@@heh9392 too bad , because now the north path is free of ice all the year, and used for maritime traffic to asia... at least , finland has a good maritime path to europe, via skaggerak straight.
Us Nordics are quite integrated and have been a long time with Nordic Council, integrated armed forces, Nordic Passport Union (separate from Schengen) etc. etc. etc.
Mostly it's eggs and they can last years waiting the puddle appear again. Larvae needs air to breath so even a little bit ice will kill them, they simply drown under ice. Some species winter as adults and wake in very first warm days, sometimes there's still snow leftovers. These ones are pretty shy compared to midsummer hungry swarmers. And it's short summers why mosquitos get so aggressive in the North. Every warm day counts as weather can turn cold. And it's never just mosquitos, we have black flies, tiny midges which can go through mosquito nets. Hot days bring horse flies size of wasps, these ones can make bleeding bites. Mid June to mid July is worst, the rest of the summer isn't bad. August is pretty nice.
Energy is not the same as electricity. 80% of electricity in Finland is produced with renewables + nuclear. Most of the "energy" is used in industrial settings, thus they use wood fuels etc.
Great reaction once again. No need to apologize for stopping the video. Made me laugh positive way. Unlike many other, You're actually reacting and thinking and sharing Your thoughts. Keep up the good work 👍Greetings from Finland.
The income tax rate is progressive: in 2024 if you earn 20 500-30 500 euros the tax rate is 19%; for 30 500-50 400 euros it is 30%; for 50 400-88 200 euros it is 34% and for 88 200-150 000 it is 42%. Yes, most of us are happy to pay taxes because we get so much in return. And yes, trust in the state, government and fellow citizens is very important. A Finnish product might not be the fanciest or "sexiest" but you can always trust that it is of high quality and works really well.
Finland had it's own tiny sliver of Arctic ocean coastline 1920-1944 (the municipality of Petsamo) but it was lost among other territories ceded to Russia after WW2..
Paper industry produces a lot of waste products which are burned for energy, majority of "wood" as energy source comes from here. These plants output more electricity than they can use so excess is sold to market. Second largest is biomass thermal plants for district heating networks, bigger ones are usually combined heat and electricity power plants. They mostly use treetops and trees from thinning, the wood gets chipped and dried.
In this context, happiness means more like being content. Content with what you have and such. Others have said it better, but it's not happy happy, just content at being where you are now. That said, the current government is trying its hardest to drop us on that list...
Come on Connor???...wood burns, creates heat, boils water, creates steam, steam turns the turbines , turbines create electricity, basically the same as coal......
Very good video. Trust is key. That's the reason why Italians aren't happy even if we live in an amazing country. We cannot trust the system which encourages us to be individualistic and not community oriented. Also not feeling very connected to co-citizens from different geographical areas doesn't help social cohesion. I wish we could trust one another more just like people in Scandinavia whom we consider naive (lol but also 😢).
Nordics already are together. It's just not on paper. We used to have name for Nordic union between 1397-1523 called Kalmar union. No we are just buddies without borders.
We are all really aware of the relationship between the US and Russia in Europe, we haven't got the luxury of being able to ignore the geopolitics of the rest of the world. Timber was still a huge part of their GDP until very recently- I used to work in printing and 75% of the paper we used was from Finland. Much of the darkweb and the best hackers hail from Finland.
Security (welfare) is about less crime but also less corruption, less favoritism and less cynicism which equals in a more united and happy country Edit: And people are way more prone to focus on mental health when they're not struggling with basic needs
There's already all kind of Treaties... Between Nordic countries.. Been as far back i can remember.. Nordic council Like not needing passport... Since 70s Way before EU Was a thing.. And Just recently formed Scandinavian airforce..
Finland is mostly located in an area named Fennoscandia and as you pointed out only pattially on the scandian peninsula in wich even Denmark belongs geographically.
9:08 so you want to explain the cold war to a European 😂. Seriously 🤦♂️. Where do you think it was fought? ..... everywhere besides the US,... so dont worry, we know 🤘❤️
The statistics on mental health are often deceiving in this type of countries because it doesn't count the hidden mental health issues which is much more prevalent in countries with a weak social welfare system. In other words, the finns, norse and swiss get a lot of financial assistance, medical assistance and assessments on mental health (including the poor) which results in higher statistics. Still, the social isolation is a big issue in these countries so that's definitely detrimental for mental health
Yes, it could very well be that some problems are hidden in different cultures. We have pretty low threshold with going to see a doctor in mental health issues here in Finland. That definately effects the statistics. We could also have lower tolerance on domestic violence, so it could be reported more often than somewhere else. Those things do have an effect on statistics, so you can't always compare the numbers between different countries accurately without taking the culture and resources into consideration. Of course we also could have some cultural things that hide some problems. It's not like it's perfect anywhere in the world.
