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[–] anachronist@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Russia is so terrified of Nato encroachment that they stripped their defenses along the Finnish boarder shortly after Finland joined Nato, and they've moved all the defenses at this point (first weapons, now troops) out of Kaliningrad.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. Invading via Finland isn’t a thing. Ask Bonaparte or Hitler. There’s nothing up there but lakes, mud, and mosquitos.
  2. Where were Russian speakers being killed by government-backed neo-Nazis for the last decade? In eastern Norway? No, in eastern Ukraine.
  3. The US doesn’t have nuclear weapons deployed in Finland, and no known plans to. NATO Ally [Poland] 'Ready' to Station Nuclear Weapons on Its Territory

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[–] anachronist@midwest.social -1 points 1 month ago

There’s nothing up there but lakes, mud, and mosquitos

That's a rude way to describe Saint Petersburg.