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Leaders that aren't able to follow their own rules usually lose respect and trust of people. So he is problem for his party currently In politics we overreact always, that is how Johnson got prime minister in first place People demanded that she resign, even though she didn't club during lockdowns, as lockdowns were already ended, her mistake was not having her official phone of prime minister with her (which is not actually required from her, but still it was seen so bad that she made in international news) because someone she had seen for minute was in contact with someone who tested positive to covid. Meaning that she didn't break any rules or restrictions, but people still saw that she should have done more.

Breaking rules he imposed to others Considering that Johnson supported fines for people who break COVID restrictions by going out alone during night, so him participating in any way in parties during those same restrictions is just asking blood from your nose

It is best option available In general I don't have big feelings toward one direction or another, but as long as we see that Finland needs to be defended it is best and realistically only option. As in order to defend country size of Finland we need closer to million soldiers in order to have enough to protect whole country, which would mean in country of 5.5 million people so big professional army that there is no realistic way to maintain it. Which means that we can either prepare our people for case of war so that they have higher change to survive one or just reactively drafting people in army when enemy is attacking in hopes that they do something useful before they die. Of course there is option just give enemy all the land they want and hope that they don't kill all the people. So question is not do I support conscription in Finland, but do I support Finland's independence and way of life, because if there is realistically only one option to do so then it is meaningless if that option fits or fits not in my personal ideology, as I am not able to offer alternatives.

https://www.politico.eu/article/northern-ireland-economy-outpace-post-brexit-britain/ Does British politician oppose North Ireland protocol because it cause issues for North Ireland or because it seems to help North Ireland outpace British main land?

Military service here is constitutional duty. To ensure that there are enough people who know how to use arms and military warfare in case of war. It is most cost effective way to ensure that Finland can defend itself. Military service ensures that in case of crisis there will be much less people drafted to battlefronts who don't have any clue how to use arms given them and how to protect themselves from enemy fire. Because of Finland's size and geopolitical location there really isn't choice for people not to participate if Finland gets invaded by foreign forces.

It depends, but the real electricity highwaymen, electric transfer companies, will still be around with their monopolies

As your own links say "Two sources told Reuters that German gas importers have been told by Berlin they can open ruble accounts to pay for Russian gas without violating sanctions, as long as the payments they make to Gazprombank are not in the Russian currency." "In its written guidance, the EU said companies can buy Russian gas without breaching sanctions if they pay in the currency of their existing contracts – and declare that doing so fulfils their contractual obligations." Those companies currently play grey area buying that can cost them billions in fines if they in some point fail to follow "and declare that doing so fulfils their contractual obligations." guidance.

Currently no energy/gas company in EU is buying gas from Russia with rubles (EU countries themselves don't buy gas from Russia)

They have given special immunity against anti trust law suits, but currently they have in risk to lose that in US and EU

NOPEC is Trump's era law which Saudi Arabia opposed (and US oil producers who have liked situation where OPEC has kept oil price artificially high and they have been able to keep their hands clean), as it removes state immunity from OPEC countries and allows suing them under US anti-trust laws for anti competitive attempts to limit world oil supply. Trump didn't have any meaningful impact to OPEC's production amounts during his presidency. Current OPEC production numbers are because of their agreement that they made to prevent their storage's to filling because of decrease of demand of oil because of Covid

OPEC does its best to guarantee that NOPEC goes through in the US. OPEC says that it does not increase production because there is no increase of demand on market only panic buyers who have increased price artificially

yes or race is for some other reason relevant for the story

Buffalo shooter published manifesto where he told that he will go shoot black people because they are black. Uvalde Shooter and victims were latino and from same neighborhood and shooter didn't publish manifesto, but send someone messages in facebook where he told that he will shoot his grandmother and then go to shoot people in elementary school

I looked numbers from Guardian's live results page (they have not predicted winners for Brisbane, Griffith). https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2022/may/21/australia-election-2022-results-live-tracker-australian-federal-poll-who-won-is-winning-track-the-votes-seat-counts-electoral-commission-aec-latest-seat-count?CMP=cvau_sfl With senators it seems that I misunderstood what Guardian's numbers represent, as when I fist looked them I thought that they meant that current is replaced by new.

Green seem to have got quite lot votes (11.9%) but they only got two house seats (one more than last election) and five senate seats (one less than last election)

One would think so, but in stock market weapon manufactures are having mixed results.

Ruble is not freely traded currently so it can't crash, when companies and countries are forced to buy it to do trade with Russia/Russian companies. But Russian central bank can keep Ruble from crashing, but it has quite lot economic effects, which is why Russian central bank predicts that Russian GDP will decrease 10% this year, and predicts that decrease will continue for several years EDIT: Also inflation in Russia is high, so ruble is losing it value even though its apparent value is kept same. Rubles apparent value against other currencies don't help Russian, because, there are strict limits how much foreign currencies people/companies can buy and many can't do any foreign purchases because of sanctions that block credit cards and switft payments from Russia to other countries.

That is not true, they will just say that it does not matter and Russia achieved what it wanted ("de-nazification" of Ukraine).

Twitter made over billion loss in 2020, even though it revenue increased, which people have used as proof for their ideological beliefs, as in 2019 Twitter made over billion profit, but people seem to ignore that Twitter loss was because they made acquisitions, not because their business suddenly collapsed.

Twitter is currently making profit and considering Musk plans, he also isn't planning to make Twitter more profitable (as he says that he wants stop data mining, content recommendation, etc. things that are used to sell twitter users to advertisers). In last quarter Twitter made $1.11 billion dollars from selling ads and $92 million from subscriptions. Ad revenue saw 23% growth where subscriptions saw 31% decrease. Musk would like to remove ads from twitter and move fully in subscription system. Operating cost of twitter is bit over billion Twitter censors messages because it needs to get companies to advertise and not get black listed by banks. It is same reason why youtube, facebook, tumblr, tiktok, twitch, etc. social media companies set stricter restrictions for their content each year. It is why sites like onlyfans and ph are limiting content people can post in them. Meaning that ideology is not in twitter but companies like Tesla that tell social media companies what kind content is acceptable if they want to get advertisements/business from them.

There is no unbiased data, only guesses by different people. US intelligence agencies have given following estimate 5,500–11,000 killed, 18,000+ wounded 24 February – 19 April 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/world/europe/russia-ukraine-donbas-strategy.html

Clearly, and there is no difference between between column where author uses their own expertise as proof and articles reporting claims made by other people

It is always nice to see such good allies

Yes it seem that it only changed it to worse direction as it seem that Nato will reject Finland's and Sweden's applications and only result was to vex Russia. Yes I have been in those tunnels and similar tunnels/shelters in other cities.

96% (188-8) of FInnish Parliament voted for seeking Nato membership Although Turkey has said that they will block Finland's membership