Posted on 06/10/2022 12:20:11 AM PDT by dennisw
'It seems now it's our turn to get our lands back': Smirking Putin threatens Sweden and compares himself to tyrant Peter The Great while issuing chilling threat to Scandinavia
Vladimir Putin has compared himself to Russian tyrant Peter the Great as he bragged about 'reclaiming' land in Sweden in a chilling new threat to European security.
Putin, speaking on the 350th anniversary of Tsar Peter's birth, referenced the Great Northern war which saw an anti-Sweden coalition - led by Moscow - smash the Swedish empire and establish Russia as a new imperial power in Europe.
'It seemed [Peter] was fighting with Sweden and seizing territories,' Putin told his audience, a smirk on his face, as he spoke about the founding of St Petersburg on land once held by Sweden. 'He wasn't seizing anything! He was taking them back!'
Referencing the Battle of Narva, the opening battle of the war which took place in modern-day Estonia, he continued: 'Why did he go there? He went there to take it back and to strengthen it, that's what he was doing
'It has fallen to us to take back and strengthen. And if we take these values as fundamental to our existence, we will prevail in the issues we are facing.'
Putin's veiled threat comes amid fears that he will launch war in the Baltics - Estonia, Sweden and Finland included - once he is finished in Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
As Putin spoke, Russian warships began training exercises in the Baltic Sea while Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto was due to meet with Sweden’s King Carl Gustav XVI and Queen Silvia on the lightly-defended island of Åland.
Niinisto - a close friend of Putin’s who was warned by the Russian leader he was making a ‘mistake’ by applying to NATO - abruptly cancelled the meeting and flew home with his wife.
Helsinki denied the move had anything to do with Putin’s comments or the Russian military drills, but it will do little to calm the nerves of Baltic nations who fear they are next on Putin’s hit-list once the war in Ukraine is over.
The Åland islands are a Swedish-speaking part of Finland that sit at the mouth of the Bay of Bothnia, which separates the two countries.
They have been demilitarised since the Åland War in the 1850s between Britain and France on one side and Russia the other, which took place against the larger backdrop of the Crimean War in the Black Sea.
It would be - along with the Swedish island of Gotland - a key strategic battleground in the Baltic Sea should Russia decide to take preemptive action against its Scandinavian neighbours over their bids to join NATO.
Putin’s reference to the various wars in with Sweden in which Peter the Great successfully fought the Swedish Empire off the mainland will send shivers down Scandinavian spines.
With word that the Russia Baltic Fleet had deployed out of Kaliningrad earlier in the day, it is thought that the proximity of Russian forces to the heads of state of Finland and Sweden on an undefended island might have prompted their hasty departures.
Win for Sweden. They can send out all their military age jihadis to go fight the Russkies.
Bet they didn’t plan on that. They’re gonna find out nobody makes better wars than Europe.
He’s now having fun with NATO after they stepped in it by starting the war in Ukraine.
That link is wrong...
Such a fine Christian man
Which means Nato is uniting and arming itself against Russia. Which is, long term, a disastrous move for Russia.
Russia has, long term, lost a massive market, and gained no new ones, which is a huge hit to its industrial/commercial development.
What matters most in development economics is having a market. It is the main prize. Thats how China did it, when it got US MFN status over 30 years ago.
The more Russia makes threats the more it cuts its own throat.
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He made it clear he not only wants to create a second CCCP, he wants to fulfill Russian imperial ambitions going back to the Tsars. His actions threatened countries totaling four times the population and ten times the total economic output of Russia. The results are non-NATO countries are abandoning neutrality and every European nation who can is shipping all the aid and weapons to Ukraine they can afford.
Just how obvious does the obvious have to get?
Sweden is Bofors and BAE and SAAB.
Its not a good idea to get on their bad side.
“Which means Nato is uniting and arming itself against Russia.”
Doesn’t sound like NATO’s largest European military is doing that, since Turkey has been BUYING weapons from Russia and WILL NOT permit anymore expansion of NATO.
Too bad the Neocons can’t kick Turkey out!!!
” nobody makes better wars than Europe.”
I would suggest you read
Chinese history:
- the wars with the Xiong’nu, Xianbei, Uighhur, Tibetans, Manchu
- the rebellions like the an Lushan, the Red boxers etc.
- invasions
Persian history
“Turkey has been BUYING weapons from Russia and WILL NOT permit anymore expansion of NATO.”
And Turkish drone have been instrumental in getting thousands of Russian soldiers, hundreds of tanks etc. destroyed.
And the “largest European military” —
Turkiye has the largest number of soldiers yes but that doesn’t translte into military strength
https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php
Turkey ranks #13 — below France (#7), the UK (#8) and even Italy (#11)
“And Turkish drone have been instrumental in getting thousands of Russian soldiers, hundreds of tanks etc. destroyed.”
From what I’ve read that story is right up there with your Ghost of Kiev.
“Turkiye has the largest number of soldiers yes but that doesn’t translte into military strength”
That’s possible, and I could buy France being stronger, since they have nukes. Italy...sorry, no way.
There is not-Nato but Nato, wink wink nudge nudge.
All the more reason that Putin must not be allowed to win in Ukraine.
From the videos out there, which have a characteristic Bayraktar interface, they seem very effective.
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