Just guessing here but it might also have something to do with the neighbour to their south that was invaded by Russia last year which NATO was created to defend against.
Small Arms did a number on the US (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) and the Fins used small arms to tear up the Soviets. When you have highly defensible terrain and firearms, there is little an invading force can do to take the land.
The Soviet plan for Afghanistan was to take the children away and turn them into communists. They could not get a majority of the children and they failed and failed hard.
Finland is slated to join NATO so they will also get a nuclear umbrella, they aren't going to get invaded.
I'm going off history when a much larger and better equipped Soviet Union Army went after Finland and the the Russians were turned into frozen corpses.
The Russian Army today has had their equipment degraded due to war and sanctions. They are having to use T55's essentially as direct fire gun platforms not tanks due to age to use their ammo due to their own ammo shortages. Meanwhile,
Finland has free access to buy arms. We've already seen what a determined opponent could do to Russians with flat open and indefensible terrain, now see what happens with the Fins that have highly defensible terrain.
During the Winter War, the Fins had 340K troops vs Russian 760K troops. Final results 26K dead Fins to 168K dead Russians. For every dead Fin, the Russians lost 6.5.
Finland has only very tiny & pathetically weak military and indefensible territory
Funny, people were saying similar things about Ukraine before it handed Russia its ass. What's sad is that Finland already did that and yet Russia bootlickers like you still delude yourselves. Pathetic.
Just guessing here but it might also have something to do with the neighbour to their south that was invaded by Russia last year which NATO was created to defend against.
Uh, sure, you could use any excuse. Doesn't change their economy is falling apart and they're in no position to defend themselves.
Their land is heavily wooded and they fought the Soviets to a negotiated peace. Their land is defensible.
If they had the weapons in the army to stand against an invasion. But that costs money.
Small Arms did a number on the US (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) and the Fins used small arms to tear up the Soviets. When you have highly defensible terrain and firearms, there is little an invading force can do to take the land.
The Soviet plan for Afghanistan was to take the children away and turn them into communists. They could not get a majority of the children and they failed and failed hard.
Finland is slated to join NATO so they will also get a nuclear umbrella, they aren't going to get invaded.
I'm going off history when a much larger and better equipped Soviet Union Army went after Finland and the the Russians were turned into frozen corpses.
The Russian Army today has had their equipment degraded due to war and sanctions. They are having to use T55's essentially as direct fire gun platforms not tanks due to age to use their ammo due to their own ammo shortages. Meanwhile,
Finland has free access to buy arms. We've already seen what a determined opponent could do to Russians with flat open and indefensible terrain, now see what happens with the Fins that have highly defensible terrain.
During the Winter War, the Fins had 340K troops vs Russian 760K troops. Final results 26K dead Fins to 168K dead Russians. For every dead Fin, the Russians lost 6.5.
Funny, people were saying similar things about Ukraine before it handed Russia its ass. What's sad is that Finland already did that and yet Russia bootlickers like you still delude yourselves. Pathetic.
A neighbour to their south? You mean the Baltic Sea?
Words, how do they work?!