Sweden joining NATO would crush Russian power 

Please make a video on pro democracy protests in Bangladesh. We are oppressed by illegitimate leftist government who usurped power by voter fraud.

We need a Baltic Alliance of Finland, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. We also need a Slavic alliance of Poland, Ukrainian Czechia and Slovakia And a Balkan alliance of Romania, Greece, Croatia and potentially Bulgaria.

So first you work together with a sketchy company that "sold noble titles", and now you work with an even more sketchy company.

@@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617 and it will only take 1 nation like Nazi Germany to conquer these Mighty alliances

@@smiley.6534 1at off he's been doing masterworks for awhile and it's not a scam the art is regulated as a security by the SEC not like Established titles based in hong kong with loose regulation

It's an old tradition. In Germany, we have the Herrmannsdenkmal, which depicts Arminius(Herrmann) who won over a Roman army 2k years ago. The monument was built when France was still considered the mortal enemy of Germany and thus it's no surprise that Arminius is keeping a watchful eye towards France while holding aloft his sword.

Well this king failed to attack russia... Its might be a warning dont attack there... As Sweden was a superpower in that time that king ruled. History teached in schools, but history have a tendensy to change to fit the narrative current told by ruling class

@@cofal79 That is not how that kind of thing works and the iconography of a ruler holding a sword pointing towards another nation is rather unquestionable. Your post is the kind of comment made by someone who just found out what Historical Revisionism is, but hasn't quite grasped the concept.

East Germany actualy turned a statue of Friedrich II westward just to avoid any "misunderstanding"

That everything tolerates if you are enought Russophobic?

@Anton Smirnov It depends on what you mean by always. We were one of the dominating powers in Europe for hundreds of years. That was ended by country starting conscription and our small population made us less competitive. We were Allies of France for the longest time, and then of Germany. During both World wars, we would be as neutral as we could, but ultimately being nicer to the dominating power. During the Cold War, we did have the aforementioned secret alliance. Full neutrality was not really an option and in the choice between a domineering and imprerialist West and the death and gulags of the Soviet hell hole, the choice was easy.

@Anton Smirnov Rather be a satrap of anglo-Saxons than equal to a country with a GDP per capita smaller than that of Poland or Romania. ;) Russia hasn't been so primitive since before peter the great :)

@Anton Smirnov have you even looked at the Caucasus and certain parts of European Russia? Those guys have a phenomenal birth rate while ethnic Russians are getting fewer every year.

@Anton Smirnov Dude, the UK Lost in 1945. The process started when they declared war on Germany in 1939. If you want to be even pickier, they sort of lost World War I and would actually have if it wasn't for the United States. They haven't been a world power in forever. I don't personally care about the United Kingdom and I don't understand why you do either? Russia needs to be concerned with the United States and China. Once Russia gets weak enough, China will stab them in the back...

@Anton Smirnov I would rather be rich with poor neighbours, than poor with good ones. Furthermore, in response to someone pointing out Russia's demographic difficulties you just bury your head in the sand and say "russia will always win". Blind faith has only ever lead to disappointment, even in victory, so good luck with that

That is why the US has more enemies than Russia

@@xtc2v Yeah probably. But that's like saying Jason Statham has more hair than Bruce Willis

@@tigerpjm Not really. The population outside the collective west added together is far greater. It also has a massive chip on its collective shoulders because the west's got most of the money which is why it tends to back Russia. Its much less even than a follicle count between JS and BW?

@xtc2v You're going to have to go find someone else if you want to debate this absurd whataboutism any further. The Junior High common room should contain roughly the calibre of debater you're looking for.

@@tigerpjm I'm debating if you have any absolute fixed morals. It appears that when asked to justify the hypocrisy you resort to being rude because you know you have been caught out just simply taking a side

One lousy quote put in the wrong context makes you hard? Damn...

@@j.langer5949 Neither it was lousy nor put in wrong context. Do you know what makes me hard? The idea of Putin supporters being excuted infront of my eyes, while they beg and cry for mercy with their fascist lousy mouth.

