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Putin says he will re-deploy troops along Finland border in response to NATO accession (www.upi.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They've always had troops on our border, this is just Russian bullshit as usual. They won't be pulling troops out of Ukraine to re-man the units on the border, because Putin knows we're not actually a threat

[–] SkippingRelax 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And isn't the border between Russia and Finland something like 1300km long? Good luck covering all that even if the majority of the Russian army weren't needed in Ukraine or, you know, dead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah it's 1340km and change, of which a hair under 1300km is land border

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

And the funny thing is, the russian nuclear submarines are based in murmansk, which land resupply route could be cut by a finish advance anywhere along the border. So, russia really has to protect this border in case of a conflict with nato.