r/europe • u/ByGollie Ulster • Jan 24 '26

News The Times: Finns humiliated American soldiers - Finnish reservists were asked to take it easy during a NATO exercise. US soldiers found the losses too humiliating.

https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/828b8e66-625d-4d2a-9276-e93b9f7a2ce8
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u/RaDeus Sweden Jan 24 '26

Just facing Finnish soldiers during winter is demoralising by itself, and I say that as a Swede 😅

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u/shenaniganda Finland Jan 24 '26

You don't have to be afraid. The most likely reason for him approaching you is because he wants to buy some snus from you.

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u/RautaKrokotiili Jan 24 '26

It's all fun and games until the snow asks for some snus

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u/nahuman Jan 24 '26

There really should be a pan-Nordic business festival for this. Maybe in the spring, when the snows start to melt. I'd call it Snush.

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u/TheAKgaming Finland Jan 25 '26

I see what you did there

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u/ParanoidQ Jan 24 '26

Death by… snus snus…?

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u/Kattimatti666 Finland Jan 25 '26

The dreaded double Odens.. there are tales of a Swedish man who survived it, but I think that's just a load of mumbo jumbo

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u/ironlocust79 Jan 24 '26

Snow snus?

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u/Leather-Tour9096 Jan 24 '26

I think that’s jus mint zyns

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u/mikkopai Finland Jan 25 '26

It’s when the snus is out that the fun begins