>

I think his Nazi detectors started going off
Much, much, cheaper for Russia to eliminate Putin >

Chop off one head and two more will grow in it's place. >

Then make sure the two other heads are afraid to pop up.
Really give off that "this is what happens when you fuck up our sons, future, and the way people look at us" vibes. >

Who's "us?"
The world isn't about the G8 only. >

With us i mean the mothers and fathers of Russia who lost their son. >

Everyone in this thread is focused on Finland, but the order also increases the military to 1.5M active duty. They currently have 1M, so this is increasing their active duty by 50%. There's little reason to think Russia can afford to do this or that the troops will be adequately trained/supplied. I think this is much less likely than a few bases on the Finish border.
Russia currently has a population of ~147M. That means they plan on having 1 out of every hundred citizens being active military. If they're mostly men, that's one out of 50. Subtract the men under 16 and over 60, and you're probably talking one out of every 25. >

The population of Russia had only 6% males between 20-30 years before the war. That is 8.7 million. 2 million fled in April. Leaves 6.7 million. I highly doubt that 35% of those are willing to fight. That would be 1 out of 4. >

They don't have to be willing. It's their great patriotic duty to die for holy mother Russia. Or something. I dunno. The Russian soul and suffering are inextricably linked. >

Who with an actual soul would fight for Putin? >

I do like russian authors. Though I think this russian soul basically comes down to you're fucked if you do and you're fucked if you don't, so put off the ass pounding as long as you can. The dying horse being beaten in Crime and Punishment represents the russian soul. But so too does the evil fuck beating it. 
From what we've seen in Ukraine it feels like the evil fucks make up the larger part of that 'russian soul.' >

Finland should troll them and put dolls on sticks along the border.. in case they needed a reminder. >

The countless graves along the border should do the trick just fine >

also put "REMEMBER 1939" on a big sign >

Shakedown 1939
Cool Finns never have the time
A winter sniper right up off the street
Orkz and Simo should meet >

Suddenly Smashing Pumpkins! >

The world is a a Mannerheim
Sent to brain Soviet drunkards 
Hold you up Molotov flames >

Secret drone destroyer >

Yes, clearly Finland is preparing to invade that shit-hole of a country and must be met with all necessary force to keep that from happening. /s >

Not Finland, but Americans using Finland’s territory. Also they could put those pesky scary Patriots, so better have a million people to invade Finland just in case.
And my ex-colleague is genuinely concerned that Norway will use nuclear weapons to destroy some nuclear power plants in Russia. You can’t make this shit up, vatniks are insane. >

Norway isn't a nuclear country...
?!? >

yet. >

Russia repeating the same mistakes as the USSR, you can't support a modern military without a modern economy. >

non-existent economy. >

They need them there to keep men from leavin Russia. Just like the Soviet times. >


Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us. - JFK >

Ich bin ein Berliner. Du bist ein Berliner. 
“I am a jelly doughnut” 
-JFK >

That was a myth that didn’t even get invented until a book in the ’80s. Delicious, but not accurate. It was one of the most important speeches in the Cold War. >

Because winter-time conflict with Finland has always gone so well for Russia in the past… >

Finland should be part of NATO by year end. After that point war is out of the question. But they'll probably build more bases and put more assets at the border because of that. >

Either way, let's hope they don't start poking at Finland. Because, that's alot of Greenhorns Finland would steamroll through once again. >

as much as reddit likes to romanticize the winter war, it was at best a pyrrhic truce for Finland and lost more ground than what they originally would have, had they given into Soviet demands. it is of course, an important precursor to the status quo of the cold war that followed. >

What tells you that Russia would not have just just started a war after Finland gave up territory? The winter War was highly successful and guaranteed for the country of Finland to survive instead of sharing the same fate as the Baltic states for example. >

It's kind of obvious in hindsight that Russia planned to take all of Finland in the Winter War. They even had a puppet government set up on day 1 to rule Finland as part of the Soviet Union. The Finns only survived as an independent state cause they successfully bluffed the Soviets into thinking they still had ammo reserves. If Stalin had known that the Finns only had a few weeks worth of ammo left, then he'd never have signed a peace treaty. >

