Nordic Awakening

IBD Editorials ^ | 8 May 2007 | Staff

[Kitten Festival]

Geopolitics: A strategic shift on Europe's northern tier is shaping up fast. With Russia trying to halt a missile shield and intimidating Estonia, Sweden and Finland are starting to rethink neutrality. It shows seriousness.

For about a decade, conventional wisdom held that the end of the Cold War made NATO irrelevant. But out on the frontier of Western civilization, in the farthest Nordic states of Sweden and Finland, a different picture is emerging as an old predator rises from the East. Russia's recent moves in the region have forced them to take a new look at defense alliances they once shunned.

There are two flash points: Russia's simmering fury over Europe's bid to build a missile shield with U.S. help in Poland and the Czech Republic, and Russia's moves to rein in old Soviet empire colonies such as Estonia.

[Kitten Festival]

Finland and Sweden sense something creepy and evil out there. They want into NATO.

[wastedyears]

I think everybody should be scared of hordes of Vikings.

[thackney]

Some Vikings are more fearsome than others...

[Carry_Okie]

Considering the Islamic population Scandinavian countries have suffered, Russia isn't their only serious problem demanding reconsideration.

[blam]

R1a Y-chromosome

[Vision Thing]

As the Scandanavian Victor Lazlo once said in the movie Casablanca, welcome to the fight.

[blam]

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“R1a Y-chromosome”

I am an R1a - it’s also common among European Jewish Levites - it’s the Ashkenazic Levite marker.

[wastedyears]

I don’t have any Viking blood in me =(

[rickdylan]

Sweden’s problem is slammites, not Russians. The Swedish people have been totally sold out by their leaders and the only shot they have at getting enough weaponry into their hands before the **** hits the fan is Russia. Russia is the only market there is for the kinds of **** Swedes need, in the quantities they need, at prices they can afford, and which they can easily reach.

[blam]

Somerled was a norse: Norse Code

[Tailgunner Joe]

Russia supports islamic jihad all over the world.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"With Russia trying to halt a missile shield and intimidating Estonia, Sweden and Finland are starting to rethink neutrality."

Do ya think they figgered out "neutrality" dont stop no missiles?

They might be some redneck left in em after all!

[rawcatslyentist]

Yeah Pooty shure didn't do diddly after TROPers MURDERED a couple of hundred SCHOOL CHILDREN! He's banking em!

[Tailgunner Joe]

He blamed the USA for the massacre instead of the jihadists.

[Enterprise]

Nordics to Russia: “We never really liked your sorry asses before, and we sure as hell don’t like you now. So buzz off.”

[Enterprise]

Geopolitically speaking, this is sad news for the moonbats. France has now “tilted” towards the U.S. and the Nordics have had enough of the backstabbing thieving Russians.

[finnman69]

[Dead Dog]

Pretty much every European’s greatx5 grannies had a little viking in them...

[Candor7]

R1a is also a distinct marker in Scotland, especially in the families of the Western Isles.