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Originally Posted by wehateporn
The real threat of Iran...
1. They refuse private central banking.
2. They sell their oil for currencies other than the US dollar.
3. Iran refuses to live under US puppet rule.
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That might as well be Finland, though I don't think anyone has demanded those from us. Though Finland doesn't sell oil per se, it buys mainly Russian oil, refines it and sells the products in any currency that is convenient.
We don't like any kind of puppet ruling, we had enough "Finlandization" during cold war.
"Finlandization (Finnish: suomettuminen; Swedish: finlandisering; German: Finnlandisierung) is the process by which one powerful country strongly influences the policies of a smaller neighboring country, while allowing it to keep its independence and its own political system. The term literally means "to become like Finland" referring to the influence of the Soviet Union on Finland's policies during the Cold War."
"In Finland, the term "Finlandization" was perceived as blunt criticism,[citation needed] stemming from an inability to understand the practicalities of how a small nation needs to deal with an adjacent superpower without losing its sovereignty."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
Finlandization was quite tricky case. We were independent, not invaded during WWII (attacks repelled), not any kind of satellite state for Soviet Union, but still "had to" please Russians and at the same time we prepared to fight against Russians (Soviets), but not of course officially as officially we expected attack from the west (yet old fighting lines were secretly maintained in the east past 90's).