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Offline Kamaji

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Russia threatens 'military and political consequences' if Finland, Sweden try joining NATO

BY LEXI LONAS - 02/25/22

Russia threatened “military and political consequences” against Finland and Sweden on Friday if they attempted to join NATO.

Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned against other countries attempting to join NATO after Russia started a war with Ukraine Thursday.

“Finland and Sweden should not base their security on damaging the security of other countries and their accession to NATO can have detrimental consequences and face some military and political consequences,” Zakharova said in a viral clip of a press conference.

The ministry later posted the same threat on its Twitter. Finland and Sweden have given significant military and humanitarian support to Ukraine since Russia invaded.

One pretext Russia has given for attacking Ukraine is that NATO would not give any assurance that Ukraine would not be allowed to join the intergovernmental military alliance.

Ukraine has been adamant about joining but is now willing to discuss a different status with NATO after hundreds were killed in the first day of fighting the Russians.

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Source:  https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/595853-russia-threatens-military-and-political-consequences-if-finland

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There are already tens of thousands of russian troops in #Finland.  They are located along the eastern border line, about six feet deep.

Priceless.

btw, there are already three NATO countries that share land borders with Russia.
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Yeah, Ruskies, that's they way to disuade those Nazi Scandanavian provinces of Russia from joining NATO.

The Swedes have to pay for re-appropriating "Russian meatballs" and the "Russian Chef".

Putin only wants to bring the greatest Russian muppet of all time, back home where he belongs.

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