• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    But it doesn’t? Iraq is on the other side of the world from the US, Ukraine is on Russia’s border, they’re just totally different contexts.

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      4 hours ago

      Oh but oil prices are the single most important factor to US policy, so any country that can influence them is a threat obviously? Just as much as possible Ukrainian NATO border is, but Finish NATO border is not, you know, it’s all logical!

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        54 minutes ago

        You realize Finland is farther North than Ukraine? There’s lots of ice most of the year. With hilly terrain. And it’s very forested. There’s not a lot of actual crossing points in that border, in an invasion it would require building lots of infrastructure that just doesn’t exist. Moving troops and tanks across the border would be slow and difficult. I think Russia would change its tune on Finland if they suddenly started building lots of infrastructure to enable border crossing, but for now it’s not really a threat.