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Edmond Dantes posted:https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1497217148267253760 The whole line of "there will be vague military/political/technical consequences if Finland joins NATO" has been their official line as far as I can remember. Now they just cannot actually do anything right now since they are maxed out in Ukraine so this seems more like an argument for NATO. Hearing rumors that a lot of Finnish politicians have done a complete 180 on NATO membership in the last 36 hours.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Holy poo poo could they possibly be dumb enough to invade Finland *twice* My 2 kilometer drive was a bit of a struggle due to heavy snow today so I think they'll have to wait until april at least. 
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There Bias Two posted:What makes you think they care? Dollars are going to be in short supply soon I imagine.
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Yureina posted:I feel like I've seen these arguments a hundred times in the last few days. At this point it doesn't matter who did what to whom decades ago, because none of it justifies what Putin has done with this invasion. He made that decision. Every other point is moot as far as I am concerned. This is like trying to do marriage counseling after the other party just knifed their spouse.
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Feb 28, 2022 08:56
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Finnish support for NATO membership has exceeded 50% according to a fresh poll. This is the first time in history we are seeing numbers anything like this.
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kaaj posted:A Russian friend told me that Working in Finnish/Euro IT it really does feel that every even half competent Russian has come over the fence and are not returning any time soon. One new Russian employee had her self-introduction last Friday and she seemed just to about to cry. 
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Comstar posted:https://twitter.com/leonidragozin/status/1500007076814278656?s=20&t=CPo5K4bqtqhiOvcA78Othg I have been thinking of this part a lot lately. uncleTomOfFinland fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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Crimea is a done deal, the only reason not to recognise it as part of Russia is so that it can be used as a carrot in the peace negotiations.
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Mar 7, 2022 11:29
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theghostpt posted:Amend the constitution in regards to what exactly? Probably getting rid of the incredibly dumb amendments that require Ukraine to apply for EU and NATO membership by 2023. quote:The "you can't belong to any bloc" though is a complete violation of sovereignty and Russia can go gently caress itself trying to tell other countries what agreements they can be in, especially with this clownshoes military.
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Mar 7, 2022 13:33
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KitConstantine posted:https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1500919817058103298?s=20&t=YNPZExzM3nduCVK3Wa06Cw I believe the pounding should be happening in the blurred part.
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Mar 7, 2022 20:53
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MikeC posted:Is there a reason why the Europeans are so averse to nuclear power? In Ontario Canada, nuclear makes up well over half our energy with Hydro making up another quarter. Finland has been quite pro-nuclear but.. The new Olkiluoto 3 plant built by Areva  ? 12 years late and 400% over budgetThe new Hanhikivi plant ordered from Rosatom? 
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Drone_Fragger posted:The issue is market liberalism. All the countries sold their domestic nuclear design and architecture work, And demolished whatever infrastructure was developed for building reactors in like, the late 80s. The UK developed a bunch of reactors, but now we're having to buy in French built versions of Chinese reactors based on designs by America. It's no wonder poo poo is going overbudget and overtime. One issue here is that getting new permits for reactors is a political nightmare (thanks greens!) and they are based on the amount of reactors and not on the amount of energy produced. The result of course is that they end up ordering the biggest and the most complicated one (Olkiluoto 3) there is when no-one has been building even small ones for quite a while.
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:Ukrainian dude got into a fistfight at a gas station, because the Hungarian painted a white Z on his car.  that's quite a bold move in Europe outside Russia. I imagine that would be the surest way to get every window of your car smashed in.
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Has anyone mentioned having Ukraine doing an arrangement like EFTA (or joining EFTA itself)? It could be used to exclude some provisions Russians find objectionable and maybe even save face a little since Ukraine would not be literally joining the EU. EDIT: Also maybe some kind of bilateral defense treaty in place of NATO too. uncleTomOfFinland fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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OddObserver posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/gkates/status/1503461628179894274?cxt=HHwWhMC-kdOYr90pAAAA This is pretty great actually, if I was a Russian and didn't know what the sign said I'd definitely would be looking that up and paying much closer attention.
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Captain Kosmos posted:There was talk about Russians not using camo or covers. I guess this kinda counts? Even though it makes it easier to spot them. The one time they should have considered hanging some logs from their trucks and they didnt do that.
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Ola posted:I could understand if he would want to commit suicide, but what would be the motive for killing him? Maybe he was caught trying to escape? If the 1930s is anything to go by being from the wrong country is enough to get you killed once things get paranoid enough. A lot of Finnish communists who fled to the USSR during/after the civil war found that out the hard way.