So most of Russias future trading money will be for military. I really hope the west is not quick to forget that detail >

increase russian army? does he have anyone left? >

I think they’re even sending gamers to the frontlines these days >

CS:GO gonna be just tumbleweeds >

Rush (B)akmuth >

Bakhmut >

yeah lets use that extra manpower for a border with a country that will definitely not invade you and have them just stand around there >

My guess Putin will announce a new and bigger movilización, last time lots of people scaped through the Finland border, so this time they will be prepared to stop that people, I dont think regular army will be doing this, maybe his croonies from Moscow. >

They're going to love Karelia in winter. A seaside getaway! Even colder than Moscow! >

Don't see what could possibly go wrong. >

Russian forces on the Finnish border are tripling in strength, with one gun between every two conscripts instead of every six. Half of those guns will even have ammunition now! >

The troops highly trained in artic warfare and located close to Finland and Norway, Russia's worrying 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, was exterminated in the battles north of Kharkiv in the first three months of the war.
Russia no longer has any troops able to even try to fight a country like Finland. They are simply dead. >

VDV base in Pskov got emptied as well and if you want to see what happened to them, look at Hostomel adventures. I am glad their better units are getting massacred away from my borders and wish for an immediate stop to this war, full return of Ukraine's sovereignity and a dead Putin and his cronies.
Of course none of that is too realistic so i'm hoping the watermelon seller lets us in NATO sooner rather than later. >

Wait, does this mean the mainland Russian army is so depleted that Finland poses a security risk now? >

To the Russians, we always did.
Lots of trees speaking Finnish along that border. >

To be fair you don't fuck with Ents >

Finland's getting ready to invade, I see. /s
This is nothing more than saber-rattling. >

Or maybe Russia is getting ready to invade. >

With the majority of their focus on Ukraine, RuZZia can't spare the equipment to invade Finland's privacy, right now. >

People thought it would not invade Ukraine because it is too stupid act. >

Yeah, but doing so and performing this badly and then trying it on a nato applicant about to get the approval and who already has security assurances would be epically stupid. >


nato applicant

"Still not in NATO, so we must attack before they become part of NATO" >

Already a part of the EU, which already has mutual defense agreements. >

Never mind that we here in Finland have a pretty good defense force that's been preparing for an event like that for many decades. >

I order us all to be rich now. Does it work yet? >

But there are so many Russians, and so little land in Finland. Where will the Fins bury them? >

Vertically >

That has to be an older stock photo. I can't imagine Putin has had a smug grin like that any time recently. >

At this point, the only way Russia could strengthen a border would be to use duct tape. /s >

All that Soviet cold war era tape has lost its stickiness by now. >


All that Soviet cold war era tape has lost its stickiness by now.

Boris: Now go see old alexi he will show you how to get the soviet tape working again. 
Sasha: "so this soviet shit sucks  but if you  heat it up with this candle... hey, dont melt it! Add a little vodka  and bam best tape. Just don't burn yourself. >

And out of the window they go. 
Jesus, if Putin and co. were monitoring Reddit, they'd be fuming. Maybe they are? >

The thought has occurred to me. Fortunately I’m just a local annoyance. I hope I don’t ever graduate to an international annoyance. >

More wasted money, by the end of this renewed aggression, they are going to shit broke with fewer buyers for their oil and absolutely no respect for their hollow threats. Future not looking so hot for the Russian people, about to be a lot more like present day North Korea than the glory days of Soviet Russia. >

When you have Finland teaching winter warfare to absolute power houses, what chance does Russia really have? >

If they thought Ukraine was tough, they should try a winter war in Finland again. >

Can we please skip ahead to him shooting himself in a bunker? >

Don’t kid yourself, they would invade Finland again. >

Do they have the balls? >

It doesn't require to have balls for ruzzia to do stupid things. It requires complete lack of the brain tissue. And that's what they have. >

Careful. I got a ban warning for saying something similar a few weeks ago >

A ban for saying the Russian government is just a bunch of backwoods savage idiots, is a ban I’ll welcome with open arms >

is that to stop Russian men crossing into Finland trying to escape being sent to Ukraine? >

