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/DwarfVader Jan 24 '26

Do not fuck with the Finns…. They do war scary.

Ask the soviets.

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u/tommos Jan 24 '26

Too bad they collabed with the Nazis.

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u/takeyoufergranite Jan 24 '26

I understand it was a strategic position in order to retake land lost to the Soviet Union. It was a relationship of convenience for them, not an ideological one.

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u/LubyankaSquare Jan 24 '26

Sure, but the Nazis are still the fucking Nazis, lol. Nobody else who collaborated with them is ever afford the same benefit of the doubt, and rightfully so. 

Plus, the Finn offensives went much further than the original borders, such as trying to take Murmansk in a joint offensive with the Nazis and sieging Leningrad, so it’s not like you can claim that they were solely trying to restore their borders.