The finns loses in 1940 but managed to trick everyone that they are the good side, meanwhile the vietnamese and ACTUAL Badasses beat the crap out of the Statesian imperialist, but its the STATESIANS that is more glorified despite LOOSING the War.
Maybe the vietnamese are yellow, uncivilized, non-blonde hair, Non-blue eyes Savages. while finns are wholesome civilized against evil mongol hordes /s
I've never seen anyone glorify Finland on the English speaking Internet. What are they glorifying about? I see them talking about Vietnam war, either leftists talking about how Vietcong smoked American soldiers, or rightwingers cope about "not a military defeat".
There's always been some of it around but after the Ukraine war it notched up a bit.
In the US most of the Baltic State admiration is for Sweden, ironic since Akkeson is running and he’s practically a Proto-Fascist
The true finns are the mask off version of the Sweden Democrats, why would they choose the non-fat version?