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NATO Moves Into Finland as Russia Threatens Response
Newsmax ^ | Wednesday May 11, 2022 | Eric Mack

Posted on 05/11/2022 9:44:22 AM PDT by MercyFlush

Reports are surfacing of military equipment of the United States and other NATO countries on the Russia-Finland border. U.S. and NATO armored vehicles were spotted on the border, along with Finnish tanks and armored personnel vehicles, according to a translation of a Shraibikus News report. There have been reports of military exercises in Finland, but Russian intelligence reportedly suspects the military buildup will remain until Finland joins NATO. The report also indicates Finnish authorities are anticipating Finland joining NATO within a few months. Russian analysts consider the military presence on the Russia-Finland border to be a threat, particularly as NATO allies are supplying lethal aid to Ukraine amid the Russian invasion. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told RIANovosti that Russia is watching the situation and will consider a potential response. "It is clear that from the point of view of security we will not remain indifferent," Grushko said. "Our military will consider all the necessary measures that may be required to ensure the legitimate interests of defense." While the forces conducting the exercises are likely doing so to defend Finland against an invasion by Russia, Grushko added it represents a dangerous escalation that makes neither Finland nor NATO more safe. "This will not strengthen the security of either Finland or NATO itself," Grushko told RIA Novosti.

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To: JonPreston; alexander_busek

Most people get a little tweaked when they’re called out on their lies. You just post lame-assed gifs and flaccid jibes indicating that you’re quite accustomed to being called out as a liar.

Or should I say, a pizdobol.


181 posted on 05/11/2022 2:05:26 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: PIF; gleeaikin

“Again, there are no oil and gas reserved that are economical to frack in Eastern Ukraine. And what there is, is of poor quality and not much of that, too boot.”

Au contraire:

https://hir.harvard.edu/ukraine-energy-reserves/

“Ukraine today holds the second biggest known gas reserves in Europe. As of late 2019, known Ukrainian reserves amounted to 1.09 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, second only to Norway’s known resources of 1.53 trillion cubic meters. Yet, these enormous reserves of energy remain largely untapped. Today, Ukraine has a low annual reserve usage rate of about 2 percent. Moreover, more active exploration may yield previously undiscovered gas fields, which would further increase the overall volume of Ukraine’s deposits.”


182 posted on 05/11/2022 2:09:08 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: Lurker
There was a time during the Cold War when we thought the same about at least part of the Western Hemisphere. But that ended four decades ago. Mexico gets to elect whomever they want, a d.so.does.the rest of the hemisphere - even if we don't like it.

The days of Marines installing puppet governments in Latin America have been over for a very long time, and we know it. it's about time the Russians figure out the same thing.

183 posted on 05/11/2022 2:13:57 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: CodeToad
So you think Poland, for example, doesn't want our bases there? Hell, most countries pay us for putting our bases in their country. And if they want us to leave, as did the Philippines for example, we do.
184 posted on 05/11/2022 2:16:38 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: MercyFlush
I had a wonderful old friend who mentored me in that time and he took me along to the Commonwealth Club...

Is there something wrong with you? This is pure faggot material.


185 posted on 05/11/2022 2:24:16 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: JonPreston

You can’t back up your false claims with anything so you resort to pure trolling.

That’s all you’ve got, eh? It must suck to be you.


186 posted on 05/11/2022 2:33:04 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: MercyFlush

Me trolling? You’re the guy who claims to have an old man mentoring you for country club membership. Best you stick with your stolen valor stories.


187 posted on 05/11/2022 2:40:35 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“it’s about time the Russians figure out the same thing.”

And I hope they have to drag each other back across the border. Then they can pay the bill for all the damage they caused. A decade or so of gas, oil, and mineral revenues should be about right.

And they can start by auctioning those yachts off to the highest bidders.

