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Originally Posted by Medic
Nato discussion, especially now that we're preparing for parliamentary elections, is flaring up and the Defence Minister outed himself with his opinion about the Russians not giving half of a dead rat's ass on whether Finland is neutral or not, if it suits their plans. With earlier cutbacks in the funding, the FDF has not had the chance to hold refresher training for most troops in the past few years which has caused some damage to the quality of the troops that will take a long time to repair.
With what has been going on in the Baltic, my best guesstimate is, Sweden will apply for membership in Nato within the next three years and Finland will most likely follow suit. We've been living next to, under and eventually next to Russia for a long time and fought a number of wars against them. There are some Finns, including a particular adjunct professor of the University of Helsinki, who spread bullshit about Finland in Russia to advance the goals of Putin's crew. Most Finns do strongly condemn that behavior.
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That really does say something apparently when the Finns and Swedes are that nervous, and now actually considering the possibility of foregoing neutrality and joining NATO. And what you mentioned with the professor is rather interesting as Russia is quietly, yet very busy setting up disinformation campaigns along with "sympathetic viewpoints" (or IMO, fifth columnists) in other countries.
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