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Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
In the last couple of years, particularly since the special military operation (SMO) started, the geopolitical landscape of Europe has been marked by NATO-orchestrated tensions that keep escalating. The belligerent alliance’s unceasing expansionist tendencies are the main source of instability, especially since it officially extended its warmongering tentacles to Scandinavia, specifically Finland, a country that shares a very long border with Russia. Helsinki’s decision to not only join NATO, but also host US military bases left Moscow with no choice except to further reinforce its newly (re)established Leningrad military district that now includes the republics of Karelia and Komi, the regions (oblasts) of Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod and Pskov, as well as the federal city of St. Petersburg and the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous oblast.
Russia has repeatedly expressed concerns that NATO expansion to Finland would mean that assault troops and advanced weapon systems would be deployed within the country, threatening Russia’s national security interests. As previously mentioned, Finland has not only refused to reassure its eastern neighbor, but has actually doubled down on the deployment of foreign forces, particularly American. Thus, Moscow was left with no choice but to enhance the security of its second most important city and what has perhaps become one of the premier military districts in the country. This includes the deployment of the now legendary “Iskander-M” missiles precisely in the Leningrad military district. Various missiles of the “Iskander-M” system are known for hypersonic speed (up to Mach 8 while also maneuvering) and a maximum range of approximately 500 km.
In practice, this means that the entire territory of Finland is completely exposed now, the consequence of its suicidal decision to join the world’s most aggressive military cartel/racketeering organization. The “Iskander-M’s” missiles can use massive 700 kg HE warheads that are excellent against higher concentrations of troops in the rear. Virtually the same goes for much faster 9-A-7660 “Kinzhal” air-launched hypersonic missiles that could also see more active deployment to the Leningrad Military District. According to military sources, Karelia has established a special missile brigade equipped with precisely the “Iskander-M” missile systems. The 14th Army Corps has been transferred to the command of the newly (re)established district and deployed in the Murmansk oblast, which, along with Karelia, is situated along Russia’s border with Finland.
“The formation of a missile brigade is a very timely decision. This is an adequate response to Finland’s accession to NATO,” former commander of the Baltic Fleet, Admiral Vladimir Valuev, told Izvestia.
Valuev also noted that the missile brigade would quickly respond to any threat posed by NATO troops in the area by “carrying out relevant operations”. And while Finland is bolstering its ABM (anti-ballistic missile) systems, the “Iskander-M” uses missiles with enhanced countermeasures that have only been improved in the context of the SMO. On the other hand, if Finland were to ever accept or even call for the deployment of American nuclear weapons on its soil, “Iskander-M” is perfectly capable of carrying thermonuclear warheads that Russia would have no other choice but to aim at any strategically important target. Even in the case that the potentially less destructive tactical nuclear weapons are used, this would have disastrous consequences for Helsinki. Obviously, this is not to say the “Iskander-M’s” conventional capabilities are any less frightening.
Its missiles have demonstrated remarkable performance in the SMO, obliterating high-value targets with pinpoint accuracy. As previously mentioned, when taking only the 9M723 hypersonic missiles into account, the immediate danger for any larger troop concentrations in Finland lies in its speed and destructive power. On the other hand, this is only one of the two notable versions of the missiles used by the system. The other is the 9M729, essentially a land-based iteration of the “Kalibr” family of cruise missiles. Its range has been a matter of debate for quite some time now, but it could be around 2500 km, meaning that the entire Scandinavia would be covered, including Sweden and Norway. It should be noted that both Helsinki and Stockholm were previously a strategic buffer zone that limited the possibility of a direct Russia-NATO conflict.
However, that’s now gone thanks to the belligerent alliance’s unrelenting greed for expansionism. Worse yet, it could be argued that Norway has also lost with Sweden’s and Finland’s accession to NATO, as there are now no directions that Russia couldn’t use because of their previous “neutrality”. This directly jeopardizes Oslo’s southern regions, the most important part of the country. Moscow is also forced to respond in such a way as Norway is directly participating in the militarization of the increasingly contested Arctic region where the United States is trying to establish a firmer presence. Obviously, this is part of the much larger strategy of encircling Russia and placing additional strategic weapons in its proximity, particularly the latest iterations of the B61 thermonuclear bomb. All this is forcing Moscow to make moves it never wanted to, but it’s simply left with no other option.