@@j.langer5949it’s was the intro music after the quote that’s got homie feelin all deep about it 😂

@@euroboy9188 Putin wants a way out - We'll give him one through the gallow's hatch!

@@j.langer5949 Certain quotes resonate with certain people depending on their current or past situation(s). It is possible that @Kevin attributed that saying to a personal life experience, while those who think with their genitals end up jumping straight to erotic conclusions.

That's a lie. Putin is on record here on RU-vid saying that he does *not* care about Finland or Sweden joining NATO and that them joining just makes them a target if nuclear war breaks out.

Yep Putin has done more damage to Russia than is imaginable. It is almost like he is a CIA plant who is there to absolutely destroy what is left of that place and its military.

Putin will go down in history as The Idiot. His moves always have the opposite of their intended effects.

It was only a matter of time until all of the Nordics were lobbied into NATO.

@@craigkdillon Really? Putin seems to have made short work of the Ukrainian military with only 7% of Russia's military strength. The only idiotic thing Putin did was put restraints on Russian military because he's against civilian casualties. His generals wanted Blitzkrieg.

And they don't make jokes about it. Remember, 1,000 years of Swedish humor is just the appendix to 100 years of German humor.

yeah but how much do swedes really want to be americas bitch? I mean the capable warrior types

Wrong. There were multiple war games that showed it is in disaster. The biggest of them several years ago was a laughable show.

As a Dane working with Swedes and Germans, I can attest to the above. In every other part of the world, we Danes are cold as ice. Compared to Germans and Swedes, we're apparently considered the "Italians of the North"

A lot of that was because they needed ro do it themselves, because while nominally NATO-aligned, they werent in NATO proper and simply didnt free ride on the Americans. I hope that doesnt change over time.

Lol, last time Russian bombers flew into Swedish territory, they couldn’t get their Gripens up.

@@TheBooban False. Troll using hacked account.

@@TheBooban Fighters have been scrambled multiple times to escort Russian planes out of Swedish airspace.

It's greatest strength is allies.

@@TheBoobanYou ought to stop making a fool of yourself.

that is, the number of troops in the northwest of Russia is not large, and this is the danger for Sweden and Finland ?! lol?? Nato-imperial machine number 1 in the world.

@@zigast3387 In the recent 15 years, Russia has sent in its military to every European neighbour (and Moldavia) that is not in the NATO - except to Finland. And you wonder why Finland wants to join NATO? 😀 Russia is unable to get friends so it seeks subjects. NATO members all made their own choise to join, none of them was ever forced. Why do you expect Russia's neighbours to sit and wait for their tanks? And now tell me: who is the imperialist in this story?

@@BiharyGabor No one answered my question why Finland sees a threat where it does not exist, I understood, I accepted ... You also don’t understand geopolitics if you think that the territories around Russia should be left without Russia’s attention ... Condolences to the victims of Western education ....

​@@zigast3387 You are wrong (or more likely dishonest): the answer has been given to you and your likes endless times. However, your question as formulated here is invalid because it includes a false statement: the threat _does_ exist, indeed. And I explained why. Let me repeat for you! In the recent 15 years, Russia has sent in its military to every European neighbour (and Moldavia) that is not in the NATO - except to Finland. And you wonder why Finland wants to join NATO? Nobody thinks that the territories around Russia should be left without Russia’s "attention". However, if you believe that Russia's "attention" means imperialistic war than it is not me who has difficulties understanding geopolitics.

@@BiharyGabor Let me remind you that Finland is the brainchild of Russia, in the first place ... Second, Finland has been independent for more than 100 years at the behest of Russia, and Russia simply needs Finnish neutrality. But just the CIS countries that climbed into NATO, and want to "defend" themselves quickly from the Russian Federation, fall under the forced "physical influence" of Russia. And for 30 years after the collapse of the USSR, the West just did not have to interfere in the affairs of the CIS, if they wanted democratic changes in the Russian Federation. And in the end they forced the Russians to defend themselves. P.S. Read "The Grand Chessboard" by Zbigniew Brzezinski, everything is clearly stated there.

