I'm still partial to my own solution. Declare war, take a token strip of land and heavily fortify it.
With what army? Finland has a high tech modern air force better than anything Russia has + advanced SAMs like the NASAMS II, so Russia's air force stays home. Finland also has hundreds of Leopard 2 main battle tanks, and over 650 heavy artillery, and another 100 SPAs & 30 GMLRS equipped rocket artillery.
Russia doesn't have anything like that anymore. Russia has a few hundred tanks left in Ukraine as it keeps feeding in old refurbished tanks into Ukraine to get destroyed. The vast majority of Russia's tank force and other armored vehicles have already been destroyed or captured.
And what do you think "heavily fortify" will do in 2022? We already know what that looks like: Russians digging out pits for their vehicles to sit in, and said vehicles routinely get destroyed by drones & gps guided artillery. Troops in trenches? The trenches can just get bypassed and cut off. Russia doesn't have the manpower to defend a wide geographic area to stop the Finns from simply going around the trenches and cutting off their supplies.
over 650 heavy artillery, and another 100 SPAs & 30 GMLRS equipped rocket artillery.
So many hundreds. And Ukraine cucked the whole Russian military with only a dozen or so HIMARS, soooooo.
I've seen copium and I've seen copium, but this takes the cake.
Why do you think it's wrong that Russia has a few hundred tanks left in Ukraine? Oryx has photographic evidence of 1,419 Russian tank losses so far, and there aren't going to be photos of every loss, so the real number is somewhere between 1500-2500 somewhere, which is essentially the entire Russian deployable tank force pre-invasion. Russia has had to keep refurbishing old tanks to keep SOME tanks in the field, so in the last 2 months a lot of the losses have been T-62s and T-64s. So this is barrel scraping for Russia. If you have contrary evidence, by all means.
You literally think a corrupt puppet shithole non-country is going to beat Russia...
not particularly corrupt, certainly not more than russia
not a puppet
is a country
has already been winning the war for months, hence why Putin was forced to cope with a mobilization.
I'm sure you'll blame Biden and the "libs" once the said non-country starts losing badly...
Why would I? And how delusional do you have to be to believe that Ukraine would ever start losing?
It stops NATO membership though, unless NATO wants to be at war with Russia.
The Accession protocol was already completed on 5 July 2022. NATO members unanimously agreed to formally invite the countries to join on June 29. It's already done.
It's too late for Russia to try some trick to stop it from happening, especially since if NATO allowed such a trick to succeed, it would mean Russia would have a veto over NATO's membership, which is already something that NATO members are entirely against.
If Russia invaded and started a war with Finland, the sanctions against Russia would get far, far worse, and Finland, unlike Ukraine, would have no compunction against counter-attacking into Russian territory and occupying it.
It should be obvious at this point that the Finnish military is far more powerful and capable than whatever Russia could spare.
i think the solution isn't to side with psychopathic superpower 2 over psychopathic superpower 1, man. especially when they ultimately serve the same global psychopathic interest which just wants to hurt the common, not-psychopathic man such as you or me.
At most 500,000 Russian soldiers are in Ukraine and not even all of the Russian equipment and they still have large reserves of soldiers they could mobilize if they wanted.
Russia already scraped the barrel for Ukraine and was forced into involuntary conscription to replace losses. They are barely holding the line as it is.
Some units around Kharkiv in September when Ukraine attacked were only at 25% strength. That would not have been the case if Russia had these "large reserves" you seem to think they have.
Finland has tiny & weak military and war with Russia would be over in just hours.
Finland actually has a very powerful military compared to whatever Russia could scrape together. Finland has a high tech modern air force better than anything Russia has + advanced SAMs like the NASAMS II, so Russia's air force stays home. Finland also has hundreds of Leopard 2 main battle tanks, and over 650 heavy artillery, and another 100 SPAs & 30 GMLRS equipped rocket artillery.
Russia doesn't have anything like that anymore. What little Russia has left is desperately trying to hold the like in Ukraine and barely managing to stave off collapse.