How would i explain this to Euroopans.. 😂 😂 😂 . Yep it's like we in europe, didn't played a role in the cold war.. West/East Germany, Warsaw pact... 😂 😂
Americans always seem to think they need to explain quite a lot of stuff to us here in Europe, especially in regard to 'war'. And to them, Americans, THEY and they alone won the Cold War, and many think they won WWII too. It's kinda funny! And a little sad really.
We kind of been banding together all the time. After WW2 FIN, NOR, DEN, SWE and ICELAND have had a sisterly political co-operation . We had EU style free movement of people and administrative cooperation decades before joining the EU. Since 2000 we had increased military co-operation, even though FIN+SWE said "I do" to NATO only after Russia tried to conquer all of Ukraine - another non-allied neutral European country just like SWEDEN 🇸🇪/and FINLAND 🇫🇮.
Here are couple of Finnish soldiers you might find interesting. According to the author-historian William R. Trotter, the first one is arguably the greatest Baltic statesman since Gustavus Adolphus: "FINLAND: Funeral of Field Marshal Mannerheim (1951)", "MANNERHEIM | History and his Line", "Marsalkka Mannerheimin kunniamerkit | Marskalk Mannerheims ordnar" and "Mannerheim seisoo keskellä metsää // Mannerheim stands in the woods". Among these are some Mannerheim Cross Knights. One of them was born in the former Finnish town Viipuri in 1919 as Lauri Törni. As Larry Thorne, his remains were buried at Arlington National Cemetery in 2003: "Spirit of the winter war | Talvisodan henki | Karpolla on asiaa", "Aarne "Marokon kauhu" Juutilainen 19.12.1939 Kollaanjoella (English subtitles)", "The White Death (Simo Häyhä) - Winter War Documentary - English Subtitles", "The 10th Mountain Division History", "Coffee and Conversation, 530: Liisa Hale - "WWII Finland to US 10th Mountain Division"", "Maailmanmestari, marskin ritari, lieutenant-colonel Olavi Alakulppi", "Finnish Long Range Patrols Behind Soviet Lines (’41 - ’44)". "Törni - Sotilaan tarina (A Soldier's Story) English Subtitles", "Phantom Fighters (Green Berets) in Color with Larry Thorne (Lauri Törni)". "Marttisen miehet: asekätkijäveljet" and "Happy 248th Birthday U.S. Army from Finland". A video about Finland's development into a welfare state viewed through the child welfare: "Lasten Suomi sata vuotta".
We actually have a "union" - its called the nordic and there is a deep cooperation between all of us about work, education, defence and si on. This was more important before some of us joined the EU. And i'm with you on this one - we would be an even more powerful union outside the EU
Mosquitoes are born in puddles. When you get melting snow, you get lots of puddles. Add to that the fact in the North the summer is short, so all the bugs have a really short time window to reproduce and feed, so they all hatch at once. Not just mosquitoes but horseflies, gnats etc, and the air is swarming with them. In Lapland this phenomenon is known as "räkkä", which is when all the reindeer gather up in tight groups like some ancient spearman formation and head up to the hills to avoid the blood sucking insects.
As a finn, I would say that trust is a right answer. 🎯 BUT I also say, that finns are happy less than for exemple americans. You have your "american dream" what you are hunting. It must be stressful. And it is good, for those who gets that. But those who dont get are probably sad about it. In Finland we dont have that. We dont kind of have even possibility for that. Instead we have had a lot of hard times in finnish history, like "winter war" and "the greath wrath" and so on. So we are just happy that those times are over and we have a peace and things are ok for now. It is more important than hunting "american dream". Safety. So I think this is the answer. But yeah, we also have no homeless, we take care our own peoples, we have a subscription and a free healthcare and school system that is also equal for everybody. So those influence also. And I would also say that love towards our homecountry. 🇫🇮 It keeps us together.