We want in!!Except Erdogan are blocking us✊🏻🇸🇪🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦👍🏻

Hello , do you know if your new prime minister plans to make army mandatory in Sweden ? I also live in Sweden

How do I fight with Sweden brother

Welcome to NATO! I am very happy to have the Swedish people further allied with us in this manner. 🍻

@@dnice374 you are welcome my swedish brother

No wonder!

Vote in my community poll plz...

And went by the name Eric the Dovson.

Lmao

Off topic: Hi Marvin I don't if you know but the proper way how to spell your sir name is with two s:es. The son of Carl should be spelled Carls son = Carlsson. All son-names are spelled like that in Sweden, in the old days as wall now days. :)

There is a fair amount of industry in the north. In the northern coasts all around the Botnic Sea and up in the Arctic, towns cling in a line around the coast. Towns sprung up where the rivers met the sea so barges from the inland could meet sea-going ships. The rivers have been replaced in importance by the train nowadays but the important port towns remain.

@@SusCalvin People forget how big Sweden is. The amount of resources there have fueled civilization in the north since the Nordic Bronze Age; should Sweden actually get itself together it could be a European powerhouse, but instead it kucks to the will of Brussels.

@@bustavonnutz man, you would think Brexit would have showed people something. Even if Sweden is less arrogant and incompetent than England

@@bustavonnutz The European Union is a perfect projection system. Let me suggest, the future of Sweden depends on its own people and politicians. If they have some good projects, they can produce them with or without EU. Same with GBR.

@@bustavonnutz You know what would really scare Putin? One combined EU army

That's because they don't know why. They're just paranoid. Maybe too much vodka has something to do with it.

A bloated nostalgic sense of national pride makes them feel entitled to be a prime NATO target.

@@mw7851Common sense makes them feel to be a prime NATO target. You're one of these fools who still believes that NATO countries were worried about Iran? Please...

Because historically Russia has constantly been a main target of conquest for western European countries

Lmao I have a chuckle seeing you say that technically it's true for any people still living as hunter gatherers. If I as a white person said it tho, I would be fkn castrated 😅

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Well if anything happens in Europe, at least you guys will be out of it except maybe trade being affected

No country is ready for another war unless it's trying to become colonial power.

Peter zeihan

Swedens navy have allways been a joke, even during the viking age. It is the landforces that is good. The aireforce have never been at war.

@@thomaseriksson6256 Our land forces are a sideshow, they are there to lock down the north and respond to landings elsewhere. But the landings shouldn't happen, since the air force and navy is tasked with taking care of them in the Baltic. There is a reason our stocks of RBS15 missiles are massive, and we have a fighter specifically designed to take down Russian ones.

@@thomaseriksson6256 I would check on their capability much closer than you did, you might come up with a different answer.

@@thomaseriksson6256 Thats not really true, it's just not big enough to compete with the larger naval powers such as britain. Its navy works for what purpose it serves: Protecting its interests in the baltic.

@@starcobra2575 And let's not forget Hitler decided against an invasion of Sweden in part since he thought the Swedish Navy would make resupply risky. And don't we have a warship in a museum that toppled over because we went nuts with the amount of guns on it? Yeah, sounds like it's always been a joke, even since Viking times... He is either a self hating Swede or just a salty Dane. They never seem to get the brotherly banter we for example have with the Norwegians. They just always feel offended and respond by lashing out.

The nordics are brothers and sisters and can colabruate alot and have same mindset

Denmark and norway and brothers Sweden are at best cousins. In everyhting but language Sweden is much tighter bound to Finland and even Estonia and Latvia.

