As I see, Russia is an "enemy" now. Borders are closed even for family members, no bank transfers, and basically everything is prohibited for the "usual" people.
At the same time, the Vainikkala border crossing is open for cargo trains, and as YLE said, about 3,500 carriages come from Russia to Finland every month. Dozens of millions of euros are paid to Russia (and this money will go to produce war equipment, won't they?).
At the same time, many cargo ships, like this one, are cruising between Finland and Russia, like this one.
So it's a little bit surprising for me, having such a "double standard," and while Russia is being hated on state TV, the state, at the same, keeps the financial and cargo business ongoing.
by iftheone
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The reason is quite simple:
Greed
Companies will keep doing it until it creates enough bad press for them to stop.
You know, even Ukraine is trading with Russia, as they keep the gas pipes open to the Europe, delivering russian gas thru Ukraine. Some stuff bought from russia is so difficult to aquire from elsewhere that the people in charge have decided to trade with russia.
Finland is a constitutional state and respects international law and agreements, unlike rüssiä.
Therefore Finland keeps receiving stuff that has been ordered before the war. Deals were done, you can’t get out of them like that. Because the Finnish customer is obliged to pay, they pay, and they receive the goods back. We could just only pay and receive nothing, so paying and receiving goods is a better option.
The same goes with export, but if there is some export limitation laid out by EU that of course will stop that export. Then force majeure conditions of the contract can be triggered.
Then there’s transcontinental trade using railroads. There can be cargo from China that passes through rüssiä and back that comes to Finland through Vainikkala.
World is a complex place and there is rules we operate by. Although one participant doesn’t follow all the rules it doesn’t mean other players can stop following the rule rules with the one participant. Like in real world, if someone punches you, you’re not allowed to rob that person’s wallet.
Finland can’t prohibit rüssiän owned companies operating there with extrajudical decisions. Everything has to go according to international law.
Only shithole countries like rüssia don’t care about international law. Countries like that become pariah states and their opinions go to deaf ears. In times of reckoning countries who didn’t play the rules won’t get opportunity to complain.