In fact, they’ve already started arriving. As of December 15th, Finland again closed its border with Russia for a month, “after more than 300 asylum seekers entered from Russia within two days.” [Essi Lehto and Anne Kauranen, Reuters News, Dec. 15, 2023.]

In addition, in a move said by Finland to be orchestrated by Moscow in spiteful retaliation for Finland’s having joined NATO, “[s]ome 900 asylum seekers from nations such as Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen entered Finland from Russia in November.” [Reuters News, Dec. 15, 2023.] The border crossings have been overwhelmed by the number of asylum seekers, and have had to be closed temporarily to prevent total chaos.

And we’re supposed to believe that this sudden, “spontaneous” influx of refugees from Africa and the Middle East traveled freely into and through Russia, all heading north for the wintry haven of Finland — a country with one of the most stringent immigration policies in the free world — all of their own volition and without proper documentation, expecting to be welcomed with open arms. Uh-huh.

Vladimir Putin had earlier warned that there would be “problems” with Finland after it joined NATO — a move that added some 830 miles of NATO-aligned border with Russia. In an interview published on Sunday, December 17th, Putin offered up the following assurances:

“They [the West] took Finland and dragged it into NATO! Why, did we have any disputes with Finland? All disputes, including those of a territorial nature in the middle of the 20th Century, have all been resolved long ago. There were no problems, but now there will be, because we will now create the Leningrad military district there and definitely concentrate military units there.” He further stated that Russia “has no reason, no interest, no geopolitical interest, neither economic, nor political, nor military, to fight with NATO countries. There is no desire to spoil relations with them, we are interested in developing relations.” [CNN, Dec. 17, 2023.]

Interesting, isn’t it? Once again, it’s the other guy’s fault for inciting trouble and forcing Russia to “defend” itself against Western aggression. Now, where have we heard that before? Oh, yes! Remember the buildup of Russian troops along three sides of the Ukraine border, beginning as early as March and April of 2021, and increasing until over 100,000 Russian troops were amassed along that border by December of 2022? And remember how Putin kept saying, first, that it was just a routine exercise, then later named it a “special military operation”? And how he insisted that there was no danger of an invasion of Ukraine . . . right up until that moment on February 24, 2022, when there was an invasion?

That’s where we’ve heard that before! And now he’s going to create a military district on the Finnish border (oddly naming it the “Leningrad” Military District — a blast from the past, since “Leningrad” is just a memory from Soviet days). But it will be labeled a defensive position, with no possibility of an invasion. And we’re supposed to take him at his word. Again.

Yeah . . . like that’s gonna happen. I know that if I lived in Finland right now, I’d be packing a bag and mapping out an escape route.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
12/21/23