On the morning of 29th of April 1918 the Finnish Liberation Forces Captured Viipuri (Vyborg), the ancient Finnish city near the Eastern border of the Soviet Russia.
While the victory of the Liberation Warriors meant the expulsion of main foreign force and its “puppet government” from Finland, the problems of our country were not over yet.
As a part of the training of the hard-core Finnish (Liberation) Army some two thousand Finnish volunteers received their military training in Germany, fighting the Russia during the ongoing First World War (1914-1918).
Due to the Germany kindly offering training to the Finnish warriors, the most pro-German Finns eyed the presence of the German Forces - that e.g. captured Helsinki on 13.4.1918 - friendly while the rest of the Finns had full scope of views of their presence.
Among those seriously concerned about the German Baltic Division (with some 9,000 men) invasion was, luckily for the Finns, General Mannerheim, the commander of the White forces who opposed the German invasion (no doubt understanding the non-sense of the idea of replacing one occupation threat with another one), but had to yield – for the moment.
One of the most important lessons of the Finnish Civil/Liberation War is that not only do such wars ultimately represent a hostile foreign hijacking of the country, but that – contrary to the propaganda involved – there are not two, but four basic parties in any such conflict.
These would be:
§1. The party backed by the foreign occupier N:o 1.
§2. The party backed by the foreign occupier N:o 2
§3. The national party rejecting the presence of any foreign forces.
§4. The innocent, civilian party, caught and trapped in the middle of the combat actions.
Needless to say, understanding this, not the media-sold two-polar “civil war” being the basic setting pf a such war enables the reader to understand the long-lasted Finnish quarrel about a proper term that should be applied: “insurgency, rebel” (= kapina), “slaughter” (: lahtaus) “liberation war” (= vapaussota) and “civil war” (kansalaissota). Each Finnish term applies to one of the main parties §1-§4 according to the often inherited and somewhat developed sympathies of the Finn in question.
This brings us to the current situation in Iraq because that being far more serious than the Finnish one at the time.
1. There are more than just foreign occupiers N:o 1 (U.S.) and N:o 2 (Iran)
2. Rather than fighting each other, the U.S. and Iran have been collaborating in Iraq now for five years straight to systematically destroy the parties N:o 3 (Iraqi Resistance) and N:o 4 (Iraqi People) which actually are backed by the UN and all the religions of the world in their Holy Struggle (or “jihad” in Arabic, if that’s your preference).
After five years of failed attempts to sustain the “civil war” in Iraq the occupier N:o 1 (the U.S.), seems to have lost 40,000, not some 4,000 plus men dead and 320,000 plus wounded - and therefore, the war: the in-build thinness of the so-called “professional army” is a fatal flaw if such an unit becomes misdirected into occupational opearations.
The same fate is waiting for the Iranian occupation, because it has been using the U.S. Expeditionary Forces as their tool, but with the approaching the US defeat, the most effective Iranian tool on the ground is naturally lost to them as well.
In these circumstances it is the time for a discussion.
That discussion is no longer essentially a military, but a humanitarian one: the issue is the rescuing the innocent Iraqi people thrown into the hell-hole of the vicious, inconsistent hydra of the occupation of Iraq.
During the past five years the occupation - in all its forms - has murdered over 1,2 million Iraqis while another million plus Iraqis have gone missing. In addition, there are 1,5 million cancers caused by the illegal, condemnable US use of weapons of mass destruction as well as million widows (telling a lot about the true casualty figures, doesn't it: the supposed 100,000 dead (including women, children and elders) could not leave million widows, could they?). In addition, there are at least three million wounded, and five million orphans (confirming the million plus casualties being the absolute minimum) and some seven million refugees.
Despite all these calamities the truth about the Iraq war is that there will be a day when the weakest of today, the Iraqi children and women will be the strongest of all in Iraq, because it is them that will give birth to the new generations of Iraqi people.
We, the people of the world, are not ready to lose them.
We will Love and Protect the Iraqi children and women.
Newsdesk Helsinki Finland
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On the NDHF Team position and the UN:
§2. Vieira de Mello foundation to honour peacemakers
§3. NDHF Net UN Jaegers proof their neutrality in Iraq War
§4. Article 51
§5. "We, the Jaegers, we preserved our Faith!"
§6. UN expert calls for better regulation of private military, security firms in Iraq
§7. Jääkärimarssi ("Jaeger March")
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