RE: [NetEpic ML] Flaming for no legitimate reason, and in a "kind er, gentler" way...

From: <jyrki.saari_at_...>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:21:43 +0300

 
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From: ext Eivind Borgeteien [mailto:eivind.borgeteien_at_...]
Sent: 27. April 2001 0:18
To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] Flaming for no legitimate reason, and in a "kind
er, gentler" way...


Well, Im not quite sure.
Im no expert on the politics of the finns, but they have since WW2 conducted
a no-agression policy towards USSR.
 
If USSR had percieved Finland as a possible build up zone for NATO, I think
Finland would find itself to be a province of the USSR, just like it was a
province under tsar-russia.
 
As they are not seen upon as a threat, they where not worth risking WW 3
over. USSR could easily have done what they did to Checkoslovakia to also
Finland back in the days.
 
This is what I meant by the finns being great diplomatics!
 
Thats me rambling, I might get correctet by Jyrki though....
 
 
JS: Not much correcting there. However, Finland certainly wasn't a threat to
the USSR before the Winter War, a s the army was poorly equipped and utterly
incapable of offensive operations. That didn't stop certain power hungry
individuals from attacking. Now if the Finland had had a decent army, even
J.Stalin might have thought twice about attacking, since armed might was the
only language he understood.
 
As for the WW3; if USSR had attacked Finland back then, there wouldn't have
been WW3. None of the western powers would have so much as lifted a finger
in defense of Finland, since that would surely have begun WW3. They didn't
do so for Czechoslovakia or Afghanistan or for anybody else who hasn't got a
sizable chunk of some strategic resource. If you have nothing which is vital
to the big bullies you ar left to fend for yourself. That is the way it has
always been and so shall it ever be unless the human race undergoes some
major psychological overhaul.
 
Eivind
 
 

 
 

Jyrki Saari

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