Things why Finns are more concerned when Russia attacks Europe: the largest Foreign-language speakers here are Russians so living near Russia is not just being the neighboring country but seeing and hearing what Russian speakers think about the leaders of Russia before all this an now is very much like what Finns think about Russian leaders: not good for anyone.

Putin has stated multiple times to Finnish leaders that "there will be consequences if you even think of joining NATO" which, until now has not been taken that seriously but is seen in a completely new light. The fact that most Finns have not wanted to join NATO, perhaps because the biggest members are US an UK and we do not always agree with their decisions but as we do not want to be told what to do by anyone, the thought of joining NATO has grown bigger just because we now perhaps take the sayings of Putin as a threat and even though it might not be good for us, we want to do the opposite than what Putin demands us to do. <-- That last bit is perhaps more a personal opinion than a fact.

Ukrainians are part of Europe and look more like Europeans and that mentality just makes me sick. It's just, well, let's call it what it is, racism. The lives of European looking seem to matter more. We definitely should help Ukrainians but why the heck those people who help so much now have until this day been so silent of all the other victims of wars all over the world. And people who have been attacked by Russia in other parts of the world. For the last two weeks there's almost nothing else from the news here than the Ukraine war. The overall mentality, more or less when common people talk about helping refugees is that this is something that has never ever happened before and that's just... It's horrible how people can't see how different their reaction is now compared to the fact when people for instance from Syria or Somalia have tried to come here or who now live here. And the thing that some people do not understand how different things are if someone flees from a country at war when there's one enemy everyone can understand easily (Russians) compared to a situation when there's more like a civil war and multiple war lords kidnapping children and young men to fight in a war no-one can explain easily to anyone.

So in Finland it's not just the history with Russia, it's also the current situation with Putin. But still, what about all the refugees before this all? The saddest meme I think from those 10 memes I posted is the one with the labyrinth.