When it dawns on these small toothless country’s that they have ruthless, unscrupulous neighbors capable of anything, they immediately search out a mommy to protect their weak sorry azzes.
The Finns already fought one war with the Russians before WWII. Their 150,000 man Army defeated Russian attacks again and again. Eventually Russia took about 10% of Finland. But with loss ratios of 4 Russians to each Finn. Finland is quite aware of the dangers of Russia and is not exactly toothless.
Toothless?
Do you have the slightest idea what you’re talking about?
The Swedes build submarines, and jet fighters, good ones.
“When it dawns on these small toothless country’s that they have ruthless, unscrupulous neighbors capable of anything, they immediately search out a mommy to protect their weak sorry azzes.”
I don’t know about the Swedes, but the Finns have a history of making Russia pay heavily for incursions. I saw a clip where a Russian oligarch had built a mansion on a Finnish island. (There are hundreds of small islands belonging to Finland.) The Finns showed up, kicked his butt off and burned the place. Something like this happens sometimes several times a year as Russia tries to microagress themselves into more territory. The Finns will not put up with it. Finnish military equipment is “tunned” to protect their territory. The ships are tiny, and have what would be unacceptably short “legs” for other navies, but they’re intended to hide in and around hundreds of small islands and they have outsized offensive capacity. They’d be useless in any other setting, but for Finland they’d exact a huge toll on any aggressor. Their other equipment is likewise “tunned” to their special circumstances.