Putin must be nuts to threaten Sweden and Finland

[Otto_Harper]

I was just looking at some of the available commercial aircraft tracking data over the Baltics and noticed a Russian Airlines aircraft (VQ-BSH) threading the needle to get from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad by flying through Finnish airspace, close to Helsinki, to avoid the exclusion zone imposed by Estonia, then from there to Swedish airspace (over Gotland Island) to get around Latvia, with a swing way out over the Baltic so they could fly straight into Kaliningrad without violating Polish or Lithuanian airspace.

Given that one twitch by either Sweden or Finland to close their airspace or coastal waters to Soviet (excuse me, Russian) traffic will result in the complete isolation of one of his provinces, he must be playing from the "Stable Genius" deck that TFG has long boasted of.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Let them take ferries to Kaliningrad. . . nt

[Otto_Harper]

2. In the old days, the saying around where I grew up would have been

Let them take the gas pipe.

[dchill]

3. Yes. Cracked nuts.

[mitch96]

4. A WW2 funny about the Finn/Soviet winter war..

It is 1939 and a Soviet army is marching on Finland. As they pass the border, they hear a Finnish voice over the hill;
"One Finnish soldier is better than 10 Soviet soldiers!"
The Soviet general laughs, as he sends 10 men on the hill to capture it.
There is gunfire for a minute and then everything goes silent for a moment, and they then hear the same voice;
"One Finnish soldier is better than a hundred of yours!"
Annoyed, the Soviet general sends hundred men to capture the hill. There is gunfire and bombs going for ten minutes, and everything goes silent again. Suddenly, the same voice yells out;
"One Finnish soldier is better than thousand of Soviet soldiers!"
Enraged, the general sends a thousand men, accompanied with tanks, artillery, mortar teams, and tells them to not return until the hill is theirs.
For half an hour hell breaks loose, bombs and explosions, gunfire, screams and death all around, and then it goes silent again.
One Soviet soldier crawls back, severely wounded and battered.
Before the general could say anything, the soldier says;
"Do not send more troops, comrade general, it's a trap! There is two of them."

Da-dum-dum..tish..
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[Otto_Harper]

5. I love it!!