@@DaDunge If you want to get specific then the subregions of Sweden have varying cultural relations, where yes the north eastern parts of Sweden are definitely closer tied to Finland, but that is not the case for many other parts of Sweden - and namely the fact that Sweden, Denmark, and Norway have historically been under a common rule and all considered a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, is a tie that Sweden and Finland can't match. Yes there has also been rivalry in equal measure, but similar to how brothers fight, so have our countries. Scandinavia is a big cultural union, always will be. Every Nordic country is closely related in one form or another.

@@Real_MisterSir Nope wrong again. The crowns of the three kingdoms were for a time held by one person who ruled from Denmark but they never stopped being three separate Kingdoms. And I live in the very south of Sweden have all my life and I feel a lot more kinship with Finland than with Denmark. Heck I feel more positively towards Germany than towards Denmark.

@@DaDunge And you're absolutely free to do that. Won't change the fact that most of us regard each other as brothers.

This would be an awesome idea. And in true Russian Style, have "Citizens" of Kaliningrad join the City to prepare the voting.... I am pretty sure Poland could spare 100K "Russians" to make this happen.

Maybe time to relocate the people of kaliningrad back to the motherland and do some testing of dirty nukes there, it is russian territory after all.

@@BernhardWelzel No, it should go to germany

@Max შემიწყალე Königsberg will never be the same though unfortunately, after what happened to it in WW2. 😞

@@Maltheus_ yeah it will never be Nazi again

I, as an American, cannot wait to see US, Swedish and British Jets taking off from the Airbases that are gonna be built there. You think we should build a big ass statue showing the Scandinavian+Baltic allied Nations… or is that too corny?

That’s right, we have worked hard to stay neutral and when Russian is at its weakest power, oh now you want to join NATO? Now _that_ is stupid. Swedes very stupid decision to lose neutrality.

@@TheBooban Why would Sweden be neutral when it comes to safeguarding its own security? It would be far better if Russia was neutral and kept within its own borders.

@@TheBooban Yeah, Boob-head over here really doesn’t get the bigger picture. Joining NATO comes with a lot of perks, more than just the mutual defense. An especially important one is it puts Sweden and Finland on the list for Military Technology exports from the US.

What about unchecked American power? Who's going to crush that? America's globalism is the real threat to the human species and life. Enslaved to fiat currency debt system, federal reserve printing money from thin air backed by literally nothing, enslave every single tribe of human beings on Earth to their debt system, spread their misery to the world, their poisons, McDonald's, Coca Cola high fructose corn syrup soy diets, vapid, soulless, braindead "culture" worship of the rich and famous, tyrants who kill millions in sovereign nations for oil, gas, israel. The worst empire that has ever existed in all recorded human history. They have military bases surrounding virtually every country and zone on planet Earth. If you don't like their system they kill your leader, call you a dictatorship and invade your country. drowning in debt and misery with stagnant wages, profiteering drug companies, third world backwards education systems, eroding infrastructure, diminishing middle class, widening income inequality, endless wars that only create terrorists and destroy the west, and worship of the rich and famous and Hollywood bread & circuses for the vaccinated masses

I hope...

You may want to look up the Visby class stealth corvettes too.

@@DaDunge I just did, they are pretty cool boats!

great, white european destroying each other, we chinese are the one gain the advantage of it. it weakened both west and russia at once.

We truly live in bing chilling times

Thank you John Xina, very cool

It is a huge change , simply put it there is no America / Europe centrality any more . There is East as much as there is West !!

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Only kralovec

@@Rezlusiowa Yeah. Kralovec is half polish half czech with czech getting access to sea

Пусть для начала найдут топливо для своих заводов🙃

@@wederMaxim только у вас топливо есть?!

Kaliningrad to Germany could then be transfered to Poland. First of all Germany would finally see the Polish government to stop whining about WW2.

Eh, sort of. The Swiss haven't been in a real fight in a long time. I wouldn't put them on the same level as the rest of us.

