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The View From Finland: 'The Russian Garrisons Have Been Emptied. They Don't Have Anything'
Radio Free Europe ^ | 26-MAY-2022 | Vazha Tavberidze

Posted on 05/26/2022 9:54:13 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

After decades of neutrality, Finland has now formally applied to join NATO. The decision now lies with the parliaments of NATO countries, which need to ratify Finland's application.

RFE/RL's Georgian Service spoke to Major General Pekka Toveri, the former intelligence chief of the Finnish General Staff, and Colonel Peterri Kajanmaa, director of the Department of Military Skills at the National Defense College, about Finland's changing security outlook, the potential stumbling blocks ahead, and why so-called "Finlandization" was never a good model for Ukraine.

(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...


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KEYWORDS: europe; finland; nato; radiofreeglobalists
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"The thing is that 90 percent of that border is wilderness, it's just forest…no road, no network, no anything. Attacking with land forces across the border is mostly impossible…. They don't have any land force [to do that]; 80 percent of their combat-capable land forces are in Ukraine. The garrisons next to the Finnish border have been emptied…. They don't have anything."
1 posted on 05/26/2022 9:54:13 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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2 posted on 05/26/2022 9:55:23 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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Other than nuclear missiles, Russia is a 3rd world Nation. What u wanna bet their nuclear missiles are in a similar state of decay?


3 posted on 05/26/2022 9:59:27 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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It’s a gas station with nukes and a declining population.


4 posted on 05/26/2022 10:01:23 AM PDT by Clemenza (In event of a Civil War, a face diaper is a great way to spot the enemy)
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Funny you say that. Just read a long thread on that. Let me is I can find it again.


5 posted on 05/26/2022 10:03:28 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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Careful what you wish for...

When this tyrant runs out of tanks and troops, he still has nuclear options....

6 posted on 05/26/2022 10:04:31 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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On the other hand, it is irresponsible to leave your troops in prospective nuclear blast zone.


7 posted on 05/26/2022 10:04:50 AM PDT by D Rider ( )
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Let’s pray we never find out.


8 posted on 05/26/2022 10:06:37 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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“This is an extraordinarily important point when it comes to the maintenance & packaging requirements of guided missiles.

If you don’t do either right, between 1 in 5 and 1 in 3 fail.”

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1529630175268413442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1529630175268413442%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fuy007l%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dfalse


9 posted on 05/26/2022 10:06:54 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: G Larry

Our nuclear deterrent is strong and well maintained.

I’m not worried.


10 posted on 05/26/2022 10:08:04 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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I think there was a scene in a Tom Clancy novel where they open a silo up for inspection and find puddles of water at the bottom of the silo, indicating there’s no way the missile was in any kind of state of readiness.

The inspector looked at his Russian counterpart who just smiled wryly, if I recall.


11 posted on 05/26/2022 10:10:38 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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“It’s a gas station with nukes and a declining population.”

I wonder if they’d be interested in some Mexicans?


12 posted on 05/26/2022 10:11:57 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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“Our nuclear deterrent is strong and well maintained.

I’m not worried”.

You’ve got more faith in the Globalists who control our nukes than I have.


13 posted on 05/26/2022 10:16:00 AM PDT by laplata (")
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During the SALT treaty inspections, it was estimated that 25-33% of Russian missiles would not launch or explode in the silo.


14 posted on 05/26/2022 10:21:28 AM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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“What u wanna bet their nuclear missiles are in a similar state of decay?”

Your use of the word decay has two meanings. H-bombs must be periodically ‘replenished’ due to radioactive decay.


15 posted on 05/26/2022 10:21:54 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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Meanwhile in the east, a dragon catches a scent of weakness...


16 posted on 05/26/2022 10:25:12 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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Russia must be a Big Useless Empty , that’s why Putin keeps invading places with Stuff ,LOL


17 posted on 05/26/2022 10:25:18 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Did we send 100% of our military to Iraq and Afghanistan? I doubt any civilian or military in history has ever sent 100% of their military for any reason whatsoever, and I doubt Putin would have done that.


18 posted on 05/26/2022 10:51:00 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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Time for Finland to take back the land they lost in the winter war.


19 posted on 05/26/2022 10:51:48 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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"Our nuclear deterrent is strong"

Have you checked that assertion against the current National Command Authority?

The power without the will is meaningless.

20 posted on 05/26/2022 11:02:43 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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