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Gaj posted:Its an artifact of the cold war. There are US civil guard manuals on how to dispose of all the dead farm animals. Its supposedly a new regulation that was issued very recently just before the invasion. It was even featured in the local tabloids here for it's  .
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Mar 19, 2022 21:58
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steinrokkan posted:Operation Flashpoint's expansion Resistance is very relevant, it even has a mission to steal a bunch of tanks from literally under the Russians' noses Back when I played resistance I thought all the equipment-stealing was just plain unrealistic, looks like I was wrong.
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Mar 24, 2022 15:16
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Ever since Russian air traffic bans were instated the fastest way to get from St. Petersburg to the EU was to take the train to Helsinki. However the Finnish state has decided to halt express train traffic to St Petersburg starting from tomorrow for unspecified reasons.
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Mar 25, 2022 07:41
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Delthalaz posted:Re: the argument that they’d be hosed no matter what for invading in mud season, maybe! But they chose this. Why not start your 2 month invasion buildup in April then? Then they couldn't do their stupid WW2 larp victory parade on May 9th.
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mobby_6kl posted:
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Shogeton posted:On that note, one thing I hope Europe will do is to open their doors to Russian refugees. Plenty of folks probably see the way the wind is going, and probably want to get the gently caress out of here. There's a ton of Russians (think LGBT, minorities, etc) who might be threatened by purges themselves, and even the ones who aren't might want to get out of the country now that it's going fully 'masks off' either out of disgust for what is happening, or simply out of self-preservation. At least for countries bordering Russia it's a bit of an untenable suggestion since Russia has made having a Russian-speaking minority a huge liability.
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Oh almost all my funds are ESG, drat this peaceful investing fad!  You might already own it. Maybe dead russian tank crews count for carbon offsets?
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Zelensky is speaking to the parliament of Finland and the websites of the defence ministry and the biggest bank here are down due to a DoS attack. Must be a coincidence.
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Apr 8, 2022 11:28
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Marshal Prolapse posted:NATO’s getting bigger. Let's just say it's interesting what kind of bullshit Russia will pull in the next 1-2 months and how big of a problem Orban will be.
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Apr 11, 2022 07:25
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My assumption was that they would not resort to chemical/bio weapons since they could just do war crimes with conventional artillery Grozny style but maybe all that equipment and supplies getting blown to hell is making that not feasible?
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Apr 12, 2022 05:26
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Grouchio posted:Twitter's having a normal one over the Finland comments Peskov made back on Monday Meanwhile the Finnish state media is all  over Russian statements:https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12407110 Russia Repeats Familiar Warning Over "Consequences" Funny that some others seem more freaked out over these things than the people who actually live here. Guess this is what being a South Korean is like?
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Risky Bisquick posted:If you ignore the self written stdh fanfic, most of the stuff they post is fairly accurate. Having to live in Russia is the 100% appropriate punishment for being a pro-Putin shill.
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could this be the beginning of eu member states declaring the kremlin amplifiers persona non grata
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Wildeyes posted:Imagine if the Nazis complained about Naziphobia the entire time they were committing atrocities. Crying crocodile tears over how badly germans were treated was part of the deal since day 1, check out Hitler’s 1939 invasion speech and see how frighteningly familiar it is: https://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/HITLER1.htm quote:I must here state something definitely; German has kept these obligations; the minorities who live in Germany are not persecuted. No Frenchman can stand up and say that any Frenchman living in the Saar territory is oppressed, tortured, or deprived of his rights. Nobody can say this.
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ronya posted:https://twitter.com/noahbarkin/status/1522879968669224962 quote:... The current crisis might not have escalated like in the past months.
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Ola posted:The flyover was actually cancelled due to the weather in Ukraine. It's been raining Sukhois there. Biggest newspaper in Finland confirms: quote:Kremlin lehdistöpäällikkö Dmitri Peskov näyttää kertoneen puolisen tuntia sitten että paraatin ylilento on peruttu "sään vuoksi". Näyttää tuolla aurinko paistavan.
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Åland is going to belong to Russia at this rate if they dont reconsider their status as a DMZ
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FishBulbia posted:https://twitter.com/GarrisonMoratto/status/1524750817709895682 Hope no-one tells these people that the existing baltic NATO member countries don't have MBTs, air force or navies and Sweden and Finland joining would definitely change that.
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Young Freud posted:This sounds absolutely dire. (e:fb) When you factor in their less-than-stellar healthcare and rates of alcoholism it's more like conscripting 50-60yos in the west.
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I wish Putin would invade already so I can at least avoid this stupid news cycle.
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The Finnish ministry of health has issued a recommendation that every person between the ages of 3 and 40 should acquire iodine pills in case of radiation exposure.
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