Probably has something to do with that Wagner group fella who defected to Norway saying he was witnessing war crimes. Guarding the exit, not the entry. >

Missing headline: to prevent their citizens and kidnapped Ukrainians from leaving >

Adding more drunks to his army is unlikely to yield the results he’s looking for. >

Putin has the World's most punchable face right now.
He's just inventing enemies to make himself look strong because he can't do all that bare-back  bare-chested horse-riding, Judo, et.c. anymore.
He's 70, unwell, tired, had his three score years and ten.
In fact if you think about it he could drop dead any minute.
Any minute! Wouldn't that be unfortunate.
Any minute now...
Any... minute... now.. >

He probably has transfusions of teenager blood, for anti-aging. >

Considering Russia’s performance in Ukraine if they want to strengthen their border with Finland I think just throwing a bunch of Legos all across the border would be more effective than their military >

The Finnish Prime Minister has bigger balls than this little man. >

lol increase the Russian army with who? Women conscripts? Children? lol >

Old alcoholics.
That's what they are sending to Ukraine. >

I'll say it again. Whenever you see the Russian army increase it's because they want to mobilize more people to balance their losses.
Initially, Russia had about 1M soldiers with an army of about 1.9M people (not all soldiers). Russia has to increase the army size to hire more people if they don't declare deaths.
For example imagine having an army of 1M soldiers... declaring no losses and mobilizing 300K more people but still pretend to have 1M soldiers... You can't have the same total of soldiers without losses... So instead you increase the maximum by 300K and pretend the initial force is still active.
The reality has to be much more grim. Because if they had an initial force of 200K, but had to mobilize 300K and before that they mobilized an unknown number of volunteers. It's unclear exactly how many people really went through the meat grinder.
Remember that losses aren't always deaths. If you're missing a leg, you won't be much of an help on the battlefield. Currently, Russia has about 468K casualties on minusrus.com 
In other words with 1 initial fighting forces and 300k mobiks. You'd expect to have at least 1.3M soldiers remove the amount of casualties and you're down to 0.8M soldiers in the active force... Add the 200K autumn conscripts and we're back to 1M soldiers. Coincidence? >

"This just in, thousands of Russian draftees surrender and seek asylum in Finland" >

Because they’re doing so well with the current war they pointlessly started, right? >

Steiners armies will guard the border! >

Strengthen it with what? >

NATO? More Finns? >

He also ordered the invasion of Ukraine and expected it to be finished in a week,...so much for his orders. >

Scraping the dregs from the bottom of Russian society sure isn’t going to strengthen anything. >

A Russian brigade was marching through finland when they heard a yell coming from the forest "one finish soldier is worth 10 Russians.
The Russian commander furiously yells at the first ten soldiers to go kill whoever yelled that and they charge into the forest. After a brief exchange of bullets the voice yells out again. One finish soldier is worth a hundred russians
The Russian commander yells at the next hundred soldiers and for a couple minutes there is a fierce fight before a silence descends. The voice rings out once more. One Finnish soldier is worth a thousand Russians.
The Russian commander is red faced and screaming for a thousand troops to go destroy the entire forest until that taunting voice is finally silenced. A thousand Russian soldiers charge into the forest and a massive battle wages for over an hour before a single Russian soldier staggers back bleeding profusely.
"Comrad, it was an Ambush, there were two of them" >

A war on two fronts always turn out well for European countries. 
/s >

The fina have a strong history of telling Russia to get fucked >

King of flip flop! Yesterday he was talking about resuming electricity sales to Finland. he suffers from this conditions called “ruzzian amnesia” >

so 2 guys armed with sling shots and a Lada >

Как же заебал этот ебанутый дед. >

Poland should post signs saying,”Shouldn’t you be in Ukraine?” >

The population of Russia had only 6% males between 20-30 years before the war. That is 8.7 million. 2 million fled in April. Leaves 6.7 million. I highly doubt that 35% of those are willing to fight. That would be 1 out of 4. >


6% males between 20-30 years

Which isn't gonna matter once the conscription age goes from 10-70. >

You shouldn't have said that. 
Now I imagine mothers hiking behind 10 yo soldiers, carrying the guns, stuffed animals and dinosaur pajamas in duffle bags. >

