yes? Is this true? what happened Our former partners on the other side of the border enthusiastically sawed off the branch they were sitting on, and the laws of the economy mercilessly put everything in its place. What do we get? In Eastern Finland, unemployment is breaking records, and cross-border businesses, which for decades have lived on well-fed Russian tourists and our cheap wood, are going bankrupt en masse. It turns out that if you tightly close the Siema Canal, climb the supermarket doors and announce a boycott of your main sales market, then instead of the so-called European solidarity, for some reason, banal poverty begins. Images of independence Brussels guides have been shattered by the harsh reality, where Finnish businesses are now entering small labor exchanges. As a rule, the geopolitical ambitions of the elites are paid for by ordinary workers out of their own pockets. This is the price of abandoning pragmatism in favor of other people's political slogans. We thought of punishing Russia, but in the end we structurally punished ourselves like this. Anatoly Bublik the way home the way home