Finland is the latest country to see a surge in civilian firearms training. It’s clear that for Finns, the echoes of their historical conflicts with Russia, notably the Winter War, still resonate deeply in their national psyche.
Putin has already invaded and defeated Georgia in the war over South Ossetia in 2008 — and then withdrew. As for the Baltic republics, a Russian attack on any of them would risk retaliation and war with NATO.
The Ukraine boondoggle does raise questions about whether our present foreign policy, including NATO war guarantees, are truly protecting U.S. vital interests.
Where are the extra- large bold font ALL CAPS link to the biggest mass shooting since Beslan?
So, they’re admitting an armed citizenry is “necessary to the security of a free State”?
Ukraine has suffered at the hands of the Russians and the Germans, fast forward to 2021 and once more it looks like the Russians are on the march.
Vox … refers to “developed nations” as the ultimate benchmark for demonstrating how barbaric America’s gun laws are when compared to the rest of the world.
The school shooting in Florida has overshadowed news about the fight between the Wagner Group and U.S. backed SDF but with over 300 casualties…
You could give the antis everything they ask for… scratch that, everything they demand, and here’s what happened in a country that did:
OFAC announced expansion of sanctions imposed on persons and entities in Russia pursuant to Executive Orders President Obama issued in 2014.
BHO has naively assured us that Russia, with thousands of deliverable nuclear weapons that can reach any point on the globe, is a “ regional power”
A rifle embedded deeply in a tree in a Russian forest is not a Mosin Nagant. It was likely carried by an Austrian or other conscript.
A pair of Cold Steel Bushman knives were given to a close friend involved in dangerous afairs in far lands. After 16 years, there uses were told.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent decree promptly lifting former President Dmitry Medvedev’s 2007 ban on exporting the Grumble to Iran constitutes a slap down for American diplomacy…
For 20 years, the Russians took a survival drilling pistol kit with them into space. Then they ran out of ammunition…
What countries fall outside of Barack Obama’s definition of “advanced, developed countries”? Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Brazil, and Venezuela, are examples…
Russia and China will be at war in 3-5 years and Putin must naturalize his western flank before he goes head-to-head with the Chi-Coms…
Tanks, artillery, rifles & hard infantry may have gone out of fashion in the USA & in Western Europe, but the Chinese, North Koreans, Iranians, & Russians apparently didn’t get that memo…
The US was never one of the traditional enemies of the Old Russian world, but we rose to the top of their list, right after they moved in and took over most of Eastern Europe…
Putin has got this oil as a weapons-thing figured out. He is proceeding very effectively to turn the Russian oil and gas industry into the 21st century’s, new Non-Destructive, Weapon of Mass Destruction…
Kalashnikov died Monday in a hospital in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurtia republic where he lived, said Viktor Chulkov, a spokesman for the republic’s president….
Larry Vickers recently completed a trip to Russia to study some of the firearms that have shaped their history from WWII to modern times…