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SWEDEN PREPARED FOR WAR: Police ordered 'to be ready' for battle amid Russian threat
Express ^ | 7 Feb 17 | Lizzie Stromme

Posted on 02/07/2017 11:55:23 AM PST by elhombrelibre

More than 25,000 officers have been “war placed” as the Scandinavian nation bolsters its national defences against potential threats.

The order was given by the police chief at the end of January as every police officer is expected to know their role if a war or crisis should erupt.

The decision to implement the Government order, which was taken in 2015 after Russia invaded Ukraine and illegally annexed Crimea, affects 28,500 police officers.

Most of the officers will remain in their current roles and counties, even if an emergency situation should occur, however, some might be ordered to serve in the armed forces.


TOPICS: Russia
KEYWORDS: sweden; swedenrussia; swedenwar
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To: CivilWarBrewing
"Sweden has the Gripen!"

All 12 of them?

21 posted on 02/07/2017 12:08:38 PM PST by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: nutmeg

Sweden and Switzerland were the only two that Hitler wouldn’t tangle with.

Of course, they (the Swedish men) have turned into eunuchs who sit to pee and who let the Muzzis rape their daughters.


22 posted on 02/07/2017 12:09:39 PM PST by PAR35
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To: elhombrelibre

LOL...Sweden has it back asswards. They should be letting in white, orthodox Christian slavs 3:1 to their muzzie friends. It won’t be long until the Sweden has its own Grozny, Chechnya-like city.


23 posted on 02/07/2017 12:09:56 PM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: elhombrelibre

Does Soros pay to to post this crap?


24 posted on 02/07/2017 12:11:53 PM PST by McGruff (Drain The Swamp)
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To: elhombrelibre
Part of the Left's master plan.

CLINTON CAMPAIGN EMAIL OUTLINES EFFORT “TO PRODUCE AN UNAWARE AND COMPLIANT CITIZENRY”

25 posted on 02/07/2017 12:12:36 PM PST by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

I don’t advocate social medicine in any way shape or form.


26 posted on 02/07/2017 12:12:44 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Neo-Con are so pathetic. Screaming for war with Russia while Islam subverts and consumes them from within.


27 posted on 02/07/2017 12:13:04 PM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: BlueLancer
"Sweden has the Gripen!" All 12 of them?

...S300 in St. Petersburg could fire up her radar, and take the lot of them out on sortie....and then turn the radar off and go back to eating Kotlety and drinking vodka.

28 posted on 02/07/2017 12:13:11 PM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Well, that certainly looks “stealthy”. Snicker, snort!


29 posted on 02/07/2017 12:13:12 PM PST by beelzepug (Anybody I attack may rest assured it's personal!)
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To: BlueLancer
FYI-

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-swedish-leader-warns-of-security-threats-in-baltic-sea-area-2017-1

30 posted on 02/07/2017 12:14:07 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: elhombrelibre

31 posted on 02/07/2017 12:14:42 PM PST by null and void (Trump's critics have evolved from expecting Trump to be Hitler to preferring it.)
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To: BlueLancer; CivilWarBrewing

Sweden has almost a hundred Gripen. And they’d probably last at least an hour against the Russian air force.


32 posted on 02/07/2017 12:15:40 PM PST by PAR35
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To: elhombrelibre
Image result for trump

Donald Trump: 'Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time'

Mar 13, 2014
Eun Kyung Kim: TODAY SHOW (NBC)

Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to "show his manhood."

The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.

"We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time," Trump said. ..."

http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-putin-has-eaten-obamas-lunch-ukraine-2D79372098
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Here’s the interview w/ Matt Lauer on YouTube...

Donald Trump (2014): ‘Vladimir Putin Has Eaten Obama’s Lunch’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzURUENf1ns
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Trump says NATO is obsolete but still ‘very important to me’

Reuters
January 16, 2017

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said NATO was obsolete because it had not defended against terror attacks, but that the military alliance was still very important to him, The Times of London reported.

“I took such heat, when I said NATO was obsolete,” Trump told the newspaper in an interview. “It’s obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of terror. I took a lot of heat for two days. And then they started saying Trump is right.”

Trump added that many NATO members were not paying their fair share for U.S. protection.

