If you want a shameful example of appeasement to the Trump administration’s and Israel’s war crimes, Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen is a terrible example. In the face of the ethnic cleansing in Gaza by Israel, her most infamous quote is that “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
But what could you expect when the prime minister and president are members of the National Coalition Party?
Foreign Minister Valtonen was on A-Talk Monday and she was asked by the reporter her opinion about the illegal war waged by the US and Israel against Iran.
“For us Finns, it is important that international law works,” she said, and then the reporter asked her if he thought it was politically ok that the US and Israel have waged an illegal war against Iran. Her answer revealed her ideological bankruptcy: “I cannot give you a straight answer.”
Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen. Link and Yle
Her answer was just as bad as when she claimed “Israel had a right to defend itself” in the face of tens of thousands of civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip. She has the gall to justify her racism by speaking out for the oppressed Iranians but doesn’t say anything about the Paestinians who are hunted down and killed by Israel.
Valtonen’s hypocrisy stands out like a sore thumb.
Apart from having an offshore account on the island of Jersey, she underreported the total amount of funding she raised during the 2023 parliamentary elections by over 40,000 euros.
At the February Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke of how Europe is proud of its colonial past.
Here is Rubio’s speech.
Politicians at the conference gave Rubio a standing ovation. Did Valtonen give Rubio a standing ovation for the Trump administration’s white supremacist views?
I would not be surprised.