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…and Iraq, true.

Though, at least Finland sent the absolute minimum to both of those shitstorms, and that only after being blackmailed by USA. But zero conscripts were sent to either one. Especially the shit about Iraq is something I am really angry about.

USA is only waging wars of aggression. It would be horrible forcing people to that shit, IMO.

In Finland or Germany it’s very different because our armies exist strictly for self defence. When the US military should see military action, is decided in D.C.

But when the Finnish military should see military is decided in Moscow.

If your wars are something you fan decide about, it would be extremely immoral having compulsory military service.

In countries that cannot decide when to not have a war, it’s immoral to not have compulsory military service, as that would mean only the poorest having to bear the brunt of the war.

Well, the purpose is to be denied by the foreign country. Or, to be accepted by it, depending on your perspective.

Typically your own country doesn’t (shouldn’t) care of shit about your passport, because according to the declaration of human rights, you are allowed to come and go to/from your country as you please. But other countries don’t have to give you that privilege.

(I do think they should have to, though!)

I think it does. At least I kept hearing “als ich mein Zivi gemacht hab” when I lived there. Most people elect to serve in the form of civil service instead, but civil service is a type of military service (as weird as that sounds).

But maybe it’s very easy avoiding the whole thing altogether? I don’t know all that precisely, really. My “military service” was done in the form of civil service in a children daycare centre by the time I moved to Germany. And I’ve never been a German citizen anyhow.

That’s a rather standard thing in any country with compulsory military service. Typically you get that done with right when you’re 18-year-old and then you’re free to travel.

In Finland it’s handled so that you cannot get a passport before you either finish your military service or have turned 30. That meant that when I wanted to travel with my brother outside the EU before they were 30, we were limited to countries such as Albania and Georgia that allow entry with just an ID card. (And also, had we wanted to destroy the climate by flying, we would have needed to fly the flight out from the Schengen area from some other country than Finland!)

You get to choose which country you serve your military service in.

After that, you are affected by the laws regarding military service that that country has. But not of the other one.

If all MAGAts and people like the guy mentioned in the article were indeed to go to that place halfway between US and UK, I would be delighted! ❤️

The article says (even though, weirdly, between the lines) that the man had been spewing out anti-immigrant rhetoric and told that the flags are there to show that foreign-born people are not welcome on his island.

It’s not surprising that flags put by a person saying “I am putting these up as a form of showing the middle finger” are interpreted as being a form of showing the middle finger. Or in other words, causing alarm and distress.

Yeah. Get those votes from them!!!

…by doing something that normalizes the far-right in such a way that many more people will be willing to vote them in the next elections.

Idioter.

…just like articles in 2014 referred to separatist Russian speaking Ukrainians. And still, in reality they were people who had come from the territory of the Russia for the specific purpose of leading “separatism”.

The Russia says they are separatists. In 2014 DW believed the Russia and in 2026 they seem to believing the Russia again.
Okay, I do believe that there are some pensioners that grew up in Soviet times and really want the city to cede to the Russia, but even most of Narva’s Russian-speaking pensioners are strongly against that. Still, a hundred pensioners are (hopefully) not what this article’s headline is talking about, as that would be intentional misleading. This article’s headline is much more likely to be talking about the people who have come from the Russia in order to function as a pretext for the Russian troops to invade Estonia. But in 2014 DW called those people “East-Ukrainian separatists”, so it’s not suprising they might be doing the same again.

Also, the video clearly shows Russian-speaking people telling – in Russian language – that the idea of such separatism is ridiculous. They would not say that if they knew even one Russian-speaker who has separatist thoughts.

There is no reason to believe this is any different from what took place in 2014.

No, it actually doesn’t.

it’s facing a campaign tryinc go incite Russian-language separatism. But just like in Ukraine in 2014, they’ll need to bring actualy Russians from the Russia to do the actual “separatism”.

And it’s incredibly saddening that still in year 2026 DW calls the Russian troops “separatists”. Were the German soldiers in 1939 Belgian separatists in DW’s opinion?

You probably meant to say “reasonings” not “reasons”, right?

In EU they handle this by showing a bunch of prices on the same price tag. You choose the correct line according to where you are located and the price stands there.

Not very difficult.

And, most.importantly, done by all US clothes stores that operate in at least two countries in the EU.

And then of course, to the other question: I’m from Finland. My PPP increases a lot when I go to Germany. I get a higher amount of Euros as salary, but I can buy much less with my Finnish salary in Finland than I could buy with a lower German salary in Germany. And then when I use my Finnish salary in Germany… Woooo! :)

And when I go to some country in what used to be called “eastern block” in the past, then yes: I can indeed buy a lot more than I can buy in what used to be called “the west” some twenty-thirty years ago. But that’s the same in Hungary and in Slovakia, as both countries have been mismanaged in a similar manner. Whether Hungary has Euro or not, doesn’t really affect this much at all.

How many units of money you get for one euro tells nothing about how weak or strong a currency is.
When Latvia still had its own currency, the Lat, one euro was actually worth something like 4,20 Lat.

Or measued in English pounds:
One Latvian Lat was about 1,20 £. Does that mean that Latvia was/is richer than UK?

Nope. The numbers in a currency are nothing but a number. They can be high or they can be low. Just like 20 degrees Celcius is not richer or poorer than 68 Fahrenheit. It’s just a different unit that has different numbers for the same thing.

But then: In 2004 I remember one Euro was about 250 Hungarian Forint. And now it’s almost 400. The face value of the numbers doesn’t mean anything, but the changes in exchange rate do. Your one million Forint in your bank account are a very different amount of Euros now than they were before Orbán fucked up the country’s economy starting in 2012 or 2013 or whenever he began his reign.

At the same time: If the Euro was worth, say 110 Forints, that would actually mean that the Hungarian currency is strong, because it would be twice as strong as it was earlier. But now it’s about half as strong as it used to be.

And the answer to the question “why” is indeed Orbán. He has transformed the country into a Russian-style pyramid scheme where the main point of the economy is to provide profit for the leader. And then maybe it will also produce something to the country’s population as a side effect. Or maybe not.

Ah, so in order to avoid a small trouble if you get caught, you want to have a big trouble if you get caught? Got it!

• make using public transportation more feasible and more comfortable than it is now
• maximize the walkability of people’s everyday environments
• the part of private car usage that is not necessary should be heavily taxed
• enable people to commute by bicycle in a way that is actually comfortable
• make sure villages’, towns’, and cities’ development is done in a way that supports building good public transportation (especially: don’t build cul-de-sack neighbourhoods)
• the part of car usage that is necessitated should happen with electric vehicles

These are measures that are being taken in various other cities around the planet. The Netherlands started doing moat of these in the 1970’s and is now a tourist destination because of that. People really like the urban environment that has produced.

Героям слава!

Ah, so there will be shaheds attacking targets in Ukraine? Do I guess correctly that Iran will be helped by its friend, the Russia, to launch said drones? Must be a schocking new experience for Ukrainians.

He is, just not with the profile he meant to use for that.