Obama shows sense of realism

[A.F.F.]

And now Putin is about to fix things right....

[BDunnell]

What about the years 1945 to 1990? Finland had good, friendly relationships with the Soviet Union that were beneficial to both. I can't see any reason why the Soviet Union would have invaded Finland again, even if the US had not existed. The US did nothing to help for example Estonia, so I don't believe they would have helped Finland either. We don't have any oil wells.

It was hardly a very heroic stance to take on Finland's part, was it? I mean the mild acquiescence towards a regime that was behaving appallingly in the Eastern Bloc nations.

[Eki]

It was hardly a very heroic stance to take on Finland's part, was it? I mean the mild acquiescence towards a regime that was behaving appallingly in the Eastern Bloc nations.

It was a realistic stance. Let the Eastern Bloc nations take care of their own countries and we take care of our own. We have never claimed to have saved the whole world.