Yes, between Sweden on the sea and air and Finland in the air and on land, Russia would be fighting 2 hedgehogs that are already very well prepared via their military exercises with NATO to defend themselves, and potentially even capture territory should they want to do so. Putin has been very foolish, and was severely misinformed about the state of his armed forces.

@@CharChar2121 Neither was Sweden ... more than 200 years

@@CharChar2121 Every swiss man serves in the military reserves. So they defo know what they are doing.

@@CharChar2121 FYI most military disasters occur when you underestimate the enemy

Thanks 👍 Yeah Russia didn't play well there, it kinda backfired 😂

Thank you! And so very true! If Russia, or well, Putin in this case, wasn’t so stuck in the idea of a new Soviet Union and invading sovereign neighbors, we wouldn’t even have needed to consider joining NATO. But as is, I see more positives than negatives with us joining. I’m Swedish

Russia would be a peaceful neighbour if there was no NATO

@@mpriymak NATO was created is the first place because of the soviet union/Russia. Read the history of NATO please mpriymak

@@craighughes2191 To simplify, NATO was created to "keep Germans down, keep Americans in, and keep Russians out" As long as the world's most powerful military alliance (and an instrument to US hegemony) exists, it will pose an existential threat to all other independent and sovereign states...

And the amount of harm NATO countries have done to Russia so that somebody like Putin comes to power in the first place is equally incredible. Because the Versailles Treaty was so fair and just somebody like Hitler just came to power - through democratic means no less - out of the blue... Right. Pardon my sarcasm. Learn from history. Or be doomed to repeat it. Tyrants never emerge where people feel safe and secure. When there is a threat, be it an inner or outer, people will support a "strong man". People who feel threatened tend to rally behind nationalism and religion. Often it's one and the same thing in certain countries. Nationalism and religion are very dangerous things. They offer comfort and security when there is a threat. Strength in numbers. Goodbye individualism and free thought. BUT there has to be certain extraneous factors which led to those things in the first place. And you'd be amazed how many times that has to do with the meddling of other countries - mostly those who require the natural resources of that country. I've talked to enough people from African and Asian countries (in person!) who describe the reason for their civil war and what it's all really about. You'd be amazed how many times some of your noble NATO countries do absolutely nothing as long as the flow of the natural riches of said country flow freely... They'll only react if the "wrong people" seize control of those. Ever studied the history of 20th century Iran? Reza Shah was the leader of Iran from the 1920's to 1941. Turns out he had sympathies towards Nazi Germany who made him promises his country could keep most of its oil. Well, obviously the British didn't like that (they got most of their oil from here prior to the American entry in the war) so they invaded Iran and depose the Shah (king). After the war the Iranian people democratically voted Muhammad Mossaddegh to be prime minister. He "unfortunately" (sarcasm) had this idea that Iran's oil could be used to help the people. Unfortunately (more sarcasm) the British didn't like that and orchestrated a coup in 1953 with the support of the CIA and overthrew him. In his place the son of the overthrown king of 1941 was made total leader. Muhammad Reza Pahlavi (last shah of Iran). What an obedient puppet he was. A true yes-man. Then by the 70's he started thinking and realized that for all his gargantuan wealth his own people were still poor. Then he suddenly realized he sold the oil in his own country for peanuts and tried to change that by opposing those who purchased the oil... Oh dear. Soon enough his own people began hating him. Just remember that there was no freedom of speech in Iran and nobody could write or publish anything opposing the Shah. Enter the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now everything was in free-fall. Again, like I said, what does scared and lost people rally behind. Nationalism and religion. Enter the fundamentalist Muslims and their Sharia Law state under Ruhollah Khomeini. My point with Iran is: Do you honestly think that all that British and American meddling in Iran for 50 years and who got a certain price for oil and who controlled *didn't matter* ?? Do you think that the Versailles Treaty and the victorious allies pillaging Germany for coal and other commodities in the early 1920's had nothing to do with the rise of Hitler?? So why do you believe that Russia just started supporting Putin out of the blue?? He came to power because most Russians felt worried and scared prior to him. And much of that fear had basis in the meddling and demands of your "freedom-loving" countries. That "freedom" only goes as long as whatever natural commodity is steadily provided. So good luck to you if you think this all just started with Putin.

