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Newsmax Exclusive: Swedish Military Glad to Be Part of NATO
Newsmax ^ | March 8, 2024 | Michael Katz

Posted on 03/09/2024 11:24:15 AM PST by Navy Patriot

For the first time as a member of NATO, Sweden is participating in a military exercise, and members of its armed forces told Newsmax they were glad finally to be a part of the Western military alliance.

On Thursday, Sweden became the 32nd member of NATO, two years after it applied following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The once-neutral nation is participating in Nordic Response, a training exercise involving more than 20,000 soldiers from 14 countries, including the U.S., which began Monday in the Arctic extremes of Norway, Finland, and Sweden and runs through March 14.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; War
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To: HalfIrish

“I only have anecdotal evidence but of the many Swedes I’ve known there were some closeted Nazis. I bet helping out the Azov scum is high on some recruits’ lists.”

Sweden’s behavior during World War 2 fits in PERFECTLY with them helping the Azov’s (Ukrainian Nazis).


21 posted on 03/09/2024 12:12:38 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: packagingguy
Is the leadership trying to distract their populations from problems they created?

Yes.

22 posted on 03/09/2024 12:19:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Williams

“I oppose the leftist gay/transgender agenda, but I’m not stupid or crazy enough to think that means Russia and China should rule the world.”

>>>>>>>>>>>>

The American GINSCA-people would let Russia invade it.
That’s how sad all this has become.


23 posted on 03/09/2024 12:23:05 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Total bull Schiff.
Sweden’s military cannot even protect Sweden’s women from being raped by Islamic jihad


24 posted on 03/09/2024 12:24:11 PM PST by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: Williams
You fully support Degenerate Globalist control, Homosexual control, Transsexual control, Pedophile control, and Nazi control of the Worlds Population for THEIR purposes.

You are sick in the head, and the Soul.

25 posted on 03/09/2024 12:26:37 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“A big problem is interoperability and unified command. For instance, if they were not NATO members they could not use NATO IFF, and the difficulty of sorting out Swedish and Russian planes in the event of war could be a real problem.”

Sweden became a NATO Enhanced Opportunities Partner in 2014 and has had access to NATO IFF and interoperability (combined arms capabilities) with NATO forces ever since.

Other Enhanced Opportunities Partners (EOP) were/are Finland (2014), Georgia (2014), Jordan (2014), Australia (2014), and Ukraine (2020).

Countries currently exploring EOP status with NATO include Austria, Switzerland, Israel, South Korea, and Japan.


26 posted on 03/09/2024 12:28:00 PM PST by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: Navy Patriot

NATO == The suicide club.


27 posted on 03/09/2024 12:35:56 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman
NATO == The suicide club.

Surprisingly, I had not thought of NATO in that manner, thanks for the wake up call.

28 posted on 03/09/2024 12:39:44 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: packagingguy

“Something is up with European leadership and Russia may not have anything to do with it.”

Russia of course has everything to do with it. After hundreds of years Sweden abandoned neutrality because they realized that there is no clear limit to the territorial appetite of Putin and other Russians who think like him.

Putin apologists try to change the subject to gay rights and transsexualism, but the Finns and Swedes, whose lives are at risk, aren’t buying that argument.


29 posted on 03/09/2024 12:55:17 PM PST by devere
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To: devere

The war in Ukraine is over two years old and the lines have changed little.

My point is why the sudden rush to gear up for a war after two years?

If Russia was going to attack NATO it could obviously set off a nuclear conflict nobody would win.

There has to be something else in play besides a strip of land in Eastern Ukraine.

Could it be Iran? Maybe.

I just don’t know what it is.


30 posted on 03/09/2024 1:15:55 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy
You have to wonder why the French President, among others, is talking about intervention in the Russian-Ukrainian War. There would be no talk of intervention unless NATO is concerned that Ukraine will lose at some point. After two years, the war has settled into a small scale version of World War I style trench warfare. But if Russia is wearing down Ukraine to the point that it could collapse, as Germany collapsed in the fall of 1918, NATO may believe intervention is necessary to prevent Ukraine as well as possibly Moldova to fall under Russian influence and control.

Then we need to ask what NATO's strategy is. Surely they are not as foolish as to think that they would succeed where Charles XII, Napoleon, and Hitler failed. It is possible that as in the Crimean War, when France, the Ottoman Empire, Britain, and Sardinia (the core of modern Italy) united to stop Russian expansion, the NATO powers believe that a limited war can be successfully waged against Russia. On paper, it would appear to be a mismatch. All of Europe, except for Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, and Serbia, and the two North American nations are faced against Russia, which only has Belarus as an ally.

Even if both sides refrain from using nuclear weapons, I must wonder if the imbalance is as much of a slam dunk as it appears on paper. It is possible that Russia is pulling its punches in Ukraine and would go all out against a NATO attack. The United States is above all the world's greatest naval power. But as the Ukrainians and the Houthis have shown, warships are more vulnerable than at any time since Roman Empire days. It is also possible that China and North Korea would use American preoccupation in Eastern Europe to make mischief in the Far East. Turkey may switch sides in order to expand its Near East position in conjunction with Iran to dominate the area and eliminate Israel.

31 posted on 03/09/2024 1:21:08 PM PST by Wallace T. ( )
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To: packagingguy

“The war in Ukraine is over two years old and the lines have changed little.
My point is why the sudden rush to gear up for a war after two years?”

Lots of people like us in the USA don’t want to pay taxes to defend Europe, and the Europeans seem to have finally gotten that message. Trump deserves a lot of the credit for that.


32 posted on 03/09/2024 1:21:31 PM PST by devere
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To: Wallace T.

I never said anything about it but your take on Turkey is correct.

They were always kind of a misfit in NATO except during the USSR they could be seen as yet another religious nation resisting godless communism.

They do want a pan-Turkish union with their relatives in central Asia.

My guess is it would be similar to the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, functionally a type of multinational empire.


33 posted on 03/09/2024 1:33:31 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Navy Patriot

They bring the 3fs to NATO. Fish, furniture, and fjords.

But we’ll always welcome their Bikini Team.


34 posted on 03/09/2024 1:38:56 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Actually, there are a lot of Plusses from Swedes, some of them featuring their women.

Why they didn't hold on to those and reinforce them does not make sense to me.

35 posted on 03/09/2024 1:44:02 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

“Actually, there are a lot of Plusses from Swedes, some of them featuring their women.
Why they didn’t hold on to those and reinforce them does not make sense to me.”

What I’ve read is that the Swedes have a deep almost suicidal guilt over collaborating with the Nazis.


36 posted on 03/09/2024 2:23:09 PM PST by devere
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To: devere

I still can’t understand unwillingness to protect Family, Women and Children, I can only attempt to negotiate the Real World.


37 posted on 03/09/2024 2:40:39 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: delta7
"Why is the West so intent on committing suicide?"
There is a much discredited plan, named after the writings of Austrian-Japanese politician Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, creator of the Paneuropean Union and much beloved by the United Nations, that explains a lot. But the "Kalergi Plan" is much pooh-poohed in the press. In fact its name isn't even allowed to be mentioned (at least by me) in comments in the Daily Mail.
38 posted on 03/09/2024 3:45:11 PM PST by Hiddigeigei (.)
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To: Williams

I see you’re making a public idiot out of yourself... again.


39 posted on 03/09/2024 4:55:41 PM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: Navy Patriot

Ever been to Sweden. Not too many hot women.

Mostly unshapely lefties who eat too much cake.


40 posted on 03/09/2024 5:00:00 PM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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