So on that basis you mean that Finland is planning to attack Russia?
Finland is planning to join a military group led by a country (US) focused on fighting Russia, so, while Finland herself might not be planning to do it on their own, they will be the cannon fodder that basically now represents as you say the front line border area where HATO forces will be positioned to expand the lineal threat to Russia.... Russia will have to spend money placing forces on that border to counter the forces the US demands to be allowed to place there... probably not initially... but eventually there will either be an actual provocation or they will make something up and you will need young American boys shagging your women and protecting you from the red menace...
"JASSM is just as much a deterrent capability, as it is a strike capability. It makes the enemy pause and think twice about aggressive action, because it provides precision strike of a wide range of valuable targets."
And having a few hundred when your potential opponent will be making rather large numbers of all types of such weapons in the past and now moving forward means any actual use of such weapons will wipe out military targets in Finland pretty quickly... but then when Finland joins the hostile countries group when it joins HATO why would the Russians care about civilian casualties... it will be like a HATO force in the Middle East... if you are not with us then you are with the terrorists so if you are near the enemy then you are the enemy.
Finland within HATO is a genuine threat to be eliminated. Finland outside of HATO could be talked to, but Finland inside HATO then Russia has to talk to the US and the US wont give a shit about Finland and will be all brave and stupid because it is only Finland at stake...
Russia is handling the Ukraine fine
Hence why Finland wants to join NATO now. Their previous plan of defense is obsolete.
Which is what is so amusing.... their previous plan of defence which was minding their own business and not joining HATO and not creating bio weapons labs and not creating nuclear weapons and not planning to shell or invade rebel regions within its own country was working really well, but the US whispering in their ear that Russia will invade them next has turned them into scaredy cats and they are desperate to join the anti Russia club...
And if Russia hadn't attacked the Ukraine Finland would still be a client state of the US and part of a military alliance with it in all but name, sanctioning Iran, Syria and taking part in adventures against Libya. Just like Sweden. Now clam it.
The US had been grooming the regions around Russia to be anti Russia forever... they even believe Siberia might demand autonomy too... The irony is that Russia ends up better off when the US gets what it wants most of the time... just look at their track record.
Security concerns of super powers are not a business of small countries to decide what they want or in that case paid actors playing head of state to decide. Just like Canada or Mexico would never be allowed to join a Russian,Chinese or North Korean military alliance and let alone dare to station any kind of contigent or weapons on their soil, the same applies for any boardering country with Russia.
Even the Solomon Islands are not free to choose their own trade and security agreements it seems...
The most likely scenario to get your ass kicked by a Russian is joining the Anti-Russian gang and voluntarily be the very first row guy. Congrats Scandinavians you are next to the Fasco-Ukrops getting punched if you are stupid enough. Article 5 will NEVER be used!
I agree with what you said but I think the most likely scenario is that Finland and Sweden both join HATO and that leads to Russia putting both countries into the hostile country bin which will mostly lead to a revision of Russian forces being located at that border... their size and structure will change... but both sides will be very careful to prevent conflict so trade will reduce down to a trickle and then stop completely... and then embassies for each country will end up in tit for tat expulsions till neither has any diplomats and their embassies will close too... no point in a Russian embassy in US territory so far from Washington that even Washington doesn't care about.
Interestingly they are not allowing a referendum on this decision, i guess they just want to avoid a Brexit situation.
It is like Maidan... you have to kill people on both sides to get the blood boiling and then a coup and cutting off all ties even with your main trading partner seem like sensible things to do. Of course Russia wont be Finlands or Swedens main trading partner so it will be even easier for them to cut them off.
Right now the propaganda in the west is working a treat... everyone thinks Russia is the bad guy and Kiev is innocent of all charges and to be honest unless we get a new media new revelations of the truth wont make much difference when you actively and enthusiastically broadcast the lie and then months later mention it was a lie in passing people just remember the lie...
But as I have said for several decades... Russia has no future with the west in its current form... it is not democratic and it is not free and fair like it pretends to be.
Russia sampled what life with the west would be like in the 1990s and even today the west thinks Russia in the 1990s was the best it could possibly be... they don't want a partner... they don't want cures for cancer because treatments are more profitable...
Russia needs to set a new path using its own morals and ethics and not be bullied by anyone as to what they should or should not be.
Russia was never going to push the west away because the west is a parasite, but fortunately for Russia, this parasite is trying to make Russia very sick so Russia is doing things it doesn't like which gives Russia every reason to get rid of it...
Russia needs to look to the rest of the world for trade and cooperation... they put a hand out to the west for the last 20 years and it has been slapped away with a good telling off.
The Russian economy and position in terms of the things that it need is very self sufficient... they don't have absolutely everything but the rest of the world has everything else they might need.
This thread is about Finland and Sweden of course, so the real question is will the US and their new HATO allies fill any gaps created by losing Russia as a trade partner... and I would say based on Georgia and Ukraine... they will build bio weapons labs and talk about military bases and forward deployed forces and missiles, but they will want you to buy their weapons... which is a huge irony... during the Cold War the logic in the west behind third world countries choosing the west over the commies was that the commies will give you weapons and their military bases but they wont have consumer goods and the technology that makes life easier or fun... almost seems to be the reverse situation now... but the west has always loved war and created wars at every opportunity...
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