@@paulallen8109 What has NATO ever done to Russia specifically? NATO didn’t make the Soviet Union collapse. Neither did NATO cause the chaos of the 90s. 80 years of totalitarianism came back to bite the Russians in their asses. NATO didn’t make Boris Yeltsin break the constitution, destroy Russian democracy, and destroy the economy through importing shock therapy economists. Russia hates NATO for the sole reason that NATO doesn’t allow Russia to oppress other Eastern Europeans anymore. That’s it. And your point about Germany is nonsense. If the reason Hitler rose to power is because Germany was treated too harshly after WW1, then why was there no second Hitler after WW2, when Germany was treated a hundred times harsher and essentially destroyed as a nation? Germany wasn’t treated too harshly by Versailles, it was treated too leniently. Same with Russia. We should have cut them out of our economies forever, rather than foolishly thinking that free trade would cause Russians to abandon the authoritarianism inherent to their nation.

Long term russia will no longer be part of the global economy, relying on China like a big North korea.

The Russian people welcomed it with open arms

I read that for the first time we had exercises together were Swedish troops were under the complete command of finnish commanders. I'm sure we'll see muuuch cooperation in the future between our two countries. Woho :) Lets go brother! Edit: Pretty sure Sweden would send in forces to help the finns right if Russia was to invade?

@@kristofferhellstrom you did not learn much from the last war

It is a standing joke but abit unfair. The only reason Sweden never joined NATO after WWII was because Finland could not join and Sweden did not want to leave Finland alone against Russia. Also Sweden had by far the largest military in the Nordics during the cold war. For this reason.

@@kelvindenize3940 that has changed, in 1949 ( might be wrong year) Sweden and Finland signed a very important piece of paper that states that if either is attacked the other is legaly forced to come to the aid of the one under attack. Basicly were both going to war if someone attacks us.

@@nenasiek That might be so, but as the UK ignored the attack on Poland and Sweden ignored the attack on Norway and Finland...you might trust it but I dont think it will work when tested.

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This is hilarious. Finnish humor 👌

It could be true. Finland joined NATO 4.4. 2023 Sweden is still waiting.... Actually I wish Turkey and Hungary will ratify Sweden's application very soon.

Can second this, so many of the channels just regurgitate the same information on a topic I’ve heard 1000 times. CR makes me think in ways I wouldn’t normally and brings facts to my attention I wasn’t aware of & fascinate. Top tier RU-vid channel!🏆

except drawing maps. He should either draw Crimea Ukrainian, or draw all occupied regions in red.

Are you his mother or girlfriend?

@@tedmoss i am his girlfriend

@@tedmoss I thought I was your mother

@Pedro Requio Thus, their grip on Belarus.

Yes, unfortunately you see this as a *good* thing when seeing anything as a *threat* usually leads to BAD things. When was the last thing a country and its people acted reasonably and sanely when being under threat? Can you name a single country anywhere in the world which has reacted positively when it says it's under threat?? Didn't you read history? HOW do you think Hitler came to power in Germany? Mostly because the Germans felt the Versailles Treaty was harsh and unfair, that Germany's economy was threatened by countries which dictated the terms of trade and that they felt marginalized. Do you think Hitler and the nazis just materialized in a vacuum and that they gained huge popularity out of the blue? Do you think that other dictators and bad presidents come to power without the support of angry people in the country?? If the victors of WWI wasn't so hellbent on punishing Germany we would never have seen Hitler and WWII. And now you're saying it's a good thing to have Russia feel threatened? Let's threat them even more! Hey, let's even talk about an *invasion* (!!) because we're fighting for peace and justice... Yeah, I wonder how many times in history an invasion of another country has been justified the same way. The USA does it wherever it goes, even for the countries which aren't even a remote threat to them. You know what? I hope there will be a war. I hope it's prolonged. Then short-sighted fools like yourself will feel the effects when everything you take for granted comes in short supply and the cost of war puts the already pushed tax-payers into going berserk. If you want to support the Ukrainian people, by all means keep doing so. Sending them help and support is infinitely more useful than you clowns playing with your toy soldiers and utterly lacking the ability to see conflicts from any side but your own. How much help have *you* given the Ukrainian people? I utterly loathe Putin's Russia. But to think that the likes of him and his supporters will back down when feeling more threatened?? No, don't expect a desperate man to act rationally. It's also a good idea to look up your *own leaders* and see what's all this urgency for anyway? And what's *really* at stake here? Surely you don't believe this is some "noble crusade" for freedom we're talking about here? No, when it comes to war and the driving force behind them follow the money and who gains what.

