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Petri Mäkelä
@pmakela1
Freelance writer, blogger; military and security policy. Ex-FRDF Recon, Reservist, IPSC Shooter, Mech. Engineer by trade. Unspecified Expert
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Nov 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Exactly 83 years ago Soviet Union launched its invasion of Finland, that would later be known as the #WinterWar.
105 days of brutal fighting would follow and result in USSR capturing barely enough land to bury their 126k dead soldiers.
#Talvisota
blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2019/11/winter… blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2019/11/winter…
Sep 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
These are Finnish made Pasi XA-180/185 APCs in Finnish army configuration.

So it's a distinct possibility that the Finnish aid to Ukraine included armored vehicles

Finland is procuring new 6x6 APC from Patria, so replenishing Finnish stocks wouldn't be a problem.
#SlavaUkraini @CalibreObscura
May 10, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A short war history thread about a cannon.
This 1938 Railway gun TM-3-12 was originally built in the USSR by using the salvaged guns from the Battlship Imperatritsa Mariya. Imperatritsa Mariya was destroyed by a magazine explosion in Sevastopol in 1916. It's guns were originally built in 1912.
Mar 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Finnish ex-President, who called Putin her friend, @TarjaHalonen is still unable to get grips with reality. Says that the Baltic countries joined NATO because "They missed the Warsaw Pact". Still opposes long term sanctioning of Russia. 1/3
yle.fi/uutiset/3-1238… One explanation to this behavior is that she was investigated in Finland for connections to the East German secret police STASI. Whose old contacts were passed along to the KGB and then FSB.
2/3
 suomensotilas.fi/2022/03/24/sta…
Mar 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Finnish President @niinisto:
Finland and USA will begin a serious process to deepen their security and defense co-operation.
Biden confirmed that #NATO open doors policy is still active. @MollyMcKew @OlgaNYC1211 @20committee
Jan 6, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Quick take on the situation in #Kazakhstan. The rapid escalation took all sides by surprise. The military seems to be staying loyal and this is now enforced by the foreign special forces and rapid reaction forces entering Kazakstan.
1/4 While the uprising was initially successful, it lacked a clear leadership and a strategy that could lead to a quick victory as is common with spontaneous uprisings escalating on the spot. Geography makes gaining enough control to constrict government movement impossible. 2/4
Nov 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
This official Russian line is a complete lie. In 1939 USSR was allied with the Third Reich and the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop pact placed Finland into the Soviet hands. Germany refused to help Finland and blocked military aid to Finland during Winter War. In fact the German Navy had a secret submarine base operating in the USSR during the Winter War. German military operations were done from Soviet soil as their ally.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_Nord
Nov 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On this day in in 1939, after false flag attack and propaganda offensive, the Soviet Red Army launched an invasion of Finland all along the 1300 km border. The following #WinterWar would last 105 days with Finland holding off the Soviet attacks.
blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2019/11/winter… Prelude to Winter War:
blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2019/11/winter…
Mar 13, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
81 years ago today the Winter War between Finland and Soviet Union ended. Finland paid heavily for the peace, but the sacrifice saved the nation from a genocide in Stalin's hands.
#Talvisota
blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2020/03/the-en… blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2019/11/winter…
Mar 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Military readiness during a pandemic: Finnish local defense exercises 2021
#turpo #säkpol #defense #Finland
blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2021/03/milita… @FOIresearch
Nov 26, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
80 years ago in 1939 the Finnish nation underwent it's greatest crucible when the USSR attempted to invade the democratic peaceful nation.

I will collect my tweets on the #WinterWar80 into this thread for an easy walkthrough of the 105 days of war, that broke out on Nov 30th. Road to #WinterWar
blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2019/11/winter…
Sep 6, 2018 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The massive #Vostok2018 starts on 9.11.

The drill will pitch the Russian Easter Military District and the Pacific Fleet against the Central Military District and the Northern Fleet.

Drill area will stretch from #Finland to #China.

Western and Southern MDs shouldn't take part Source:
structure.mil.ru/mission/practi…
Sep 1, 2018 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
The same #Russian T-62MV without ERA, that was spotted on a train at Kamensk Shakhtinsky on 31.8 was unloaded before noon 1.9 and spotted heading towards #Ukraine on a trailer.

Same road also showed several other Russian military convoys.
#OSINT Ping @20committee @edwardlucas @IlvesToomas @Ukrainolution @terischultz @AndriiOlefirov @loogunda @Pabriks @ericgarland @JeffersonObama @andrewmichta @Aviation_Intel @noclador @VeikoSpolitis @lauferlaw
Aug 20, 2018 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Re-capping an intensive day by #Russian armed forces:
- Central and Eastern Military Districts were fully alarmed into a snap drill
- 2500 Spetsnatz deployed close to #Ukraine
- Military medical units deployed close to Ukraine
- 40 000 troops will be loaded to trains in East
1/2 - Novorossiysk naval base alerted and swept for mines
- Various communication and command formations deployed
- Special Recon unit prepared for an airdrop in the Karelia
- Unknown number of central Military district units loaded to trains
- Large Chinese force in Russia. 2/3
May 11, 2018 • 5 tweets • 8 min read
#VantagePointNorth: Joint drills in the north
"they have also highlighted the worrying fact that despite some improvements the US forces are still not ready to face a peer level high intensity war."
#turpo #säkpol #Siil2018 #arrow18
blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2018/05/joint-… Ping @IlvesToomas @CharlesLindberg @TeroTweet @patrikoksanen @Cornubot @GissiSim @noclador @markomihkelson @baltic_defence @thinkdefence @davidmacdougall @VeikoSpolitis @pabr