Finland readying for David & Goliath war at ‘Arctic Sparta’ base where Putin’s troops face slaughter on Nat...

IN a small Finnish town on the border with Russia, just 20 miles of forest lie between the Lapland Border Guard and Putin's blood-thirsty troops.

"Yes we have a long border with Russia…but you have to remember that over 80 per cent of that border is total wilderness."To attack there is extremely difficult and Russia tried that in both the Winter War and the Continental War and they learnt that it was a bad idea as they were encircled and destroyed."

However, the Red Army was ill-equipped and unable to cope with the brutal winter while the small but resilient Finnish troops fought tooth and nail. If an IT company wants to provide phone connections there, it must be able to run the system during wartime to be granted a license. Pekka added: "So we kept up conscription, we have a big country in European terms with a small population, the only way to defend the whole country is to have a large reserve."

The special forces unit's winter combat course is considered to be the ultimate in Arctic warfare training with the US and the UK all sending soldiers to complete it. Helsinki recently bought the David's Sling high-altitude air defence system from Israel and 64 F-35s from the States. He also warned in a recent interview with Russian state TV that the Kremlin is set to deploy troops and weapons to the Finnish border.

Pekka said: "Their economy is based on gas and oil and since field Siberia is getting lower and lower the Arctic is becoming more important because there is more of it.

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