Finland is slightly smaller than Montana and wedged between Sweden and Russia. Finland, a nation of approximately 5 million people, has a security outlook shaped by its geography, a strategic position within the new NATO/Arctic strategy.
President Trump holds a bilateral discussion with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, as the two leaders complete terms for eleven icebreaker ships valued at $6.1 billion. Under terms of the deal, three of the ships will be built by Davie in Galveston, Texas, and four by Bollinger Shipyards in Houma, Louisiana.
Finland is the world leader in icebreaker ship building, and will help teach U.S. ship building companies the latest advances in the technology. WATCH:
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You know those Finns. They make good stuff.
It’s very nice of Finland to help us here in the superpower U.S. learn more about building ships.
…like F1 drivers…
Like, for instance, the world’s largest and most powerful diesel engine – the Wärtsilä RT-flex96C:
“The RT-flex96C is a true giant among engines, with its fourteen cylinders that can generate 107,389HP with more than 7,000,000Nm of torque — enough to power an entire suburban town.
The engine weighs 2,300 tons and stands 44 feet tall and 90 feet long – more than a four-story building. Redline is at 102 RPM, but the torque is enough to tear a tank to shreds.”:
https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/technology-articles/engineering/biggest-most-poweful-engine-world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA96-C
…- Only a 2-stroke, as well… – *’Magine That*…
…- Also very nice polkkas (Evidently my original comment got deep-sixed by the mods for some reason, so we’ll go with this version instead, which is not nearly as good as my original post with the Kantele…
(…- Apparently, at the outbreak of the Winter War, Finnish radio stations flooded the airwaves with this chune in order to jam Russkie radio comms… – *Nuff Respect*, Finns…):…
https://sofrep.com/news/the-sakkijarven-polkka-when-the-finns-used-their-jam-to-jam-soviet-radio-controlled-mines/
They are very obedient people. The Nordics are very nice and pleasant. And very obedient. They even welcome their Muslim invaders nicely and pleasantly, obedient to their leaders saying they are very fine people who must be welcomed and who will change their nice and pleasant obedient nation as they see fit (Allah obedience?). As they hand over their young Nordic daughters to the nice gang of Muslim men, and welcome them in their nice and pleasant homes.
Alexander Stubb speaks better English than Kamala Harris.
That’s a low bar!
BREAKING: Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize 2025.
Donald Trump was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
“Ahead of the announcement, the committee said Trump would not win as he is dismantling the international world order the Nobel committee cherishes.”
F them.
They gave it to Barry after he had been in office for mere months. Winning it is akin to accepting a freebie from a floozie infested with an STD.
We know why…$$$$$$$$
Just like the International Olympic Committee. Remember how Obama and his flying
Monkeys tried to get Shitcago as a hosting city a few years ago. Didn’t work.
Atlanta was a little craftier, however. Knew precisely which persons and pockets to approach
prior to 1996. The closing ceremonies were, basically, a long democrat campaign commercial.
Only dems seemed to be shown on camera, right before the upcoming presidential elections.
So please tell me, with all the “peaceful” demonstrations in LA, did they get the Olympics? Again?
President Trump is dismantling the EU by leveling the playing field. The member states will not be able to afford the overhead. He also has had good meeting with Putin. That’s two strikes.
President Trump is dismantling the EU by leveling the playing field. The member states will not be able to afford the overhead. He also has had good meetings with Putin. That’s two strikes.
Be a crying shame if it became too expensive to keep NATO going. Trump’s
already badmouthing Spain for not paying their part of the swag for NATO.
Believe them when they tell you who they are.
That is in fact the highest honor of all. Congrats to us!
A literal example of “better to deserve it and not get it than to get it and not deserve it”.
The contrast between President Trump not getting it and Obama getting it could not be more extreme.
For the Nobel committee making these decisions, their ideology is more important than reality.
SD, he should launch his own Peace Prize committee and start awarding those who do work toward Peace. That would further establish the New World Trump doctrine…
They gave obama the Peace Prize for being black and merely getting elected, then he divided the country like no President ever! He’s a despicable man and so is his wife! JMO
One major reason why I voted for him.
Trump appears to gladly “bear that (dis)mantle.”
Who?
That award belongs in a box of Cracker Jack at this point.
“By their fruits you shall know them.”
Nominations for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize closed on 31 January 2025. Trump became president on 20 January 2025, meaning he had been in office 11 days by the time submissions closed.
That means all of his peacemaking efforts and nominations this year don’t technically count towards the announcement on Friday. With the Israel-Hamas agreement ratified recently and the hostages yet to be released, the fragile truce may not be seen as a strong enough achievement for the Committee, who look for evidence of “durability”.
URL
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize-winner-b2843064.html
”Nominations for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize closed on 31 January 2025. Trump became president on 20 January 2025, meaning he had been in office 11 days by the time submissions closed.”
On October 9, 2009, Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=when+did+obama+win+the+nobel+peace+prize
President Obama became President of the U.S. on 20 January 2009, after winning the on November 4, 2008 elections.
Nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize closed on February 1, 2009. This deadline is for nominations to be sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee to be considered for the award of that same year.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=when+did+nominatons+for+the+2009+nobel+pece+pris+were+c%3Bosed
And, yet…
On October 9, 2009, Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=when+did+obama+win+the+nobel+peace+prize
Double standard or I miss something I don’t know ?
Someone made sure to officially nominate Obama before the nominations closed. Then some behind closed doors negotiations to make sure he won.
Democrats are always planing ahead and gaming the system that way. It’s pretty much all they do. Would not be a surprise if someone gamed out the plan to get Obama nominated during the 2008 Democrat convention.
“Someone made sure to officially nominate Obama before the nominations closed.”
I wonder who. Another trail without end.
Found…
2009 Nobel Peace Prize
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize
Selection and announcement
The winner is selected by the Nobel Committee from nominations submitted by committee members and others. Nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize closed just 11 days after Obama took office. There were 205 nominations for the 2009 award, which included Chinese and Afghan civil rights activists and African politicians. Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba,[7][8] Afghanistan’s Sima Samar,[7] Chinese dissident Hu Jia and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai had been speculated to be favorites for the award.[2]
The five members of the Nobel Committee are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament to roughly reflect the party makeup of that body. The 2009 Committee comprised two members of the Norwegian Labour Party, one from the left-wing Socialist Left Party, one from the Conservative Party of Norway and one from the right-wing Progress Party. The chairman of the committee was Thorbjørn Jagland, former Norwegian Labour Party prime minister and Secretary General of the Council of Europe since September 29, 2009. The panel met six or seven times in 2009, beginning several weeks after the February 1 nomination deadline. The winner was chosen unanimously on October 5,[9] but was initially opposed by the Socialist Left, Conservative and Progress Party members until strongly persuaded by Jagland.[10]
Jagland said “We have not given the prize for what may happen in the future. We are awarding Obama for what he has done in the past year. And we are hoping this may contribute a little bit for what he is trying to do,” noting that he hoped the award would assist Obama’s foreign policy efforts. Jagland said the committee was influenced by a speech Obama gave about Islam in Cairo in June 2009, the president’s efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation and climate change, and Obama’s support for using established international bodies such as the United Nations to pursue foreign policy goals.[11]
The New York Times reported that Jagland shrugged off the question of whether “the committee feared being labeled naïve for accepting a young politician’s promises at face value”, stating that “no one could deny that ‘the international climate’ had suddenly improved, and that Mr. Obama was the main reason… We want to embrace the message that he stands for.”[9]
Barack Obama with Thorbjørn Jagland
Obama was the fourth U.S. president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, after Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919)—both of whom received the award during their terms—and Jimmy Carter (2002), who received the award 21 years after leaving office. In addition, then-sitting vice president Charles Dawes was a co-winner with Austen Chamberlain (1925), and former vice president Al Gore was a co-winner with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007).
Obama was the first U.S. president to receive the award during his first year in office (at eight and a half months, after being nominated less than two weeks in office), although several other world leaders were awarded in the year following their election to national office, including Óscar Arias (1987).[12]
https://x.com/StevenCheung47/status/1976601157041856756
Retired Magistrate here: After Obama won it for doing nothing, the Nobel Peace Prize really doesn’t mean anything.
Completely agree. Not to diminish the courage of María Corina Machado, we need more like her and she is deserving of recognition.
Doesn’t come as a surprise. Why would they award a peace prize to a president seeking peace for all nations and making a strong head way? That’s like giving an innocent man his freedom.
Why would he want it? They gave it to Al Gore for the climate hoax, Jimmy Carter for screwing up, and Barack Hussein Obama for being the second coming.
PPS PT is just exposing the satanic state.
Again, Eff Them.
AOC saw this meeting and is thrilled.
She now wants to buy 100 icebreakers from Finland.
To help protect her illegal alien constituents in the Bronx.
ice, ice baby
PDJT should ask for a discount.
Global warming means no need for Icebreakers. Global warming means Greenland will melt – a literal 50% off sale. Do it, Trumpy, troll for a discount!
“Trumpy” ???
That’s President Trump to you!!
What disrespect!!
AI troll from the Nobel Committee??!!
Read the room and relax Mom.
It was a typo, it’s icemakers. lol
Looks like the Finlanders elected a winner and respectful ally. Niiiiice. 🤝✝️🤝
Finland should never have been allowed into NATO. They will be nothing but trouble.
I was surprised Finland opted to join NATO given their long history of remaining neutral.
Just goes to show how far the WEF/EU has gone in corrupting Europe.
Don’t know about “long history”. Finland was part of Sweden until Russia attacked Sweden in the early 1800s and took Finland as part of Russia, but semi-autonomous as a “Grand Duchy”. That lasted until the Russian overthrow and civil war during WWI after which the new Soviet gov’t of Russia accepted Finland’s independence. But since then USSR realized the strategic importance of Finland and went to war against it at the beginning of WWII. USSR pretty much failed in its war objectives, but after Germany declared war on USSR the strategic situation changed, as Finland allied itself with Germany to renew the war with USSR.
