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