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.
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“And Turkish drone have been instrumental in getting thousands of Russian soldiers, hundreds of tanks etc. destroyed.”
Ukraine wants to buy more Turkish drones but I believe Russia has put pressure on Erdoğan to not allow this.
Maybe not better wars, but quantity trumps quality every time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe
What’s Sweden going to fight them with, pussy hats?
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idiotic comment of the day
Thanks! I just did this.
With what?
With The Sitting Duck Row Of Tanks?
Good plan.
“What’s Sweden going to fight them with, pussy hats?”
Lord knows, Sweden has at least a half million Muslims. Some on the internet say one million, from Muslims being 10% of Sweden’s population.
Sweden should send its Muslim conscripts to Ukraine to fight Kadyrov’s Muslim army.
Turkey should be kicked out of NATO.
Alternatively, form a new alliance called NATO North, comprised of every NATO country except for Turkey.
Russia has bought weapons from Russia to a limited extent and also from other countries. They also make and export weapons which has reduced their arms imports from 70% of the total to 30%. The air defense purchases were more about pressuring the US to sell them what they wanted, which didn’t work.
Turkey will allow NATO expansion once they get some of what they want. Which is a reduction in support for Turkey’s enemies in Syria, a crackdown on opposition fundraising in Sweden, and advanced weaponry sales that the USA blocked (F35, air defense, etc).
Do you use everyone’s preferred pronouns too
In the very unlikely case that the Russians decide to march into Turkey, the Turkish army is going to matter, a lot. They have a lot of men and lots of weapons, the Turks being weapons packrats.
Turkeys eastern border is also very rugged and defensible.
IKEA. Sell them furniture and they’ll spend years assembling in an unproductive state...
I think the Mongols were pretty good at making wars....
Silly me. And I thought that it was Russia who started this war with their invasion. When did Ukraine invade Russia?
MAILONLINE, huh?
MAILONLINE, huh?
“Turkey should be kicked out of NATO.”
Can’t happen...nothing allows it.
This has to be a lie. Russia is losing in Ukraine. You and your fellow Zelenskyy fanboys told me so multiple times in the last 3 months.
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