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The puppet mayor of Kherson is asking putin to declare it as Russia saying a referendum won’t be taken
I know a segment of the American Right has a ‘don’t care what the rest of the World thinks’ attitude but goodness Russian people maybe figure out this many countries aren’t obsessed with belittling you , your Government is just irrational
Things are going so well for Russia I don't blame them trying to open up a second front against a weak military such as Finland who has no experience defending their land from Russians.
It will be pretty wild if Russia cuts Europe off from Gas, they are forcing Europe to radically alter their energy future on the fly. Seems fucking stupid to me but I think Russia thinks the short term pain will not be tolerable for modern Europeans
Especially when Finlands only major city is Helsinki, a naval invasion thereof would require a lot of ships conveniently located in the Black Sea, which Turkey has conveniently shut to Russian traffic, and any land invasion required crossing a number of very explodable bridges or fighting your way through a hellscape of forests, marshes, and mountains against a nation who’s been spoiling for a fight since 1945 and who’s counter-Russia strategy is basically “become an insurgency immediately”
I fully expect Russia will invade but get delayed so long they’ll get bogged down in the dead of winter.
Dont forget the fact they are running out of Precision Guided Munitions. This would be a huge undertaking.
they aren't going to do shit to Finland unless they just decide to end the world and start nuking shit. They are incredibly stupid, so idk, certainly possible, I guess. Conventionally they aren't doing shit.
Call me naive but at this point some sort of revolution in Russia has to be the odds on favorite to how this ends…
Their continuous effort to blame the West for THEIR invasion with a completely straight face sets new standards for paranoia.
So I just looked it up and they can keep Black Sea Fleet vessels from exiting, but they’d have to let Baltic/North/Pacific fleet ships “return to their home port”. Similarly they can keep Balt/North/Pac fleet ships Out of the Black Sea, but they’d have to let Black fleet ships through. So if Russia wanted to do some Finland shit, they could get some of the ships out but not all of them.
Finland has a a tier I Air Force. If the Ukrainians can get to the Moskva, imagine what Finnish pilots could hit with F-18 hornets and precision guided missiles.
Some ITT might blast this as being racist, but it seems a pretty apt description of the general russian mindset that has been brought on by hundreds of years of functional serfdom:
Russia is very good when the opposing side is stuck in place and they can just bomb away. You could probably say that about any military though.
We’ve witnessed this very same behavior in our country by one of our political parties and its mindless followers.