According to the Russian president, Finland was “dragged” into Nato.

As a Finn I say this is fine. Every military resource that is tied down and not raping and destroying Ukraine is net positive.

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

    I was worried about this ever since Putin said “we have no plans of the sort” when Biden said Putin would invade a NATO country after Ukraine.

    Lo and behold, troop build up on a border of a NATO country, which completely parallels the start of the Ukraine invasion.

    • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      11 months ago

      I highly doubt those troops are for invading Finland. If there’s any NATO country that should be worried it’s probably Estonia. Especially if/when Trump gets elected president again.

    • fosforus@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Except of course for the little fact that Ukraine wasn’t in NATO.

      People outside of Finland might forget that before Russia attacked Ukraine, they had several military bases around Finland, with plenty of troops in them. https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000000728599.html from 2014 (in Finnish, sorry). For the Ukraine war, they emptied these bases. What they’re doing now is just restoring those bases to what the had been for several decades.

      Putin is just plain lying, as he is every time his mouth moves. They have maintained a highly threatening stance against Finland ever since WW2.