This guy is a Twitter account (87.5K followers) and Substack account (with few reads but lots of paying subscribers). Both of these are red flags for influencer ops nowadays as both Twitter and Substack allow funds to be channelled to those who are on message with Kremlin (and other dubious state) agendas.
That Malinen is a foreign agent, or more specifically a Kremlin asset, is confirmed by his content which follows all the Kremlin's main talking points about the EU needing to be disbanded, Zelensky stepping down, Russia being provoked, etc. Also he tweets blatant fake news and retweets other known Russian assets like Musk and Vance.
Malinen started out as a pretty normal academic - he is an association Professor of Economics at the University of Helsinki - but went off the rails during the Covid period with conspiritard content that was richly rewarded, and led him to slip smoothly into the warm, comforting piss stream of Kremlin propaganda, where we now find him basking today.
One of the lines he pushes is that a truncated Ukrainian state must exist in a state of "Finlandization," a term used during the Cold War to describe the weak neutrality of Finland.
As he's a Finn, and most Finns are wise to Russia and its tricks, Malinen is forced to tweet mainly in English to a much more naïve English-speaking audience.
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