March 17, 2022
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
International Situation – Finland
This article handles
questions of NATO and Finland, based on articles published on the website
Punalippu by Finnish comrades. And bear in mind the just and correct thesis of
Chairman Mao “Three worlds are delineated”, reject the revisionist Three Worlds
theory of Deng Xiaoping. It should work as an addition to our latest
publications regarding the international situation, ”Annotations…”, ”World
Scene” and ”Our Position…”
Finland, as a relatively
weak and second ranked imperialist power has a role among the imperialist
powers as a ”neutral mediator” between the superpowers. It is a North-European
country that shares a 1340 kilometer border with Russia and is located on the
shores of Baltic sea, with a population of 5.5 million. Formerly part of Sweden
and then tsarist Russia, it gained formal independency in late 1917, and saw a
revolutionary civil war spark in January 1918, inspired by the Great October
Revolution in the conditions of deep crisis in the young bourgeois republic.
This revolution was repressed with brutal white terror and decades of fascism,
but was never crushed, instead left the Finnish working class with valuable
lessons. From the 1950s onwards, Finland developed strongly as an imperialist
country, with Finnish monopolies in especially ICT, wood-, chemistry- and
metal-industries dependent on the plundering of oppressed countries. Their
stance not to choose sides but to bargain with both the superpowers has created
the term ”finlandization” in western politics for being sissy.
As the enclosing of
the encirclement of Russian imperialism by Yankee imperialism, the sole
hegemonic superpower, is developing, and as its counterpart the attempts of
Russian imperialism to get the initiative by offensive actions inside their
defensive situation to break this encirclement. This is seen at the moment in
Europe especially in Ukraine. At the same time, Yankee imperialism is talking
about developing its relations to NATO-”partners” that include for example
Finland and Sweden, and the reaction in Finland is painting horrific pictures
justifying increasing militarisation and reactionarisation with the ”threat of
Russia”. However, at the same time, Finnish imperialism also wants to portray its
president as a ”Putin-whisperer” as he was dubbed in some ”western” medias. In
the example of Finland we can see that even though the imperialists are
preparing for the next world war they are not yet capable of starting one, and
this is why they still need ”diplomacy”. War is the continuation of politics
with military means, likewise politics is war without the use of military
means.
The president of
Finland, Sauli Niinistö, received a phone call from the president of
Yankee-imperialism, Joe Biden (supported and elected by the renegade and
revisionist Bob Avakian and the so-called RCP-USA) in the end of January. The
presidents discussed the situation in Ukraine, as a continuation for the talks
they had in December via phone. Also the commanders of the armies of these
states have held discussions. Such frequent calls are unusual, and a sign of
changing international situation as well as a portrayal of the role of Finlandi.
In October 2021 the
North Atlantic Council, the highest organ of NATO visited Finland for the first
time, which is also a sign of changes in the international situation as well as
the position of Finland. The main focus was the meeting between the head of
Finnish imperialism, president Sauli Niinistö, and the general secretary of
NATO Jens Stoltenberg. The visit included also meetings with other Finnish
bourgeois politicians and ministers and an inspection of the Guard Jaeger
Regiment of the Finnish army by the NATO-representatives. The main themes of
the meeting were ”the building of international peace and stability” as well as
building even better relationships to the partners of NATO. Jens Stoltenberg
talked about the changing international situation in the press conference of
the meeting: according to him these partnerships with different states are
becoming more important as the ”environment of security” is becoming more
”challenging”. Especially he talked about Russia and China, and these were
raised as the main threats for the current ”pax Americana” – the nuclear
superpower Russia and the social-imperialist power China.ii This
is an expression of the decay of yankee imperialism and they are aware of it.
In an attempt to secure its position as the sole hegemonic power in the world
today, it has to increase its military power and military presence all over the
world, to secure itself from contestants and other threats to its decaying
reign.
This is the very
Yankee-plan luring Putin and Russian imperialism into the trap of the war of
aggression against Ukraine, thereby weakening them and subordinating their
NATO-allies under their predominace, now declared as the stronger unification
of NATO and EU facing the invasion. Have clear, that the unity between the
imperialist is passing and relative and the contention is absolute and
permanent.
