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Finland's defence spending will be increased to three percent of GDP by 2029 and much of that money will go towards upgrading Finnish Army equipment.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://yle.fi/a/74-20153181


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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Hey, Finns got experience dealing with (stepping in) land mines in the only war they won - the Lapland War! Have not heard of it? Of course not, they fought it against the Nazis (because the Soviet Union made them)!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Does the Winter War not count as a Finnish victory?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No? They lost territory and their second biggest city at the time and the Mannerheim line was disassembled. Yeah, the Soviet Union did not take over the whole country, but that was not their goal, securing the area around Leningrad was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Looked it up, apparently I was missinformed about the outcome of that war.

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