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(as a Finn) You know what you are talking about, sometimes I look at myself in the mirror in the winter and every passing year it gets scarier.
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. >

Having a huge standing army worked great for the North Korean economy, right? >

And Iraq! >

Which the US beat twice in a very short amount of time, thousands of miles from US. Russia struggles to supply troops along its border. Russia just had to copy the US playbook of gaining air superiority before ground troops and despite owning 5th generation fighters they can’t even do that. >


5th generation fighters

Well yeah, it’s a little harder when you only have like 5 of them >

Well. 4th Gen fighter in a nice bodykit >

Ah, that's where Nissan got the idea for the Z from! It all makes sense now. >

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. >

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. >

Wait, Americans are in Finland waiting to invade Russia? >

As a Finn, i have no idea what this guy is talking about. There are no American soldiers here and they aren't trained for our rough terrain so thats to that. >

Anybody who has read even a bit about the Finnish people in WW2 knows that a Finn in their own country in the dead of winter is basically the scariest thing you could imagine.