I mean, if Russia has struggled with Ukraine, they’ll get stomped in Finland, or bankrupt themselves fighting. Finland knows how to hunt in the woods. You step on their land with bad intent and you’re just playing their hunger games.
During the winter war, the Russian army was approaching a forest. From the woods someone shouted “One Finn can defeat ten Russians!”
The Russian commander smirked and sent in ten men. After a brief hail of gunfire, the same voice shouted “One Finn can defeat twenty Russians!”
Getting frustrated, the Russian commander sent in 25 of his best soldiers. There was a protracted battle, then silence. After a minute, the tired voice shouted “One Finn can defeat fifty Russians!”
Now furious, the Russian commander pulls up a force of two hundred men and sends them into the woods. Gunfire erupts, trees are ripped to shreds by explosions, and hell was unleashed. After what seemed like hours, a single Russian soldier staggered from the woods, bleeding badly. He looks at what’s left of the army and desperately screams “It’s a trap! There’s TWO of them!”
Mechanized warfare is Russia’s thing - and considering how miserably they failed at it on the open fields of Ukraine, I double dare them to try it in our dense forests, with no roads and massive Ice Age boulders everywhere, not to mention the lakes, bogs, rivers… and every tree and bush speaking Finnish. Good luck!
I doubt anyone is ready for it. All I know for sure is that the FDF is a serious organization who has absolutely kept their eye on the conflict and (hopefully) have adjusted the military training accordingly.
I mean, if Russia has struggled with Ukraine, they’ll get stomped in Finland, or bankrupt themselves fighting. Finland knows how to hunt in the woods. You step on their land with bad intent and you’re just playing their hunger games.
Find me the blood relatives of Simo Haya.
During the winter war, the Russian army was approaching a forest. From the woods someone shouted “One Finn can defeat ten Russians!”
The Russian commander smirked and sent in ten men. After a brief hail of gunfire, the same voice shouted “One Finn can defeat twenty Russians!”
Getting frustrated, the Russian commander sent in 25 of his best soldiers. There was a protracted battle, then silence. After a minute, the tired voice shouted “One Finn can defeat fifty Russians!”
Now furious, the Russian commander pulls up a force of two hundred men and sends them into the woods. Gunfire erupts, trees are ripped to shreds by explosions, and hell was unleashed. After what seemed like hours, a single Russian soldier staggered from the woods, bleeding badly. He looks at what’s left of the army and desperately screams “It’s a trap! There’s TWO of them!”
I’ve had the honor of competing with air rifles against one of Häyhä’s grandnieces. Häyhä never had any children of his own.
I can assure you that the talent was NOT genetic ;)
Mechanized warfare is Russia’s thing - and considering how miserably they failed at it on the open fields of Ukraine, I double dare them to try it in our dense forests, with no roads and massive Ice Age boulders everywhere, not to mention the lakes, bogs, rivers… and every tree and bush speaking Finnish. Good luck!
Also every single bridge in Finland is rigged to be blown up and the military practices doing it regularly
Maybe they hope Finland isn’t ready for the new age of drone warfare.
I doubt anyone is ready for it. All I know for sure is that the FDF is a serious organization who has absolutely kept their eye on the conflict and (hopefully) have adjusted the military training accordingly.
Wikipedia doesn’t list and children or grandchildren. He might have nieces and nephews though.
Either they edited their post or…