@@paulallen8109 you managed to completely miss the point of the comment you are replying to! The fact that Russia has only stationed a very low number of troops and hardware near their existing borders means that they consider the threat of invasion from NATO is nonexistent. The comment is simply pointing out that one of the reasons Russia cited for invading Ukraine, NATO expansion, is a lie they came up with to justify imperialist land grab! Get a grip dude!

@@paulallen8109 having seen your other comments, I can only assume that you are from a Russian troll farm

@@paulallen8109 Reading Pedro's text, I believe he's saying that Russia is actually not feeling threatend by NATO countries, despite their narrative. Their actions show their intent. He did edit his text, so it might be different than what you read though

here in Ukraine we did not believed... well, did not want to believe russia will restart a war even after Crimea occupation. Unfortunately, that didn't help(

Om Kris eller kriget kommer... You know what they said. All messages that the resistance are to cease ARE FALSE!!

This saying was also used in Romanian: "Vin rușii"

Did they come to you in Sweden?

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Generally Sweden has been on the fence of NATO for many years, cooperating in lots of exercises. Formally joining isn't that big of a step. While public opinion has been against joining, to my knowledge it's never been a particularly strong opinion for most people. There has also been a significant amount of people who think joining is just a matter of publicly declaring it rather than any real practical change. So yes, "hesitant" is probably the right word to use. "Forced" probably less so, and more that it's just time to do it and that was the final push.

The policy of neutrality was abandoned when Sweden joined the EU.

100% that we where hesitant, and even now as things are only ramping up and Putin's madness is only becoming clearer we still have a lot of people who are against joining NATO. But I wouldn't say our hand was forced so much as it is a strategic choice. If we join NATO now we get to have quite a lot of input on how military development will happen in our own country, things like where bases will be placed, how we work with the rest of the nordic countries, etc. But if we end up being forced into NATO should Russia turns its guns on us, we suddenly will have a lot less say in the matter as we will be too valuable to risk and too many members will push for what is correct in their opinion. Not to mention that, while we want to be part of NATO for the sake of mutual protection and co-operation with a military superpower, we are also aware of history and how said military superpower have... "helped" in the past. We want to co-operate with US and EU troops, co-operate being the key word here.

he's master od 4d chess

Unfortunately he has forgotten about our universe

@@zamath1895 what does that nonsense even mean??

@@kelumo7981 Every chess game is 4D. It is actually a joke from people ignorance.

@@kelumo7981 if you want to talk about it seriously, let's do that, why not) stupid decision #1: threaten former allies to use force when they want to distant themselves from russia stupid decision #2: steal, steal, steal, steal everything instead of developing own country, enforcing more and more countries to distant themselves from russia stupid decision #3: occupy Crimea stupid decision #4: start a war and spend about 100k dead for nothing, which started russian cancellation activities all over the world is that enough nonsense?)

Sweden has a military base there edit: I am wrong lol, idk where I heard that from

@@bighillraft Åland is demilitarised. This means that there may be no military presence and that the Islands may not be fortified.

@@bighillraft That would be Gotland.

