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
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?
All the more reason that Putin must not be allowed to win in Ukraine.
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What’s Sweden going to fight them with, pussy hats?
With what?
With The Sitting Duck Row Of Tanks?
MAILONLINE, huh?
MAILONLINE, huh?
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Oh PLEASE. Give it up Mad Vlad.
Russia has no power to do any of that as your decrepit and pathetic “military” now shows in Ukraine. You couldn’t take Gotland Island.
But this does show what kind of country Russia has always been. Invading, attacking, and robbing from others for centuries.
Peter the Great is a tyrant now?
Peter I is one of the most important leaders in Western history, turning Russia from a backwards medieval fiefdom into a true European power. He is one of the most respected figures in Russian history and remains beloved by the Russian people.
Hi.
Someone should tell Vlad his invasion of the Ukraine ain’t going so well. And that he doesn’t need to step on his dick again so soon.
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Peter the Great? No, Biggus Dickus.
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