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Finland ‘preparing for the worst’ as Russia expands military presence near border
(www.theguardian.com)
Finland- "What are you going to do? Bleed on me?"
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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I mean, if Russia has struggled with Ukraine, they'll get stomped in Finland, or bankrupt themselves fighting. Finland knows how to hunt in the woods. You step on their land with bad intent and you're just playing their hunger games.
Find me the blood relatives of Simo Haya.
During the winter war, the Russian army was approaching a forest. From the woods someone shouted "One Finn can defeat ten Russians!"
The Russian commander smirked and sent in ten men. After a brief hail of gunfire, the same voice shouted "One Finn can defeat twenty Russians!"
Getting frustrated, the Russian commander sent in 25 of his best soldiers. There was a protracted battle, then silence. After a minute, the tired voice shouted "One Finn can defeat fifty Russians!"
Now furious, the Russian commander pulls up a force of two hundred men and sends them into the woods. Gunfire erupts, trees are ripped to shreds by explosions, and hell was unleashed. After what seemed like hours, a single Russian soldier staggered from the woods, bleeding badly. He looks at what's left of the army and desperately screams "It's a trap! There's TWO of them!"
Mechanized warfare is Russia’s thing - and considering how miserably they failed at it on the open fields of Ukraine, I double dare them to try it in our dense forests, with no roads and massive Ice Age boulders everywhere, not to mention the lakes, bogs, rivers… and every tree and bush speaking Finnish. Good luck!
Also every single bridge in Finland is rigged to be blown up and the military practices doing it regularly
Maybe they hope Finland isn’t ready for the new age of drone warfare.
I doubt anyone is ready for it. All I know for sure is that the FDF is a serious organization who has absolutely kept their eye on the conflict and (hopefully) have adjusted the military training accordingly.
Wikipedia doesn’t list and children or grandchildren. He might have nieces and nephews though.
Either they edited their post or…
I've had the honor of competing with air rifles against one of Häyhä's grandnieces. Häyhä never had any children of his own.
I can assure you that the talent was NOT genetic ;)
If WW2 has taught me anything, it’s that fighting on two fronts is a great plan.
Surround yourself on all sides with enemies and then you barely have to aim.
Foreign media seems much more worried about this than our local newspapers.
We've been 'prepairing for the worst' since WW2.
Worked for an old Finn in the States during the early 2000s. He was in his 60s, had prostrate problems and hated Russians with a fervor!
Was it Finland that has setup artillery and defensive positions all long the border or Estonia? Either one basically has everything dialed in for artillery. If they make it 10km in before dying, I'd be impressed.
It's Finland.
In most of the world, a a nations military is designed like a Swiss army knife: to be able to do many different things should the need arise. Equipment/training is designed for a broad range of domestic and global scenarios.
When you border Russia, your military is designed to do exactly one thing.
Sweden could invade us wielding butter knives - we’re not prepared for that.
Sweden did, once, though admittedly with quite long versions of butter knives
Some of us love butter.
Hell, they would get unconditional surrender just by promising to send a few battallions of unarmed female troops over.
In every military exercise the “yellow force” always just happened to advance from the east 🤣
If Russia wants to hand Karelia back to the Finns they don't need to do a war first. Also I know restoring Karelia would be a shit show but it would be funny.
An todaayy we halfffvvv ze russian military vs zte hydrauuulic preesss
Fill your artillery with Nokia 3310s... That'll teach 'em
They wouldn't dare......would they?
Military build up on borders in Russia is usually intended to keep people from leaving....
Yes