You need to ask Norway and Russia why we don't have access to the Arctic Ocean. That part of Norway is called Finnmark, literally "Finland" or "Finnish land", so you need to ask Norwegians why and Finland handed over Petsamo to the Soviet Union because they were timid and wouldn't have managed without having more of the Finnic lands.
He didnt mention the dark and cold weather (during big parts of the year) which is what international researchers often talk about when they discuss mental health problems in the Nordic Countries. Some people in Scandinavia are very affected by this. And thats the most common explanaition of why the Nordic countries are the happiest in the world but still are not in the bottom of the lists when it comes to depression for an ex. . In Finlands case they used to drink a lot more than swedes 50-70 years ago and I still think theres more problems with alcoholism amoungst older people there. This could be explained by the fact that Finland was a poor war torn country for large parts of the 1900’s and this still affects Finland to some extent.
30% of electricity from wood? Nonsensense! Finland using gas for electricity? Nonsense! There are no large scale electricity power plants using gas in Finland! Small gas turbines for peak consumption can be supplied from outside Russia by design. No housing price crisis either. Really....
The video you are commenting does not shine in the expertise department. Lots of "not quite so" details and poorly phrased views. Luckily you pick the essence quite well and ask relevant questions. Thanks.❤
11:57 Bernadotte came after Sweden lost Finland as the gouvrnment in Sweden wanted thr heirless King out who lost them Finland, and hoped that a war genius like Bernadotte would win Finland back for them, but instead the Swedes got Norway.
you dont have to explain the cold war dynamics to europeans ^^ Im german so my country was literally split into parts bc of it. And Im sure europeans see russia more as a threat than us citizens, because of our geographic proximity. The polish government is boosting its military to the max right now to fend off further russian aggression.
Two years ago Finland was the most dependent on Russian energy out of European countries. Finland is now 100% independent on energy. Trust trust trust trust....
Al nordic countries have have pretty much same approach, witch is social democracy. Nobody wants to swede again, If i'm correct they started this model but we have so different identities. Like Norway: good at sport...any except hockey. Denmark is just hygge or something, Sweden...nobody quite get's what they are about...and Finland, fiercely independent, so no. But we have worked decades together..
Many Finns are not exactly happy with the current government. But we still have a certain amount of trust that one government won't collapse the whole system. Although the right wing parties and left wing parties disagree on some things, there're still some basic things that all parties support to a degree. If not just to stay on the good side of voters. No party would dare to suggest privatising the school system, or the whole healthcare system for example. Even though the right wing government right now is cutting from the social benefits, giving tax benefits to the higher income people, and supporting some privatisation, they are still maintaining their support to the core values of the well fair society and education. Their methods of running the country may not be well liked by everyone but Finns mostly trust that they'll keep the country running, and that the next government will probably fix the worst of the damage this government might do. And the next will try fix their mistakes. I think as a nation we do have pretty high trust that our government is working for us and not against us. Even if some decisions they make would be less popular at that particular moment.
20:30 We’ve tried like 2 times and both times got ruined cus of foreign influences not allowing it (Soviets after the winter war when Sweden proposed a union with finals and invited Norway but Norway was angry cue we didn’t help when Germans attacked them and Finland wanted to but Soviet’s forbid it) There was also a time in the mid 18 hundreds when Scandinavia realistically could have united if one or two things went different during the Schleswig war but sadly it was not to be. I’ve even linked you videos on that before many times in the history recommendation on the discord but you’ve ignored time and time again. So I never wanna hear you ask the question again since you refuse to learn about it. :/
There is no "free defense" from NATO. It costs a lot. Finland has to buy a lot of US arms manufacturers' weapons such at the F-35 for over $100 million a piece. That doesn't include enormous maintenance outlays for 20 to 30 years for a far too complex system. One of the main reasons the US pushes NATO expansion is to aid its arms industry to export its war products, because it doesn't have much else to export. The US antagonism against Russia goes back to WWI. Very few Americans know that the US invaded Russia after WWI, Arkhangelsk in the north and Vladivostok in the west.
Sweden - Finland ground border is much easier to NATO to defence than Finland - Russia. I think we (Finland) do not get so much help if Russia attack here. We concumes Russian resources and make everything easier to Nato hit back and of course we always pay bills. We see how it goes in Ukraina. Big words only. Ukraina is more importat to rest of world (grain productions) than Finland so I don't see why other countries would help us , they do not help even Ukraina properly.
