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Or rush A(rtemovsk)
(It’s how Bakhmut was called in the USSR)
All roads lead to Bakhmut. HLTV confirmed.
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. >

(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. >

TIL I’m part Finnish. >

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 >

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

Due to increasing unemployment, maybe it’s not a bad idea to make soldiers from unemployed. >

This did not actually turn out well for Nicholas II. >

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 >

Donald Trump wanted to preemptively build one just in case tho. >

no matter what you thought of 'russian collusion' Don is way closer to Putin than JFK >

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

Have the French companies - like Auchan - already left Russia?
If not then maybe we should boycott them... >

Hardly anyone actually left. Even polish clothing brands (reserved, bershka) who said that they left never actually left. They just changed names to Re and Be and still importing from Poland. >

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 >

Finnish Ents no less >

You think the Ents are scary? Just wait till the Moonmins deploy.
I know what you’re thinking: big squashy hippo like creatures that espouse the values of friendship and family bonds. But they have a darker side. Their brilliant white skin is a perfect predator adaptation for hunting … and winter war. 
Ever hear anyone talk about Moonmin attacks? Of course not. That’s because they leave no survivors. 
Even within the children books published about them there are oblique hints at this - in the first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, written in the shadow of the Second World War, Moominmamma tells her son, Moomintroll, stories of her youth, when Moomins lived behind the stoves in people’s houses. 
“Did the people know we were there?” asks Moomintroll.
“Some did,” replies his mother. “They felt us mostly as a cold draught on the back of their necks sometimes—when they were alone.” >

Haha you made my day. Thank you! >

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

They may have cost a lot, but Russia did get the land eventually. We need to prevent that. >

They got a chunk of land, but the plan was to have all of Finland. Not a clear cut victory for either side, but Finland is now one of the best places to live on the planet, and the parts of it that the Russians took... well, they're kind of shit now. >

That was the Soviet line, certainly. On the other hand, the article you linked also mentions:
"Most sources conclude that the Soviet Union had intended to conquer all of Finland, and use the establishment of the puppet Finnish Communist government and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact's secret protocols as evidence of this."
Given the USSR's record and general tactics, it seems more likely that they were going for the whole kit'n'caboodle. >


That was the Soviet line, certainly. On the other hand, the article you linked also mentions:

No, it's disputed by multiple non-Soviet historians. You maliciously edited the sentence and replaced the comma with a period to hide the fact that you cut off the rest of the sentence that cites them:

Communist government and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact's secret protocols as evidence of this, while other sources argue against the idea of a full Soviet conquest.[F 8]

You don't get to rewrite reality by arbitrarily claiming that anything that doesn't support your views is "Soviet propaganda" and then hide the evidence. That's what holocaust deniers do to push their conspiracy theories. Do better. >

Nor is your version the absolute truth like you try to represent here, also American historians don't get to rewrite our history or be the defining authority on it. >

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. >

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