@@bighillraft They have not. Åland is Finish not Swedish🤣

@@hermaeusmora4874 There is a russian consulate on the island specifically to oversee that. They own a plot of land for it. Some of the island residents wanted to start a volunteer unit. I don't think it got approved. During wartime, the plans would be different.

Yes Sweden joining Nato would crush Russian power, even though Ukraine has been crushing russian power for the past 8 months according to the same class of ding dongs

You’re in the Army now Son!

Time to step up for your country!

Have fun :D

@@wederMaxim I’ll do so willingly and gladly. I believe in maintaining the order of things, lest those filthy Russian Mongols or those Riceeyes over in China get any funny ideas. In the case of China we can easily cut their oil lifeline from the sea, and watch as they collapse within months.

@@wederMaxim why don't you join your "glorious" ruSSian army and fight against the interests of the USA then, boy? Ukrainians would be more than happy to make fertilizer out of you.

S are when you learn word use from a non-nat8ve speaker. I had always thought of riparian as freshwater but it can also be tidal. Learn something new every day. I learned the word while watching Keeping Up Appearances, a British sitcom. An arrogant wannabe hosted a riparian picnic.

Thinking the word “littoral” would be more appropriate, but I’m not going to make a big deal out of that. The video as always is fantastic.

@@TheRagingPlatypus I also learned the term from Hyacinth. 😄

“Defensive” alliance 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@wederMaxim well it is... nobody is forced to join NATO and the main directive is to respond to attacks. However, I do agree NATO has been used as a USA foreign interest's extendable arm for quite a lot of time now.

No its not a defensive alliance, its an military alliance. Ask Afghanistan, Lybia or Jugoslavia how defensive Nato are :)

@@peterjensen5954 we can ask, but nato alliance was not triggered for these war. An example would be italy that was there just as a peace keeping force under ONU. Same for Germany, sice they cannot join in offensive wars by law

@@peterjensen5954 Afghanistan chose to train, arm, support and hide Folk who deliberately attacked a NATO member multiple times. Yugoslavia thought they could go back 60 years to when Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Murder was an Acceptable Policy. I don't know what Libya did, I think you have to ask the French about that one. And hardly anyone from NATO was interested in attacking Iraq. It IS a Defensive Alliance. Everyone is well aware Russia has literally thousands of Nuclear Warheads. No-one WANTS a fight with Russia, but Putin has an annoying habit of invading all of his neighbours unprovoked. Ask Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova or Ukraine. Twat.

And take into acount that Ukraine are beating Russia with old Soviet gear and Nato gear from the 90´s... Russia will not stand a chance against either Finland or Sweden without Nato, and with Nato they simple are outclassed 100%

@@larswhitt1549 Agree either Finland or Sweden by themselves could take the sad remainder of the russian military out at this point and it would be easy.

​@@larswhitt1549 lol russia is beating shit of ukranke and nato from 60s wepons

In war games, they managed to sink a US carrier USS Ronald Reagan. Their subs are very good because they are good at being quiet.

Mmmm.. True

after ukraine baltics are next. atlast so they say

@@naapsulusmurmurusmurmurus2392 Mmm.. True

every country depends on peace, trade and cooperation across borders.

@@robosergTV But not Putin. He can only deal with other gangsters, just look at his allies.

Hahaha Samma här!

Caspian Report is the only channel from which I've chosen to get notifications of new episodes. It is the best.

Love your videos bro!

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I love ghetto versions of caspian report

agreed

Maybe so, but it has the advantage of being _virtually_ unsinkable ... 🙂🙃🙂 Fun fact - Great Britain became renamed as 'Airstrip One' in Orwell's 1984.

"Jag måste se till att Gävle blir rättstavat".

That's just because it's such an insignificant town that it doesnt need a english name :D And everyone knows that Gothenburg is the real capitol of Sweden around the world anyway...

@@theswedenguy4647 It isn't a town, it's a city which is in fact the 13th largest in Sweden, also I have never heard anyone call Gothenburg the "real capital of Sweden"