The Swedish prime minister has said that his country is neither at war nor at peace as he announced that Sweden would be sending armed forces into the Baltic Sea for the first time as part of increased surveillance efforts amid a spate of suspected sabotage of undersea cables.
The country announced it will contribute up to three warships and a surveillance aircraft to a Nato effort to monitor critical infrastructure and Russia’s “shadow fleet” as the alliance tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure.
I think anyone familiar with the history of the region would disagree with the statement that ‘this is the first time that Sweden has sent armed forces into the Baltic sea’.
How very . . . neutral of them.
They are a Nato member since march?
And you are allowed to defend yourself! During ww2 Switzerland actively shot down both allied and axis planes that violated its airspace! Both sides even apologized to them on a semi-regular basis, as they often accidentally bombed their border towns
I’m just joking around, you’re doing a good thing.
Tell my underwater cable… Hello.
I don’t feel strongly, one way or the other
Sweden?, I don’t think so!
We’ve never been neutral.
During WWII we were neutral in the sense that we flip-flopped and assisted whichever side seemed to do best. We took in refugees, and we assisted the nazis. We fed Germany iron ore to feed its war machine, and let Germany transport troops to Narvik, Norway, via our railways.
On top of that, we were prominent within BS pseudoscientific fields like racial biology, eugenics, etc. We had plenty of “scientists” who were super into the übermensch aryan BS, the effects of which are felt even today. We got rid of the forced sterilisation of transpeople in 2013.
Sweden never was neutral.
aggressively ambivalent
LoL. Opponents hate this simple trick! Maneuver your military aggressively, while claiming neutrality, and they can’t retaliate!
Generations of neoliberal nepotism are ensuring the least qualified people will be leading the charge in WW3.
“Sweden does not jump to conclusions or accuse anyone of sabotage without very strong reasons. The work continues and the national security council is updated on an ongoing basis,” he said. “But we are not naive either. The security situation and the fact that strange things happen time and time again in the Baltic Sea also lead us to believe that hostile intent cannot be ruled out. “There is little evidence that a ship would accidentally and without noticing it, drag an anchor with 300 metres of chain for over 100 kilometres, without understanding that it could cause damage.”
So “we cannot prove that they did it, but we cannot proof that they didn’t either”? Also it’s idiotic. A ferryboat once sinked in Belgium because they forgot to close the door.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise
No longer, he said, is Sweden a “blue-eyed idealist on the sidelines”, but instead had become “a realist in the centre of events”.
LOL They’re blue-eyed because they forced-sterilized non-whites until 2013. Idealists indeed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilisation_in_Sweden
Some bullshit warmongering propaganda from a bunch of fascists.
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Yeah, uh, that’s not true at all.
Sure. Which has nothing to do with a declaration of war.
You do not have to do a formal declaration of war when you declare your enemy to be non-state. It have everything to do with a declaration of war.
That line, “neither at war nor at peace” makes ZERO sense from a legal point of view. They are, for now, at peace with Russia and Iran. If they want that to change they can issue a declaration of war, which would be warranted if the accusations were solid.
But they do not have the balls. They just want some cheap thrill to keep their population scared, it’s good for weapon sales.
Bro you just proved me right? Are you okay?
Aw it’s you. I love Drag <3 have a nice day.
Of course it should not be true that unlawful combatants are not covered by geneva. I’m saying everybody’s trying to wiggle they out of a proper war declaration because it would entail respecting the laws of war.
I’m not Drag, and no, that case you linked proved that they were just doing illegal shit because no one could stop them. Like, it says right in the opening that they violated the law.
A declaration of war means nothing to these circumstances because there’s no accountability. You’re accusing them of trying to use some loophole fuckery and citing sources that say that powerful people in a completely different country mind you just ignore it when it’s convenient.
So you’re an imposter?
I was here before Drag and quite frankly I find Drag’s sexualization of dragons in poor taste. Everyone knows real dragons, as reptiles, have breeding seasons and limited sexual interaction and interest outside of it.
Bunch of ape-brained nonsense otherwise.
