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Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge

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461 points axelfontaine | 1 comments | 20 May 25 07:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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radicalbyte ◴[20 May 25 08:42 UTC] No.44039248[source]▶
This is a strategic move: it makes it easier to move weapons within Europe and makes it much harder for Russia should they invade.

Ideally you would want to do this all over Europe.

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regularization ◴[20 May 25 13:41 UTC] No.44041550[source]▶
> makes it much harder for Russia should they invade

If taking over Finland would help Russia, why didn't it do so in 1945 when it was there for the taking, to little protest from the UK and US? Russian had no use for it then, or now, other than the Karelian isthmus, which is part of Russia. Russia didn't raise much protest of Finland joining NATO. These notions of Russia having designs on Finland are loony.

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1. barbazoo ◴[20 May 25 14:08 UTC] No.44041875[source]▶
You assume a country has a cohesive long term strategy which is obviously not the case since there are ephemeral people involved.