General Timo Kivinen, Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces, says Finland has been preparing for decades for a war of the type we see in Ukraine.
Indeed, unlike in many other (esp Western) European countries, history never ended in Finland.
Fingers crossed this war never starts.
Ok, cool. Can it counter-attack into Russian territory? Can it go further than just a few kilometers?
Because when Russia rolls over the Baltic, some stationary units in the north aren’t going to make that much of a difference. Russia is just going to timeslot them for latter.
> Finland has 280,000 military personnel ready in the case of conflict, with an additional 870,000 trained as reservists—a product of adhering to national military service **for all males**, unlike many other Western countries in the post-Cold War era.
So there are no strong and independent Finnish women being conscripted and trained for war, not even for backline roles? How strange for such a progressive country which claims to be doing everything for gender equality. They should learn from Sweden and Norway. Both have gender-neutral draft system and from the looks of it, Finland will need it more if things go bad, and practical use aside, it’s only fair such a progressive country adheres to its gender equality values.
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General Timo Kivinen, Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces, says Finland has been preparing for decades for a war of the type we see in Ukraine.
Indeed, unlike in many other (esp Western) European countries, history never ended in Finland.
Fingers crossed this war never starts.
Ok, cool. Can it counter-attack into Russian territory? Can it go further than just a few kilometers?
Because when Russia rolls over the Baltic, some stationary units in the north aren’t going to make that much of a difference. Russia is just going to timeslot them for latter.
> Finland has 280,000 military personnel ready in the case of conflict, with an additional 870,000 trained as reservists—a product of adhering to national military service **for all males**, unlike many other Western countries in the post-Cold War era.
So there are no strong and independent Finnish women being conscripted and trained for war, not even for backline roles? How strange for such a progressive country which claims to be doing everything for gender equality. They should learn from Sweden and Norway. Both have gender-neutral draft system and from the looks of it, Finland will need it more if things go bad, and practical use aside, it’s only fair such a progressive country adheres to its gender equality values.