This a bad situation. Finland is only a small country. Will they have space to bury so many Russians?
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They're welcome to try. I hope they don't, but Finns don't fuck around.
A Finnish man created the book on how to be the deadliest sniper. I agree with your statement.
Putin, thats not a war you want to start except if youre planning to turn your military into ground meat. Right now finland could probably crush your army anyways but sweden and every other european country would support them anyway.
Theory: Putin is only doing this so sons of elites can join the military and get posted here instead of Ukraine.
Um, I thought most of the oligarchy heirs are outside of Russia.
Elite usually means middle class and upper middle class in Moscow. That's the bulk of the politically influential people in Russia. Not the rich oligarchs but the important mass that is what Putin is trying to not piss off with a mass draft/mobilization of ethnic Russians who live in Moscow or st Petersburg.
Ah. But wouldn't they also have enough money to hide their kids in a foreign country as well?
I'm surprised they have resources to spare, I thought all their hardware is busy in Ukraine.
Unless these are all balloons.
Isn't it time to dismantle russia?
Denuclearise them, cut up russia in 7 states.
I'm so tired of their shit.
Yay! Then we can move onto the next big worrisome country run by some warlike expansionist who's threatened to annex three other allies so far.
West/central/east for that. Right?
I'll be glad when Putin and Trump leave this planet finally. These fucks are a waste of human flesh.
I have four bottles of cheap champagne, two of which are labelled "Trump" and "Putin" for this very purpose
What are the other 2?
Musk and Orban
I'm hoping on Orbán actually going out with the next election. Magyar has plenty of time to get an even stronger base.
And then you exchange Orban, the right wing dipshit with another, new right wing dipshit, I know it’s the only way to get rid of the Russian spy balloon but it’s not exactly freedom Hungarians would be getting out of this.
Tisza is hardly right wing. Could be later co-opted of course, just like Orbán did with Fidesz.
Lukashenko and Bibi?
They sell the cheap champagne by bottles of four
That was to be expected in a way, but Putin isn't rational.
He's afraid. That means he's extremely dangerous.
Russia about to get that ass whipped.
By whom?
Finland...
The Winter War - Finland vs the Soviet Union, lasted just over three months in 1939-1940.
Finland had about 300k soldiers, 30 tanks and 60 aircraft. The USSR had over 500k soldiers, over 3k tanks, over 3k aircraft.
Total casulaties was 70k vs. 350k. The USSR lost over 1500 tanks and 300 aircraft.
USSR still won that war though.
Yes, but they held back the Soviets for 2 months. And that was probably the Soviets at their peak, stronger than Russia is today.
It was right after the massive Stalinist purges of the army. They were complete dogshit. Don't get me wrong, the Finnish put up a hell of a fight and I think they could've continued militarily, it was the government that decided to cut their losses, but the red army was pretty incompetent at the time.
Don't fuck with Finland. I thought Russia learned that during WW2.
A large group of Russian soldiers in the border area in 1939 are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a small hill: "One Finnish soldier is better than ten Russian".
The Russian commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the hill where Upon a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence. The voice once again calls out: "One Finn is better than one hundred Russian."
Furious, the Russian commander sends his next best 100 troops over the hill and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again Silence. The calm Finnish voice calls out again: "One Finn is better than one thousand Russians!"
The enraged Russian commander musters 1000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the hill. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible battle is fought...
Then silence.
Eventually one badly wounded Russian fighter crawls back over the hill and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men...it's a trap. There's two of them."