Swedish army warns of growing Russian threat

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Swedish army warns of growing Russian threat

The Swedish Armed Forces are calling for more military resources inside the country following a revision of its stance on Russia.
Major General Michael Moore however warns against perceiving the news as "alarming", stressing that the military does not regard the level of threat to have dramatically increased.
"We are seeing the crystallisation of a changed strategic situation in northern Europe. This is partly due to pressure created by economic advances in China and India, which are demanding more and more energy," Moore told newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
The growing importance of energy, Russia's renewed economic power, and the growth of Baltic trade have all contributed to altering the overall picture, according to Moore.
Colonel Stefan Gustafsson, head of the Armed Forces' strategic analysis unit, agrees that the situation in Russia has changed.
"The country has the financial capacity to invest more in defence. That is not to say that Sweden is at risk of attack.
"Such threats emerge from a combination of resources and intentions. And we do not predict any such intentions in the foreseeable future," he said.
The Swedish Defence Commission will meet on Wednesday to discuss the issue of national security. These discussions will form an important basis for a parliamentary resolution on national defence later this spring.
The Swedish Armed forces have previously prioritised international engagements.

The Local - Swedish army warns of growing Russian threat

Hopefully he next war Sweden is involved in is a a civil-war; and the Swedish resistance would be grateful for any Russian weapon deliveries.
Major General Michael Moore

[Routasydän]

This can only mean one thing: they've lost faith in the FDF.

[Menydh]

Sweden is not a NATO member. I wonder if this could be a move to make people believe that there is a need for Sweden to support NATO membership?

[Zrinski]

Sweden is not a NATO member?! I didn't know that.
Yes I just looked on Google, funny I really didn't know that, Austria, Finland and Ireland aren't part of it too. Thats interesting.

Why am I mentioning this...there is a rather continuing debate here in Croatia wheter should we join or not. As it is now huge majority don't support it (as opposed to those who do).

I must say seeing these countries as not being part of it somehow increases doubt....I was or rather I am undecided.

[Marcus Marulus]

Originally Posted by Zrinski

Sweden is not a NATO member?! I didn't know that.
Yes I just looked on Google, funny I really didn't know that, Austria, Finland and Ireland aren't part of it too. Thats interesting.

Switzerland isn't either.

Originally Posted by Zrinski

Why am I mentioning this...there is a rather continuing debate here in Croatia wheter should we join or not. As it is now huge majority don't support it (as opposed to those who do).

I don't see any debate on it in Croatia. The political class (all so-called political parties, which are in fact only fractions of only one and the same party) have already decided, "in the name of all of us", that they will drag us into this supranational and totalitarian military association, no matter what we think about it. It does not matter at all, which proportion of the population is against NATO membership. Lately the minister of foreign affairs declared that a referendum on NATO "may not be necessary, because the NATO membership does not infringe on any country's sovereignity."
Although many people are against NATO, their voices are not being heard, so there is absolutely no debate.

Originally Posted by Zrinski

I must say seeing these countries as not being part of it somehow increases doubt....I was or rather I am undecided.

How come you are undecided? How do you manage to perceive any benefit in Croatia's membership in this American-Masonic association? Do you see any benefit in Croatia being deprived of any possibility to have independent policy, being deprived of any armed forces worth of mention (save for a few units which will take part as auxiliaries in future American/British/Zionist wars), because it is what NATO is about? NATO and EU are vehicles of world domination by ceratin occult forces behind the curtain, their aim is to destroy all national sovereignities and identities.

Croatia is not yet member of NATO, but there are Croatian auxiliaries in NATO forces in Afghanistan. This is the cause of shame to Croatia. I don't consider those filthy mercenaries fighting for Americans as my soldiers and I don't care about them!

[Kernunnos]

Originally Posted by prometheus

Switzerland isn't either.



I don't see any debate on it in Croatia. The political class (all so-called political parties, which are in fact only fractions of only one and the same party) have already decided, "in the name of all of us", that they will drag us into this supranational and totalitarian military association, no matter what we think about it. It does not matter at all, which proportion of the population is against NATO membership. Lately the minister of foreign affairs declared that a referendum on NATO "may not be necessary, because the NATO membership does not infringe on any country's sovereignity."
Although many people are against NATO, their voices are not being heard, so there is absolutely no debate.



How come you are undecided? How do you manage to perceive any benefit in Croatia's membership in this American-Masonic association? Do you see any benefit in Croatia being deprived of any possibility to have independent policy, being deprived of any armed forces worth of mention (save for a few units which will take part as auxiliaries in future American/British/Zionist wars), because it is what NATO is about? NATO and EU are vehicles of world domination by ceratin occult forces behind the curtain, their aim is to destroy all national sovereignities and identities.

Croatia is not yet member of NATO, but there are Croatian auxiliaries in NATO forces in Afghanistan. This is the cause of shame to Croatia. I don't consider those filthy mercenaries fighting for Americans as my soldiers and I don't care about them!

