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    4 months ago

    Russia is so terrified of Nato encroachment that they stripped their defenses along the Finnish boarder shortly after Finland joined Nato, and they’ve moved all the defenses at this point (first weapons, now troops) out of Kaliningrad.

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        4 months ago

        There’s nothing up there but lakes, mud, and mosquitos

        That’s a rude way to describe Saint Petersburg.