The President of Finland actually went a little off script

Rare Finland W

On Saturday, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said the United States is acting outside international law following U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran.
He also expressed hope that the situation will calm down so that a negotiated solution to the conflict can be pursued.
“Right now, we are seeing that the United States is operating largely outside traditional international law,” Stubb said on Finland’s state television network YLE.
According to Stubb, before carrying out attacks of this kind, Washington had typically sought approval from the United Nations or, at the very least, from its NATO allies — something that has not happened this time.
“Now there has not been much consultation. There was no consultation in Venezuela, there was no consultation earlier during the 12-day war (between Israel and Iran in June 2025), nor has there been consultation now on this issue,” the Finnish president said.
In his view, the attack by U.S. and Israeli forces on Iran demonstrates the transformation taking place in the global political landscape and in the international order.
“When international institutions and norms are not respected, a power vacuum is created that makes this kind of attack possible,” Stubb said.

Also the President of Spain says (firefox translated) "We reject the unilateral military action of the U.S. and Israel, which is an escalation and contributes to a more uncertain and hostile international order." but then goes on to also reject Iran's (unspecified) actions.

Like Finland's it's a pretty tame condemnation, but noteworthy coming from NATO member states.

Don't like the both sides stuff at the end but it's something. As for the rest of Europe...

I think we should start a public call for sculptors for the statue that will have to be made of Francesca Albanese.

Is there really any solid proof of a nuclear WEAPONS programme in Iran?
I may well have missed any proof of a ballistic missile programme, but I am quite sure there is no solid proof of a nuclear one.

Anyway, asking those more informed than me.

Finland is chastising meanwhile Europe in general is ironically showing its near complete finlandization In regards to US.

After screeching for 4 years straight about Russia's unprovoked all out invasion, that's certainly an interesting position to take.

No? They were always more concerned with the races of participants in war, they never gave a shit about the existence of war itself. As soon as Russia invaded they jumped at the chance to say they're Asiatic orcish barbarians and were more concerned with people potentially mistaking Russians for whites (asserting that Ukraine is unambiguously white and Russia are unambiguously not, remember that "this really makes me sad because we're seeing blond hair blue eyed people getting attacked for the first time in ages" line some EU representative said?). Of course they would uncriticaly support whites killing brown people. White makes right.

Look at their response to the US attacks on Venezuela or the unproven drug boats, or starving of Cuba, or Israeli attacks on Palestine.

good point

Yep all European takes when America or Israel do something blatantly power grabbing and illegal (as if that matters) are wishy wishy statements that end up supporting the blatant imperialism.

God damn it Europe

iran has been 2 weeks away from nuclear weapons since the 70's

Major props there.

Rare?

Did not expect anything else from Frau Genocide or our pathetic European leaders. Glad that Francesca Albanese's position is more popular. Who exactly do these invertebrates in the EU parliament represent? Because it's clearly not the people.

Ursula doesn't speak in my name ffs

They already have nukes

That might make sense if the EU just didn't acknowledge the American aggression. But they did acknowledge it and doubled down on supporting the US, and how "Venezuela/Cuba/Iran deserved it, actually." Sure seems like they're only against Russian aggression because it affects them, and they're completely supportive of white aggression against everyone else.

"-- is not leadership: it's escalation"

You know what I hate with a passion? AI speak.

I hate that proper syntax is now somehow AI speak.

I think Francesca Albanese is just a reader. Readers tend to know how to write.

That's probably exactly why AI speaks like that, since it's been trained on troves of literature. It's a common structure so it adopted it to repeat ad nauseum.

Yes, but it also helps the reader. There's a reason why literature is written in that way.

It's not AI speak, it's EU speak that AI learned from them.

I'm pretty sure "it's not a; it's b" is not specifically EU speak but it is something ChatGPT loves to overuse and it's a great litmus test to spot the rot