Posted on 04/13/2022 9:52:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
Russian heavy weapons including missile systems have been seen moving towards the border with Finland, hours after Russia warned its northern neighbour against joining NATO.
An unconfirmed video uploaded last night appears to show two Russian coastal defence missile systems moving along a road on the Russian side of the border that leads to Helsinki.
The missile systems are thought to be the K-300P Bastion-P mobile coastal defence system, designed to take out surface ships up to and including aircraft carrier battle groups.
The Russian deployment comes as Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said she expects her government 'will end the discussion before midsummer' on whether to apply for NATO membership.
Recent opinions polls by a Finnish market research company put 84% of Finns as viewing Russia as a 'significant military threat', up by 25% on last year.
In response, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov euphemistically warned the move would 'not improve' the security situation in Europe, and Moscow lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov added more bluntly it would mean 'the destruction of the country'.
'We have repeatedly said that the alliance remains a tool geared towards confrontation and its further expansion will not bring stability to the European continent,' Peskov said.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“The U.S. does, after all, have territorial waters bordering Russia. And why should it?”
I forgot about that. The US should tell Russia that we won’t tolerate them being members of the NAOE Naughty Axis Of Evil (Russia, China, NK, Iran), we feel threatened, and if they dont disarm immediately we will invade, annex the Siberian oil and gas fields, and of course wipe out any remaining communists.
Came here to make this point also, Finland must also have bioweapons labs run by the US and the NWO which the Honorable Superhero Putin will be taking down. I thought I’d at least say it sarcastically before the Putin Puffer Apologists say it for real.
Avalanches, really?
“From Russia’s point of view, Finland poked the bear by its very existence as an independent nation.”
Ah, a “passive” poking, was it? Simply because Finland existed, and Russia wanted it? Finland posed NO threat to Russia until Russia invaded it!
Russia has historically been a bully.
“The second Soviet invasion forced the Finns to give up territory. Stalin and Hitler signed an agreement giving the Baltic Republics and eastern Poland back to the USSR.”
And Finland got back their lost territory when it joined Germany in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. Once Finland got that back, they withdrew from any further cooperation with Germany. Later, in 1944, Russia occupied the Karelian Isthmus at the extreme southeast of Finland, and a very narrow strip at Petsamo in the extreme northeast, and has controlled them since.
Pooty Poot saying -— “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine too”
Bow before my Tsarist Zog. And above all, stop dissing Tsar me!
Here’s hoping Finland has a well funded military.
Hi.
Let me meditate.
Yo Vlad, don’t write a check that your ass can’t cash.
Vlad, your 44th Rifle regiment is not in Kyiv.
Like blackjack Vlad, take your winnings and go home.
5.56mm
Libs/Dems/Commies always double down.......................
But I’m sure we’d be thrilled to have Mexico or Canada invade to get rid of Nazis in the US.
Putin’s actions are causing this run to NATO by vulnerable neighbors.
“We wouldn’t tolerate Mexico being heavily-armed and aligned with either Russia or China.”
If Mexico had good reason to fear invasion from the USA, we ought to EXPECT it! NATO is not an offensive organization. It isn’t going to invade Russia. EVER! But Russia is proving THEY are willing to invade any smaller country not allied with bigger ones!
Then go post on a border thread
Finland was eventually defeated in early 1940 by a massive Soviet commitment of troops and equipment. Their casualties were tremendous, but they won. They imposed their territorial terms on Finland and then went and licked their wounds as they lost large numbers of troops in the war (in the range of 100 to 200 thousand). In 1941, the Finns joined the Germans in operation Barbarossa and retook the seized areas and then some. After fighting for three years the Finns were once again crushed by Soviet forces and they sued for peace. The Soviets took more land in the peace settlement, shaping the current borders.
“poking the bear, see what it gets you.”
ok OK ... we will give back Alaska !
“ Ivan better stick to one invasion at a time.”
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I only read the extract and not the whole article. The “heavy military equipment” mentioned there is defensive equipment.
“I’d say an all out conventional war with Russia would last a few months at most until their entire military looks like the Highway of Death from Iraq war 1.”
That’s most certainly true.
But every war game conducted by the US since 1950 indicates every direct engagement with Soviet/Russian forces results in nuclear conflagration.
Every single one.
Neither side will lose without shooting all their nukes.
It takes truly exceptional political skills for Russia to get literally everyone in Europe against them. This is not Putin really, this is that Russian cultural attitude, personality, that has done it. Putin is just a symptom, a phenomenon of his peoples “issues”.
What you’ve got is not just every country from Finland to Portugal on the same page, but the entire Euro political spectrum too, down to every last troglodyte. That is a truly spectacular feat.
Ok, maybe just Serbia is still pals, but heck, they have their own psycho issues.
It's your country too.
“But Russia is proving THEY are willing to invade any smaller country not allied with bigger ones!”
Yup.
If you see houses burning in your neighborhood, and you realize that your own house isn’t insured..
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