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Putin has threatened vague bad consequences to Finland and Sweden should they seek to join NATO.
Putie, Baby, Finland beat Russia every time it attacked without US material support.
But, what if they take you at your word? Now. While you're all distracted?
Can you shift your forces back North in time while still making sure Ukraine doesn't bite you in the ass?
What if Sweden joins in.
They've been fed up with your incursions into their waters with your submarines for years.
I think they've got the sand to seriously fuck up that giant naval base you've got up there.
Just sayin'.
Besides, both these nations are bug-fuck nuts.
Never fuck with crazy, Vlad.
Finland goes active, that will call Sweden to gear up and go. Sweden goes and Norway is sitting there suddenly remembering when their people overran and owned a good portion of western France and the British Isles, along with Italy, Sicily, Antioch and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
ReplyDeleteNow, Norway and Sweden often haven't gotten along, but it's more like brothers and family members who fight with each other. Threaten one, suddenly the family gets back together and...
Hmmm. Wonder if Denmark will get frisky with their Scandanavian brothers... Hmmm...
News reports seem to indicate that things aren't going as peachy as Putin wished, almost like the Russkies stuck their units into a meat grinder.
It's starting to be looking a bit like The Winter War, actually.
DeleteWhen I was doing gaming for my former professors in the 80s and 90s, the assumption was that the Soviets, now Russians, would not use ground troops to remove the Scandinavian threat, but marines, naval, and air attacks, up to the use of nuclear weapons on the cities.
ReplyDeleteThese days, I suspect that Putin would launch heavy missile strikes, and I do think he would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons.
As to NATO, why are we still involved with it? We should have disbanded it and withdrawn from Europe the day after the Berlin Wall fell.
Europe is now a fading backwater that will soon be as vital as sub-Saharan Africa...in other words, not at all.
Don't remember the source for this great quote, but:
ReplyDeleteFinnish commander to troops: "The Russians outnumber us 2:1. How do we handle that?"
Finnish soldier shrugs and says, "shoot twice and go home?"