Suomi

Alan vähitellen ymmärtää jutun pointtia, että "suomettumisella" tarkoitetaan aika erilaisia asioita - eli vähän vaarallinen termi. Jutun kommenttiosiossa tuli vinkkejä sanan alkuperästä, ja kaivoin esille tällaisen mielestäni relevantin tiedon: Termi onkin keksitty Itävallassa juuri Suomen huonon aseman ja heidän paremman aseman vertaukseksi. Kuitenkin termi on otettu laajaan käyttöön Saksan kautta, jossa se taas yhdistyi yhdysvaltojen kanssa liittoutumisen ongelmiin: "The term “Finlandization” was first used by Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber in the 1950s. He publically compared Austria’s position of forced neutrality to that of Finland’s, finding that Finland was worse off, since the Soviet Union had attempted to occupy it, whereas Austria had a measure of security under shared Allied-Soviet occupation. The term was popularized by Richard Löwenthal in Berlin in the late 1960s, but it really caught on as a political weapon in 1969, when right-wing politicians used it to criticize the American troop presence in West Germany and German Chancellor Willy Brandt’s Eastern foreign policy focus. To a wide array of politicians, it became a term laced in negativity to warn against the dangers of becoming like Finland." https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-finlandization-terrible-model-ukraine