“Every country in western Europe had NATO’s cover from the Russians for the last 65 years or so and Sweden was neutral.”
- Who protected whom?
We Swedes produced quite a lot of sophisticated fighter planes during the Cold War and everyone with the slightest of insight into engineering could tell we would’ve given Russia hell if attacked.
Still by today, the technologically superior little nation of Sweden disposes of weapons that, more or less, could destroy any nation around the Globe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khaa3y0i87s
Two nations on Earth can build decent cars. One of them can also build something that even could sneak up your nation’s coast - and annihilate it.