Step up Erdogan. Time to stop dicking around with Finland/Sweden NATO bids. >

If they attack finland their screwed ukraine is basically impossible to fully take control over given its focused on defence not offensive having 2 fronts to fight on would be stupid not saying putin is smart but not that stupid >

Attacking Finland would basically be a declaration of war on the EU, not to mention the security guarantees from the UK and US. Not that I'm sure the Finnish military needs any assistance at all, they've been preparing for this since 1945 basically and I'd be willing to bet they've been watching the goings on in Ukraine very closely. >

Yeah but i still dont think russia will do this fighting on 2 fronts has almost never worked in war and if they do its bacicly giving more troops to Ukraine and they would pinch russia from both sides >

If Russia places 100,000 troops, on the Finish border that is 100k  that are too busy to fight Ukraine >

Just place a fin sniper every 100 russian >

They want to increase the Finland border security because a Wagner commander just escaped on the border to Finland while being chased by the Russians and dogs. Now he’s spilling the beens on the war crimes >

Norway >

The lives lost...the blood spilt. The utter waste of it all. All so Putin can chase his archaic and insane desires for neo-imperialist conquest. 1.5 million soldiers....that's going to a shit ton of able bodied Russian men. How will they even pay for it? It feels like he's just trying to edge this war closer and closer to a global conflict. >

If they invaded Ukraine that badly, I'm sure Finland is just shaking in their boots from a "strengthened" border lol >

Strengthen border with Finland? With that soldiers? The Boy Scouts of Russia? >

Russia is about to bankrupt itself. Somethings gonna break. >

Is that suppoosed to be scary?  mobliks dont scare anyone. >

Strengthen the border lol, the Russians have plenty of troops. >

This guy is invading other countries and acts like we r trying to take his. >

Russian Border Guard: "You said the Finnish would be at the border, where the fuck are  they?"  
Talking Snow: "Hei! Ulkona on kylmä!" >

Finland's turn. This should be epic. >

this guy never played Risk >

Has nobody taken this guy out yet? Wtf >

Someone call Simo Häyhä. >

When the snow speaks Finnish, invaders have a problem. >

This shouldn't even be news, they have been talking about reinforcing the finnish border since Finland officially applied to Nato. >

They say a lot of things, but they have been moving troops away from the Finnish+Baltic borders at the same time. >

Something take this clown out already. >

Now the border is basically empty on the Russian side but in the distant future Oleg and Ivan will be there together. >

Yeah giving orders is super easy, watch “Strengthen the army STAT!” and look! I didn’t lose billions in graft and I strengthened the army as much as the last time The Evil Keebler tried to modernize Russia’s army. >

Is Finland finally a part of NATO yet? >

Pretty much de facto now. 
The other NATO countries doesn't really care what Hungary and Turkey are doing. >

What, scared Finland will invade? Scared they will bring back the Ski Soldiers? >

You know... so Finland doesn't invade Russia.  ಠ_ಠ
I get that their government has to lie with a straight face to the people.  And to the rest of the world.  But this feels like them lying to themselves, in a way that costs lots of money and resouces.  Which is weirder. >

Guess Russia is about to fuck around and find out what happens when the snows starts speaking in Fin. >

“Why do I hear boss music and Perkele in the distance?” >

The idea of the country with the world's largest border "strengthening" their border is laughable. >

Russia can't even train and supply the ones they have right now. Putin is just talking out of his ass and living in his delusions. >

Anyone tired of this thumb-sniffer yet? >

Finland about to receive more stuff along there border since Putin like to be an idiot. >

No one wants to invade Russia. We can and want to buy everything of value they have. We could live forever in peace. >

Wouldn’t like to be male ages 16-45 if I was Russian. >

He chooses that circling the drain is the future for Russia. The west will not stop until you are finished, putin. >

orders the dark lord can give.... implemented only in his wicked dreams.... reality has left him a long time ago..... >

So they plan to increase the draft age and the number of troops? So they are going to get older cannon fodder which will continue to use ww2 era weaponry? Because that has worked so well for them so far.... >

