As Finland seeks to join NATO, Lauri Törni embodies all its foreign policy contradictions and entanglements with his improbable story of fighting for three countries largely to resist Russian aggression.
Can Finland’s relations with Russia serve as an example for Lebanon in the face of an Iranian takeover? One might need a little history refresher to answer this. Finland was under Swedish rule until the end of the 18th century. When Sweden lost its position as a great power of the time and was defeated in the Finnish War of 1808-09, Russia conquered Finland and it became an