Sweden is intimidated by all its new citizens.
I have some friends in Sweden. Sweden is not aligned with NATO but there are many now who debate whether they should join. Some fear joining NATO would provoke Russia, others fear not joining NATO leaves them defenseless.
Sweden has been sort of the Inspector Clouseau of Europe for many decades - always on the hunt for Russian Submarines but almost never seem to find one.
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Seems counterproductive to threaten Sweden like this. NATO existed to counter an expansionist USSR. If Russia is going to threaten nuclear attacks then this only breathes new life into NATO. As usual Russia continues it’s centuries old foreign policies which are similar to a bull in a china shop.
Two Russian planes that violated Swedish airspace earlier this month were equipped with nuclear weapons, it has emerged.
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Sure Jan.
Daily Mail propaganda is always good for a laugh.
LOL.. this is BS
Looks like those countries got the point.
‘Putin had threatened military action if Sweden or Finland joined NATO”
Let’s not be too critical of Putin, there must be bio-labs in Sweden, Finland that he’s saving us from.
I don’t get it, how they claim they know they had nukes on 2 planes? Is it really that easy to tell?
Air space, or ADIZ?
Emerged from where? Under the soil, beneath a rock, from the ocean?
More supermarket tabloid reporting.
Modern nukes are not that easy to detect.
After about 20ft plutonium is hard to measure. Especially if it’s wrapped in a heavy metal.
It’s looking like Vlad is politically and militarily, a spent force.
Since the Chinese really hate to ‘lose face’, and have so publicly and wholeheartedly supported him, where does that leave things??
Will the Chines actually abandon him?
Color me skeptical. Just how has this emerged or been revealed? I don't doubt that Putin would be crazy enough to authorize such a mission , but....
Yeah, pardon me if I doubt the Russians would be so silly to send nuclear armed aircraft into someone else’s airspace. That’s a great way to lose the nuclear armed aircraft, their nuclear weapons, and the pilots.
Call me skeptical, but they might have intercepted them and took photos which analysis revealed were loaded with nukes. But why announce it?
I’ve worked on a few planes (F-4D) loaded with nuclear weapons. The weapons weren’t all that big and looked like it could have been a fat missile. They did have that radiation symbol - circular with yellow and black wedges.
Even though I worked aircraft instrumentation, we weren’t allowed to sit in the cockpit. They sent out one of the pilots and we’d have to tell him which switches we want to flip.
Also, I think I’m right, it took two people to arm the device. In an F-4D, that meant the pilot and the weapons system officer had to do the arming within a certain amount of time.
It’s hard to take off in a jet from Kaliningrad and not be over someone’s airspace in about two minutes.
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