Finland doesn't have to buy any F-35 from US. It was decided to buy those just to ease the co-op with other countries. We could have bought swedish planes or eurofighter as easily. It was time for renewal anyways. Military equipment is like that, you need to renew those from time to time. Unless you wanna go russian way.
@@jopes4855 true and we have to defence our country by own army. I do not belive NATO would really help us to do that. We are too small and unnecessary in Europe. "European border", Poland etc. is more important to Nato.
@@jroutasula5250The NATO Treaty rule is...'If one nation is attacked then ALL nations will respond!'. IlUkraine isn't nor never would have been a NATO member state. If Finland was attacked, or Framce, Spain or the even The UK then ALL the NATO nations would join together to gi to war and defend the nation that'd been attacked and fight as 1. That's the reason why countries sign uo to NATO. So they have back up if ever needed by every NATO nation. A NATO rule is that each nation must spend around 2.5% a year of their GDP on defence/military spending. Also NATO don't demand that yiu only buy wraponerry from the US. The UK and France produce MANY different weapons, and munitions etc. As do Germany too.
About peat - listen to Peat & Diesel 🤭 A Nordic Union hasn't really worked since 1523 😊 the end of the Kalmar Union Happy: I find it difficult to be happy about the current Danish government. They make too many stupid decisions and as it's a majority government it can't be forced out.
hahaha, you are saying you weren't friends with Russia...during the cold war. Completely new knowledge to me mate....yea i was being sarcastic if you didn't get it. You never know with usa ppl. You might push bible to schools and forbid women rights and just hate each other. Soooo I think we are cool. Peace fromg Finland but if Russia tries something, we are prepared for that.
funny how usa doesnt teach world history u guys have no real examples of th_mgs reaching war and the outcome not being total anihilation . thats sad. sad for the rest of the world t try n deal w u
Finnish here, I am not happy with our current right-wing government nor the president that was elected. I am waiting for the government to step down for the decisions they have made. Unfortunately I have to wait for 5 to 6 years for the next presidential elections.
You are partly right about the politicians but there is hardly any country at the moment satisfied with their government. But these are crazy times. As you know very well the US is still the craziest like ever😮😢. In every single video they got the taxes wrong. It is the marginal tax here again and you get tax returns like in every country. I really hope the good people in the US are able to do the right thing and not elect the prince of darkness to lead the world to its end.
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Finland used to had the other hand to arctic sea, but Russia stole it in WWII.
And we're still apart of the whatever its called Arctic sea pact, though we don't have access to it anymore.
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too bad , because now the north path is free of ice all the year, and used for maritime traffic to asia...
at least , finland has a good maritime path to europe, via skaggerak straight.
@@Searover749 you havent heared of the Kiel canal?
Us Nordics are quite integrated and have been a long time with Nordic Council, integrated armed forces, Nordic Passport Union (separate from Schengen) etc. etc. etc.
The mosquitoes (aka. Satan's air force) survive the winter as larvae (when their resistance to cold is best) or eggs.
Mostly it's eggs and they can last years waiting the puddle appear again. Larvae needs air to breath so even a little bit ice will kill them, they simply drown under ice. Some species winter as adults and wake in very first warm days, sometimes there's still snow leftovers. These ones are pretty shy compared to midsummer hungry swarmers.
And it's short summers why mosquitos get so aggressive in the North. Every warm day counts as weather can turn cold. And it's never just mosquitos, we have black flies, tiny midges which can go through mosquito nets. Hot days bring horse flies size of wasps, these ones can make bleeding bites. Mid June to mid July is worst, the rest of the summer isn't bad. August is pretty nice.
Finland had artic coast in Petsamo.. Before Russia took it...
Left hand of Finnish maiden..
Energy is not the same as electricity. 80% of electricity in Finland is produced with renewables + nuclear. Most of the "energy" is used in industrial settings, thus they use wood fuels etc.
Great reaction once again. No need to apologize for stopping the video. Made me laugh positive way. Unlike many other, You're actually reacting and thinking and sharing Your thoughts. Keep up the good work 👍Greetings from Finland.
