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Re:Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership by koonsolo on Monday May 16, 2022 @01:25PM (#31400629)
A few days ago I saw a video where a Fin explained that in the last 1000 years, Russia tried to invade Finland 20 times (I didn't verify this data). He claimed that about every 2 to 3 generations, this happens.

This was a real eye-opener for me, and reminds me of a (probably Dutch) expression: A fox loses its hair but not its tricks.

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Re:Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership by foverzar on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:46PM (#31403995)
Thousand years? 20 times seems like a comically tiny amount at that scale.

Finland had managed to be both part of Russian Empire, Sweden and hell a lot of other adventures in that huge period. That's like all the way back to Kievan Rus.

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