.Our New Running Joke
"Q: Вы говорите по-русски?*
No? Better learn!
So advised the jokesters over the last few days of our annual training down at Ft. Hunter Ligget.
The conflict in Georgia is in its fifth day now. Russia seems to have stopped their advance, and have begun to make demands from a position of indisputable military power.
My family has a treasured Finnish history, and I see echoes of those old stories in the present conflict.
Finland had rich ores and an arctic port in the north, and in the south there was territory directly north of Leningrad that the Soviets saw as defensive terrain. The Soviets made their demands, and on Finland's refusal proceeded to shell a Russian village on the border, accuse the Finns of an unprovoked attack and restate their demands. When Finland categorically refused the Soviet demands, the Red Army invaded."
Acute Politics
No? Better learn!
So advised the jokesters over the last few days of our annual training down at Ft. Hunter Ligget.
The conflict in Georgia is in its fifth day now. Russia seems to have stopped their advance, and have begun to make demands from a position of indisputable military power.
My family has a treasured Finnish history, and I see echoes of those old stories in the present conflict.
Finland had rich ores and an arctic port in the north, and in the south there was territory directly north of Leningrad that the Soviets saw as defensive terrain. The Soviets made their demands, and on Finland's refusal proceeded to shell a Russian village on the border, accuse the Finns of an unprovoked attack and restate their demands. When Finland categorically refused the Soviet demands, the Red Army invaded."
Acute Politics
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