Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "OBF"
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@A Y EU has encouraged Finland to remain neutral for decades. Finland just wants to be left alone when it comes to conflict, and trade with both East and West while working on domestic problems like population (lack of young workers), aging society, energy, and advanced technology development. Finland has been a reliable trade partner for Russia for centuries.
My family’s region, Pohjanmaa, has been exporting bailed hay to Russia since Czarist times, and they’re in the West, opposite side of the border. When I lived in Russia, I saw several Finnish products on the large store shelves like Globus, which is a German attempt to duplicate the combined business models of Wal-Mart and Costco.
Russia has enjoyed diversity of grocery, personal care, and household products like never before once the collapse’s initial velocity was reduced, and Western firms saw a huge market of 143 million people who had been excluded from Western trade for 50-60 years.
Much of Russia’s domestic construction projects were managed by Finnish, Serbian, and Swedish engineers because the Bolsheviks purged those types of people in the Revolution and Civil War, followed by the horrors of human loss in World War II.
Russia focused its remaining engineers, many of whom were injured during the war (Kalashnikov is one example) on military items, taking Western designs where all the RDT&E had been done already, then scaled those designs for primitive Russian and Ukrainian factories. Ukraine had better technical expertise in many areas, including missile and RADAR components, as well as most of the naval yards for construction of wartime vessels.
EU has promoted trade with Russia though, since Germany is the core of the EU and Germany relies on exports for its economy. They are the last ones who want to see any warfare in Europe.
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@wilfredoandaluz5571 Finland announcing formal NATO membership application now will help make Putin's decision for him to invade, before Article 5 can go into effect like he did with Georgia.
Russia can then look for what they think will be an "easy win" against a tiny population of 5.5 million people in the North.
Even if it mostly fails like Stalin did in 1939, it still means Iskander and hypersonic missiles streaking into Finnish cities, ports, airfields, and bases.
It means waves of Russian Su-30s, Su-35s, Su-34s, Su-24s, Su-25s attacking FiAF F/A-18s and their remote basing scheme. It means MRLS rockets bombarding Finnish cities, scores of helicopters inserting airmobile infantry, equipped with a mix of captured Javelins, NLAWs, Russian thermobaric warhead rocket launchers, while tank columns try to push through Karelia.
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@Grim FPV Putin activated false flag units in 2014 to start killing ethnic Russians as a pretext for invading.
Look at the timeline. What changed in Feb 2014? Yanukovych was ousted by the Ukrainian people after 4 months of protests.
As soon as Putin lost his puppet, he had to escalate to a military option, hence the false flag attacks on Russians in Donetsk, just like was done with Abkhazia, Georgia, Chechnya, and what Stalin did in 1939 with Finland.
Putin doesn't care about ethnic Russians in Ukraina. He cares about Ukraina gaining independence, trading their services and resources for Euros, which would have elevated Ukraina's economy over Russia's, especially after they discovered the huge oil fields just off the coast of Sevastopol and Odessa.
As long as a Russian puppet was in Kiev, nye problyem. As soon as Yanukovych was thrown out, Ukraina nazis!
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