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not to worry, our finnish, swedish and especially our danish nazis (hello jens!) will take those missiles with their poopers, like the good bitches that they have become.
hahahahaha guillable clowns!
we just follow after russia moved missles and warheads to koeningsberg.
i mainly follow gay amerikan mulatto cuz sodomy help my constipation
its kaliningrad, at least be factual.
even stupid americans know that.
there were no referendums in sweden and finland to join the atlantic pact. i guess there was no referendum in denmark too, so nobody asked jensy about his fate. as we all know, denmark is placed on strategic straits skagerrak and kattegat, so it will be nuked for sure, may be 2 times by both sides. it’s small, just 4 million people, so danes will go to history like mammoths and dinosaurs. mammoth jensy.
and won’t that be special day for world history: cowardly liars and eugenicists removed from the face of the earth. oh! what a bright future for them!
finland is not interested in war against russia unless they like to attack us first. if russia likes to come, please do so now. we finns do not like people, who talk and brag and do not act. we call such men pussies.
fook off you nation of subordinate clowns to the satanic eugenicist cabal. may you reap what your criminal rapist leaders have chosen for you all.
followers of the foreign intelligence agency lies through your dishonest media stooges.
radioactive robots—we are lower species amerikunt colonies; erasing us will improve world genetics
0 id wrote that.
even the tiny scandinavian countries shit on russia’s “red lines”…heheheh
they shit their pants for sure. we americans made you scandinavians now our next dead nazi proxies. just like adolf, just like poroshenko, just like zelensky, its your turn next to be used like a condom, and then discarded for the next proxy.
and you guillable idiots are to blind to see it. pathetic!
usa! usa! usa!
i wonder who we are.
nazis, there, no more wondering.
thats partl right.
we have listen to ussr/russia since 1991 and more.
now they can de dancing queens with themselves and certainly not with us.
since then they cut almost all connections with us and even attacted ukraine.
nobody want to dance with ugly robots in dumbmark—amerikan colony
only turk want connection with dane girl since dane men more feminine than girl
you clowns are controlled by the criminal intelligence agencies that created the bio weapon coved and then gave you their poison fake vaccines to depopulate you. nobody respects the loss of fools who fall for lies, and poor ones at that. more boosters for your nation of sheep followers!
another russian internal pamflet.
now about oslo too.i have been there several time. they have good beer and food and the who area is nice all year around.
so please destroy someting else. i wonder how norway has moved or something related to sweden and finland. they has not changes and fx moved.
norway still have the same 100 km kirkenes border to the russia infection. hasputin erased maps and globes too.
move forward for dumb dane 35% mentally ill consume alcohol like australian pay 65 % income tax
for a wartime use russia deployed them way too close to the front. they would be extremely easy to destroy in any conflict. short range missiles are deployed in the rear and in case any target is more far, it is brought closer. only useful if used during first hour of any war.
of course you have other options. you could make peace and integrate commercially and culturally with the west. your people could enjoy great improvement in living standards instead of plowing all excess production into weapons.
but your people are slaves to a fascist government that is committed to the pursuit of its grandiose plans for a greater russia no matter the cost in blood and treasure. the smo drove finland and sweden to join nato because no nato country has ever been invaded by russia.
nato 32 weak snakes hiding under rock cannot equal 1 russian wolf
written by a true sheep who does exactly what the foreign intelligence agencies tell him to do. get more boosters so you can be depopulated faster, that would please your masters you sheep.
russians will not lower themselves to the level of ugly western europe colonized by amerika—your only standard is money—moron immoral amerikan
“it is not russianism that will destroy the earth it is amerikanism—not only have the english fallen prey to it but all of western europe has as it represents modernity in all its monstrosity”. martin heidegger
when uncle hans raped me at age 7 i change my name 0 id
russia should test a few multi warhead nukes directly over the warmonger leaders to be certain that they will function, sort of a pre war testing mission, since it is certain the pigs of war running the west will be attacking russia with nuclear weapons in the near future. give them something to remember.