Tuomas Tammisto<p>Li Andersson, MEP of the Finnish Left Alliance party, gave an interview to the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation regarding the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/UkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UkraineWar</span></a> and Trump in the US.</p><p>tl;dr: it makes me happy we have a firm, morally consistent, sharp-witted and brave MEP like Li Andersson</p><p>Andersson notes that Europe should not be dependent on the US, and a mistake by the European left has been not to develop a credible European defense alternative. </p><p>She also notes that the hypocrisy by European countries regarding the war on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> has been astounding. And Andersson is right: our calls for a rule-based international order don't seem credible, if the rules don't apply to all. In <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a>, the Left Alliance and Andersson have consistently critiqued the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a> in addition to the Russian attack on Ukraine.</p><p><a href="https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/53137/europe-needs-to-stand-on-its-own-feet" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rosalux.de/en/news/id/53137/eu</span><span class="invisible">rope-needs-to-stand-on-its-own-feet</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TheLeft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheLeft</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GueNGL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GueNGL</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a></p>