Putin: Russia will concentrate more military units near Finland

As an American I'm waiting for Republicans to start randomly saying anti-Finnish opinions. My bet is in about a week.

>Be Putin
>Announce NATO expansion is no threat
>Pull most troops from the Finnish border, because holy fuck, Ukraine has turned the entire army you had at the start into sunflower fertalizer
>Have all the units you pulled from the Finnish border incur astronomical losses, because you want to present any win at the next election
>Declare Finland a threat again
>Move the broken units back up to the border
>Profit

What military units?

Have fun with that. This isn't WW2. The Finnish military is far from large, but they are a specialized group with with a lot of national pride, and Russia currently has a hesitant conscript force with no emotional tie to the cause.

Finland is NATO. He'll NEVER invade Finland. Have fun dividing up your oh so great, properly trained and well equipped army haha! Not like he'll need the troops in Ukraine, that war is going as smooth AF.

My perspective on war is so corrupted, at this point.

At one hand I want peace in Europe but on the other Hand I know Russia won't stop until they are beaten so getting NATO involved might end this conflict faster.

According to the Russian president, Finland was “dragged” into Nato.

And who did the dragging Vlady?

Oh you're gonna move your last three tanks there? Good luck with that venture lmao

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Moving to open a second front. In the winter. At the home of the White Death. Surely nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan.

What military? Drunk old men?

it's just a sneaky little recruitment campaign.. sign up now boys, we're forming a nice leisurely unit to sit and watch the Finns do nothing.. don't worry, we won't accidentally send you to die like worms in a ditch in Ukraine..

So the plan working as intended. Spread'em thin, Ivan.

There's too much mud and rain in Ukraine right now, so they need an excuse to pull back

Forget article 5, if Russia thinks that Ukrainians are tough mothers, they (literally) won't know what hit them in Finland.

Thick, dense forests with millions of trees. Moutainous regions. Snow forever. Lots of places a sniper pair could hide.

Let me guess, another "training exercise"?

Did they forget that Finland created Simo Heyha?

I was worried about this ever since Putin said "we have no plans of the sort" when Biden said Putin would invade a NATO country after Ukraine.

Lo and behold, troop build up on a border of a NATO country, which completely parallels the start of the Ukraine invasion.

I guess this is classic troop rotation shenanigans?

Instead of rotating towards areas near Moscow, rotating towards St. Petersburg gives soldiers a break/training while pressuring Finland.

The problem from here looks like Putin has no idea how the country is going to be held together without him.

And Putin is somewhat right. Russia has no one that can threaten it into action like Putin does. Tyrants whose label goes unsaid leave no line of succession.

And Putin, like Rome making a desert and calling it peace, hopes to make everywhere around him rubble because Russia is crumbling.

If NATO get involved then China will.

This is a prime example of Russo-Finnish relations. PERKELE!

Finland's blank NATO papers were kept in a safe (30 years figuratively?) and as soon as the war(s) started to cause us harm, they were pulled out of the safe and ratified.

From the news at the time of NATO ratification: "Look in the mirror" - Sauli Niinistö

From the news of the last two weeks: Now the eastern border is pretty much closed for the foreseeable future.

My armchair stance: If the Soviets angered nearly 4 million Finns in the 1940s who had only pitchforks and cows and the result was 126 875 dead and 188 671 wounded Soviets. ^{[*](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talvisota)} Now there is a nation of +5 600 000 grumpy Finns with access to modern weaponry and a bitter memories of the past...

I don't know what the russian leaders are hallucinating trying to anger us more? :P

great. less at ukraine.

Can't imagine they have too many spare units to locate there...

First target: grain exporters Second target: phone exporters Third target: tourism exporters? Wood exporters? Weapon exporters? Ouch!

Hey question for the arm-chair generals: if some group started operations on the Russian troops would it escalate or would both nations just treat it like random terrorism?

Doesn't matter what you feel or think, you have as much control over the situation than a Bushman in the Kahalari, it's your government's decisions.