Russia gearing up for next stage in the game? Propably.

Holding an international politics mastership usually gives one uniquely depressing view on the happening of the world.

A question: when a supposedly great nation, despite their past actions  is shoehorned into a corner by economic sanctions, into a damnably tight corner where there is no escape, shall they wither and give up? Shall their leadership just fold?

Rarely.

If there is no other way out of a trap, they need to trump their opposition, internal and external.

That, folks, is when they go to war. 

Look it up. History books beacon. Nothing has changed. 

Hopefully the west and Russia will find some common enemy to fight, or we won't have to worry about lack of jobs soon.

Nothing is as silly as to think we won't ever again fight major wars in the west.

"The prophecy of the Fool." From the Dark Levy.

‘The eye of the norn,

from Hel’s face shorn,

an awkward fool,

will dance with the twisted ghoul.

and  oh! She shall find the tool.

A pact is made,

the gods prayed.

The horn shall blow

Freedom for those below.’

Finnish national day

It is the Finnish national day. 

I am here writing my next novel and I hear the Finnish national anthem in the TV, being sung by a skilled choir. It stops me. It is a song one has heard time and again, yet it seems I for one have not been listening lately.

Yet, I think it is not only I.

We live auspicious days, jaded days, the economy is grinding to a halt, people are losing jobs, interest and hope. I'm guilty of this as well. It is strange, how such few beautiful notes can make one remember that despite all the hardships, one's country is worth loving and believing in, if you take time to listen to the song and believe in the dream.

75 years ago we were fighting Russia alone in our Winter War. We survived and one of my favourite sayings comes from that time. "Kollaa kestää." Kollaa will hold. Grandfathers who fought in that war, sorry for forgetting.

I'll be fine.

Finland will hold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kollaa