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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter reports Russia was moving troops to Finnish border, Finns published a video with tractors
Link to tweet
tanyev
(42,594 posts)brush
(53,815 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Putin is spending his time whining about what other countries are doing. He should turn his attention to Russia's horrific atrocities and shut his mouth. He can be pretty brave when sheltered in his mansion/compound.
Karadeniz
(22,557 posts)smb
(3,473 posts)Iggo
(47,563 posts)Ilsa
(61,696 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Russia, do not even think about it.
niyad
(113,510 posts)James48
(4,438 posts)Immediately. Now, while it still can.
Warpy
(111,319 posts)Finland is mostly flat and mostly tundra and tends to get a bit swam0y starting this time of year. Tractors are the most reliable vehicles off road.
Even Stalin invaded them in winter, when frozen ground made his vehicles less likely to get bogged down. The Finns still beat the crap out of him and his army. In fact, I've often wondered whether Russia would have had such horrors in WWII had Stalin not squanered so much in men and equipment in his fool's errand against Finland.
Russia might find itself so weakened after their fool's errand in Ukraine that they could be looking at the Asian part of the country breaking away because they're sick of seeing their mineral and fuel wealth being sent east to fatten a bunch of mobsters in St. Petersburg.
It could happen.
wnylib
(21,558 posts)Warpy
(111,319 posts)but unless they wanted to station a huge number of soldiers there permanently, they would not prevail. The soldiers themselves would rebel, the climate is atrocious.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Quixote1818
(28,955 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Who knew that tractors would be the secret weapons in the defense against Russia's vaunted military?
The Pentagon should develop a weaponized tractor capable stopping the world's armies. What the hell, in peacetime at least they can be used for something constructive. Plant fields of marijuana and poppies. We can get our enemies baked out of their minds. War over!
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)A Deere 8RX 410 would defeat any Russian armor in the inventory. Hook the tiedown pintles on the tank to the back of the tractor and hit the gas.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)and two M134 GAU-17 Vulcan cannons would give it a little offensive kick, just in case. If for nothing else, the 6000 rounds per minute cannons could help with harvesting crops.
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)"So many of them, so few of us. How are we going to bury them all?"
Wolf
niyad
(113,510 posts)canetoad
(17,175 posts)highplainsdem
(49,022 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,019 posts)Or Lightyear Ones:
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)IronLionZion
(45,494 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)SunSeeker
(51,640 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,164 posts)The country where I want to be.
Pony trekking or camping...
or just watching T.V.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Remember the
.Massacre on Snake Island?
That was Twitter at its finest display of deception, tractors are nothing.
SunSeeker
(51,640 posts)calimary
(81,419 posts)I sure wouldnt want to see one of those things coming at me!
SunSeeker
(51,640 posts)housecat
(3,121 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 17, 2022, 04:25 PM - Edit history (1)
BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)Martin68
(22,845 posts)Mysterian
(4,589 posts)The Russians seem to be occupied getting their asses kicked in Ukraine at the moment.