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How utterly ridiculous a view when the Finns willingly and enthusiastically hosted tens of thousands of holidaying Russians each year, enjoying the profitable relationship. And when the Finns themselves happily ( yes that word again) drove across the border regularly for Russia's low consumer...

And yet more dishonesty. I have clearly posted that Putin's attacks on Ukraine and Georgia were inexcusable and that I didn't support them in any way. Once again for your hard of understanding mind, explaining why something happens as I've done is just that, an explanation, not an excuse for...

Dishonest quoting again. If you want to quote me, use the bloody quote facility, or is that too honest for you? I posted "I presume you'd prefer to have continuing wars" i.e. future wars, NOT this war continuing which as you well know I'd advocated bringing to an end weeks ago by a simple...

I very clearly posted about the decades since the end of the USSR and you respond with this about the post WW2 USSR times! Typical of a lost argument. Your utterly warped view again. I merely see this as being a good and sensible neighbour. All of our lives are full of such compromises which...

Very selective. It went on to say: The French president was recently quoted as suggesting "Finlandisation" as a possible solution for Ukraine. During the Cold War Finland was essentially a buffer state between the Soviet Union and the west. Niinistö brushed off comments about...

Then I have no idea what you are referring to with either. Clearly the Finns and Russians were very happy with the cross border travel and economic relationship they enjoyed for over two decades until Covid restrictions intervened to close the border. .

It's about perception, seen through Russian eyes NATO is a real threat. Since way back in the early Czarist days, Russia has always been paranoid about attack from the West and there's been volumes written about it. It's commonly been surmised that the vast flat plains of the Russian steppes...

The threat is as I've posted so many times, the threat, real or perceived, of them joining NATO, an organisation specifically set up to be opposition to Russia. The belief of all my opposition in here is that Putin's Russia is intent on expansion, and they persist with this in spite of already...

Agreed until until your last paragraph. Finland has not had to curb any desires to not aggravate Moscow. They never had any past desire to join NATO, always wanting to stay neutral. They also became full EU members in 1995 with no objection or dissent from Russia then or ever since...

Sums up the whole attitude of so many in this thread, still stuck in the cold war mentality of the USA and unable to realise how much and how many times the world has changed since then. Russia is no longer a threat to us at present or even in our lifetime, only to those who appear to threaten...

That doesn't mean he would dare attack a NATO country, or even an EU one. Neither he nor Russia intended expansion any more since the USSR ended. They knew it wasn't practical, hence Putin exploring the possibility of EU membership over 20 years ago. The completely open border between full EU...

Like Zlatan you are completely misreading the situation. When the USSR collapsed and countries left it, Russia was left with NATO countries almost entirely separated fromthem, and Russia was trying to unite with Europe via Gorbachov's perestroika. But the USA rebuffed them and continued to try...

You couldn't be more wrong and will be proved to be wrong. Going beyond Ukraine or Moldova or Georgia means attacking NATO, and neither Putin nor Russia will do that since they are well aware of the result, being outnumbered over 6 to 1 and unable to even beat Ukraine decisively. That's why...

Mariupol which is the Donbass fringe is already lost, it's only a matter of a little more time, especially with all the Russian resources concentrating there now. Russia will not leave Ukraine without the wide secure corridor alongside the Azov Sea they set out for, and that means no...

It won't be Russia deciding, it will be the USA's option. We only got this war through the USA getting that wrong 15 years ago. Neither Putin nor Russia have any territorial ambitions during most current lifetimes. They ended when the USSR ended. Its why they left Georgia after taking it...

Yes, Russia has announced that it has largely achieved its objectives so will now just concentrate on Donbass. That means finishing off Mariupol's latent resistance and widening their inland margin there to give an easily defended totally secure 100 km wide corridor from Russia to the Crimea...

We're in the West and are getting the Western biased propaganda, just as the Russians get theirs. Anything from a greatly exaggerated seed of truth to pure fabrication. I think we are at a stage in the stalemate of this war when every bit of news should be treated with caution. .

No Andy, hoisted by your own petard, that is what you should do: My post number 12 containing this: "How can you bear to live as you do in a country like Germany where about half the autobahn network allows unlimited top speeds?" Was before your post number 14 with all the diatribe about the...

Segregation is certainly the best answer, but I dont ever see it being achieved here in Britain. Lack of space and lack of will combined. Strangling all vehicles down to low speeds seems to be the way we are going, my whole large borough 20 limited for example, with only the through routes 30...

But I didn't say that Andy, and you were answering my post, not that future post of your own. I very clearly only commented on unrestricted autobahn in the country you live in today, indeed that was the whole point of my mentioning them. DUUHHH! .