Russia & Belarus will begin the massive Zapad 2025 military exercise tomorrow, Friday

According to preliminary estimates, 30,000 soldiers will participate in the exercise

In 2021, russia disguised its upcoming invasion of Ukraine with the Zapad exercises, NATO must be on alert. Exercises are focused on the Baltic region, with several of them in Kaliningrad and Belarus.

Russia's rhetoric towards Finland is getting tougher by the day and just like they did towards Ukraine, they are questioning the existence of the Finnish state.

Rhetorically, we are already at war.

Some of the latest propaganda and threats from ryssä🧵 Andrei Klimov, Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Upper House of the russian Parliament:

"Finland has become a pseudo-state that is still searching for itself. As happened to Ukraine."

Russian drones were reportedly as deep as 40km inside Polish airspace before they were shot down.

Act of war, no one can explain it otherwise.

NATO MUST react strongly after this, otherwise things will keep escalating.

Drones could be targeting supply lines to Ukraine. Just like russia threathened to do few days ago.

https://x.com/auonsson/status/1965542895051796635

POLAND is under russian drone attack.

NATO???! ⏰⏰⏰

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1965548390361800751

https://x.com/Faytuks/status/1965547714227355651

Current russian narrative claims that Finland actively participated in the siege of Leningrad.

This is not true, Finland refused German demands of closing the blockade, even though it could have easily done so.

"Road of life" remained open by the Finns' choice. Having reached its pre-Winter War border, Finland halted its advance and even refused to shell the city with its artillery, despite all German demands.

It was a gesture of mercy to the russians, despite all their actions.

Following the 1944 Moscow Armistice, two officers in Finnish Military HQ, Colonel Valo Nihtilä and Lieutenant Colonel Usko Haahti didn't trust USSR's words about lasting peace.

They started a secret operation, preparing for guerilla warfare against possible Soviet occupation 🧵 When Finland started the demobilization, an organization responsible for hiding the equipment was created and war material was secretly given for safekeeping.

A total of 5,000–10,000 people participated in the operation.

Continuation War. October 1, 1941.

Finnish tanks roll into the East Karelian city of Petrozavodsk.

Main objective of Finnish army's major offensive through the wilderness had now been achieved.

Petrozavodsk was now "Äänislinna", capital of the "greater Finnish Karelia" 🧵 Petrozavodsk (known as Petroskoi in Finnish) was strategically important as it was the administrative center of the Karelia region.

Petrozavodsk's location also made it a key logistical & communication hub.

Necessary for the Finnish offensive towards Syväri (Svir).

Loss of the city of Viipuri to the USSR after Winter War was a painful experience for Finns and especially for the 75 000 Viipuri residents who lost their hometown to russians.

Unjust loss of Finnish land to the Soviet Union sowed the seeds of the Continuation War.

🧵 In Continuation War, Finland set out to reclaim what it had lost in Winter War, and in August 1941 Finnish flag once again flew on the tower of Viipuri Castle.

Finnish Army has announced a major reform programme to be implemented between 2025 and 2035, aimed at modernising the country’s entire land defence.

Plan is based on a realistic threat assessment, technological development, and cooperation with allies and the defence industry 🧵 Reform is being driven by an assessment of military threats to Finland, with emphasis on training, indirect fire capabilities, and unmanned systems.

Lessons from the war in Ukraine and other conflicts are being applied to Finnish conditions.

A large-scale search is underway in Norway for a russian submarine that is believed to have threatened the US aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford in the Norwegian Sea.

According to Dagbladet, Norwegian, British and US aircraft have been searching for the submarine since Sunday. RAF scrambles spy planes as Britain joins huge NATO hunt for Russian sub 'suspected of threatening US aircraft carrier' off Norway share.google/p4bf9DONQLdX27…

Finnish Army's autumn local defence exercises will be held all around Finland at the turn of August and September.

A total of approximately 5,000 conscripts, reservists and personnel, as well as over 500 vehicles, will participate in six different exercises. 🧵 In Southern Finland, the Guard Jaeger Regiment is responsible for the "Lively Stronghold" exercise in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area in five locations.

