Finland to work around Ottawa treaty!

Yesterday newspaper Kaleva brought to our attention  that Finland is going to work her way around the Ottawa anti personnel mine treaty.  This is welcome news Apart from Social Democrats and other goody two shoes who have a placed “International goodwill” in front of country’s defense.

After former social democratic led government decided to enter the Ottawa treaty, which was ill advised considering Finnish long land border with Russia. This long land border  compound with the shrinking of war time strength of Finnish Defense Forces and abandoning the ultimate defensive weapon there is can be described as puzzling ant the least and treacherous at worst. The diminishing numbers must be augmented with other force multipliers, one of which was the mine arsenal. And the mines where maybe the most cost effective. But now we are reaping the storm of this decision, and have to put our money where Socialist mouth…