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Maybe the Swedes remember that Peter the Great took St. Petersburg from them when it was just a swamp.
1 posted on 02/28/2024 7:27:06 AM PST by Dr. Franklin
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NATO should have been shut down after the fall of the Soviet Union .


2 posted on 02/28/2024 7:29:15 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Dr. Franklin

Not to mention, the Baltic Sea becomes the NATO Lake.


3 posted on 02/28/2024 7:29:44 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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Sweden is falling to the muzzoids.


5 posted on 02/28/2024 7:33:17 AM PST by dforest
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"At a recent rally in South Carolina, he even said he'd invite Russia to attack NATO members who don't pay their dues."

A lie!

6 posted on 02/28/2024 7:34:55 AM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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“The Swedish Armed Forces is made up of 24,400 active personnel, 11,400 military reserves, 21,500 Home Guard and 5,200 additional conscripts yearly into the Reserves (set to increase to 8,000 conscripts yearly by 2024) as of 2022.”

*😂*


7 posted on 02/28/2024 7:35:20 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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"NATO was busted until I came along,” Trump said at a rally in Conway, South Carolina. “I said, ‘Everybody’s gonna pay.’ They said, ‘Well, if we don’t pay, are you still going to protect us?’ I said, ‘Absolutely not.’ They couldn’t believe the answer.”

Trump said “one of the presidents of a big country” at one point asked him whether the US would still defend the country if they were invaded by Russia even if they “don’t pay.”

“No, I would not protect you,” Trump recalled telling that president. “In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.”

10 posted on 02/28/2024 7:39:40 AM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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“if Russia wins in Ukraine, its next move could be to launch an attack on the region.”

What a crock. NATO needs a boogyman.

NATO needs to be dissolved, starting with it’s sugar daddy leaving. That would be us, as in US.


11 posted on 02/28/2024 7:42:41 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Vivek for VP!!!!)
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ABBA is dead to me.


15 posted on 02/28/2024 7:57:56 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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The best way to counter Russia is to drill baby drill.


16 posted on 02/28/2024 7:59:43 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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NATO was founded to contain Soviet aggression. It has morphed into a bureaucratic monstrosity that exists to export secular humanist ("globohomo"/woke) fascism. It should have been killed at the end of the Cold War. This is a lesson learned regarding bureaucracies in the future. We either will kill them off when their raison d'etre ends, or we will regret it.
18 posted on 02/28/2024 8:15:50 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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Irrespective of an opinion on responsibility for this stupid war, it is interesting what happens when “Putin’s Rules of Historic Ownership” are applied by others. Belgians should start brushing up on their Spanish, and Spaniards on their Maghrabi Arabic. And China? Digging for that old deed on everything east of the Urals.


19 posted on 02/28/2024 8:16:33 AM PST by katana
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“effectively strike St Petersburg”

International law prohibits attacks on civilians.

That was not the case during WW2.

Stalin moved most arms factories to the Urals in WW2.


20 posted on 02/28/2024 8:23:52 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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22 posted on 02/28/2024 8:29:10 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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“Russian navy”

Except for submarines, Hitler’s navy was a waste of marks.


23 posted on 02/28/2024 8:32:54 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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"Sweden will bring the strategic depth needed for launching air operations and missiles against Russian operations, but also be a difficult target across the Baltic Sea," he said.

WTF? Is it the 1950s again?

Sweden's spy agencies are also pretty good, as is their surveillance plan in Russia, I Am Curious (Red).

30 posted on 02/28/2024 8:59:28 AM PST by x
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Urinalists employeed bu Business Insider is exactly what the West needs to send to fight on the ground in Ukraine to counter Putin’s underhand tactics.

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walk the talk B.I. or stfu.


35 posted on 02/28/2024 10:09:35 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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