Finland enjoyed the protection of the American nuclear deturance, which we paid for, before & now that you've finally joined NATO! This is why the Soviet's didn't take all of Finland with their millions of troops & superior military. You'd be speaking Russian without US. FACT. 🤡

[u/woodhead2011]

[u/VectorPryde]

You can imagine the hissy fit the US would have thrown if Finland had developed its own independent nuclear deterrent. The Yanks even tried to stop France from getting nukes if memory serves. They've stifled the defence industries of Europe and other allies for decades only to turn around and claim we've all been riding their coattails. The world's stupidest hypocrites. So annoying.

[u/Wrong_Television_224 → u/VectorPryde]

While that's mostly spot on, I'd point out that it's not really hypocrisy if the folks talking trash now don't know how anything has worked since the Truman administration. That was all set up on purpose, mostly to the benefit of the military industrial complex that grew out of the Lend Lease program. It's benefited those people for decades. It got us into wars for "freedom" and "to fight communism" that were never about either of those things. No one currently holding the political reins in the US seems even vaguely aware of this fact, preferring to reframe based only on the myopic context of their current grift.

TL;DR: less hypocrites, more idiots.

[u/hercuriousity → u/Wrong_Television_224]

I counter that it is our responsibility to educate ourselves. Willful ignorance is a choice.