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.
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.
Finland has hundreds of Leopard 2 tanks, which are better than anything Russia has.
Finland's wartime strength is 240k troops. It keeps about 40k at short term readiness, which is more than enough.
I'm sure Stalin said the same thing for the Winter War and how did that turn out?
Sounds exactly like what Putin's advisers told him about Ukraine.