Posted on 12/17/2023 6:46:23 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed "problems" for Finland after he says the Nordic country was "dragged into NATO" amid the war in Ukraine.
"Look, Finland was taken and dragged into NATO," Putin said in a new on-camera interview. "What did we have, some kind of dispute with Finland? All disputes, including those of a territorial nature in the middle of the 20th century, were all resolved a long time ago. We had the best, most heartfelt relations. Economically, everything was developing. Yes, in the timber industry, there were some problems linked to the necessity to develop timber processing within the country. But that was all. Just a small detail in reality."
"There weren't any problems, but now there will be," he said, according to translated captions of the video interview. "Because we've now been forced to create a Leningrad military district and concentrate a certain number of military units there. Why do they need that? It's just nonsense. The same goes for other countries, including NATO countries. With whom did we have problems? Nobody. They're the ones who are artificially creating problems with us. Because they don't want such a competitor in the form of Russia. That's all there is to it."
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The Ukies are giving the Ruzzki idiots hell and they want to take on the Fins? Fageddaboutit.
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Putin talks smack like some Russian Freepers. He is a funny guy.
Career criminal thug:
“Why did you have to go get those guns to defend yourself? I never attacked you. Now I feel threatened, and may have to take action against you”
What would Simo Häyhä do?
Invading Poland
Again
Nazi nato too
“There weren’t any problems, but now there will be,” he said, according to translated captions of the video interview.”
Hah hah, typical Mucus post. Mucus teamed up with FOX Snooze.
Comedy Central material.
Biden will take credit for expanding NATO. Credit goes to Putin, and to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who threatened Sweden and Finland with nuclear retaliation. The Russian politicians said the quiet part out loud.
NATO was formed to keep the Russians out, the Yanks in and the Germans down. Now even Germans are talking about having an EU nuclear force (probably dominated by Germans). No one wants a nuclear armed Germany, even most Germans, but even the Germans do not want to be subjected to nuclear blackmail. Which is not coming from the United States. Before West German election, circa 1980, Soviet Premier Kosygin made a speech addressed to the West German electorate telling them that the Soviet Union had one nuclear weapon per square kilometer of West Germany (an exaggeration) and warned against allowing the United States to base Pershing II missiles in Germany. The result was a resounding defeat for the pacificist German parties and he introduction of Pershing II.
Medvedev and Putin did to Sweden and Finland in 2021 what Kosygin did to West Germany in 1980.
Putin just can’t stop threatening his neighbors, can he?
THIS IS WHY NATO IS STILL NEEDED, DUH
Leningrad military district stronk as bull!
China in Tijuana
Liberals cheer
I agree with that. But the Europeans by large are taking advantage of us so they can fund their generous welfare state.
Time for us to leave NATO so they'll have less money for welfare.
The Brits will have to cut the NHS if they have to fight the Russians.
DUH fits well into your usual vocabulary.
Putin is a thug.
Turned his nation with a history of brilliant musicians and mathematicians into a third world crap hole.
Just like a Arab country, no economy except for oil.
Unfortunately, some FReepers continue to unappreciate how valuable and essential NATO is ...
The only thing that has kept the Russian vermin from attacking Europe for 74 years!!!
What is the current price of a can of sardines in Finland 🇫🇮?
Really?
Know anything about our history in the Americas?
What Jackson Hinkle “fiance” doink?
That old Warsaw Pact stuff was what then? Not Europe?
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