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  2. @A Y EU has encouraged Finland to remain neutral for decades. Finland just wants to be left alone when it comes to conflict, and trade with both East and West while working on domestic problems like population (lack of young workers), aging society, energy, and advanced technology development. Finland has been a reliable trade partner for Russia for centuries. My family’s region, Pohjanmaa, has been exporting bailed hay to Russia since Czarist times, and they’re in the West, opposite side of the border. When I lived in Russia, I saw several Finnish products on the large store shelves like Globus, which is a German attempt to duplicate the combined business models of Wal-Mart and Costco. Russia has enjoyed diversity of grocery, personal care, and household products like never before once the collapse’s initial velocity was reduced, and Western firms saw a huge market of 143 million people who had been excluded from Western trade for 50-60 years. Much of Russia’s domestic construction projects were managed by Finnish, Serbian, and Swedish engineers because the Bolsheviks purged those types of people in the Revolution and Civil War, followed by the horrors of human loss in World War II. Russia focused its remaining engineers, many of whom were injured during the war (Kalashnikov is one example) on military items, taking Western designs where all the RDT&E had been done already, then scaled those designs for primitive Russian and Ukrainian factories. Ukraine had better technical expertise in many areas, including missile and RADAR components, as well as most of the naval yards for construction of wartime vessels. EU has promoted trade with Russia though, since Germany is the core of the EU and Germany relies on exports for its economy. They are the last ones who want to see any warfare in Europe.
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