[QUOTE]Some 33,000 Russian soldiers rehearsed a military takeover of the Baltic Sea area on March 21st to 25th, including practising the seizure of Gotland off Sweden's east coast, Danish island Bornholm, Finland's Swedish-speaking Åland islands and northern Norway, security expert Edward Lucas writes in a new report for US-based Center for European Policy Analysis (Cepa).
"If carried out successfully, control of those territories would make it all but impossible for Nato allies to reinforce the Baltic states," his report, titled 'The Coming Storm', claims.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.thelocal.se/20150625/russia-rehearsed-military-invasion-of-sweden[/url]
the muslims will fight them off
Russia is getting scarier every day and I hope there's something to calm down the situation.
Invasion?!?!? This is ridiculous. Sweden is everybody's home and it is backwards to not let Russian troops into Sweden. Racists!
[QUOTE=Jame's;48056798]Invasion?!?!? This is ridiculous. Sweden is everybody's home and it is backwards to not let Russian troops into Sweden. Racists![/QUOTE]
uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh
Ah well, it wouldn't be hard. Sweden's strategy is to rely on the other members of the Nordic battle group. Their defense minister said they'd only be able to hold some cities for at most a week as the state of the military is comparable to Costa Rica.
[QUOTE=.Lain;48056802]uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Jame's;48056798]Invasion?!?!? This is ridiculous. Sweden is everybody's home and it is backwards to not let Russian troops into Sweden. Racists![/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Svinnik;48056764]the muslims will fight them off[/QUOTE]
Hello, can you people start putting a bit more effort into your posts?
edit: Seems making a warning post isn't appreciated anymore?
A country with plans against their neighboring countries isn't at all surprising tbh
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Well, not neighboring but you know close enough
[QUOTE=Nikota;48056813]Ah well, it wouldn't be hard. Sweden's strategy is to rely on the other members of the Nordic battle group. Their defense minister said they'd only be able to hold some cities for at most a week as the state of the military is comparable to Costa Rica.[/QUOTE]
Yup. I believe that was with the assumption that we'd fight conventionally against a Russian invasion. Then the entire country would fall in roughly 1 week unless we get help. And it wasn't the defense minister, it was the damn Supreme Commander of our armed forces...
Shit's sad.
time to join NATO?
But...
why Sweden?
Not because of neutrality or anything but honestly, what assets does Sweden have that Russia wants? Baltic sea access? Finland has that too and is a border state.
Stop border gore, don't invade people that aren't your neighbors.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48056845]But...
why Sweden?
Not because of neutrality or anything but honestly, what assets does Sweden have that Russia wants? Baltic sea access? Finland has that too and is a border state.
Stop border gore, don't invade people that aren't your neighbors.[/QUOTE]
Gotland!
[IMG]http://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/What-Russia-Gotland-small.jpg[/IMG]
Note how it together with Kalinigrad completely blocks access to the Baltic nations and the Baltic sea
[QUOTE=Swebonny;48056820]Hello, can you people start putting a bit more effort into your posts?[/QUOTE]
That's not very liberal of you.
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[QUOTE=Swebonny;48056859]Gotland!
[IMG]http://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/What-Russia-Gotland-small.jpg[/IMG]
Note how it together with Kalinigrad completely blocks access to the Baltic nations and the Baltic sea[/QUOTE]
Then fuck you Russia we'll go around
[img]http://i.imgur.com/YRkG2x7.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48056845]But...
why Sweden?
Not because of neutrality or anything but honestly, what assets does Sweden have that Russia wants? Baltic sea access? Finland has that too and is a border state.
Stop border gore, don't invade people that aren't your neighbors.[/QUOTE]
they want to capture swebonny and take his mod powers
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48056899]Then fuck you Russia we'll go around
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YRkG2x7.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Yeah, no. I think they protect the Kola and Arkhangelsk.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;48056859]Gotland!
