Why does Finland make the best wheeled armored personnel carriers in the world?
>>65211347Because they decend from Vikings?
>>65211363Raiding unsuspecting coastal population centers was more of a Scandinavian thing.
>>65211372Yeah, but the Finns were a part of that whole mess. To a lesser degree, so were various other tribes from Newfoundland, to the middle east, to north Africa.All of them traded with the Scandinavians/vikings to one degree or another, some of them were ruled by viking warlords, some had a weird on/of relationship with the vikings, some of the tribesmen became mercenaries or raiders themselves and fought alongside the vikings.That whole chapter of history is complicated and poorly documented.
>>65211406Be it as it may but one has to ask how does a motorized steel tube filled with fighting men relate to Viking long boats apart from their shared ability to float on water and more importantly why are these later motorized steel tubes so popular?
>>65211347They have the shittiest combination of terrain to adapt to.
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>>65211372Finns don't count as Vikings? What about Holland?
>>65211422>how does a motorized steel tube filled with fighting men relate to Viking long boatsCould they just put a dragon head on the front(prow)?
>>65211942Finns basically didn't emerge from the swamps before 1400 or so, and vikings were a much earlier thing. In fact vikings would probably have been raiding the finns if they had anything worth stealing but at the time all they had was squirrel skins.
>>65211951Pity, I always gave he Finns so much respect and dignity. Now, I find they are just the hillbillies of Scandinavia eating boiled barely and sea urchin roe. I still think they are at least as cool as Estonians.
>>65211347They don't? Every veteran I know who's had to drive a Patria says it's a piece of shit
ITT: completely false, misinformed, lazy, wet-brained, Norse/Viking speculation.I'm not going to explain anything to you, I already have a thread on /his/ about them
>>65211976Why did you put them on a pedestal?
>>65211347Have you seen the terrain there?There's a reason they produce so many high mobility amphibious vehicles.Bogs and lakes and more bogs for days.
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>>65211976id say the main things you can idolize the finns for is that they're generally too naive and simple to be really bad people. it's a country of peasants who are all content to grill and hope things work out somehowhowever things often do not work out and we routinely get our asses kicked in this globalist world. no one wants to make anything cool or new for export because "its too risky", or even learn how to not sound like a retarded autistic asshole when speaking to foreign clients because idk stubbornness i guess. there are solutions to this country's problems but no one wants to commit to them because it might slightly inconvenience them or because the politicians are the same retarded peasant stock as the populace
>>65212046All true and it's because of women.
>>65212046>no one wants to make anything cool or new for export because "its too risky"I kinda liked 'Troll', but not I find out it's as Norwegian as NAMMO. And would it be too much for her to get a shorter, regular name?
>>65212055id say the biggest issue is poorly educated elderly men, because only care about their grill and in worst cases are the type that think that changing your mind is gay. but i guess it's elderly women too. boomerism runs rampant in this country too, as well as all the other failings that come with democracy. it's so nice that we don't have that much corruption compared to other countries, it warms me to know that no one's benefiting from our poor choices
>>65211976the Sami people lived in peace with the mosquitos,building up an immunity to their bites.
>>65211942>What about Holland?Northern Germany had viking populations, but I don't know if it reached down to Holland.
>>65212075No I mean all women, young and old.
>>65211406Finns actually had barely anything to do with Vikings despite the geographic proximity. Consider that there are over 3000 runestones in Sweden, three of which even reference what is present-day Finland and the number of ancient runestones found in Finland is 1 (partial)
>>65211942Swamp-germans, not vikings
>>65212063Rare Exports is Finnish at least
I'm so tired of this rampant finnophilia.
>>65212249But binland is kool
>>65212092Women want hueg immigration for some reason but the people who fucked the economy for decades were men
>>65212284Women pushed them into it.
>>65212291Into... making sure we never diversify? I didn't know Jorma Ollila is a woman either
>>65212299He's probably one in disguise.
>>65211406Finns were isolated from Vikings and had nothing to do with them.
