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Sweden signs defense pact granting US access to all Scandinavian military bases
Fox News ^ | December 6, 2023

Posted on 12/06/2023 8:46:45 AM PST by McGruff

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To: McGruff

The handwriting was on the wall when Putin invaded Ukraine.


21 posted on 12/06/2023 10:29:45 AM PST by Wuli ( ,)
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To: vmpolesov

“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.


22 posted on 12/06/2023 10:30:44 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: canuck_conservative

“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.


23 posted on 12/06/2023 10:33:35 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: vmpolesov

That, and to be honest they are running out of Swedes. Not people, Swedes.


24 posted on 12/06/2023 10:43:00 AM PST by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: canuck_conservative

No one’s going to invade British Columbia, and not because Trudeau’s Canada remains in NATO.


25 posted on 12/06/2023 10:55:58 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: McGruff

Putin consider this in his prewar calculations?


26 posted on 12/06/2023 10:56:46 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: redgolum

Somali-Swedish Research Collaboration for Health


Somali Migrants Protest Video Posted By Swedish Parliament Member

27 posted on 12/06/2023 11:02:18 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Salman

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.


28 posted on 12/06/2023 11:07:43 AM PST by bgill
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To: McGruff

will allow the United States access to all of the military bases across the Scandinavian country,
= = =

If you thought that Scandavia was caving to ‘migrants’,

Wait till the “Woke” US Military gets through with them.


29 posted on 12/06/2023 11:34:06 AM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: Wuli

The handwriting was on the wall when Putin invaded Ukraine.
= = =

For discussion, just who started that - - -


30 posted on 12/06/2023 11:35:40 AM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: Clutch Martin

A leopard cannot change its spots...


Perhaps not, but a leopard can change the spots on T-72s, T-80s and T-90Ms


31 posted on 12/06/2023 11:37:40 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: McGruff
The team is happy!


32 posted on 12/06/2023 11:37:43 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

No one’s going to invade British Columbia


China already has.


33 posted on 12/06/2023 11:38:21 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Scrambler Bob

“For discussion, just who started that - - -”

Putin. Period. No one invaded or plannned to invade Russia.


34 posted on 12/06/2023 11:43:25 AM PST by Wuli ( ,)
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To: redgolum
Let a deluge of foreigners into your country. Check.

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?

35 posted on 12/06/2023 11:43:34 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: PIF

“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.


36 posted on 12/06/2023 12:25:56 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Clutch Martin

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.


37 posted on 12/06/2023 12:30:52 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Clutch Martin

An old savvy intel analyst told me that the CCCP was a 3rd world country with a first class military,

As an even older military analyst, I can say they never had a first class militarily, what they had was quantity.


38 posted on 12/06/2023 12:34:55 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

“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.


39 posted on 12/06/2023 1:04:06 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: McGruff

Russian missiles probably wouldn’t make it further than Sweden anyway.


40 posted on 12/06/2023 1:09:23 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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