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Sweden to reintroduce military service
France 24 ^

Posted on 09/28/2016 6:44:09 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

Around 4,000 young Swedes, 18-year-olds of both sexes, are expected to be called up each year.

The move was "an intelligent proposal given that we have seen for a number of years now that volunteers are not sufficient to supply either the quality or quantity of soldiers" needed, Johan Osterberg, a researcher from the School for Advanced Defence Studies, told news agency TT.

Sweden is not a NATO member but has signed the body's Partnership for Peace programme launched in 1994 to develop military cooperation between NATO and non-member countries.

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Also today:

http://uawire.org/news/sweden-has-stationed-troops-on-the-island-of-gotland-in-the-baltic-sea

1 posted on 09/28/2016 6:44:09 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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“Swedish leaders had previously agreed to permanently deploy soldiers on the strategically located island in the Baltic Sea beginning in late 2017, but early in the morning of Wednesday, September 14, about 150 soldiers from mechanized infantry forces taking part in military drills on the island today received the order not to leave the island.”


2 posted on 09/28/2016 6:45:36 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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Enjoy the draft, young Swedes!

The world is not the green field filled with pink unicorns that the socialists always said it was.


3 posted on 09/28/2016 6:48:22 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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I bet the Muslimbs are exempt from the draft.

Only the Christians have to serve.


4 posted on 09/28/2016 6:54:37 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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I’ll join! Just assign me to the Swedish Bikini team!


5 posted on 09/28/2016 6:56:06 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: ameribbean expat
Military tradition in Sweden abolished[2010]
6 posted on 09/28/2016 7:02:08 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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They would be better off drafting for the Swedish immigration and border patrol. They've imported far more domestic enemies than they have foreign enemies.
7 posted on 09/28/2016 7:02:18 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Muammar Gaddafi had donated to the Clinton Foundation he would still be alive and in power today.)
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A country that can’t convince its young that the country is worth defending doesn’t deserve to survive. And by convince I don’t mean draft into involuntary servitude.


8 posted on 09/28/2016 7:02:26 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

That would make for a stronger military.


9 posted on 09/28/2016 7:02:46 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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I bet the Muslimbs are exempt from the draft. Only the Christians have to serve.

If you were a Swede, would you count on a Muslim to defend you?

10 posted on 09/28/2016 7:03:57 PM PDT by okie01 ( --)
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How many of those young men who just migrated to Sweden will be called up? I bet lots of them have prior military service.


11 posted on 09/28/2016 7:04:44 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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No one wants to see you in a bikini.


12 posted on 09/28/2016 7:07:25 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Bill and Hillary for ADX Supermax!)
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I’d laugh if they called the Muzzies up and parked them all on Gotland Island in 2017.


13 posted on 09/28/2016 7:09:23 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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If you were a Swede, would you count on a Muslim to defend you?

Sweden is like a gigantic Marin County. The typical Swede is like your typical resident of Berkeley or Ithaca; they would absolutely trust a muslim without reservation.

In their 2014 general election, the Social Democratic party won the majority. This is the party of Olaf Palme and the current driving force behind their population replacement policy.

14 posted on 09/28/2016 7:13:57 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Good. We really would lime some populations to not know how to use a gun.


15 posted on 09/28/2016 7:22:03 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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What? Why we haven’t convinced a single generation of the Romney or Sununu families to serve. This is a half correct move on the part of Sweden. Why they’d be drafting women is beyond me.


16 posted on 09/28/2016 7:31:42 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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What? Why we haven’t convinced a single generation of the Romney or Sununu families to serve. This is a half correct move on the part of Sweden. Why they’d be drafting women is beyond me.


17 posted on 09/28/2016 7:33:45 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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What? Why we haven’t convinced a single generation of the Romney or Sununu families to serve.

It's a good thing we don't need them. We have plenty of patriotic young Americans defending our country. Serving in our defense voluntarily.
18 posted on 09/28/2016 7:36:31 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: ameribbean expat

All about Russia. Everyone in the Baltic is getting nervous.


19 posted on 09/28/2016 7:37:51 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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I bet the Muslimbs are exempt from the draft.

What better way for the Muslims to cement their gains? Volunteer and take over - or at least get some modern training fr later on.

20 posted on 09/28/2016 7:42:04 PM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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