{"id":11762,"date":"2023-04-07T22:59:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T02:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11762"},"modified":"2023-04-07T22:59:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T02:59:55","slug":"oh-those-finns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11762","title":{"rendered":"Oh, those Finns&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked the other day, what benefit is there to NATO from Finland&#8217;s membership?<\/p>\n<p>I think this meme sums it up nicely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11763\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/finnish-snipers-885x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/finnish-snipers-885x1024.jpg 885w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/finnish-snipers-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/finnish-snipers-768x889.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/finnish-snipers.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yup, the Finns. Who managed to fight the USSR to a draw at the height of its military capabilities, even as the Red Army was steamrolling over the remains of the feared Wehrmacht. Yup, the Finns who share a border with Russia that is as long as all the previous NATO-Russia borders from Poland to Turkey, combined.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Finland, for trusting the rest of us.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11762' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked the other day, what benefit is there to NATO from Finland&#8217;s membership? I think this meme sums it up nicely. Yup, the Finns. Who managed to fight the USSR to a draw at the height of its military capabilities, even as the Red Army was steamrolling over the remains of the feared Wehrmacht. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11762' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11764,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}