Finland will return Russian artwork — after having said that it would steal it — might there be a pertinent aphorism in that?

© 2022 Peter Free

 

08 April 2022

 

 

Perhaps Finland's sobering cold air . . .

 

. . . did its Hostility Erogenous Zones some good.

 

Reuters reported that:

 

 

Finland will return to Russia some Russian art works seized by Finnish customs, the country's foreign ministry said on Friday.

 

Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova earlier said the paintings would return to Russia at the weekend.

 

© 2022 Reuters Staff, Essi Lehto, Kevin Liffey and Hugh Lawson, Finland to return seized art works to Russia, Reuters (08 April 2022)

 

 

Translated

 

The Finns apparently had enough time — after making their art theft announcement — to remember how the (then-incompetent) Red Army still managed to take 9 percent of Finland's land during the Winter War.

 

They, perhaps morosely, decided that so blatantly art-thieving from Russia in 2022 would be a noticeably bad idea.

 

 

The moral? — At least one member of the Purported West retains some survival sense

 

Perhaps those same art-returning Finns should reconsider the nation's reported bid to join NATO.

 

Only fools would depend upon the rapacious and politically cowardly United States to meaningfully join a NATO-led — Save Finland — fray with diligently competent enthusiasm.

 

The United States' serial strategic defeats — during this century and last — should beam loud warnings to those, who think that American leadership is both trustworthy and existentially committed.

 

When one's own ass is the one inviting hostile fire, it will ultimately be one's own resources and strength of will that determine the outcome.

 

Given their abandoned art thievery, at least some Finns may be beginning to contemplate the wisdom of that aphorism.