Ukraine, Russia, and the West

[VoteForSocialists]

hmm seems bad

https://mobile.twitter.com/YourAnonTV/status/1501942349550653443

[suzzer99]

Yeah but when the opposing troops have NLAWs and javelins, that doesn’t seem to work out as well.

[MrWookie]

Yeah, those aren’t given out to just anyone who asks.

[Riverman]

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1501954087838896131?s=21

https://twitter.com/briankarem/status/1501964195608371200?s=21

[TJ_Eckleburg12]

Pretty sure Finland already took Russia to the woodshed once, and they won’t be invading them again (at least in winter)

[suzzer99]

Pretty sure I’d be abandoning my tank too if the enemy was flush with NLAWs and javelins and my leadership was completely inept at protecting me.

[Riverman]

https://twitter.com/juliadavisnews/status/1501953203029618689?s=21

[d2_e4]

From that article:

Resorting to the traditional propaganda tropes prevalent in Russian state media, Shakhnazarov accused the United States of starting the war—and trying to prolong it indefinitely. He speculated: “What are they achieving by prolonging the war? First of all, public opinion within Russia is changing. People are shocked by the masses of refugees, the humanitarian catastrophe, people start to imagine themselves in their place. It’s starting to affect them. To say that the Nazis are doing that is not quite convincing, strictly speaking… On top of that, economic sanctions will start to affect them, and seriously. There will probably be scarcity. A lot of products we don’t produce, even the simplest ones. There’ll be unemployment. They really thought through these sanctions, they’re hitting us with real continuity. It’s a well-planned operation… Yes, this is a war of the United States with Russia… These sanctions are hitting us very precisely.

Oh, no, the Nazis are doing it. Just not the ones you mean, you propagandist prick.

[d2_e4]

War in Ukraine: Russian army admits conscripts 'take part in operation' • FRANCE 24 English

“Military prosecutors have launched an investigation to punish those officials responsible”.

I think I have a pretty good idea of which official is responsible.

[Hired_Goons]

Also, Finland isn’t Scandi.

[CanadaMatt3004]

Wait, what?

[bigt2k4]

Scandinavia is Finland, Sweden, Norway, and maybe Denmark and maybe Iceland.

edit: It appears that due to some 15th century technicality Finland isn’t Scandinavia, but it really should be.

2nd edit: It looks as though it was early 16th century and it was a Swede who came up with the idea of Scandinavia so it was probably hatred of the Finns as to why he excluded them.

[NotBruceZ]

One argument for Finland not being a Scandinavian country is that Finnish is not a Scandinavian language.

This is where we bring up the term “Nordic countries”.

[mosdef]

This doesn’t make any sense, isn’t Sweden the capital of Finland?

[Hired_Goons]

@bigt2k4

Scandinavia is Finland, Sweden, Norway, and maybe Denmark and maybe Iceland.

edit: It appears that due to some 15th century technicality Finland isn’t Scandinavia, but it really should be.

2nd edit: It looks as though it was early 16th century and it was a Swede who came up with the idea of Scandinavia so it was probably hatred of the Finns as to why he excluded them.

Yes on Denmark for sure. Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland less obvious but ok. No on Finland.

[TrollyWantACracker]

Don’t forget the Faroe Islands, Spitsbergen and Northern Ireland

[GermanGuy]

Finland is partly on the Scandinavian Peninsula, but culturally Scandinavia are the parts of the peninsula where Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are spoken.

This is also the internal designation:

Skandinavien är ett geografiskt område i norra Europa som omfattar Danmark, Norge och Sverige, där man talar skandinaviska språk.

Skandinavien

If you want to include Finland (and the other areas where North Germanic languages are spoken - Iceland, Faroes) then you would use Nordic:

Icelandic standup about Nordic neighbours in general and Finnish language in particular

[von_Internet]

Also, Finland used to have a Hessian prince as king for a month or so.

[hey_you]

https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1501991946851655684?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1501991946851655684|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fliveupdate%2F18hnzysb1elcs%2FLiveUpdate_d3944d54-a0a8-11ec-82b6-1a0c6992a494%2F0

[StrontiumDog]

From the Rupar/Dale thread

https://twitter.com/sommervilletv/status/1502000265490227206