Posted on 12/06/2023 8:46:45 AM PST by McGruff
The handwriting was on the wall when Putin invaded Ukraine.
“Is that why they’re joining? I thought they would be neutral forever..”
Nah; Sweden was never really neutral.
The only true neutral is Switzerland. If Switzerland ever drops its neutrality, that will be momentous.
“Russia is still a menace to us ALL”
A leopard cannot change its spots...
There’s a lot of old Soviet blood pumping through the heart of the ruling hierarchy. You can tell alot about a government by the company it keeps.
That, and to be honest they are running out of Swedes. Not people, Swedes.
No one’s going to invade British Columbia, and not because Trudeau’s Canada remains in NATO.
Putin consider this in his prewar calculations?
Somali Migrants Protest Video Posted By Swedish Parliament Member
Or China.
Opening their bases = the US is now responsible for keeping Sweden safe.
Sweden’s next door neighbor closed its border to Russia, tick, tick, tick.
will allow the United States access to all of the military bases across the Scandinavian country,
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If you thought that Scandavia was caving to ‘migrants’,
Wait till the “Woke” US Military gets through with them.
The handwriting was on the wall when Putin invaded Ukraine.
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For discussion, just who started that - - -
A leopard cannot change its spots...
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Perhaps not, but a leopard can change the spots on T-72s, T-80s and T-90Ms
No one’s going to invade British Columbia
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China already has.
“For discussion, just who started that - - -”
Putin. Period. No one invaded or plannned to invade Russia.
Join an alliance of nations making the same mistake. Check.
How high will the Earth's oceans rise when the nukes turn the snow and ice into water?
“Perhaps not, but a leopard can change the spots on T-72s, T-80s and T-90Ms”
Apples and Oranges
An old savvy intel analyst told me that the CCCP was a 3rd world country with a first class military, that was in the 80’s before asymmetrical warfare tactics were fully developed. The book “Hope Is Not A Method” detailed technological advances between Gulf War I and Gulf War III, Russian Warfare experts probably read it too, and kept pace to a degree. There’s a deadly game of chess being played over there, I’m sincerely concerned that it remains in its current state of containment. If it goes sideways it will not be a joking matter.
Gezz, you can’t see a joke when you read one?
It will go sideways when the US cuts off military aid to save a penny.
An old savvy intel analyst told me that the CCCP was a 3rd world country with a first class military,
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As an even older military analyst, I can say they never had a first class militarily, what they had was quantity.
“As an even older military analyst, I can say they never had a first class militarily, what they had was quantity.”
Quantity was their strategic plan, low tech quantity which could be mass produced literally anywhere, easily, by anyone of various technical abilities. That’s what they did in World War II and it continued on but it was a strategy and the CCCP considered it viable. That makes it no less of a threat.
Russian missiles probably wouldn’t make it further than Sweden anyway.
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