Uhm... Strengthening the border with active troops is ruzzian speak for we're invading in a few months. >

Literally on of the longest borders in the world. Good luck. >

It’s like they’re trying to push Finland into joining NATO. At this point I really don’t blame them for wanting to. >

Psst…you have no money >

With what army? >

Another bs "Putin says" post. >

In Related news, 300 vodka swilling 12 year olds sent to Finland border reports Pravda. >

So how long until Finland’s NATO succession is ratified? >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 67%. (I'm a bot)


Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, has given orders to increase the country's army to 1.5 million servicemen in the next three years, as well as to create an army corps and two military districts near the border with Finland.
"Quote:"The President of the Russian Federation has made a decision to increase the number of servicemen in the Armed Forces to 1.5 million.
Details: Shoigu has announced that the increase in the number of troops and "Large-scale changes" in the composition of the Russian Armed Forces will be carried out during 2023-2026.


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I liken Russia now to the Catholic church during the massively losing crusades and power corruption phase. Soon they'll have their own Martin Luther and Church of England.... But i also suspect that those people mysteriously fall out of windows or get nerve toxin poisoned by freak accident somehow? It is truly a quagmire why soooo many non-corrput Russians die suddenly and unexpectedly... It's almost like the hand of God is smiting the non-conforming citizens everytime, old testament style....
Every normal Russian person I've met is cool as fuck... Russian elite oligarchs are fucking it up for the 99% as always... Same as China and the CCP.... Lunatics all around. >

Hitler 2.0, Trump's hero. >

They can’t handle Ukraine and they wanna fuck with the Vikings? >

Russia vs. Finland?  How’d that work out last time? >

Despite the memes, very well for the USSR in the long run. In the Winter War, Finland sued for peace and gave in to all the USSR's demands. The USSR annexed West Karelia as it wanted. In 1941, they allowed German troops to use Finland for operations and cooperated with the German offensive Operation Barbarossa, co-invading the USSR in an attempt to retake West Karelia and some even hoping to seize East Karelia. This did not work out, as we all know Germany lost the war.
West Karelia is still part of Russia today.
How'd that work out last time? Last time, despite heroic defense on the Finn's part, the USSR got what it wanted, and Russia still has it to this day.
EDIT: Got my East and West backward. >

I wouldn't say it went really well for the USSR - it essentially guaranteed that Finland would join World War II on the German side when there would have been little desire to do so otherwise. 
Although the USSR still won the war, it would have been in a stronger position had it not needed to keep ~450,000 on that frontier for 3 years and didn't have Leningrad so cut off for most of that time. >

I mean, was it a drain on resources? Yeah. It didn't help them in the early years of the war, for sure. But in terms of long term geopolitical goals, the Winter War was a success, albeit a costly one. Russia ended WWII with control of the Karelian Isthmus, and it still has it today. That's an area multiple regimes have struggled for control over since the 17th century. >

Thats nice they want to protect Finland, here i thought Russians were a bunch of pussies. >

Reminder this is the same guy who thought he wouldn’t get stuck in the mud even though Germany ran into the same problem in WW2. Did he think like since it was former soviet mud that the mud would take his side and let him pass? Mud is mud my guy, I don’t think it cares what country you’re from. >

Meh, let them, be it summer or winter,  eastern finland is an nearly impassable wall of trees with few roads just asking to be used for motti's >

Get ready to place some of those phony hollow dragon teeth on the Finnish border asap comrades. >

And there you go…the poor Russian people don’t have the balls to take him down. >

Strengthen border ?… you mean fix the holes in the fence surely >

I though it was the border with Norway that everybody was defecting over! >

One man has been able to get over that border.
They tried to shoot him, but since they obviously had never used a rifle before, they didn't hit. >

I’m going to give an order to increase my intellect and good looks…… >

Finland eh? Is that what the Russians are calling Ukraine these days? >

a lot of people are making fun of it but we should look at it very seriously at AMBITIONS and attitude. it gets more aggressive than ever, so we should prepare accordingly. even if peace agreements would start intentions behind these new developments should influence all policies of EU in general. 
things are getting serious >