The income tax rate is progressive: in 2024 if you earn 20 500-30 500 euros the tax rate is 19%; for 30 500-50 400 euros it is 30%; for 50 400-88 200 euros it is 34% and for 88 200-150 000 it is 42%. Yes, most of us are happy to pay taxes because we get so much in return. And yes, trust in the state, government and fellow citizens is very important. A Finnish product might not be the fanciest or "sexiest" but you can always trust that it is of high quality and works really well.
Finland had it's own tiny sliver of Arctic ocean coastline 1920-1944 (the municipality of Petsamo) but it was lost among other territories ceded to Russia after WW2..
Paper industry produces a lot of waste products which are burned for energy, majority of "wood" as energy source comes from here. These plants output more electricity than they can use so excess is sold to market. Second largest is biomass thermal plants for district heating networks, bigger ones are usually combined heat and electricity power plants. They mostly use treetops and trees from thinning, the wood gets chipped and dried.
In this context, happiness means more like being content. Content with what you have and such. Others have said it better, but it's not happy happy, just content at being where you are now.
That said, the current government is trying its hardest to drop us on that list...
Come on Connor???...wood burns, creates heat, boils water, creates steam, steam turns the turbines , turbines create electricity, basically the same as coal......
Very good video. Trust is key. That's the reason why Italians aren't happy even if we live in an amazing country. We cannot trust the system which encourages us to be individualistic and not community oriented. Also not feeling very connected to co-citizens from different geographical areas doesn't help social cohesion. I wish we could trust one another more just like people in Scandinavia whom we consider naive (lol but also 😢).
Finland used to have access to the sea up North. Look up Petsamo. Guess who took it.
Nordics already are together. It's just not on paper.
We used to have name for Nordic union between 1397-1523 called Kalmar union.
No we are just buddies without borders.
The wood part of energy is producing hot water mainly. And a little bit of electricity.
Paper and pulp industry burns the waste part of the wood for steam to run the plants. Not much goes to the grid.
The graph says energy, not electricity. Warming homes with firewood is using energy.
We are all really aware of the relationship between the US and Russia in Europe, we haven't got the luxury of being able to ignore the geopolitics of the rest of the world.
Timber was still a huge part of their GDP until very recently- I used to work in printing and 75% of the paper we used was from Finland.
Much of the darkweb and the best hackers hail from Finland.
People in Finland aren't happy. They're content.
Finland did have little Arctic coast but Russia stole it during last wars.
Security (welfare) is about less crime but also less corruption, less favoritism and less cynicism which equals in a more united and happy country
Edit: And people are way more prone to focus on mental health when they're not struggling with basic needs
It wasn't Apple that destroyed Nokia, but Microsoft and Elop as their insert.
There's already all kind of Treaties... Between Nordic countries.. Been as far back i can remember..
Nordic council
Like not needing passport... Since 70s
Way before EU Was a thing..
And Just recently formed Scandinavian airforce..
Finland doesn't have housing crisis. Helsinki metropolitan area has a problem with high housing prices.
Finland is mostly located in an area named Fennoscandia and as you pointed out only pattially on the scandian peninsula in wich even Denmark belongs geographically.
9:08 so you want to explain the cold war to a European 😂. Seriously 🤦♂️. Where do you think it was fought? ..... everywhere besides the US,... so dont worry, we know 🤘❤️
Also, no hate, but he said 1920s AFTER WW2 so I wouldn't trust his knowledge anyway 😝
@@jussi3539 He never said 1920s. He said in the 20th century and in the 1900s (basically means the same as 20th century), after WW2.😝
The statistics on mental health are often deceiving in this type of countries because it doesn't count the hidden mental health issues which is much more prevalent in countries with a weak social welfare system.
In other words, the finns, norse and swiss get a lot of financial assistance, medical assistance and assessments on mental health (including the poor) which results in higher statistics.
Still, the social isolation is a big issue in these countries so that's definitely detrimental for mental health
Yes, it could very well be that some problems are hidden in different cultures. We have pretty low threshold with going to see a doctor in mental health issues here in Finland. That definately effects the statistics. We could also have lower tolerance on domestic violence, so it could be reported more often than somewhere else. Those things do have an effect on statistics, so you can't always compare the numbers between different countries accurately without taking the culture and resources into consideration.
Of course we also could have some cultural things that hide some problems. It's not like it's perfect anywhere in the world.
