celebrate, let alone emulate!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3m4rzhcz4rs2s

One more observation about what #Finlandization was in practice: it was a foreign minister of #Finland recommending to a foreign power - in his official reply to a demarche, no less! - that foreign #intelligence services should covertly influence, pressure and manipulate Finnish media.

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One more observation about what #Finlandization was in practice: it was a foreign minister of #Finland recommending to a foreign power - in his official reply to a demarche, no less! - that foreign #intelligence services should covertly influence, pressure and manipulate Finnish media.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3m4ptm32b2d2b

One more observation about what #Finlandization was in practice: it was a foreign minister of #Finland recommending to a foreign power - in his official reply to a demarche, no less! - that foreign #intelligence services should covertly influence, pressure and manipulate Finnish media.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3m4ptm32b2d2b

One more observation about what #Finlandization was in practice: it was a foreign minister of #Finland recommending to a foreign power - in his official reply to a demarche, no less! - that foreign #intelligence services should covertly influence, pressure and manipulate Finnish media.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3m4ptm32b2d2b

THAT is why most Finns who know more what #finlandization was in practice are so much against it. Yes, Finland survived. But not without paying a price. And then only barely, more due to luck than anything else. Had the #ColdWar continued, Finnish #democracy might well have died out.

It is CERTAIN that similar dynamics would arise in other cases of #finlandization. Opportunists and those genuinely concerned would compete with each other to prove their loyalty and sabotage their rivals. At the cost of increasing double-speak and loss of democratic freedoms.

But it did illustrate very nicely how #finlandization worked. It wasn't the Soviets directly who tried to curb Finnish freedoms. Finns did that to gain advantage over their own political foes. Here, too, the Soviets might have let things slide if the Communists hadn't raised a "moral panic."

But in reality, #finlandization was a corrosive process that came close to wrecking Finnish politics and democracy. If the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed, it might have done so. It meant sacrificing one's values and even the notion of truth for the sake of national survival.

BTW those protests were deliberately stoked by the publisher. BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland. THAT is what #finlandization was in practice. A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.

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To someone who doesn't really know what #finlandization was, and/or thinks that small countries and their inhabitants don't have agency in the Great Game, it may sound like a decent solution for "buffer states" (notice the lack of agency) like #Ukraine. After all, #Finland survived. Even prospered.

The next year, the government did ban an "anti-Soviet" Finnish film "Born American" by one Renny Harlin - because it could do so under the legislation covering film and print media. But in the end, the episode may have been a turning point in #finlandization. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Am...

Born American - Wikipedia

#Finlandization means a powerful country bending a smaller neighbor to its will, especially in foreign policy, while allowing it to be nominally independent... as long as it toes the line. In short, what happened to #Finland after the Second World War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland...

Finlandization - Wikipedia

The next year, the government did ban an "anti-Soviet" Finnish film "Born American" by one Renny Harlin - because it could do so under the legislation covering film and print media. But in the end, the episode may have been a turning point in #finlandization. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Am...

Born American - Wikipedia

To someone who doesn't really know what #finlandization was, and/or thinks that small countries and their inhabitants don't have agency in the Great Game, it may sound like a decent solution for "buffer states" (notice the lack of agency) like #Ukraine. After all, #Finland survived. Even prospered.

#Finlandization means a powerful country bending a smaller neighbor to its will, especially in foreign policy, while allowing it to be nominally independent... as long as it toes the line. In short, what happened to #Finland after the Second World War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland...

Finlandization - Wikipedia

But it did illustrate very nicely how #finlandization worked. It wasn't the Soviets directly who tried to curb Finnish freedoms. Finns did that to gain advantage over their own political foes. Here, too, the Soviets might have let things slide if the Communists hadn't raised a "moral panic."

BTW those protests were deliberately stoked by the publisher. BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland. THAT is what #finlandization was in practice. A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uiwmxzrdnxnnjb55alohkgmz/post/3m4piwfam5k2z

But in reality, #finlandization was a corrosive process that came close to wrecking Finnish politics and democracy. If the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed, it might have done so. It meant sacrificing one's values and even the notion of truth for the sake of national survival.

BTW those protests were deliberately stoked by the publisher. BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland. THAT is what #finlandization was in practice. A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uiwmxzrdnxnnjb55alohkgmz/post/3m4piwfam5k2z

#Finlandization means a powerful country bending a smaller neighbor to its will, especially in foreign policy, while allowing it to be nominally independent... as long as it toes the line. In short, what happened to #Finland after the Second World War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland...

Finlandization - Wikipedia

But in reality, #finlandization was a corrosive process that came close to wrecking Finnish politics and democracy. If the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed, it might have done so. It meant sacrificing one's values and even the notion of truth for the sake of national survival.

To someone who doesn't really know what #finlandization was, and/or thinks that small countries and their inhabitants don't have agency in the Great Game, it may sound like a decent solution for "buffer states" (notice the lack of agency) like #Ukraine. After all, #Finland survived. Even prospered.

THAT is why most Finns who know more what #finlandization was in practice are so much against it. Yes, Finland survived. But not without paying a price. And then only barely, more due to luck than anything else. Had the #ColdWar continued, Finnish #democracy might well have died out.

It is CERTAIN that similar dynamics would arise in other cases of #finlandization. Opportunists and those genuinely concerned would compete with each other to prove their loyalty and sabotage their rivals. At the cost of increasing double-speak and loss of democratic freedoms.

To someone who doesn't really know what #finlandization was, and/or thinks that small countries and their inhabitants don't have agency in the Great Game, it may sound like a decent solution for "buffer states" (notice the lack of agency) like #Ukraine. After all, #Finland survived. Even prospered.

BTW those protests were deliberately stoked by the publisher. BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland. THAT is what #finlandization was in practice. A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uiwmxzrdnxnnjb55alohkgmz/post/3m4piwfam5k2z