• Iceblade@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It’s about precedent. Finland already have their fucked up neighbour Sweden as a cautionary tale when it comes to refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants from the ME/Africa.

    • Sanyanov@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      The point is, it comes from Finland as part of sudden shift from welcoming everyone longer than Finland can afford, to being shut off to compensate, and not from Russia being evil and waging a hybrid war trying to destabilize the country.

      Radical turns like these are quite common as part of right-wingers coming to power, and they are pretty much always detrimental and irrational.

      As much as Russia has a lot to blame for, here it acts as scapegoat to cover for right-wing crackdowns.