So the “long history of remaining neutral” probably understood as a strategic move to avoid another war with Russia after WWII.
Everybody Bratva until the snow starts speaking Finnish…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War
The Finn’s have great vodka and they love to drink it to…
Lots of building and business happening in Louisiana and Alabama–especially with ship building. Great to see.
O Canada.
BC Ferries’ Four-Ship Contract With Chinese Yard Comes Under Fire
B.C. Ferries receives $1B federal bank loan for Chinese-made ships
Freeland called back to testify on B.C. Ferries’ deal with Chinese shipyard
11 ice breakers are nice. 11 guided missile cruisers with 150 VLS would be better. 11 nuclear powered cruisers with 150 VLS tubes would be much better. Or even 11 UnRep ships with 100 containerized SM—6 missiles.
Icebreakers to help develop and transport energy for those items and more on your wish list.
No energy, no economies!
Glad to see that expertise coming to Texas & Louisiana. Don’t pack your winter coat!
MAGA Deal!
Damn, after 12 years of Obama/Biden, it is so refreshing to see a real man engaging as a real President of the United States. It is my prayer that we have the choice of a likeminded man or woman in 2028. It is the only hope that I have that our republic, such as it is, will survive… a bit longer.
I thought Russia, with its fleet of nuclear powered icebreakers was the king. They will start keeping the northern passage open year round soon.
sounds like a floating accomplishment
POTUS is at heart a builder, not a politician. He’s interested in how things work, and he cares about the working man.
I can’t think of a single prior president who was similarly inclined. Maybe Teddy Roosevelt?
This deal benefits BOTH countries, for a change. Prior to Trump, we were always on the short end of the stick.
BTW, I’d much prefer to secure the ice breaking contract, which is useful, to being awarded the Nobel Prize, which is not.
When the club includes Jimmy Carter, Obama, and Al Gore, be glad you’re not a member.
A bonus to the Nobel snub, Trump won’t be swayed by flattery to do the limp Eurocrats any favors. No distractions. I, for one, am thrilled.
Finland just brought online their third nuclear power plant. They built all three themselves. It had to be throttled down, because electricity became too cheap to meter. Contrast that to Germany: when the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up, Germany responded by shutting down their last nuclear power plants. That’l show ’em! Now German industry is being abandoned. That Merz is a real beauty.
I don’t think they like MAGA.
“her efforts to advance democracy in Venezuela. But democracy is also in retreat internationally.”
Josef Stolen thinks icebreaking has to do with making martinis.
Finland is one of the premier icebreaking ship builders…
Right behind Russia.
It’s good that Finland has, apparently, now completely removed the swastikas from their flags after many decades. The photo-ops will go over much better.
I live in a manufactured/pre-fab house that came from Finland. The first the company ever did in the States (first owner did it), and it’s the most amazing, secure house I have ever lived in. I’m down with their quality.
Finland has a great history of fighting the Communists at least in World War II. They had a great cadre of snipers that kept the Ruskies on their toes.
No if we could only get them to fight the Muslims!
“Simo Häyhä[a] (17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname The White Death,[b] was a Finnish military sniper during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union in World War II. He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30 rifle (a variant of Mosin–Nagant) and a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun. Häyhä is believed to have killed over 500 enemy soldiers during the conflict, the highest number of sniper kills in any major war. Consequently, he is generally regarded as the deadliest sniper in history.[2][3][4][5]“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4
More than 500 kills in a 4 month war?
~4-5 per day, on average… – Commies were swarming them in meat-waves; Finns *Existentially* fighting for survival…
…- I don’t see a particularly intractable math problem here…
You want to question numerical carnage?…
… – Check out Pavlov’s House at Stalingrad:…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlov%27s_house
Who can post You Tube videos here.
A few decades ago, a movie came out called “Leningrad Cowboys go America”.
The band was from Finland, and they were talented, and a little bizarre. A lot
of what they did was directed at Russia, specifically getting along with Russia.
A concert was filmed in Finland, with Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Russian
Army men’s chorus. There were 70,000 people in attendance.
I would like someone with better posting skills to post “Delilah” by Leningrad
Cowboys from that concert. It’s the old Tom Jones song , and they tear it up.
Also, watch the crowd. Would’ve killed to be present that day.
Your wish is my command, YTG – Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir, Helsinki 1993:
Bonus Tracks: – Here’s ‘Kalinka’:…
…- And ‘Katyusha’:
Holy Sh*t, Your Tour Guide – This sh*t’s *Good*!… – Thanks for putting me onto these guys…
…- Extra Bonus Tracks: – Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Ensemble (ie: The Red Army Choir) do ZZ Top:…
…- And do Eric Clapton/Guns & Roses (Take your pick):
I’ve created a monster. But, glad you like it.
I thought Calvin Coolidge was the best president in the last 100 or so years, followed by Ronald Reagan.
New thinking
Trump is just killing it. He’s amazing.