As a Finn I say this is fine. Every military resource that is tied down and not raping and destroying Ukraine is net positive.
As a Finn I say this is fine. Every military resource that is tied down and not raping and destroying Ukraine is net positive.
Hey question for the arm-chair generals: if some group started operations on the Russian troops would it escalate or would both nations just treat it like random terrorism?
Question for the questioner:
What group are you talking about?
Hint: No one in NATO wants anything in Russia.
I don’t know. Some terrorist group goes to Finland, creeps over the border, and burns down something Russian or the opposite. Border incidents do happen. I am curious how it would be handled. Would everyone assume the worst and the world ends?
The Nazis started WW2 by sending a group of prisoners in Polish Army uniforms to attack a German radio station close to the border. I’m sure Putin is familiar with the history, and if he needed a casus belli, would consider it.
Not that it would make attempting to invade Finland (especially with Russia’s depleted forces) any less idiotic. At this stage, I’m not sure that Finland would even bother invoking Article 5.
It really depends. If the group is a bunch of radical Islamic terrorists for instance, who have no diplomatic ties? It’ll probably be considered terrorism by a third party. If it was the Wagner Group though, who is known to be under Putin’s control, it would definitely be an escalation.