Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoDon’t rule out troops to Ukraine, Finnish FM sayswww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down17cross-posted to: ukraine
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minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-28 months agoThey’ve expected a Russian invasion ever since the last time. More of an inevitability really. Last time they basically had the snow with a sniper rifle on their side. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Häyhä
minus-squareMonsterMonster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoMassive respect to Simo Häyhä and the whole of Finland. The significance of Finland and Sweden joining Nato is huge especially after reading about the Winter War . I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: history is repeating itself with Russia in Ukraine.
minus-squareRickety Thudds@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoHistory mainly repeats itself. I don’t know of many upbeat historians.
They’ve expected a Russian invasion ever since the last time. More of an inevitability really.
Last time they basically had the snow with a sniper rifle on their side.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Häyhä
Massive respect to Simo Häyhä and the whole of Finland.
The significance of Finland and Sweden joining Nato is huge especially after reading about the Winter War .
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: history is repeating itself with Russia in Ukraine.
History mainly repeats itself. I don’t know of many upbeat historians.