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WaPo article speaking about how the brutality of the Ukranian invasion has swayed public opinion in Finland to join NATO. Lot's of interesting information about the 800 mile border with Russia and the Finnish military. Good photos too if you are not paywalled.


Tomi Rask, a preparedness specialist with Helsinki’s Rescue Department, said footage of the devastating shelling in Ukraine, including people taking cover in makeshift shelters, has renewed interest in civil defense.
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The focus on readiness extends to the military. Finland maintains a system of mandatory conscription for men and voluntary conscription for women. The country can muster a wartime force of 280,000 troops, as well as about 900,000 reservists.
“We never dismantled the military after the Cold War; we invested in it,” said Kai Sauer, Finland’s undersecretary of state for foreign and security policy.
“There is a very high willingness to defend the country,” he said. “It might sound old-fashioned, but it is a consequence of our history and geographic position.”
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Finnish soldiers have been working with NATO since the 1990s. Both Finland and Sweden contributed to missions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Both forces are highly interoperable with NATO forces.
The country stepped up cooperation with NATO after Russia annexed Crimea, but officially, Finland remained militarily nonaligned. Finnish people felt safer outside the alliance.
Putin’s full-scale attack on Ukraine changed that virtually overnight. A majority of Finnish people now say they would be safer within NATO.
“If Putin is able to slaughter his Slavic brothers, sisters and cousins in Ukraine, there’s nothing stopping him from doing that in Finland, as well,” said Stubb, the former prime minister.

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Apparently there's been a lot of speculation among medical authorities about Putin's health which has been on the quiet side. Glad to know I'm not the sole person noticing these things. It'll be interesting to see if surgery is scheduled and if more the the media pick it up...

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Apparently there's been a lot of speculation among medical authorities about Putin's health which has been on the quiet side. Glad to know I'm not the sole person noticing these things. It'll be interesting to see if surgery is scheduled and if more the the media pick it up...

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If this becomes a mainstream story I cannot wait to hear Tucker Carlson's spin on this. Does he make Putin into a victim or just forget to cover this at all?
 
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Hasn’t Russian military philosophy always been like this? I remember reading about WW1 and the way the Russians indiscriminately used their infantry as cannon fodder. It seems like from the Czars to the Soviet/Communist Oligarchs, Russians have a very human life is expendable philosophy vs the West.
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Pretty much.
Josef Stalin said:
"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."
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