User blog comment:Disturbedfan1100/Diplomatic talk and stuff/@comment-6138112-20131209160839/@comment-6812733-20131209175556

Of course the historic events count in some manners but if we make decisions based on what happened in WW2, we would be doing massacres of germans, giving all of Germany to France and Poland.

There should always be two or more superpowers because they are pretty much like parents of other countries. They keep them in check and punish other countries if they misbehave. Of course, corruption and ignorace often cause conflicts all over the globe because current superpowers are pretty much the worse.

Danijel, Finland is in pretty much the same position. We can't do a thing without Russia jumping on our backs. We even tried to make closer ties with NATO few years ago and Russian officials caused a shitstorm in media, calling Finnish government liars and idiots for trying to ally with someone like U.S. and her allies. But seriously, which one has treated us better: Russia or United States? Well U.S. of course, they saved us few years ago when our country was in a brink of bankruptcy. Russia on the other hand has stolen 11% of all the lands that Finland once possessed and has no intention on returning those lands (except Yeltsin tried to sell the lands back).

I really don't think Germany could've beaten Red Army, USSR was way too large nation for the germans. Being a huge country actually saved USSR from Nazi Germany. USSR just moved all of their production to the east and while stalling for time, they created massive armies. After the reinforcements were ready, germans would've faced a certain destruction in any scenario.