@j3mixa Makes a lot of sense. Also I may add that the stigma on mental health tend to be lower in these modern rich countries
How would i explain this to Euroopans.. 😂 😂 😂
. Yep it's like we in europe, didn't played a role in the cold war.. West/East Germany, Warsaw pact... 😂 😂
Americans always seem to think they need to explain quite a lot of stuff to us here in Europe, especially in regard to 'war'. And to them, Americans, THEY and they alone won the Cold War, and many think they won WWII too. It's kinda funny! And a little sad really.
We kind of been banding together all the time. After WW2 FIN, NOR, DEN, SWE and ICELAND have had a sisterly political co-operation . We had EU style free movement of people and administrative cooperation decades before joining the EU. Since 2000 we had increased military co-operation, even though FIN+SWE said "I do" to NATO only after Russia tried to conquer all of Ukraine - another non-allied neutral European country just like SWEDEN 🇸🇪/and FINLAND 🇫🇮.
Here are couple of Finnish soldiers you might find interesting. According to the author-historian William R. Trotter, the first one is arguably the greatest Baltic statesman since Gustavus Adolphus: "FINLAND: Funeral of Field Marshal Mannerheim (1951)", "MANNERHEIM | History and his Line", "Marsalkka Mannerheimin kunniamerkit | Marskalk Mannerheims ordnar" and "Mannerheim seisoo keskellä metsää // Mannerheim stands in the woods".
Among these are some Mannerheim Cross Knights. One of them was born in the former Finnish town Viipuri in 1919 as Lauri Törni. As Larry Thorne, his remains were buried at Arlington National Cemetery in 2003: "Spirit of the winter war | Talvisodan henki | Karpolla on asiaa", "Aarne "Marokon kauhu" Juutilainen 19.12.1939 Kollaanjoella (English subtitles)", "The White Death (Simo Häyhä) - Winter War Documentary - English Subtitles", "The 10th Mountain Division History", "Coffee and Conversation, 530: Liisa Hale - "WWII Finland to US 10th Mountain Division"", "Maailmanmestari, marskin ritari, lieutenant-colonel Olavi Alakulppi", "Finnish Long Range Patrols Behind Soviet Lines (’41 - ’44)". "Törni - Sotilaan tarina (A Soldier's Story) English Subtitles", "Phantom Fighters (Green Berets) in Color with Larry Thorne (Lauri Törni)". "Marttisen miehet: asekätkijäveljet" and "Happy 248th Birthday U.S. Army from Finland".
A video about Finland's development into a welfare state viewed through the child welfare: "Lasten Suomi sata vuotta".
Sweden uses Norwegian ports, we don't need no arctic coast, like for what? The port of Narvik is heavily used by Swedish LKAB to export iron ore.
The mosquitos respawn like in Minecraft.
A term for scandinavia that includes Finland is "Fennoscandia". You can use that term if you want to sound smart ;)
We actually have a "union" - its called the nordic and there is a deep cooperation between all of us about work, education, defence and si on. This was more important before some of us joined the EU. And i'm with you on this one - we would be an even more powerful union outside the EU
Mosquitoes are born in puddles. When you get melting snow, you get lots of puddles. Add to that the fact in the North the summer is short, so all the bugs have a really short time window to reproduce and feed, so they all hatch at once. Not just mosquitoes but horseflies, gnats etc, and the air is swarming with them. In Lapland this phenomenon is known as "räkkä", which is when all the reindeer gather up in tight groups like some ancient spearman formation and head up to the hills to avoid the blood sucking insects.
Yes, the happiest country thing is actually measuring how content people are in their lives.
You don't need to tell about cold war every European has learned about it
As a finn, I would say that trust is a right answer. 🎯 BUT I also say, that finns are happy less than for exemple americans. You have your "american dream" what you are hunting. It must be stressful.
And it is good, for those who gets that. But those who dont get are probably sad about it. In Finland we dont have that. We dont kind of have even possibility for that.
Instead we have had a lot of hard times in finnish history, like "winter war" and "the greath wrath" and so on. So we are just happy that those times are over and we have a peace and things are ok for now. It is more important than hunting "american dream". Safety. So I think this is the answer. But yeah, we also have no homeless, we take care our own peoples, we have a subscription and a free healthcare and school system that is also equal for everybody. So those influence also. And I would also say that love towards our homecountry. 🇫🇮 It keeps us together.
