• Stamets@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Finland: And now we have a pact with NATO. You wanna cause ‘problems’? We will cause ‘solutions’. Ours are bigger and, as seen in Ukraine, considerably more effective.

  • jimbolauski@lemm.ee
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    Putin is doing this in hopes of intimidating other countries. He and everyone around him knows Russia doesn’t have the resources to start another conflict.

  • Taco2112@lemmy.world
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    All disputes, including territorial ones, were resolved long ago, in the middle of the 20th century.

    Kinda like how the border disputes with Ukraine were solved in the late 20th century. Great example of “don’t start nothing, won’t be nothing”

  • SCB@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Best thing Putin has done, in his entire life, is help grow NATO. Pity it had to come from actual war and not just saber-rattling.

  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The old news firehose winds up again. Putin likes to say a bunch of “crazy” things like this to get foreign press and governments confused on what his next move will actually be. The idea is to flood the world with so many hints of plans that no one knows what to believe.

  • spez@sh.itjust.works
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    Why would they want all of this? Nonsense."

    WHY DID YOU MAKE ME DO THIS JESSICA! I DIDN’T WANT TO PUNCH YOU! AAAHHHHHHH!

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I just hope he doesn’t decide to nuke Finland before I can find a way to import official Finnish salmiakki koskenkorva.