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Will Sweden rescue Western Europe, if Russia invades?

Will Sweden protect Western Europe: England, France, Germany?
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 October 03, 2009 12:59 AM
Of course not.

Why would she?

She's declared neutrality, and she's demonstrated zero indications of deviating from that path.

Besides, it wouldn't make any sense, because when a nation declares itself to be neutral, it still has to defend its neutrality, which means the kinds of weapons and systems that are implemented are quite different from what you build if you're going to build up a force to take a side and do a war to win something.
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October 04, 2009 12:11 AM
Sweden is a free country and one of the richest countries. Rich countries often maintain strong armies and protect neighboring countries from aggression through alliances.

The scenarios is a Russian Invasion. Do you think Sweden will remain neutral in this event or will it react by sending aid?

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October 04, 2009 02:48 AM
Well, they've tended to provide passive support to whichever side was least likely to mess up their internal interests, and even then they'll maintain a guard.

Technically they were neutral during WWII, but their aversion to Russians was slightly greater than their aversion to Germans, so they let Germans walk through their territory a lot, as long as the Germans promised not to hurt anything on the way through, and to spend their money along the way, but after WW-II they did a very subtle and effective non-allignmnet by allowing Soviets to do basically the same thing through their waters, so... I don't thenk they'd get overtly offensive, but I can see them tipping the odds one way or the other by passivly looking the other way when the side they like do things that might not be kosher by international law.

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