You need to ask Norway and Russia why we don't have access to the Arctic Ocean. That part of Norway is called Finnmark, literally "Finland" or "Finnish land", so you need to ask Norwegians why and Finland handed over Petsamo to the Soviet Union because they were timid and wouldn't have managed without having more of the Finnic lands.
Well we produce a lot of wood and paper so of course we burn all the parts that cant be made into something
We have had Nordic Council from 1952. A lot of cooperation.
You should include Scandinavia in Fennoscandia.
He didnt mention the dark and cold weather (during big parts of the year) which is what international researchers often talk about when they discuss mental health problems in the Nordic Countries. Some people in Scandinavia are very affected by this. And thats the most common explanaition of why the Nordic countries are the happiest in the world but still are not in the bottom of the lists when it comes to depression for an ex.
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In Finlands case they used to drink a lot more than swedes 50-70 years ago and I still think theres more problems with alcoholism amoungst older people there. This could be explained by the fact that Finland was a poor war torn country for large parts of the 1900’s and this still affects Finland to some extent.
30% of electricity from wood? Nonsensense! Finland using gas for electricity? Nonsense! There are no large scale electricity power plants using gas in Finland! Small gas turbines for peak consumption can be supplied from outside Russia by design.
No housing price crisis either. Really....
That is true. Politics means alot
22:55 wood in fireplace = way more romantic, also wayyy cheaper than electric hey.
The video you are commenting does not shine in the expertise department. Lots of "not quite so" details and poorly phrased views.
Luckily you pick the essence quite well and ask relevant questions. Thanks.❤
11:57 Bernadotte came after Sweden lost Finland as the gouvrnment in Sweden wanted thr heirless King out who lost them Finland, and hoped that a war genius like Bernadotte would win Finland back for them, but instead the Swedes got Norway.
you dont have to explain the cold war dynamics to europeans ^^ Im german so my country was literally split into parts bc of it. And Im sure europeans see russia more as a threat than us citizens, because of our geographic proximity. The polish government is boosting its military to the max right now to fend off further russian aggression.
It's eyond wild an Amsrican feels they need to explain the Cold War to Europeans. Like, seriously, WTF? haha
17:40 I'd assume that's one or more valleys because it reminds me of Switzerland geography
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yeah, when the war in Ukraine started, the electricity and gas prices did rise a lot :)!
Two years ago Finland was the most dependent on Russian energy out of European countries. Finland is now 100% independent on energy.
Trust trust trust trust....
Finland was never dependent on Russian energy! Despite the fact that we could have had all the perks and benefits of say Germany or Italy.
@rikulappi9664 Well, we did get 1/3-1/2 of our energy from Russia on recent years.
@@SK-nw4ig maybe not dependent but energy was much cheaper from Russia.
@@jroutasula5250 it was. Luckily we were already building the new nuclear reactor back then.
@@SK-nw4ig true.
That electrict production seems tad out of date, now like 42% comes from Nuclear, close to 20% wind and 20% Hydro, rest is mix of other stuff
You need to take a look at their fabulous education system...
17:50 because vikings traveled via boats.
Al nordic countries have have pretty much same approach, witch is social democracy. Nobody wants to swede again, If i'm correct they started this model but we have so different identities. Like Norway: good at sport...any except hockey. Denmark is just hygge or something, Sweden...nobody quite get's what they are about...and Finland, fiercely independent, so no. But we have worked decades together..
Russia took our Arctic coast
The winter do be too long 😢 5 months on a good year, 7 months on a bad year
Candies there are alcohol filled ;-)
Many lakes = A lot of bugs
Its all about stress
Many Finns are not exactly happy with the current government. But we still have a certain amount of trust that one government won't collapse the whole system. Although the right wing parties and left wing parties disagree on some things, there're still some basic things that all parties support to a degree. If not just to stay on the good side of voters. No party would dare to suggest privatising the school system, or the whole healthcare system for example. Even though the right wing government right now is cutting from the social benefits, giving tax benefits to the higher income people, and supporting some privatisation, they are still maintaining their support to the core values of the well fair society and education. Their methods of running the country may not be well liked by everyone but Finns mostly trust that they'll keep the country running, and that the next government will probably fix the worst of the damage this government might do. And the next will try fix their mistakes. I think as a nation we do have pretty high trust that our government is working for us and not against us. Even if some decisions they make would be less popular at that particular moment.