I'm still partial to my own solution. Declare war, take a token strip of land and heavily fortify it.
With what army? Finland has a high tech modern air force better than anything Russia has + advanced SAMs like the NASAMS II, so Russia's air force stays home. Finland also has hundreds of Leopard 2 main battle tanks, and over 650 heavy artillery, and another 100 SPAs & 30 GMLRS equipped rocket artillery.
Russia doesn't have anything like that anymore. Russia has a few hundred tanks left in Ukraine as it keeps feeding in old refurbished tanks into Ukraine to get destroyed. The vast majority of Russia's tank force and other armored vehicles have already been destroyed or captured.
And what do you think "heavily fortify" will do in 2022? We already know what that looks like: Russians digging out pits for their vehicles to sit in, and said vehicles routinely get destroyed by drones & gps guided artillery. Troops in trenches? The trenches can just get bypassed and cut off. Russia doesn't have the manpower to defend a wide geographic area to stop the Finns from simply going around the trenches and cutting off their supplies.
You Team Putin guys are not living in reality.
They have dozens of pieces of artillery! DOZENS!
Dude...
I've seen copium and I've seen copium, but this takes the cake.
You literally think a corrupt puppet shithole non-country is going to beat Russia...
I'm sure you'll blame Biden and the "libs" once the said non-country starts losing badly...
over 650 heavy artillery, and another 100 SPAs & 30 GMLRS equipped rocket artillery.
So many hundreds. And Ukraine cucked the whole Russian military with only a dozen or so HIMARS, soooooo.
Why do you think it's wrong that Russia has a few hundred tanks left in Ukraine? Oryx has photographic evidence of 1,419 Russian tank losses so far, and there aren't going to be photos of every loss, so the real number is somewhere between 1500-2500 somewhere, which is essentially the entire Russian deployable tank force pre-invasion. Russia has had to keep refurbishing old tanks to keep SOME tanks in the field, so in the last 2 months a lot of the losses have been T-62s and T-64s. So this is barrel scraping for Russia. If you have contrary evidence, by all means.
not particularly corrupt, certainly not more than russia
not a puppet
is a country
has already been winning the war for months, hence why Putin was forced to cope with a mobilization.
Why would I? And how delusional do you have to be to believe that Ukraine would ever start losing?
It stops NATO membership though, unless NATO wants to be at war with Russia.
I meant a tiny strip of territory, 20 by 20 km or something, of no man's land
The Accession protocol was already completed on 5 July 2022. NATO members unanimously agreed to formally invite the countries to join on June 29. It's already done.
It's too late for Russia to try some trick to stop it from happening, especially since if NATO allowed such a trick to succeed, it would mean Russia would have a veto over NATO's membership, which is already something that NATO members are entirely against.
If Russia invaded and started a war with Finland, the sanctions against Russia would get far, far worse, and Finland, unlike Ukraine, would have no compunction against counter-attacking into Russian territory and occupying it.
It should be obvious at this point that the Finnish military is far more powerful and capable than whatever Russia could spare.
i think the solution isn't to side with psychopathic superpower 2 over psychopathic superpower 1, man. especially when they ultimately serve the same global psychopathic interest which just wants to hurt the common, not-psychopathic man such as you or me.
Except the whole Finnish military is available for battle, while the whole Russian military is tied down in Ukraine.
laughs in snow
Russia already scraped the barrel for Ukraine and was forced into involuntary conscription to replace losses. They are barely holding the line as it is.
Some units around Kharkiv in September when Ukraine attacked were only at 25% strength. That would not have been the case if Russia had these "large reserves" you seem to think they have.
Finland actually has a very powerful military compared to whatever Russia could scrape together. Finland has a high tech modern air force better than anything Russia has + advanced SAMs like the NASAMS II, so Russia's air force stays home. Finland also has hundreds of Leopard 2 main battle tanks, and over 650 heavy artillery, and another 100 SPAs & 30 GMLRS equipped rocket artillery.
Russia doesn't have anything like that anymore. What little Russia has left is desperately trying to hold the like in Ukraine and barely managing to stave off collapse.