Finland PM says Europe is 'not strong enough' and warns against depending on China

[Kennah]

Source: Daily Mail

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Friday offered a 'brutally honest' assessment of Europe's defence capabilities, stating bluntly that 'we're not strong enough' to stand up to Moscow alone before warning against dependence on China.

'We should make sure that we are stronger,' Marin said in Sydney on Friday, before adding: 'I'll be brutally honest with you, Europe isn't strong enough. We would be in trouble without the United States.'

She went on to say Europe has 'become far too dependent on cooperation with regimes that do not share our common values', using Finland's reliance on Russian energy as an example, before turning to China.

The Finnish leader described trade with China as a 'reality', adding that 'we all have worries when it comes to China' and that the EU 'must make sure that we don't have that kind of critical dependencies' when dealing with Xi Jinping's government.

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[nycbos]

1. I like her more and more.

[The Jungle 1]

2. In 2022, the defense budget accounted for a share of 1.96 percent of GDP in Finland.

They propose to scale up to 12 billion from the present 7.8 billion.
We lay out 3.1% for a total of 742 billion.
Just saying.

[Mysterian]

3. Yep. Our traditonal allies and partners can't really trust us anymore

Thanks to venal, traitorous republicans in our government, who openly support dictators over democracies.

[Irish_Dem]

4. She is one of the few world leaders who understands what we are up against.

Russia, China, Saudi are shifting world power as we speak.

The world democracies must be strong, united and smart.

[bronxiteforever]

6. +1

[yaesu]

5. All the West needs to start cutting economic ties with China NOW! Its as crazy as doing biz with

putin

[republianmushroom]

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