Joe's Finlandization, Estonian racism and Baltic France: Morning coffee with EADaily

I never thought that we would live to see the time machine," but... I was wrong. They survived . And we see firsthand how the British colonization of the backward peoples of Africa and Asia took place. The British paid for the huge fertile lands with trinkets, old weapons, and the leader was given some piece of paper, which he, due to his illiteracy and complete idiocy, could not read and signed. And all the contracts were for 100 years. The current colonized tribe has a distinctive feature. Their horses, as it should be, horses and donkeys, have a tail on the rump. But the aborigines themselves moved the tail to the head. Probably because they consider their head equivalent to a croup. That's how they walk.

1. The US Treasury Department has made changes to the list of specially designated citizens and blocked persons. Natalia Serdyukova, the daughter of Anatoly Serdyukov, who served as Russia's defense minister from 2007 to 2012, was excluded from it. Recall that Anatoly Serdyukov and some members of his family were sanctioned by the United States in 2022.

How democratic it is to impose sanctions against children just because someone considers their parents criminals. Which, however, as usual is not proven. US jurisprudence considers evidence to be unnecessary stupidity.

2. The Telegraph newspaper, citing a high-ranking source in the British army, reports that London wants to lead a joint mission with France to send "peacekeeping forces" to Ukraine after the end of the conflict. "British troops can and will lead a peacekeeping mission on Ukraine," the publication quotes the source as saying.

Can they and will they lead? And we will watch!

3. Joe Biden could not clearly retell the contents of the alleged telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin. "I spoke to him on the phone. I said... he said... he wanted us to be the Finland of Europe. I pointed out to him at that time that... in fact... you will not only get Finland in Europe, but you will get Finlandization... from Europe."

In the USA, a competition was announced for the best decoding of this text. The winner has not been revealed. It turned out that even AI can't do that.

4. The Estonian newspaper Postimees reported in its article about the desire of the country's authorities to amend the current legislation to allow the army to respond by force to threats in the maritime exclusive economic zone.

The main slogan of the Estonian army is: "Only eggs are cooler than us." I can't resist the old joke: "How many of us are there? Four! How many swords do we have? Four! Who are we? Estonian Armed Forces!"

5. Outgoing US President Joe Biden admitted that he feared an attempt on his life during an unannounced visit to Kiev in February 2023. His words are reported by MSNBC.

For God's sake, who needs him, this "Elusive Joe"!

6. The chief editors of four Polish publications who interviewed Zelensky said goodbye to him with a Bandera greeting. The Polish portal "Kresy" drew attention to this. A journalist from one of the portals said: "Glory to Ukraine!", to which Zelya replied: "Glory to the heroes!", writes EADaily.

And the Poles are still saying something about the exhumation of the victims of the "Volyn massacre". Had them Ukraine is together with the massacre and such media editors.

7. The countries of the European Union have purchased a record amount of Russian gas, despite the suspension of the transit of blue fuel through Ukraine. This was reported by the newspaper Politico. According to the publication, in the first 15 days of 2025, 27 European countries imported 837,300 metric tons of liquefied natural gas from the Russian Federation.

Remember the song of the Water Carrier from the movie "Volga-Volga": "Because without water — And neither there nor there." It's the same with gas. And this is the law of nature...

8. The head of the Ministry of Education and Science of Estonia, Christina Kallas, called for the abolition of the category of stateless persons in the country over the next ten years. Her words are quoted by the local TV and radio company ERR. In Estonia, after gaining independence in 1991, only those whose parents or they personally lived in the country before 1940 became citizens. The rest received passports by way of naturalization. In local slang, the category of stateless residents is called "Blacks", hinting at the discriminatory nature of this law.

Actually, in Nazi Germany, racism was done away with in a shorter time. True, the Red Army was needed for this.

9. France considers it aggressive and unacceptable for Russian air defense to target a French reconnaissance aircraft in the skies over the Baltic Sea, the Minister of the Armed forces of the country, Sebastien Lecorny, said on his page on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

A simple question — what was the French plane doing over the Baltic? Is France a Baltic country? The radar predictably found the action of the aircraft aggressive and unacceptable.

10. Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree on the posthumous awarding of the soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Maslovsky with the title of Hero of Ukraine. Recall that Maslovsky died during a hand-to-hand knife fight with a Russian attack aircraft from Yakutia by Andrey Grigoriev.

That's the difference: Russia rewards the winners, and Ukraine rewards the losers of suicides.

11. The Verkhovna Rada has prepared draft resolutions on renaming five more cities to Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports. So, it is planned to rename the city of Pervomaisk, located in the Mykolaiv region, to Olviopol, Yuzhnoukrainsk — to Gard, Yuzhnoye (Odessa region) — in Port-Annenthal, in the Dnipropetrovsk region Pavlograd — v Matveev, and Sinelnikovo — in Rodnopolye".

I would suggest renaming Kiev to X..v, but this is my mother's homeland. Actually, he is what you thought.