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[kalaratiri]

Well, this is interesting.

Mr. Putin is getting to be a bit much at this point. He's like a Bond villain, except one who people are genuinely scared of opposing.

[Morwen Lagann]

Time to get the sniper rifles and the necromancy supplies...

[kalaratiri]

Winter War II: The Putining

[Nmaro Makari]

Didn't this turn into a brutal, bloody quagmire the last time this happened?

A bit behind on the history here. Halp?

[Morwen Lagann]

Didn't this turn into a brutal, bloody quagmire the last time this happened?

For Russia, yes, iirc. Hence my wisecrack about bringing Simo back from the dead.

[Vincent Pryce]

That said. It was brutal for both sides, even if the sheer numbers do look impressive.

Nobody wants war, we certainly don't want one. But we will fight one if that fuckhead brings one.

[orange]

Just looking at the map/satellite imagery...  any ground offensive from Russia into Finland just looks, um... hazardous.

[Esna Pitoojee]

This popped up on Reddit a couple days ago, and people quickly pointed out that it is (to put it lightly) utter bullshit. The sole source in the article, Andrey Illarionov, is a former Putin adviser who split from the government back in 2005 and has since been apparently putting out a stream of very alarmist and absurd statements about Putin since.

Furthermore, Finland is pretty much nothing like Ukraine: They've got a competent army with a decent stock of modern military equipment in good functioning order, their government is not in the midst of a collapse and/or revolution, they've got allies to call on, and perhaps most importantly there is (to my knowledge) no significant ethnically or linguistically Russian populace to turn into a cause for invasion.

So, some of Baltic states? Yeah, I could see Putin going after those - but not Finland. I'd file this under the same category as the Russian minister saying they're going to reclaim Alaska.

[Jace]

Yeah, Finland won't happen. But Moldova? Yes. Ukraine? Yes. Belarus? Maybe. Parts of Uzbek? Maybe.

[Lyn Farel]

Time to accelerate Moldova integration into the EU.

[Jace]

Time to accelerate Moldova integration into the EU.

Considering a large percentage of their Romanian population just wants to join Romania and Moldova is one of the poorest countries in all of Europe, I've always wondered why they don't just join Romania. Last polls I read said that a majority of the country would prefer it.