According to the Russian president, Finland was “dragged” into Nato.

As a Finn I say this is fine. Every military resource that is tied down and not raping and destroying Ukraine is net positive.

  • ghen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    I feel like he’s doing this just to threaten the troops on the front line with somewhere colder

    • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      Loads of forest up north. I’d prefer a camp fire over gunfire. Just make sure to bring your own axe.

      • etuomaala@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        Finns camp in such conditions voluntarily. Russians probably do too, lol. In fact, many Russians in that particular area of Russia are a lot more like Finns than they are like Russians. In fact, they are being repressed, and their language and culture is being systematically erased. If we are playing by Russian rules, this means Finland just has to step in, to uphold the human rights of the Finnic peoples living in this area.

        • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I get your point. However, within a military it’s not like you’re stationed where you are originally from. So, most military left right now are the minorities from the east, or at least, they are drafted and sent to the front an mass. Except maybe for the officers not going to the front. But then again, they aren’t stationed where they are from, but where the regime requires them to be. I bet the minorities living in Russia close to Finland won’t feel much support for the regime, unless they too are too much brainwashed by the propaganda. But in general, the minorities often prefer to separate from Russia completely.

        • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Karelia is the region of Russia close to Finland. And these people are technically Karelians (and I’m ethnically part Karelian as my father is Karelian). Karelian historically forcefully were assimilated either into what is Finland or Russian Federation today. Karelian culture is near extinct.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I’ve been making the same argument about the Han population of the Vladivostok Oblast for a while now. Xi actually has a lot to gain there, and no one outside of Russia would bat an eye.