Posted on 04/11/2022 9:33:41 AM PDT by blam
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday issued a new warning against Finland and Sweden seeking NATO membership, after the Sunday Times reported that “Finland’s application is expected in June, with Sweden expected to follow.”
Peskov said that “the alliance remains a tool geared towards confrontation” – but Washington is said to be supporting the move, with Western officials cited as saying that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is proving to be a “massive strategic blunder”.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin. Image: Finnish govt
It was first revealed last week that Finland in particular has changed its thinking regarding its historic neutrality on the NATO question; however, there would be a period of domestic political debate before any application is made, and also with Sweden expected to determine its course independently.
After those reports first emerged days ago, a Russia lawmaker from parliament’s upper house, Vladimir Dzhabarov of the Federation Council, issued the most dire warning from among Moscow officials, threatening that such a “strategic mistake” as Helsinki petitioning NATO means Finland “would become a target.”
“I think it [would be] a terrible tragedy for the entire Finnish people,” said Dzhabarov. He also strongly suggested it would result in “the destruction of their country.”
He expressed hope that it’s unlikely that “the Finns themselves will sign a card for the destruction of their country” – as originally cited in RIA Novosti. The Finnish foreign ministry subsequently said it “does not comment on the statements of individual MPs” when asked to respond.
According to a recent Axios report, “60% of Finns now support joining NATO, according to a survey conducted last month — a 34-point jump from last fall, and the highest level since polling on the issue began in 1998.”
Map: The Daily Mail
Early this month Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin signal a complete reversal of policy direction, saying that a “new security environment” in Europe brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means the country has to rethink its long-standing policy of neutrality toward the NATO bloc. “Russia is not the neighbor we thought it was,” she said of Moscow’s ongoing assault on Ukraine, calling it a “flagrant violation”.
“In this new situation and changed security environment, we’ll have to evaluate all means to guarantee the safety of Finland and Finns,” Marin said. “We’ll have to seriously mull over our own stance and approach to military alignment. We’ll have to do this carefully but quickly, effectively during the course of this spring.”
Hmm Russia why are you surprised?. Putin’s thuggish barbarism in Ukraine has consequences.
36 year old liberal girl runs the country. The idea of not being in a group is scary and upsetting for her.
😂😂😂😂😂
I guess Russia didn't lose enough soliders the first time around
You guys are just poking the Bear. Putin will be justified in attacking Finland now. They probably have Nazi’s and biolabs in Finland. Cuba... something something something...
/Putin apologist.
The ghost of Simo Haya will return.
The abysmal performance of the Russian military has exposed them as paper tigers. No one is afraid of their “threats” any more.
More importantly, infantry wars themselves may well be obsolete in the age of instant satellite intel and killer drones.
That's OK, there are plenty of Russian pensioners to draft!
Even more so, It looks like it's the other way around. A Russian lawmaker feels the need to threaten a "girl" and Finland with destruction.
Oh those aggressive Fins.
LOL!
[36 year old liberal girl runs the country. The idea of not being in a group is scary and upsetting for her.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
The Finns have decided, like NATO and other EU members, that any group they are part of, should be on a voluntary basis. Becoming a Russian oblast or being part of the Warsaw Pact, which specialized in invading the non-Russian members on Moscow’s behalf, is not one of the groups they want to be part of. If that chafes Russia’s hide, that’s not particularly surprising for an empire with a 1000-year record of territorial conquest.
Someone slept through her high school Finnish history class last month.
An old Finnish friend of mine used to say that Russians are good when they’re fried in butter.
You WOULD antagonize a country that doesn’t want this NATO crap on their borders.
There seems to be an echo chamber in here
in here
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Nice to see the Globalists’ cheerleaders on this thread.
NATO needs to put it’s weiner back in its pants.
Their conventional military is an apparent flop but 6,000 nukes with a “Dead Hand” policy is still very, very scary.
Europeans are the biggest fools on the planet.
It’ll be interesting to see how Russia responds.
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