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elleng

(130,895 posts)
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 12:28 AM Jan 2018

SWEDEN IS BRACING ITS CITIZENS FOR WAR WITH RUSSIA.

'The Swedish government will distribute leaflets to the country’s 4.7 million households later this year explaining what to do if war breaks out with Russia, the Civil Contingencies Agency in Stockholm said Thursday.

The announcement comes in the middle of a heated parliamentary election campaign, and amid a renewed fear of hostilities with its eastern neighbor.

The leaflets will also explain how Swedes should react in a terror attack, after a natural disaster or following a cyberattack against critical infrastructure.

The move was prompted in part by the “security situation” in the Baltic Sea, officials told CNN.

Russia has built up a significant military presence on its western border in recent months.'

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3n8y8/sweden-war-russia-leaflets

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OAITW r.2.0

(24,467 posts)
2. This is why our commitment is so important.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 12:34 AM
Jan 2018

Trump is owned by Russia....do you think he will confront Putin?

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
3. People just can't fking live in peace in this world. Russia couldn't have done this without Trump..
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 12:35 AM
Jan 2018

..handing him the United States of America.
Trump's job was to turn the USA into a Russian ally.

Shemp Howard

(889 posts)
4. I don't understand this at all.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 01:14 AM
Jan 2018

I could see why Russia might want to invade the Baltic states, or the Ukraine, or maybe even Poland.

But Sweden? What in the world would Russia gain from occupying Sweden? If I had to bet, I'd bet that Sweden is trying to stir things up, for some reason. What that reason is, I can't even guess.

dchill

(38,481 posts)
8. I've never noticed Sweden trying to stir anything up.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:50 AM
Jan 2018

ABBA, Volvo, Saab...

Nah. They must know something we don't.

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