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Vladimir Putin 'Wants to Regain Finland' Says Close Adviser
The International Business Times ^ | March 29, 2014 | Jack Moore

Posted on 03/30/2014 5:56:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: BRL

and Finnish vodka.


21 posted on 03/30/2014 6:15:35 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: VanDeKoik

There is nothing made up about it at all. Russia has always envied the warm water seaports of neighboring states, and Russian rulers have traditionally claimed Finland as a subject peopole and territory of Russia. Stalin tried and failed to recapture Finland, and Putin is enamored of Stalin to the extent Putin wants to succeed where Stalin failed.


22 posted on 03/30/2014 6:16:45 PM PDT by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
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To: Starstruck
Simo Häyhä.

the little engine that could

23 posted on 03/30/2014 6:17:22 PM PDT by BRL
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To: BRL

Thank you for the history lesson, sir, I had no idea.


24 posted on 03/30/2014 6:19:15 PM PDT by PROCON (Those who are capable of Tyranny are capable of Deceit to sustain it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Finland is pro-Russia so Russia has no real need to take it over. The relations between the two countries are quite close.


25 posted on 03/30/2014 6:21:15 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: WhiskeyX

So far I’ve read that Russia is not only going to invade all of the Ukraine, but the Baltic States, East Moldova, Poland, Alaska, and now All of Finland.

Yet none of these people saying this can even remotely contrive a story as to how all of this will magically happen.

Next week I fully expect the Russians to be marching into South Africa, because you know it CAN happen.


26 posted on 03/30/2014 6:21:48 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: BRL

The drop dead gorgeous is just the temporary phase.
They all turn into Helga eventually.


27 posted on 03/30/2014 6:22:14 PM PDT by entropy12
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To: VanDeKoik
Next week I fully expect the Russians to be marching into South Africa, because you know it CAN happen.

Like monkeys CAN fly out of my butt.

28 posted on 03/30/2014 6:22:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ex-advisor = political enemy.

Like soliciting advice about Bob from Bob’s ex-wife.


29 posted on 03/30/2014 6:31:20 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: VanDeKoik

No, it’s not South Africa, yet, but it is Nicaragua. Putin’s Russian regime is negotiating with some of the Latin American nations for basing rights in Nicaragua and elsewhere in Latin America. Putin is working towards placing air and naval bases within close operating range of the Continental united States.

All of the places you mentioned, except Alaska, have actually been invaded and annexed by Russia and/or the Soviet Union in the last 75 years. Certain Bolshevists in the Soviet Union and Russia have made inflammatory claims to the territories of Alaska in the past twenty years. So, Putin’s ambitions to outperform Stalin’s conquests are no less unrealistic to Putin than the achievements of his predecessors.


30 posted on 03/30/2014 6:31:48 PM PDT by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
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To: BRL
Nobody has ever knocked the Finns for fighting the Russians (on the side of the Germans) in WWII

Winston Churchill did. In 1941, Britain declared war on Finland, and the Anglo-Finnish war was one of the few that were fought between parliamentary democracies. But except for a few minor British air raids, little fighting between Britain and Finland occurred.

31 posted on 03/30/2014 6:33:11 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SpaceBar

Ex-wives often do know things about Bob, especially when they compare notes down at the hair and nail salon.


32 posted on 03/30/2014 6:34:32 PM PDT by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
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To: VanDeKoik

Well, if you make the threat big enough people just HAVE to give up some piddling freedoms and rights (and money) to stop it...


33 posted on 03/30/2014 6:36:25 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (I)
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To: WhiskeyX
Ex-wives often do know things...

But more often embellish the truth to further their own agendas.
34 posted on 03/30/2014 6:36:54 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

“But more often embellish the truth to further their own agendas”

And Bob had ex-wives (plural) because he didn’t embellish the truth?


35 posted on 03/30/2014 6:41:15 PM PDT by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
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To: BRL

He wants their vodka!


36 posted on 03/30/2014 6:41:28 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Starstruck; BRL; All

My thoughts also…

http://www.simohayha.com

(some Finn ancestry here, my grandmother came over on the boat…although I never learned much about it)


37 posted on 03/30/2014 6:43:49 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: WhiskeyX

It’s all in the Book. Being revealed today using NASA research as the base. Toward the end of the video it shows Russia’s part in end times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK8NKXDinlE


38 posted on 03/30/2014 6:57:20 PM PDT by Maudeen (Jesus is the Answer. . .now what is the question?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahti_L-39

The Finns will have to dust off their 20mm Lahtis


39 posted on 03/30/2014 6:59:15 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: BRL
Yeah, that's the guy who came to mind. His count of 500 was official. Could have been half again that, and then there was the 250 that he got with a submachine gun. In 100 days. On his best day he got 25 Russians. Damn.

No, if I were Mr. Putin I would not be overly eager to encounter the Finnish people in the field. They enjoy it too much.

40 posted on 03/30/2014 7:05:19 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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