Russia’s attack on Ukraine is a reminder that the monarchs must always be resisted until the bitter end, writes Tervonen.
Tuukka TervonenFree journalist
Another thing: Putin, who attacked Ukraine with him Alexander Lukashenko and other dictators like them can and must resist the last bullet, the last protester, until the end of hope.
in Finland there is always prevailed, all my life, a strange double talk about national defense.
On the other hand, Finland has the highest will in Europe to defend the homeland, a significant part of the age group is in military service, and we have an exceptionally large reserve as a country of five million people today.
But on the other hand, miserable pessimism has always haunted talk of defending. The same people who respond to wanting to defend their country complain about the almost breath of intimate stuff in the sauna that we wouldn’t have a chance to. Helicopter troops would burn half the land and paratroopers would take the other half before the tanks even rolled over the border. The Air Force and the crushing missile and rocket rain would incinerate our position.
Well, they can be right on the one hand and wrong on the other. Although we are not now facing a military threat, we can compare Finland and Ukraine. It seems pretty certain that it will not be possible for Ukraine to stop Russia. But at the same time, the resistance has been sparklingly bold and, above all, surprisingly effective.
The rain of missiles and rockets has continued, but the Ukrainians are not ashes.
It is not that Russia is losing the war itself. But the point is that Russia is certainly not the kind of invincible giant it is in some speeches.
When I was 15, my grandmother asked me, are we going to go to the army. He was worried because I was already on that long-haired and bearded hippie-looking outing. I replied that I was going to go as I went. My grandmother, who lost her father in the war, was politically quite incorrect in saying, “Good, there is no trust in the Russian”.
Of course, Grandma did not mean the people, but the Russian state.
The will of the Ukrainians to defend is an example for all of us that will hopefully encourage Russians who are especially opposed to the war.
That is why it is so important to fight the monopolies with weapons, demonstration signs and sanctions. The continuation of the war is terrible and every day probably means at least hundreds dead in Ukraine. But every day is a reminder that Putin wanted this bloody war. Every day is an additional reason to impose more sanctions on him. And every day is a role model for new demonstrations.
The will of the Ukrainians to defend is an example for all of us that will hopefully encourage anti-war Russians in particular.
In wars, the problem is that when you shoot the first shot, you can never be sure who will hit the last one.
World history is full of leaders who embarked on attacks of passion only to eventually become victims of the revolution.
The author is a freelance journalist with tears in his eyes for the courage of Ukrainians.
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