Russia is so terrified of Nato encroachment that they stripped their defenses along the Finnish boarder shortly after Finland joined Nato, and they've moved all the defenses at this point (first weapons, now troops) out of Kaliningrad.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Invading via Finland isn’t a thing. Ask Bonaparte or Hitler. There’s nothing up there but lakes, mud, and mosquitos.
Where were Russian speakers being killed by government-backed neo-Nazis for the last decade? In eastern Norway? No, in eastern Ukraine.
The US doesn’t have nuclear weapons deployed in Finland, and no known plans to. NATO Ally [Poland] 'Ready' to Station Nuclear Weapons on Its Territory

[–] anachronist@midwest.social -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There’s nothing up there but lakes, mud, and mosquitos

That's a rude way to describe Saint Petersburg.

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Saint Petersburg

Where's that? Is it near Leningrad?

[–] anachronist@midwest.social -5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ok I get it now. You guys are living (or LARPing in) a fantasy world where the Soviet Union still exists and Russia isn't a right-wing revanchist kleptocratic dictatorship.

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

A swing and a miss. You asked a dumb question so somebody else asked you a dumb question. You're being made fun of.

Why is it that you liberals consistently cannot understand when they're being made fun of? It's pathological.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nobody here is confusing contemporary capitalist Russia with communist Russia. And this war isn’t about revanchism, it’s about a decade of ethnic cleaning in eastern Ukraine and two and a half decades of US/NATO military expansion toward Russia’s borders.

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

It was a joke...

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Is it hard to post on Lemmy from inside a locker?