Azdeus

We stopped selling to the US when they invaded Vietnam, so goes both ways, then again our politicians after Palme lacks any kind of determination and guts. Selling iron to the Nazis was done to ensure that we didn't get invaded more than to make money.

The exact same promise already exists among EU countries, and each NATO country decides for itself how it would help Sweden incase of invasion, no one is obligated to send boots on the ground. But if we are in NATO we definetly become a target for strikes, even more so if we were to have nukes. We're not neutral, we're unaligned, we are definetly taking stances left and right, and it's the only position that we actually can afford. Not to mention that we would be able to continue to be a mediator with other countries like we have been historically. If we are to have any kind of alliance it should be a Nordic one, among equals.

Oh, not internationally, but locally. There are no dissenting opinions being put forward in a serious manner, but alot of mainstream and social media are trying to make a rushed decision here. The fact that the vast majority of people in Sweden vote for political parties that have been firmly anti-NATO has been changing their tune, despite the populace actually voting them in. At the very least we need to have an informed vote about it, similar to joining the EU, but it's hard for people to build informed opinions if nay-sayers are actively being screamed down. I really look forward to having the US decide wether or not Sweden can leave NATO if joining means that the voters flock to an Anti-NATO option, and I'm really looking forward to joining such bastions of democracy like Hungary, Albania and Turkey. Professor Linus Hagström was very critical of joining NATO back in 2015, still is, and he was raked for it.

I honestly don't want to join NATO, even less when there is no acceptance for dissenting opinions about it, you're automagically an anti-American onahole for Russia and Putin.

Ah... great... who needs sleep anyway?

I don't know how the education works over there, but here you had two different ways to start the road to become one, Natural Sciences programme and Electrical worker programme, we had exactly 0 female students in the electrical worker programme, but there were quite a few girls that went the Natural Science route and later became EE's.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some Aralsk-7 like facility in Mongolia built by the Soviets, and the US financing a cleanup operation like they are with Aralsk-7.

This is awesome if it's true, and that twitter thread is gold

I don't mind paying 30% taxes, but I don't like waiting until 3.5 months for an X-Ray, 4 months for an orthopedic specialist and I've got a waiting time for 2025 for different specialist.

I miss my 21" CRT

Hard pass on NATO. Had USA not invoked article 5 on 9/11 I might've had a different view.

We're not melancholy really, but yeah, when it's pitch black outside at 4pm and you and your friends want to do something, you get creative, so we do indoor stuff like RPG's, music and videogames. This is also helped by the fact that we used to invest alot of money in schools to encourage youths to develop their musical interests (For instance, you could borrow an instrument for up to a year, for free), we went heavy into computerization in the 90's with subsidising home pc's and (then)state owned Telia expanded ADSL capabilities heavilly. You become well motivated to build safe cars when the likelyhood of traffic accidents are high. Swedish cars before recently didn't have the ability to completely turn off the lights on the car, to avoid accidentally leaving them off in twilight. Elk are good at hiding in darkness, collide with one and it tends to land on the cars A-post and roof, so you build sturdy roofs, collisions are pretty common due to slippery road conditions aswell. If you're not interested in nerd stuff like music and videogames, you can always drink, **** and party. Edit; Should also say that I like winter and autumn best, and despise spring and summer, I really dislike when it's warm, so I'm atypical.

First, it's not really an actual thing, you should note the part of the text that says it's from a satirical book from the 30's. That said, it does follow our culture a bit that is all, if anything you're taught that you are special and valuable in school. We don't like braggarts really.

I'm pretty certain that I am the one more likely to be arrested, for breaking the Law of Jante

I've got coworkers that didn't know there's a war in Ukraine. So, yeah. Swedes. Lives on Tiktok and Instagram, they make me want to put my head underneath a lorry and tell the driver to floor it.

It's not impossible that they avoid talking about Soviet failures. It could also be that the people that join the army just didn't do well in school.

We are, as always, ready to defend our lands to the last FinnScanian.

Unless they die in battle they go to Niflhel, there are some people debating that if they die in childbirth they go somewhere else, but there are no real sources for it.

Well, unless you get in on the "party" in Ukraine and get yourself killed like a proper Viking, you're likely headed for Niflhel together with 99.99% of Scandinavians, a place which the name suggests is likely neither sunny or warm.

Had he kept his cool for one or two seconds it'd have actually exploded, shame

Meh, always online, they can go **** themselves with a spiked bat.

That's some impressive muzzleflashes, and I've yet to see Ukrainian forces with Hexagon handguards on their rifles

Oh, no offencetaken, or meant, I was very bitter about the available choices. We didn't have a referendum to stop conscription or any such thing, the politicians decided that they wanted to lower the taxes for "everyone", it went through with 153-150 votes. They also wanted to suck some US ****, that wasn't possible with the conscription law in place, so after that they were more free to send people to wars we shouldn't have put our noses in. Yet now that Ukraine could use some help from fighting forces the politicians **** their pants and don't use this availability to aid a country that actually needs it. Guess it's easier to shoot brown people.