Zirinski, the next american president will either be a liberal feminist or a negro (Barack Obama), will you be glad of being the puppet of one of their enterprises, such as it was the bombing of the Serbs for the sake of the moslem albanian kosovars and the bosnian jihadists?

Can you Zirinski remember (I fully agree with Prometheus that is sticking to his name by reasoning before acting) what was the purpose of the NATO intervention in the former Jugo paradise?

The establishment of a moslem dominated Kosovo and of a moslem bosnian state of renegade europeans guided by the jihadist president Itzbegovitch, a man who quoted aLLAH in every discourse he made.

A fine enterprise it was that one.

When you and the Serbs were pounding the moslem I felt pretty happy, being only sorrowful for the innocents among the bosnian whose moslem faith was nonexistant.

And now NATO is already on the verge of entering actively into the middle East fight.

Under a man called Osama Hussein Barack or a a woman called Hillary Clinton.

[Marcus Marulus]

No wars for Bush, Hillary, Obama or whomever!

[Franze]

This news is a joke, Russia isn´t any menace. The menace is islam but mainly ourselves.

[Marcus Marulus]

Originally Posted by Peter

This news is a joke, Russia isn´t any menace. The menace is islam but mainly ourselves.

The biggest menace for the whiole world, and especially for Europe is Angloamerica.

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by Zrinski

Sweden is not a NATO member?! I didn't know that.
Yes I just looked on Google, funny I really didn't know that, Austria, Finland and Ireland aren't part of it too. Thats interesting.

Why am I mentioning this...there is a rather continuing debate here in Croatia wheter should we join or not. As it is now huge majority don't support it (as opposed to those who do).

I must say seeing these countries as not being part of it somehow increases doubt....I was or rather I am undecided.

The simplest reason not to join NATO is the fact that joining it will mean contributing to American imperialist wars and America's wars on islamic countries. If a member state is fighting with America against Islamic countries it will anger the Muslims within european countries helping America making it harder for countries to deal with the threat these internal enemies pose.

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by prometheus

Croatia is not yet member of NATO, but there are Croatian auxiliaries in NATO forces in Afghanistan. This is the cause of shame to Croatia. I don't consider those filthy mercenaries fighting for Americans as my soldiers and I don't care about them!

My sentiments are the same about a dozen Serbian military doctors going to NATO as part of their military contingents. It could be worse, i'm not sure if anything similar happenned in Croatia, a couple of years ago current Serbian president Boris Tadic planned to send 1000 Yugoslav troops and 1000 serb policeman to Afghanistan and 1000 troops to Iraq. Luckily 90% of the Serbian public was against this especially since most Serbs viewed Iraq and Saddam positively.

[HrdinaSlovan]

He? Russia is not threat to Swedish.... This is quite big stupidity for me. But Czechs have problem with Russia -americans want to build radar station and Russians rockets aim this position...lot of fun! I live only 350 km from that station . -I mean it like joke..Russia never bomb some not important radar, or yes?

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by HrdinaSlovan

But Czechs have problem with Russia -americans want to build radar station and Russians rockets aim this position...lot of fun! I live only 350 km from that station .

350 km is far and safe enough, don't you think?

Originally Posted by HrdinaSlovan

-I mean it like joke..Russia never bomb some not important radar, or yes?

Where exactly do they want to build that radar station?
Never mind. I found it:

US and Czech Republic Discuss Missile Shield | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 22.05.2007

There shouldn't be a problem if there is not a war. If there was a war, the station would clearly become a military target. Another matter is if that radar station and the missiles in Poland, together with other US/NATO military installations and deployments around Russia are not geared towards a resucitation of the Cold War.

[HrdinaSlovan]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

350 km is far and safe enough, don't you think?

Where exactly do they want to build that radar station?
Never mind. I found it:

US and Czech Republic Discuss Missile Shield | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 22.05.2007

There shouldn't be a problem if there is not a war. If there was a war, the station would clearly become a military target. Another matter is if that radar station and the missiles in Poland, together with other US/NATO military installations and deployments around Russia are not geared towards a resucitation of the Cold War.

You found missile shield, but it is radar what is now problem between Czech republic and Russia(dont know if they start to build it, but they have nice location for it).Or is radar part of missile shield? -shit on that, 350km is not much safe for me! Russian continental missiles are aiming us !!!

[HrdinaSlovan]

Originally Posted by HrdinaSlovan

You found missile shield, but it is radar what is now problem between Czech republic and Russia(dont know if they start to build it, but they have nice location for it).Or is radar part of missile shield? -shit on that, 350km is not much safe for me! Russian continental missiles are aiming us !!!

Oh yes, radar IS part of missile shield!

[Weltschmerz]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Sweden is not a NATO member. I wonder if this could be a move to make people believe that there is a need for Sweden to support NATO membership?

That's possible. Our pr