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Originally Posted by Kalevi
Why on earth is tiny Estonia being positioned as the national enemy number 1 in Russia?
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Originally Posted by Kalevi
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Originally Posted by Uri
The future will be a cooperation between Europe and Russia.
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Thanks but no thanks, I think we here in Finland have had enough cooperation for a while.
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Kalevi, I don't think that Uri posed a question or asked for your agreement on the issue.
He said Europe. Not Finland or Estonia. I'm not implying with this that Finland or Estonia are not part of Europe. But so is Russia part of Europe under
at least the same definitions of Europe that apply to both Finland and Estonia.
And I'm not saying that it will happen either. Only that,
ideally, it should happen. If it is to have a future, Europe must not be held at ransom by Finno-Ugric atavism.
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