#finlandization

Russian shopping tourists are now coming by the busload to a border town in Finland, waiting weeks to make the trip: “It’s about time” The effects of the border’s [re]opening are already visible in Lappeenranta. The number of Russians is nowhere near the record years, but they seem to have purchasing power. Russian shopping tourists returned to Lappeenranta shops. A Sovavto bus from Russia…

Petersburg residents grabbed up all the appointments in July to apply for a Schengen visa at the Finnish visa center in the city after it was reported that all restrictions on crossing the border would be lifted. Finland lifted all anti-covid restrictions on entering the country on June 30, and visa restrictions were lifted on July 1. The scheduling of appointments for processing visa…

Murray Rothbard on the Soviet Union

My latest blog post, Murray Rothbard on Organized Crime, was shared by a couple of persons on Facebook – and in one comment, I was accused of “cherry picking”, because I chose only one article and took it as representative of Rothbard’s entire view.

“Cherry picking” is an inductive fallacy which consists in taking the inductive generalization one wants to reach for granted and then only giving…