L


188 posted on 05/11/2022 3:21:44 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: alexander_busek

I really don’t understand how anyone (American or European) can justify $40B in US deficit spending on a European problem. Russia vs. Ukraine is a European problem. Not a US problem. I know the leadership in US wants to make it a US/NATO problem. But coming off a twenty-year war in Afghaniraq to dive into a European war (leaving all the other problems we must deal with aside) not a year later doesn’t inspire my confidence in US leadership. I’m whole-heartedly against it. We would be adding to our troubles and hurtful distractions. Not relieving them.


189 posted on 05/11/2022 3:30:16 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

I really don’t understand how anyone (American or European) can justify $40B in US deficit spending on a European problem. Russia vs. Ukraine is a European problem. Not a US problem. I know the leadership in US wants to make it a US/NATO problem. But coming off a twenty-year war in Afghaniraq to dive into a European war (leaving all the other problems we must deal with aside) not a year later doesn’t inspire my confidence in US leadership.
***Standard a priori reasoning. We shouldn’t be in these overseas conflicts, therefore you can’t understand why we’re there. We are there because the Ukrainians gave up their nukes in exchange for sovereignty and border agreements, 7 years before we went into Afghanistan.


190 posted on 05/11/2022 3:50:29 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: buwaya

“It could even have become attractive as a place anti-woke people, say, could have seen as a refuge. Christian communities, German homeschoolers, Rhodesian and South African farmers, etc. Maybe more of the disaffected from Euro-American culture.”
____________________________________________________________

Good grief, I almost teared up thinking of that glorious Russian Dream you are selling. If only the US or EU was running Russia now, It could have been that wonderful with no wokies and globohomos. /s

That Russian Dream you speak of is all the things that the US regime and it’s UN/WEF cartel are wiping out in the west.

We are becoming what we proclaim to hate the most. Doesn’t matter if it is Putin or Biden. The same outcome stinks for all.


191 posted on 05/11/2022 3:54:17 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: JonPreston

He must be joining the same club where Judge Smails plays.


192 posted on 05/11/2022 4:02:48 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: MercyFlush; PIF; Kevmo; BiglyCommentary; All

“Moreover, more active exploration may yield previously undiscovered gas fields, which would further increase the overall volume of Ukraine’s deposits.”

Exactly what I planned to respond. Ukraine had exploration contracts with US oil majors signed some time in 2012. These were ended when Putin seized Crimea in 2014. Who knows how much they would have confirmed by the time these contracts had been completed, and others continued to be written?


193 posted on 05/11/2022 4:18:25 PM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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To: MercyFlush

At about 5 minutes into this video, the minister from the Ukraine points out that public support for joining NATO went from minority to very strong majority viewpoint in 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTQP4YX2N8I


194 posted on 05/11/2022 4:20:46 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Well, one thing Russia will NOT have to worry about is people struggling to get inside their borders. Illegal immigration, the curse of the more prosperous country.


195 posted on 05/11/2022 4:22:48 PM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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To: Boogieman

If you characterize Ukraine as a 2nd world pitstop, you would be characterizing Finland as a frozen wasteland. It begs the question either way of why Russia would find it necessary to invade pitstops or wastelands.


196 posted on 05/11/2022 4:28:02 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Excellent point. 👍

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197 posted on 05/11/2022 4:30:52 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: kiryandil

Is that your measure? What is your MORAL measure? At what point in the ruble downward decline or upward spiral is it defensible to invade your neighbor country over oil/gas/ports?


198 posted on 05/11/2022 4:32:20 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: JonPreston

Exactly WHAT is the provocation for invading a country that has a signed sovereignty/borders assurance agreement with offensive countries like the one you’re supporting?


199 posted on 05/11/2022 4:34:19 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: troll

Try harder, Neocon.
***I aint neocon. I doubt the person you’re posting to is neocon, either because they’re as rare as dominionists loading into a phonebooth. I’m paleocon with emBASEee Strategee tendencies, as seen on my home page. You’re simply a troll soviet holdover Russo-diehard.


200 posted on 05/11/2022 4:37:10 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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