Helsingin Sanomat rEPORTS based on a study published on Tuesday which suggests that one in five men in Finland believe that women may deserve violence against them.

Among men under 35, the proportion rose to one in four who at least partially agreed with the statement “a woman may deserve violence because of certain ways of dressing, behaving or looking”.

The study did not define the term violence in the questions to men, so respondents could be referring to emotional, psychological, physical or economic violence.

“The situation is serious,” he said Silla Kakkolawho chairs both the Finnish Violence Observatory and Nytkis, the coalition of women’s organizations in Finland.

“Not all men idealize violence, but too many do.”

The survey found that around 78% of all-male respondents felt that men should intervene more often when they hear insulting or objectifying talk about women.

About 60 percent thought that gender equality had already been achieved in Finland.

The researchers received 1,058 responses to an online survey from men aged 18 to 79. The margin of error was 3.2 percentage points in either direction.

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NATO spending

Aamulehti wears a opinion piece analyzing the implications of the incoming Trump presidency on Finland’s defense spending.

The president-elect has repeatedly called on NATO countries to spend more money on defense, criticizing those that currently fall short of the alliance’s target of spending at least two percent of GDP on their militaries.

Finland is currently above the two percent mark, but this figure could drop after 2027.

AL looks at recent statements from Finnish politicians, most of whom seem to agree that a new target of 2.5 percent is likely to be agreed soon.

There is discord over how it could be funded, with the SDP MP Tytti Tuppurainen suggesting that a new joint EU debt could finance exiting countries and European states could agree a new “social contract” to strengthen the deal on defense spending.

The reaction was not positive from the traditionally debt-free parties, with the Finnish party legislator Mika Bergbom calling such talk “irresponsible”.

The paper seems pretty clear, however, that defense spending will increase once Trump is in the White House — in Finland and elsewhere.

asphalt from Lapland

Iltalehti follows up on recent comments by a senior Ministry of Defense official about the poor state of Finland’s road network in the north.

Janne Kuusela HAD said that highway 21, from Tornio to Kilpisjärvi in ​​western Lapland, was narrow and risked supply bottlenecks in an emergency.

In the worst case, he said, the troops defending Finland would arrive through the Norwegian and Swedish borders.

Tuesday IL he asks a defense expert to outline a scenario in which an attack could materialize in the North. Jaakko Puuperaeditor of the Nordic Defense Review, said the most likely scenario involved invaders crossing the border at Raja-Jooseppi with 10,000-20,000 troops.

They would quickly move from Salla to Kemijärvi, but then quickly run into supply problems as they tried to push west.

Puuperä says an oft-repeated maxim that poor roads benefit defenders is not entirely true, as defense forces also need infrastructure.

He admits, however, that poor roads are generally better for defenders than for attackers.

IL suggests that fixing and possibly extending the north-south link in western Lapland is an important measure to ensure that any possible invasion could be stopped in the east, close to the border, rather than advancing westward into Norway and Atlantic.

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