Absolut is a Swedish company, right?
Someone needs to create a map of Europe with all the parts shown as Germany.
I wonder how the Swedes would feel about a Volkswagen ad with that type of map.
Neutral Sweden would still be there - they sold steel to Hitler during WWII that kept Wehrmacht tanks in the field.
The ad's designers are just reflecting a pretty common attitude in Europe - that they are above all of this nationalism stuff and it's funny to make an image showing the USA getting a taste of its own imperialist medicine.