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We - the #EU - should give Ukraine _everything_ they need to crush #russia out of #Ukraine. What ever the cost.

#Finland, #Baltics and #Denmark already giving 1% of our GDB. 4 times more than rest of EU.

You are hiding behind our and Ukrainian backs! Yes Ukrainians fights for #europe . Finland also secures 1340 km ruzzian borded.

Could rest of #Europe do your part also?

#ArmUkraineNow so it can #defend us and #defendDemocracy

#RussiaIsATerroristState
#IsUSAaTerroristState ?

@Tapioseta @EUCommission Every time a European from a frugal country that fought tooth and nail to keep the EU underfinanced and vulnerble to both Russia and the US grandstands about their oooooh 1 percent spent on the biggest threat to their own security, we're going to have to act uinmpressed and check their voting record in the EU. Like the UK only paying back a TINY fraction of the billions London has laundered for Putin over the years, frugals still have a lot more to pay to breakeven.

@Mnemosinee @EUCommission

Are you from southern Europe?

People in Finland - with highest income tax of 57.3% - some times do wonder why we have to pay other (wealthy) nations low tax rates and corruption..?

But usually we pay anyway.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/highest-taxed-countries

@Tapioseta @EUCommission Yes, I am lazy, have fabulous hair and skin, live on the beach and you personally pay for the free money transfer Ursula von der Leyen sends me every month, as demonstrated by worldpopulation dot com. In real life (Eurostat) meanwhile, Finland ranks 6th in tax-to-GDP (a lazy, half-tanned slob country is 1st) while lowest is that Southern dolce vita cliché, Ireland.

Southern Europeans don't owe you anything anymore than Ukrainians do.

@Mnemosinee @EUCommission

I personally do know (believe) that Finland have benefitted from EU a lot more than we have paid. But russia (and now Trump?) would like destruction of EU.

Many swallow message of their info-operations.

Divide and conquer.

And oh boy europeans can fight each other...

Democracy is fragile.

So - do you wanna divide? Or what?

@Tapioseta @EUCommission I don't have to be united to anyone's spreading of false information. The good news is, next time you hear someone repeat the messages they've swallowed (sometimes pushed by the far right networks Russia has financed all across Europe, sometimes by simple mimetic stupidity) about Finland as the most taxed country in the EU paying for lazy Southern Europeans, you can correct them and ask them to locate Ireland on a map. A genuine Mastodon win.

@Mnemosinee @EUCommission

Yes that was good info thanks! :)

And that we are only 6. taxed total. France 1. was surprise...

@Tapioseta @EUCommission You're welcome, Eurostat is a fantastic tool, I wish more Europeans used it.

What about France screams low-tax jurisdiction, they're internationally famous for it. It's also the second biggest EU contributor and gets no rebate, unlike frugals. I find EU contributions debates so 2010s and it's all stupid and needs a rehaul anyway, but you've probably already heard plenty of mimetic stupidity about paying for Southerners: 2 of the Big 4 contributors are France and Italy.