Russia is demanding Norway pay up to $4.4 million in compensation after 42 Norwegian reindeer wandered across the border

ArtVandelay , 10 months ago

I am disinclined to acquiesce to this request

bookmeat , 10 months ago

Lol, fuck Russia.

HappycamperNZ , 10 months ago

Its a special conservation mission.

ikidd , 10 months ago

They’re probably pining for the fjords now.

deft , 10 months ago

how bout go over there and get it then lol 😂

Ubermeisters , 10 months ago

Broke ass bitch

Kowowow , 10 months ago

Ah russia can’t even defend themselves from reindeer it would seem

RunTillYouPuke , 10 months ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/SuccessionHBO-reaction-tv-succession-KHpGXUSTzlUCDXWmFL

StickyLavander , 10 months ago

They’re wild animals. Seriously who gives a fuck, plus at the rate we’re going they’d probably go extinct in the next 50-100 years

Astroturfed , 10 months ago

Russia killed all the ones they caught. So probably a little sooner now.

TaTTe , 10 months ago

Russia didn’t catch any? 40 were slaughtered in Norway after they returned so they couldn’t go back to russia.

electrogamerman , 10 months ago

Are you for real? So now animals need passports to go through borders?

Deestan , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

They are extremely free-range but not wild animals, so the owner is supposed to have some general control of where they are going.

But anyway, this is not a problem for Sweden of Finland. It is resolved amicably if even noticed at all.

Russia is just their usual doing-whatever-they-want and saying-whatever-they-want. A few years ago, when some of their illegal fishing vessels were told to stop fishing illegally by the coastal guard, they made up some new and immediate laws to prohibit existing Norwegian ship trade. When some of the food we imported from them were found to be below safety standards and rejected, they suddenly found that all salmon they imported from Norway were extremely low quality and they demanded to pay less for it.

Petty bullshit. Diplomatically they are kids imitating the language of bigger kids.

GoosLife , 10 months ago

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Thoth19 , 10 months ago

Bc they’re property and this is presumably the most economically efficient option for the owner?

SaakoPaahtaa , 10 months ago

Eeey bonzo im walkin ere!

Agent641 , 10 months ago

Imagine the russians surprise when norwegian troops come pouring out of those reindeer in the middle of the night

SuiXi3D , 10 months ago

Wat

InverseParallax , 10 months ago

Sweden should ‘accidentally’ torpedo one of their subs when it wanders into their waters, then send them a bill for the torpedo that ‘wandered into their hull’, should cancel out.

NewSmileadon , 10 months ago

I either don’t get it or this joke has no logic.

BiNonBi , 10 months ago

The Soviet Union/Russia have a habit of sending submarines into Swedish waters.

dogslayeggs , 10 months ago

And sending fighter jets into other countries’ air space.

BiNonBi , 10 months ago

It not usually into the airspace. Just into the air defense zone which is over international waters. It’s the nation-state equivalent to “I’m not touching you.”

dogslayeggs , 10 months ago

You’re right. It did happen once or twice with Finland, but with Norway and the US it is just “near” their airspace.

FuglyDuck , 10 months ago

4.4 million rubles?isn’t that like 400 dollars…?

TonyTonyChopper , 10 months ago

worth 0 dollars when your trade is embargoed and you lose recognition as a country

FuglyDuck , 10 months ago

They definitely want the hard currency

TaTTe , 10 months ago

It was 47 million nok, or 4.4 million usd. Not rubles.

Wyattburp , 10 months ago

Russia and Norway did not live happily ever antler after this.

misterwu , 10 months ago

Nottheonion

Corkyskog , 10 months ago

They are not grazing, simply vacationing. A Special Reindeer Operation, if you will.

not_woody_shaw , 10 months ago

And sometimes you do Reindeer Games.