[IMG]http://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/What-Russia-Gotland-small.jpg[/IMG]
Note how it together with Kalinigrad completely blocks access to the Baltic nations and the Baltic sea[/QUOTE]
As a coastal jaeger, seeing Åland within Gotland's circle makes me a bit nervous.
Great Northern War II?
[QUOTE=Nikota;48056922]Yeah, no. I think they protect the Kola and Arkhangelsk.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/urL7Hur.png[/img]
New new plan
[QUOTE=Swebonny;48056859]Gotland!
[IMG]http://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/What-Russia-Gotland-small.jpg[/IMG]
Note how it together with Kalinigrad completely blocks access to the Baltic nations and the Baltic sea[/QUOTE]
I love how Finland is a grey nameless blob :v:
It's not uncommon for neighboring countries that aren't on the best terms to draw up invasion plans or defense plans, hell even we did it. I'm sure this is just a revision of a plan they had drawn up 25 years ago that they dusted off and modernized.
I think it's time we kicked this up a notch and reveal that the entire swedish landmass is actually a gigantic spaceship which we'll fire up and show those ruskies what's what.
As much as I want to condemn Russia for warmongering the fact is that contingency training against even close allies is pretty common. In the US we had [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_color-coded_war_plans"]color-coded war plans[/URL] providing for the possibility of wars against Canada, the UK, and France. Outright military maneuvers based on those plans could be seen as provocative but the basis for doing them is not abnormal.
I don't think Russia is in any position to invade anyone right now, with the natural disasters going down in the south.
Russia is such a piece of shit. Honestly. What more can I really say? Putin loves to flaunt his cock around like this.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48056845]But...
why Sweden?
Not because of neutrality or anything but honestly, what assets does Sweden have that Russia wants? Baltic sea access? Finland has that too and is a border state.
Stop border gore, don't invade people that aren't your neighbors.[/QUOTE]
It literally says it right in the article:
[quote]"If carried out successfully, control of those territories would make it all but impossible for Nato allies to reinforce the Baltic states,"[/quote]
Russia isn't targeting Sweden for invasion, it's targeting Sweden as a preemptive counter to anything NATO tries to do if Russia invades the Baltic States.
This is an invasion for the Baltic States, not Sweden.
[editline]26th June 2015[/editline]
The title of the thread is a bit misleading with that.
Eh, seems like business as usual in terms of military contingency planning, exercises and whatnot.
[QUOTE=Nikota;48056813]Ah well, it wouldn't be hard. Sweden's strategy is to rely on the other members of the Nordic battle group. Their defense minister said they'd only be able to hold some cities for at most a week as the state of the military is comparable to Costa Rica.[/QUOTE]Seems about right. Finland and the north of Norway as the meat shield, then slightly tampered-with Ikea food when they reach Sweden. Unless they've got something really powerful hidden in those huge monolithic Ikea structures.
Most experts around here seem to agree that these are scare tactics and not actual preparations for invasion. This is technically nothing new from Russia, even if the last time is from the cold war.
Everyone who has been in the FDF can tell you the "enemy comes from the east". So it's not like we don't do the same thing too.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48056845]But...
why Sweden?
Not because of neutrality or anything but honestly, what assets does Sweden have that Russia wants? Baltic sea access? Finland has that too and is a border state.
Stop border gore, don't invade people that aren't your neighbors.[/QUOTE]
Obviously it's for that rapaseed oil Swedes massproduce pretending it's good.
Not but really, Sweden does have various active gold mines. Which really aren't worth that much in comparison to what you'd get from successfully taking over Norway for example but it's something if they did need some sort of excuse to do something immensely stupid, but having a valid reason hasn't stopped them in the past.
They wouldn't even want all of Sweden, only tactical points to take more places that lack proper defenses.
They obviously won't do anything though, there's no cause for alarm. Some people seem to think every year is the year the Russians will strike, just like your generic doomsayer.
[QUOTE=Lolkork;48057299]I like gotland a lot, lets join nato so that we can keep it.[/QUOTE]
Russia isn't looking to keep it, it's looking it to take it out as a strategic point against them.
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