But it's basically nothing. They always had presence near the border, currently the situation near the border is calmer than in a long time as they're preoccupied elsewhere. >

what was the military size before Ukrainian war? >

Good deal, keep proving how weak of a country Russia is! I honestly hope for The Russian people change comes somber than later and this pariah of a president is taken out of office and put on work detail. >

Yes sir right away sir with what sir? >

Yeah, because Finland invading Russia is such a huge military risk at this point. >

Russia is going to bankrupt itself trying to be a military power....again. >

so we going to keep this game playing? why not just STOP ru and give them an ultimatum? leave or get vaporized? >

what were the thing they were saying before the ukraine invasion when moving their troops to a border? Oh yeah... >

Means fuck all when the enemy is from within. >

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 >

which Army? >

So if Ukraine doesn't work Finland's next? >

Most men in Finland serve compulsory military service when they’re younger so almost all of their men have some form of military training.  Even if they got that training 20 or 30 years ago it’s still superior to what the Russians are getting which is virtually no training. >

Even the women sometimes serve too. And Finnish women can be tough. >

Why can’t this canker on the ass of humanity go away? >

With what troops?  With what equipment?  All their troops are busy being killed in Ukraine...... >

With what money? Stick figure armies and paper tanks? >

Isolate your own country. >

Ah fuck >

Strengthening border with Finland is just a way to prevent people leaving that way. Georgia is suffering from the influx so he’s trying to remove as many places his people can escape conscription. >

I gave orders for my fart to annoy my wife. >

Oh yeah? With what and with whom? >

Using more half-dead convicts, then? lol >

Sure. They'll do that with their surplus of soldiers and artillery because they clearly have enough to spare. /s >

Finland already has a huge amount of sunflowers planted in WW2, do they really need a restock of sunflower seeds? >

Two front war . Let me know how that works out . Especially with the fins. >

This clown can’t even find able-bodied soldiers to fight his personal war on Ukraine; now he’s trying to convince Russians that Finland is a threat. Finland kicked Russia’s ass once and I’m sure they would have no problem doing it again if Putin gets aggressive. Putin is a problem 😡 >

Maybe putin will have better luck for Mexico to pay for a wall. >

Finnish army probably pretty scary if you're Russian >

Honest question. Why does Russia feel threatened that they have to shore up their position? Has America got too many nukes close by? Or is this just Putin's war mongering misguided attempt to restore the Soviet Union before he finally croaks >

He is just talking out of his ass. He just pulled troops out of there like months before, then someone suggested they should strengthen the border. He doesn't feel strengthened by NATO because he knows NATO won't attack him first, which is why most of the narrative of this war is about how Ukraine is a nonexistent country run by gay satanic, drug powered Nazis. Their problem is with Ukraine specifically moving away from their influence, and nothing more. Same reason there are talks of Kazakhstan being the next problem after Ukraine because of their "ultra nationalistic extremists". >

And Finland sends 3 Simo snipers.  Checkmate >

I really wish Georgia would start making a move on THEIR occupied territory, or a least make a little noise. >

Increase with what? >

Yes. Please keep thinning your men and resources. This will help. >

Isn't he conscripting prisoners? That's usually what you do when you can't find anyone else. 
Where is he getting more troops from? >

He’s already conscripted prisoners and pardoned the ones who have completed the “tour”… >

Boy, he is trying to go out with a bang and take everyone with him. >

Russia couldn't beat Finland in ww2 >

Unless they are trying to fertilize crops at the Finnish boarder he should probably watch himself. >

Simo Häyhä seen rising out of his grave with his rifle. >

We need chuck Norris!! >

Does he have troops to spare? >

Idiots, they should be strengthening their navy if they want to attack Finland. They're aquatic >

Putin keeps ordering more people to the army but yet he's run out of people to order.
Are you going to order children to the western front Mr. Putin? >

Idk where he thinks they can “shore up” their numbers unless they conscript 6-9yr olds >

Well the olds are the ones overwhelmingly most supportive of Putin's terrorism masquerading as a war - let them go "shore up" the border. >

If you no buy me electric I make the intimidation