Finland has a special
value for NATO especially in the question of Russian imperialism for historical
and geographical reasons. Stoltenberg defined the tasks of Finnish imperialism
very clearly in his speech:
1. to uphold a strong
and NATO-compatible national army (for example, Finnish imperialism recently made
the biggest purchase of arms in its history, and spent almost 10 billion euros
to buy 64 yankee fighter jetsiii);
2. to develop
diplomatic relations to Russia in favour of Yankee-NATO. The Finnish comrades
wrote that Finnish imperialism serves NATO best if it does not join it but if
the NATO-partnership just keeps getting tighter. This is shown also for example
in that the president Niinistö, who used to be a open promoter of
NATO-membership, was quaking about ”dialogue”.
The comrades remind us
of the words of chairman Gonzalo: ”The more they speak about peace, the more
they are preparing for war.” In the very moment the warmongers of different
kind rabble-rousing frothing at the mouth, but we shall never forget this very
true admonition of Chairman Gonzalo. Sure, the situation is serious, but this
won’t change when the yelping and barking peals out.
The head of Finnish
imperialism, president Sauli Niinistö, talked about the contradictions among
the imperialists, especially between Yankee-imperialism and Russian imperialism
in his traditional New Year’s speech. This speech again reinforces what was
written earlier: Niinistö declared that Finland, as part of the EU, would be
ready for severe actions against Russian imperialism if it were to attack
Ukraine. After these words he highlighted the importance of dialogue and
diplomacy. Regarding the question of NATO-membership, he just said that Finland
would decide on its own and it will remain a possible option.iv This
shows the dilemma of a second ranked imperialist power subordinated not only
under the Yankee-superpower, but also under the bloodthirsty Huns sharpening
their knives.
This position of
Finnish imperialism as a ”peace keeper” and a ”neutral mediator” between the
superpowers is its position among the imperialists as the Finnish bourgeoisie
is relatively weak militarily and economically. Its economy by GDP is much
smaller than its neighbour Sweden, and smaller than the other Nordic countries
Norway and Denmarkv.
As an exporter of capital, it is far behind these neighbouring countries. Of
its GDP, Finland uses 1,3% (2018) to military, which is slighly more than
Sweden and Denmark (both 1% of their GDP) but slightly less than Norway (1,6%)vi.
Finland has a conscription-based army, and military or civil service is
mandatory for every fit-to-serve male citizen, and optional for women. In an
international comparison made by the website Global Firepower, Finland ranks
59th of 140 countries in the ranking in 2022, behind other Nordic countriesvii.
Finland participates in eight so-called ”crisis control operations”
side-by-side with Yankee imperialism in oppressed countries around the world.
The law allows Finland to have maximum of 2000 troops participating in these
operations at a time.viii This
”crisis controlling” as part of the quest of Finnish imperialism for
”international peace” are nothing more than participating in imperialist
plundering on the side of the sole hegemonic superpower.
The bourgeoisie in
Nordic countries want to potray themselves as peaceful and diplomatic, their
states as great examples of equality and wellfare. Especially Sweden and
Finland boast with their neutrality, as they are not officially NATO-members,
even though it is quite clear that they work closely with Yankee imperialism
and are part of the ”West”. The Finnish bourgeoisie wants their state to be
viewed as ”the superpower of peace keeping” – bringing stability and peace to
the world by the might of ”dialogue”. In comparison to other Nordic countries,
Finnish imperialism has a unique role when it comes to Russian imperialism due
to historical and geographical facts, and especially as it is not officially a
NATO-member. This role is also acknowleged by Russian imperialism by ”warning”
Finland (and Sweden) not to join NATO or face the consequences. Considering the
recent development and the fact that there is the Nordefco (Nordic Defence
Cooperation) and the EU’s NBG (Nordic Battlegroup) this warning seems to be
quite ridiculous.