20:30 We’ve tried like 2 times and both times got ruined cus of foreign influences not allowing it (Soviets after the winter war when Sweden proposed a union with finals and invited Norway but Norway was angry cue we didn’t help when Germans attacked them and Finland wanted to but Soviet’s forbid it)
There was also a time in the mid 18 hundreds when Scandinavia realistically could have united if one or two things went different during the Schleswig war but sadly it was not to be. I’ve even linked you videos on that before many times in the history recommendation on the discord but you’ve ignored time and time again. So I never wanna hear you ask the question again since you refuse to learn about it. :/
Ah yes Lihavakalajärvet = fatfish lakes
Wtf, effective income tax rate is usually between 20 - 30 % in Finland
Tax rates are progressive they range from around 20%-42%.
answer to your 1st question...ever got through 1st class of biology? insects can have 4 different forms to spend winter. Google competently...
There is no "free defense" from NATO. It costs a lot. Finland has to buy a lot of US arms manufacturers' weapons such at the F-35 for over $100 million a piece. That doesn't include enormous maintenance outlays for 20 to 30 years for a far too complex system.
One of the main reasons the US pushes NATO expansion is to aid its arms industry to export its war products, because it doesn't have much else to export.
The US antagonism against Russia goes back to WWI. Very few Americans know that the US invaded Russia after WWI, Arkhangelsk in the north and Vladivostok in the west.
Sweden - Finland ground border is much easier to NATO to defence than Finland - Russia. I think we (Finland) do not get so much help if Russia attack here. We concumes Russian resources and make everything easier to Nato hit back and of course we always pay bills. We see how it goes in Ukraina. Big words only. Ukraina is more importat to rest of world (grain productions) than Finland so I don't see why other countries would help us , they do not help even Ukraina properly.
Real good for NATO that Putin became their salesman of the century.
Finland doesn't have to buy any F-35 from US. It was decided to buy those just to ease the co-op with other countries. We could have bought swedish planes or eurofighter as easily. It was time for renewal anyways.
Military equipment is like that, you need to renew those from time to time. Unless you wanna go russian way.
@@jopes4855 true and we have to defence our country by own army. I do not belive NATO would really help us to do that. We are too small and unnecessary in Europe. "European border", Poland etc. is more important to Nato.
@@jroutasula5250The NATO Treaty rule is...'If one nation is attacked then ALL nations will respond!'. IlUkraine isn't nor never would have been a NATO member state. If Finland was attacked, or Framce, Spain or the even The UK then ALL the NATO nations would join together to gi to war and defend the nation that'd been attacked and fight as 1.
That's the reason why countries sign uo to NATO. So they have back up if ever needed by every NATO nation. A NATO rule is that each nation must spend around 2.5% a year of their GDP on defence/military spending. Also NATO don't demand that yiu only buy wraponerry from the US. The UK and France produce MANY different weapons, and munitions etc. As do Germany too.
6:06 Top on is Finnish and bottom one is swedish.
Nope, the bottom one is Sámi.
About peat - listen to Peat & Diesel 🤭
A Nordic Union hasn't really worked since 1523 😊 the end of the Kalmar Union
Happy: I find it difficult to be happy about the current Danish government. They make too many stupid decisions and as it's a majority government it can't be forced out.
hahaha, you are saying you weren't friends with Russia...during the cold war. Completely new knowledge to me mate....yea i was being sarcastic if you didn't get it. You never know with usa ppl. You might push bible to schools and forbid women rights and just hate each other. Soooo I think we are cool. Peace fromg Finland but if Russia tries something, we are prepared for that.
We are nordic and poor country. But we respect police and we safe
funny how usa doesnt teach world history u guys have no real examples of th_mgs reaching war and the outcome not being total anihilation . thats sad. sad for the rest of the world t try n deal w u
Finnish here, I am not happy with our current right-wing government nor the president that was elected. I am waiting for the government to step down for the decisions they have made. Unfortunately I have to wait for 5 to 6 years for the next presidential elections.
They haven't been a NATO country long enough to regret anything yet
You are partly right about the politicians but there is hardly any country at the moment satisfied with their government. But these are crazy times. As you know very well the US is still the craziest like ever😮😢. In every single video they got the taxes wrong. It is the marginal tax here again and you get tax returns like in every country. I really hope the good people in the US are able to do the right thing and not elect the prince of darkness to lead the world to its end.