I consider the US the most lawlwss country in the world by far.
Jeffey Sachs
In the summer I wrote an opinion piece for Verde about how the Finnish government’s and the European Union’s apathy towards the war crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza. I described the indifference as water off a duck’s back.
The inaction to the suffering of others has its consequences. Apart from being a cowardly act, those who collude in such silence opportunistically believe that they will not suffer the same fate as those who are oppressed.
The latest example was the illegal invasion and kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.
While US President Donald Trump is a threat to the international order, what worries me most is the near-silence and lack of resolve of European leaders like Finland’s President Alexander Stubb.
In a recent posting, I asked when Stubb was going to play golf with Trump and his cheerleader South Carolina Senator Graham Lindsey.
While politicians like Stubb may be towing a sensitive line between Finland’s interests and dealing with a felon and convict, we should all read US political writer Oliver Kornetzke’s descriptions of Trump.
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Apart from Trump being “the festering carcass of American rot,” I am concerned about the silence and complacency to the oppression and injustices that overwhelm us.
Apart from the hypocrisy of Petteri Orpo’s government and its toothless challenge of the racism of the PS, one of the most shameful decisions by parliament was the passage and extension of the so-called Border Act, which disregards the human rights of asylum seekers and weakens the principles of the rule of law.
Finland, like many of its politicians, believe that they can oppress and denignate migrants from their high and dry places without understanding that they may one day be in the situation, asking for asylum and getting hostile rejections.
The PS, like some other politicians, are racists. All they know to do is label and victimize migrants and minorities. It is like when women were fighting for their civil rights and one of the arguments against them was they “they weren’t ready” to handle their civil rights.
Preposterous! Also is our leaders’ silence and tiptoeing around Trump as he shreds the rule of law and international order.
Read the original story in Finnish here.