If you go back about a thousand years ago...the Swedes were the most troublesome culture on the face of the Earth, and a dozen of them...could take a hundred non-Swedes easily, and win.
Something wrong has happened over the past thousand years.
“If you go back about a thousand years ago...the Swedes were the most troublesome culture on the face of the Earth, and a dozen of them...could take a hundred non-Swedes easily, and win.”
As the Nazis found out, it was more likely Danes and Norwegians than Swedes that fit that descritpion. They fought, while Sweden complied with Nazi demands for resources rather than suffer the consequences of war.