russia s made the threats about putting nuclear weapons on your border. so, how has the ukraine war how has russia s illegal war affected the whole attitude towards nato inside your country? first of all, thanks for having me. and i think usually the support for joining nato was between 20 or 30% in my country. basically, overnight, after the attack, it shot up to 50, 60, even further. so, i think the fins are drawing conclusions that russia, basically, fundamentally stepped out of the frame in which they existed for the last 30 years. they started an illegal, totally unprovoked war. this is the basic observation by-fins that things have changed. how frightened are the finish people of this threat by
they couldn t get anything done. the infrastructure law is a huge success sought by prior presidents, one that should have really defined this first two years of biden s term but instead got lost amid that debate between factions of the democratic party and then into the drama of russia invading ukraine and obviously that becoming the more important focus. it s a bit late now to be talking about infrastructure. the problem is if you look at polls that voters are concerned about inflation foremost and then crime and immigration. so the president and the candidates who are in those districts that david is talking about, even the one who is might feel they re safe now really need to be focused on the issues that the voters are most concerned about and believe the democrats haven t been focused enough on. and dave, at this point, with so many headwinds, inflation, the war, you know, covid still,
of they feel they absolutely need to control ukraine. unless they get rid of this idea, accept independence for ukraine. i think it s rather difficult to sustainably solve the conflict. so, you don t think ukraine can survive as long as vladimir putin has this idea? i think ukraine has survived as an independent country as long as they can defend themselves and get sufficient demands of support. i think we are unified behind ukraine, finland is accepteding lethal support to ukraine. i think ukrainians are are just actually wrote a column today to the finish press and my conclusion is ukraine is an independent. so, i m totally optimistic about that. the only question is what happens before the russians will
so many of your choices can be explained by the link of this relationship. this is simply not true. i still have loans, like all of our fellow citizens to buy a house, a car, to use your examples. but we have not gone and taken a loan out in russian banks. so, richard haas, if her populous right wing should win, what what would be the impact on the solidarity in the ukrainian war? the good news is i think she and her party are unlikely to win. she was behind in the polls before the debate. she didn t have a break through moment and the timing couldn t be worse given what s going on with ukraine and the war. she was on the defensive. but if she were to score an upset, vladimir putin would be toasting it. it would ownen a major alliance.