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Russia builds up infrastructure near Europe's border to deploy over 100k troops
- tim-tday 5mo agoSo it begins
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- jltsiren 5mo agoThey are basically restoring troop levels to what they were in the mid-1990s. Cold War levels were twice as high. Russia had gradually emptied most of the Leningrad Military District from troops, apart from a few key locations, such as Saint Petersburg and the Kola Peninsula. Which largely explains why Finland didn't consider Russia a threat before the invasion of Ukraine.