Russia is now threatning Finland!!

[scaree crow]

What the hell is going on with Russia!!, why are they sooo mean!!!

Here is the link to the news article:

thehill.com/policy/international/595656-finland-says-debate-on-nato-membership-will-change-after-russian

[The Stormbringer]

I read that article. Nowhere does it say Russia is threatening them... directly. They are, indirectly, a threat due to their willingness to attack non-NATO Ukraine, but they haven't specifically called out Finland or Sweden like you're saying (at least not in this article).

Personally I think Finland and Sweden should absolutely sign-up ASAP.

EDIT: Apparently they did threaten them later, which is in other articles.

[BetrayedOf52]

I read that article. Nowhere does it say Russia is threatening them... directly. They are, indirectly, a threat due to their willingness to attack non-NATO Ukraine, but they haven't specifically called out Finland or Sweden like you're saying (at least not in this article).

Personally I think Finland and Sweden should absolutely sign-up ASAP.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/25/russ...continues.html

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-thre...vasion-1682715


There was a better link of a video but I cannot find it on reddit now

[crusadernero]

This situation is only going to get worse. Brace yourself.

[Saradain]

This is kind of a wrong forum for this, but some few people in Finland have started to get false army mobilization messages via phone, telling the men to contact their local army offices. Surely not a random incident?

[The Stormbringer]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/25/russ...continues.html

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-thre...vasion-1682715


There was a better link of a video but I cannot find it on reddit now

Thank you, I was wondering what they were talking about... This definitely shows a serious threat.

"Finland and Sweden should not base their security damaging the security of other countries," Zakharova said during the press conference.

"Clearly [the] accession of Finland and Sweden into NATO, which is first and foremost a military alliance, would have serious military-political repercussions that would demand a response from our country," she said.

This comes after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that the country was receiving support from both nations.

EDIT: Also yeah, this should be moved to Off-topic.

[Cracked]

wrong section

[Vakna]

Putin is insane, is he really predicating all this war on the idea that NATO is a threat to Russian security? That a united Europe would attempt to invade Russia?

How is this man in charge with an IQ that low, I don't understand. Because it's either he's incredibly stupid, or he is just making shit up as an excuse to invade every country he wants and make a new USSR.

Honestly the only way I see out of this is for all Russia adjacent European countries to immediately join NATO and then just say "I dare you", because then we can just put an end to Putin once and for all when he gives the order.

[Villager720]

Putin is going to get himself real dead, real quick if he keeps pretending to have the power and resources of the old USSR.

This is lunacy.

[RobertMugabe]

"scaree crow" OMEGALUL

[Swnem]

This is pointless. Intervention has to be made now in Ukraine. Kicking the bucket down the road is not gonna make things easier. Conflict is now inevitable. It will come sooner or later.
Countries on the border of Russia will have to have anti-missile systems installed due to the threat of nukes from Putin. Once they do, Putin will see that as a threat. There is no way out of this that isn't with Putin dead.

No consequence towards invasions mean approval of invasions in practice.

Once that happens it's open season. No one is safe. That is simply unacceptable.

Also, NATO needs to stop being so damn slow at accepting new nations in. Every time a nation around Russia is about to join they just invade a part of them to invalidate their join process. It's so effin easy to screw up NATO. Putin moves faster than NATO does.

[Stormwolf64]

Putin is going to get himself real dead, real quick if he keeps pretending to have the power and resources of the old USSR.

This is lunacy.

As if anyone has the balls to kill him in this time when people are basically domesticated cows

[vsb]

What the hell is going on with Russia!!, why are they sooo mean!!!

Here is the link to the news article:

thehill.com/policy/international/595656-finland-says-debate-on-nato-membership-will-change-after-russian

That's Finland threatening Russia. Russia just acts to ensure its safety and peace.

[Villager720]

As if anyone has the balls to kill him in this time when people are basically domesticated cows

If he overextends any further, there’s always the chance he get himself Mussolini’d.
History demonstrates that autocracies tend to crumple amazingly fast when they finally hit their breaking point - it’s just very difficult to know where that line is.
Multiple unpopular wars amidst economic carnage is a quick way to get Russians out on the streets.
Not saying any of this will happen - just that Russia trying to grab something else is almost certainly a bridge too far atm.

[Garymorilix]

Putin is insane, is he really predicating all this war on the idea that NATO is a threat to Russian security? That a united Europe would attempt to invade Russia?

How is this man in charge with an IQ that low, I don't understand. Because it's either he's incredibly stupid, or he is just making shit up as an excuse to invade every country he wants and make a new USSR.

Honestly the only way I see out of this is for all Russia adjacent European countries to immediately join NATO and then just say "I dare you", because then we can just put an end to Putin once and for all when he gives the order.

Putin is an old ex-KGB agent who was fed way too much kool-aid back in the day when Russia was a power who ruled with fear.

He has now realized that he is old af and did literally nothing note-worthy the whole time he ruled Russia (outside of the typical tyrannical bs) so he wants to get into the history books one way or another.

Plus, he certainly hoped that calling Ukraine a neo-nazi country (lol) will make some countries side with him.
In reality, he forgot that real life is not Twitter, and calling things nazi to get a free pass on doing whatever the fck u want is not how this works.

The baffling thing here is that the US and Europe refuse to take actual action against him saying that "it would cost lives" while they let Putin take as many lives as he wants until it is too late.

[Vakna]

That's Finland threatening Russia. Russia just acts to ensure its safety and peace.

Ensuring it's safety would have been keeping the peace, it's too late now. They have ensured their un-safety with the actions in Ukraine.

[Garymorilix]

That's Finland threatening Russia. Russia just acts to ensure its safety and peace.

Awh yes.

The biggest defensive move of all time. Invading another country.

Much defense, such wow.

[Vakna]

Putin is an old ex-KGB agent who was fed way too much kool-aid back in the day when Russia was a power who ruled with fear.

He has now realized that he is old af and did literally nothing note-worthy the whole time he ruled Russia (outside of the typical tyrannical bs) so he wants to get into the history books one way or another.

Plus, he certainly hoped that calling Ukraine a neo-nazi country (lol) will make some countries side with him.
In reality, he forgot that real life is not Twitter, and calling things nazi to get a free pass on doing whatever the fck u want is not how this works.

The baffling thing here is that the US and Europe refuse to take actual action against him saying that "it would cost lives" while they let Putin take as many lives as he wants until it is too late.

To me the absolute minimum action required right now is to completely isolate Russia from the global economy. Make it so that they can't import/export anything at all, no overseas business or trading of any kind. Cancel all visas, no Russians allowed to travel or stay in any other country. Treat them like an island in a void. Anything less than that is not going to do a thing. We must buckle the Russian economy until it collapses and they uproot Putin in order to save themselves.

[vsb]

Ensuring it's safety would have been keeping the peace, it's too late now. They have ensured their un-safety with the actions in Ukraine.

Ukraine had 8 years to stop war. They did not. So Russia had to do it. It can't allow for a war going on on its border for so long.

[Vakna]

Ukraine had 8 years to stop war. They did not. So Russia had to do it. It can't allow for a war going on on its border for so long.

And by that action Russia has now alienated itself from the rest of Europe and destroyed relations with NATO, there is nothing about this decision that has made anything better or safer for Russia.