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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter reports Russia was moving troops to Finnish border, Finns published a video with tractors
Link to tweet
tanyev
(48,873 posts)brush
(61,033 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Putin is spending his time whining about what other countries are doing. He should turn his attention to Russia's horrific atrocities and shut his mouth. He can be pretty brave when sheltered in his mansion/compound.
Karadeniz
(24,732 posts)smb
(3,598 posts)Iggo
(49,762 posts)Ilsa
(64,028 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Russia, do not even think about it.
niyad
(130,511 posts)James48
(5,129 posts)Immediately. Now, while it still can.
Warpy
(114,505 posts)Finland is mostly flat and mostly tundra and tends to get a bit swam0y starting this time of year. Tractors are the most reliable vehicles off road.
Even Stalin invaded them in winter, when frozen ground made his vehicles less likely to get bogged down. The Finns still beat the crap out of him and his army. In fact, I've often wondered whether Russia would have had such horrors in WWII had Stalin not squanered so much in men and equipment in his fool's errand against Finland.
Russia might find itself so weakened after their fool's errand in Ukraine that they could be looking at the Asian part of the country breaking away because they're sick of seeing their mineral and fuel wealth being sent east to fatten a bunch of mobsters in St. Petersburg.
It could happen.
wnylib
(25,355 posts)Warpy
(114,505 posts)but unless they wanted to station a huge number of soldiers there permanently, they would not prevail. The soldiers themselves would rebel, the climate is atrocious.
BobTheSubgenius
(12,182 posts)Quixote1818
(31,147 posts)Wounded Bear
(63,986 posts)SergeStorms
(20,202 posts)Who knew that tractors would be the secret weapons in the defense against Russia's vaunted military?
The Pentagon should develop a weaponized tractor capable stopping the world's armies.
What the hell, in peacetime at least they can be used for something constructive. Plant fields of marijuana and poppies. We can get our enemies baked out of their minds. War over!
jmowreader
(53,002 posts)A Deere 8RX 410 would defeat any Russian armor in the inventory. Hook the tiedown pintles on the tank to the back of the tractor and hit the gas.
SergeStorms
(20,202 posts)and two M134 GAU-17 Vulcan cannons would give it a little offensive kick, just in case. If for nothing else, the 6000 rounds per minute cannons could help with harvesting crops.
Wolf Frankula
(3,822 posts)"So many of them, so few of us. How are we going to bury them all?"
Wolf
niyad
(130,511 posts)canetoad
(20,408 posts)highplainsdem
(60,852 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,585 posts)Or Lightyear Ones:

Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)IronLionZion
(51,010 posts)pazzyanne
(6,749 posts)SunSeeker
(57,888 posts)
LudwigPastorius
(14,384 posts)The country where I want to be.
Pony trekking or camping...
or just watching T.V.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Remember the
.Massacre on Snake Island?
That was Twitter at its finest display of deception, tractors are nothing.
SunSeeker
(57,888 posts)calimary
(89,299 posts)I sure wouldnt want to see one of those things coming at me!
SunSeeker
(57,888 posts)housecat
(3,138 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 17, 2022, 03:25 PM - Edit history (1)
BrightKnight
(3,684 posts)Martin68
(27,317 posts)Mysterian
(6,247 posts)The Russians seem to be occupied getting their asses kicked in Ukraine at the moment.
Cha
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