[–] novictim 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
The Nordic country mothballed compulsory military service in 2010, but military activity in the Baltic region has increased since, in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea
Hahaha...right. Russia is going to invade Lithuania and Latvia and Estonia?? Don't they first need to invade and take Ukraine and then Poland?
Folks. FOLKS! Listen now.
Russia has certainly violated important treaties when it took Crimea, the home of its Black Sea Fleet. I agree that they were BAD when they did that. And the provocations and insurgency in the Donbass just keep a smoldering and pointless open wound from healing. Hey, I was protesting and writing about Russian aggression in this conflict while all the Lefties at CommonDreams, butt lickers-all, were calling me all sorts of names: "Nuland Stooge", "IMF Jew", etc etc.
So I am not a Russian agent!
But think! What would Russia do after it supposedly annexed NATO territory? It would be like a dog that caught a car! What next?! And the Russians are just as aware of their limitations as we are. They are not a stupid people. If anything, the average Russian would like better relations with the West, not war. And Putin is a populist and he has his ear to the wants and needs of his proletariat!
Taking all this into account, one must question, then, the face value decision to re-institute and reconstitute a Swedish ground force. What is the real motivation? It has just one name and one name only:
ISLAM
The Swedish Military is using the Russians as a fig leaf to position a rescue force staged in the Baltics, capable and at the ready, for when the shit does really and truly hit the fan. The massive number of Muslim, military aged men and the shear evidence of military hardware from Kalashnikovs to grenades to RPGs smuggled and hidden within Sweden makes it certain to even a casual observer that the Swedish police are outgunned and out-manned and unable to address any power grab/annexation the Muslims decide to make.
And please note. An invasion of NATO by Russia would require a large tank force. Kaliningrad simply does not have that. It is a defense-rich port for the Baltic naval fleet. It has a air-war capability, of course. But it does not possess what is required to represent a true staging ground for "Russian invasion". Rather, that staging ground, if such existed, would have to be a tank force coming from the East and likely through Belarus.
Why not an invasion from St. Petersburg, Murmansk? FINLAND. Just as in WWII, the large border with Finland is a weakness for both the Finnish military (which, unlike Sweden, does have ground forces) and the Russian military. Long supply lines and indefensible terrain as well as satellite surveillance make it a difficult to defend zone that can't easily hide a tank army. If WWIII was really in the cards, a real fear, Russia would be expected to cut bait on St. Petersburg and move forces into place to defend Moscow while taking up a defense of the Western ports and bases. Poland would be the first target to knock out, just as in WWII, due to its strategic position. And unlike in WWII, Poland no longer relies on cavalry and WWI tactics. It has an advanced NATO air defense and offensive capability.
Just start to contemplate the complicated quagmire that Russia would have to advance through in order to pull off a WWII style blitzkrieg and grab ahold of the bumper with its canines!!! It is absurd in the extreme.
No, this is all about Sweden and NATO preparing to deal with the suicidal and civilization-sacrificing decision by Merkel and Sweden's PM Levine to lower the gates and take in the Islamic Trojan Horse. May Dog help them, they will need the Russian military to pull their asses out of the grip of the Islamists if this invasion keeps moving at the current pace.
[–] bacon_powered 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Conscription = Slavery
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[–] TheBearJuden ago (edited ago)
Good idea. All Westerners should. Why? Because we did not make enough babies to survive the next major war. Birth control saw to that years ago.