In December 1939, as battles of Winter War raged across the Finnish-Soviet border, Radio Moscow announced the creation of the "Finnish Democratic Republic" aka "Terijoki Government"

Traitor, communist Otto Wille Kuusinen was set to lead this new government of Finland. 🧵 Sometime in September 1939, Otto Ville Kuusinen was summoned by Molotov and Stalin, they revealed to Kuusinen the plans for the upcoming operation against Finland.

They wanted the exiled Finn to head the new government that would be installed at the opening of the conflict.

Lapland War, which began in the fall of 1944 in Finnish Lapland against the Germans is unknown to many.

Actual war against former comrades was initiated 30.9.1944 by the Finns' daring landing in city of Tornio, far behind the German lines. 🧵 Moscow armistice, signed on 19 September 1944 to bring the Continuation War between Finland and USSR to an end, demanded that Finland severed diplomatic ties with Germany and expelled or disarmed any German forces remaining in Finland after 15 September 1944.

In the end of summer 2025 russia is:

1. Nearing recession
2. Running out of its soviet stockpiles
3. Has dramatically lower troop quality than it had in 2022, because of catastrophic casualties
4. Is relying more and more on North Korea and that USA doesn't fully turn against it 1. Fact check

Sweden just launched the future of air combat.

In a groundbreaking test, the Saab Gripen E fighter jet completed its first flights with an onboard AI agent named Centaur, executing real combat maneuvers without a human pilot at the controls. During the test, Centaur flew Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missions, tracked real-time targets, and made autonomous tactical decisions even when communication link was cut.

Viljam Pylkäs was an ordinary Finnish farmer from Karelian Isthmus and a veteran of Winter War.

He lost his home to russians and because of this, hated russia from the bottom of his heart.

In this thread I'll tell his story and about the incident that made him famous. Pylkäs is the model for hero character "Antero Rokka" of the book and movies "Tuntematon Sotilas"(Unknown Soldier) written by Finnish author and brother in arms Väinö Linna.

Planned €40 billion arms aid package for Ukraine is being withdrawn, says EU High Representative for External Relations Kaja Kallas.

The reason is opposition from "southern" EU countries. (take a guess)

The effort is now to focus on delivering two million artillery shells. Opposing countries: Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Italy and France.

Damn you all.

Stalin's USSR was even worse than Hitler's Germany.

As monstrous as the nazi ideology was with holocaust and other ethnic cleansing of Europe, it's no match for Stalin.

In this thread, I'll list Stalin's often unspoken atrocities.

🧵 1. The Holodomor (1932–1933)

Stalin’s forced collectivization of agriculture—seizing land and grain from peasants to fund industrialization. Estimates of Ukrainian deaths range from 3.5 to 7 million, with some regions losing a third of their population.

Cancelling F35 order would be costly for Finland, since all the work already made on the order would have to be paid

There would be a delay to replace our aging Hornets with modern European aircraft

But 8,4b € for unsafe option is still worse than that.

Short thread🧵 Original plan was that Finland receives its first F35's in fall 2025.

No planes have been delivered yet, so there would not be that problem.

Money spent on years of training the Finnish pilots would also be for nothing, that is money that will not come back.

Top contributors in aid for Ukraine/person:

Denmark: 1850€/person
Norway: 1520€/person
Netherlands: 744€/person
Finland: 700€/person
Sweden: 610€/person

Then there's USA: 196€/person

Mah tax money! 😭 Finland should give more aid, even though we must take care of our own defense first as russian neighbors.

Tips how to spot a russian troll in Twitter:

1. wHy DoNt yOu Go FiGhT iN uKrAiNe

2. fInNs wErE aLlIeD wItH nAziS (or other whataboutism)

3. eUrOpE iS fUlL oF LGBTQ aNd mUsLiMs

4. zElEnZkY iS a CoKeHeAd

5. Anything about Bandera (US citizen doesn't know what that means) 6. uKrAiNiAnS aRe NaZis (also propaganda pictures)

7. Use of the word "Warmongerer"

8. Sharing outrageous russian propaganda narratives

9 "Crypto-bro" parroting russian or MAGA-narratives (pretty much the same thing)

10 Too detailed knowledge about European countries