“A lot of these countries aren’t paying what they’re supposed to be paying, which I think is very unfair to the United States,” Trump said. “With that being said, NATO is very important to me. There’s five countries that are paying what they’re supposed to. Five. It’s not much.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-nato-obsolete-still-very-important-004548554—finance.html?ref=gs

33 posted on 02/07/2017 12:16:34 PM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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To: McGruff

I assume you’d prefer to be ignorant or to get all of your news from RT and Sputnik. And you never discuss the article. It’s not my fault you’re ignorant of what’s going on in the world, nor am I the problem. No one fears me but loonies who think ignorance is bliss and that Putin is their hero.


34 posted on 02/07/2017 12:16:35 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: elhombrelibre

the swedes ought to be more afraid of their own Muslim population that is destroying their country.


35 posted on 02/07/2017 12:16:59 PM PST by Cubs Fan (Did we riot when they won? No, because we are better people than they are.)
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Trump’s U.N. Envoy, Nikki Haley, Condemns Russia’s ‘Aggressive Actions’ in Ukraine

By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Feb 2, 2017

UNITED NATIONS — Nikki R. Haley, the new American ambassador to the United Nations, condemned Russia on Thursday for its recent “aggressive actions” in eastern Ukraine.

“We do want to better our relations with Russia,” Ms. Haley said during her first remarks to an open briefing of the United Nations Security Council. “However, the dire situation in eastern Ukraine is one that demands clear and strong condemnation of Russian actions.”

She made it clear that American sanctions imposed after Russia’s annexation of Crimea would remain in place.

During her Senate confirmation hearing last month, Ms. Haley also expressed support for continuing the sanctions and accused Russia of committing war crimes in the Syrian conflict. But her strong criticism of the government of President Vladimir V. Putin put her at odds with President Trump, who has expressed a desire for warmer relations with the Kremlin. ...’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/world/europe/nikki-haley-trump-ukraine-russia-putin.html?_r=0

36 posted on 02/07/2017 12:17:16 PM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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To: nutmeg

So Russia, is clearly on the verge of invading Sweden. And we know this because it secured Crimea where it has continuously had a navy base since the 1783 and saw that base about to be handed over to NATO.

Yeah, clearly that means they are about to move on Sweden.

Thank god we have Trump. Obama would probably declare war and put 80 tanks in Lapland and open an operations center in Denmark to counter the move on Sweden.


37 posted on 02/07/2017 12:17:55 PM PST by DesertRhino (.)
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To: RedWulf

There won’t be a war unless Putin attacks. Then, you’ll blame the victim, or the neo cons, or the Jews. You don’t make any attempt to discuss the news, just pretend it’s the someone else at fault besides your beloved Putin.


38 posted on 02/07/2017 12:17:55 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: All

Mike Pence, from the VP debate on Oct 5, 2016, on the subject of Putin and Russia:

“When Donald Trump and I observe that, as I’ve said, in Syria, in Iran, in Ukraine, that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that’s stating painful facts. That’s not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin — that’s an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.”

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Also from the Oct 5, 2016 first VP debate...

QUIJANO (Moderator): I want to turn now to Syria. Two hundred fifty thousand people, 100,000 of them children, are under siege in Aleppo, Syria. Bunker buster bombs, cluster munitions, and incendiary weapons are being dropped on them by Russian and Syrian militaries. Does the U.S. have a responsibility to protect civilians and prevent mass casualties on this scale, Governor Pence?

PENCE: The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo. Hillary Clinton’s top priority when she became secretary of state was the Russian reset, the Russians reset. After the Russian reset, the Russians invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea.

And the small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America — the greatest nation on Earth — just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins — look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.

It begins by rebuilding our military. And the Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We’ve got to work with Congress, and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.

But about Aleppo and about Syria, I truly do believe that what America ought to do right now is immediately establish safe zones, so that families and vulnerable families with children can move out of those areas, work with our Arab partners, real time, right now, to make that happen.

And secondly, I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.

There’s a broad range of other things that we ought to do, as well. We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.

QUIJANO: Governor, your two minutes are up.

PENCE: We’ve just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they’re dealing with a strong American president.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/politics/vice-president-transcript.html

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And...

PENCE: What we’re dealing with is the — you know, there’s an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates.

And the truth of the matter is, the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared a few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East.

And all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we’re not having talks anymore.

To answer your question, we just need American strength. We need to — we need to marshal the resources of our allies in the region, and in the immediate, we need to act and act now to get people out of harm’s way.


39 posted on 02/07/2017 12:18:21 PM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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To: null and void

You forgot one thing, before Trump left he should have told Sweden that we’ll let their hockey players in...


40 posted on 02/07/2017 12:18:35 PM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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