As stated earlier,
being ”the superpower of peace keeping” is due to the fact that Finnish
imperialism cannot actually compete neither with the superpowers nor with
stronger imperialist powers, but it still nevertheless has its hands in the
blood of the peoples of oppressed nations, as this ”peace keeping” is just
maintaining the peace for the imperialists to exploit. By this dealing with the
superpowers Finnish imperialism as a second rank imperialist power is looking
to secure its position in order to get its share of the spoils.
As can be seen, Yankee
imperialism is enclosing the encirlement of Russian imperialism little by
little, and in this it needs these ”partnerships” for one part as preparation
for war, but also to keep up ”dialogue”. For wartimes all sides act quite
talkative – struggle and collusion. The imperialists are conspiring against the
peoples of the world, to exploit and oppress vaster and vaster masses of people
in the conditions of deepening general and final crisis of imperialism,
conspiring against each other in an attempt to keep ripping higher and higher
super-profits from the backs of the masses, arming themselves in their
weakness.
The Finnish comrades
conclude: ”True internationalists are against the partnership of Nato and
Finland, as it means participating in the sharing of the spoil of imperialist
plundering, to fatten the Finnish finance capital with the blood of the
oppressed nations.” The principal contradiction of the epoch is between
oppressed nations and imperialist superpowers, though the main contradiction may
change for a period, this will go back to be expressed as such because it is
the historically main contradiction until imperialism is swept of the face of
the Earth by the proletarian world revolution. It is necessary to understand
that the greatest weight of the masses is in the oppressed nations, and
imperialism and exploitation will be swept away by the revolutionary movement
of the two big forces: the international proletarian movement and the national
liberation movement: the first corresponding to the proletariat that is
world-wide and the second is the one who is generated in the oppressed
countries, both forces have to be directed by the proletariat through its
Communist Party to carry out the new democratic and socialist revolutions, as
appropriate, as part of the proletarian world revolution. The struggle against
imperialism in imperialist countries has to be deeply united with the struggles
in oppressed nations; it has to be based on true unity in struggle against
imperialism. Comrade Stalin says: all campaign of unmasking, of pacifist
propaganda is but a game that serve to show who is the enemy, nothing more, but
this does not prevent the war, the war comes because it has its own laws, it is
never stopped by these propagandists. Therefore Chairman Mao tells us that the
problem is the revolution because either the revolution makes the reactionaries
disappear and therefore also the property that generates the war, or the war
strokes up the revolution; but the center is the revolutionary life, it is the
peoples war. Therefore, the revolutionaries in imperialist countries have to
struggle side by side with the revolutionaries in oppressed nations against the
imperialist at home, opposing these plots of the imperialists, they have to
struggle in politicising, mobilising and organising the masses, struggling for
the reconstitution of Communist Parties in every country, waging people’s war
against the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in their own countries as part of
and in service of the world revolution. The revolutionaries have to oppose the
militarisation and reactionarisation practiced by ”their” bourgeoisie, whose
spearheads are turned against the proletariat and oppressed peoples of the
world.
Nota bene: This
general assessment does not counterpoise the necessitiy of defining the
principal enemy of the peoples of the world (Yankee-imperialism) and the
principal enemy in a very moment (Russian-imperialism in the case of the war of
aggression against Ukraine). In this sense we highlight and reaffirm:
Down with the war of aggression of Russian imperialism against Ukraine!
Peoples of the world, unite against the imperialist warmongers and their
lackeys!
Down with Yankee imperialism, the main enemy of the peoples of the world!
Support the Ukrainian people!
Down with the imperialist war! Proletarians and peoples of the world,
unite!
ipunalippu.noblogs.org
20.1.2022: Biden soittelee Sauli Niinistölle
iipunalippu.noblogs.org
27.10.2021: Jenkki-Naton johto vieraili Suomessa
iiihttps://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000008464967.html
ivpunalippu.noblogs.org
02.01.2022: Sauli Niinistön uudenvuodenpuheesta
vhttps://www.statista.com/statistics/685925/gdp-of-european-countries/
viavascent.com
15.11.2017: Data Stories: How Nordic Defense Spending Compares to the Rest of
Europe
viihttps://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=finland
viiihttps://puolustusvoimat.fi/web/kansainvalinen-kriisinhallinta/kriisinhallintaoperaatiot
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