Comment on NATO Member Sweden Says Russia Disrupting Its Satellite Networks

• espentan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m Norwegian and I’ve never really been worried about Russia setting foot over here. Even less so now, after they insisted on showing the world just how incompetent their military is. Lethal and capable of massive destruction, yes, but also disorganized, flailing, incapable of progressing a mile without throwing massive resources at it.

  I just don’t see how they would get far anywhere in the Nordics. They might be able to roll across the border into any of the countries, but not with any significant amount of weaponry, and the response from the west would be swift. At least I hope and assume so.

  Let’s just make sure Trump isn’t elected and declares his love for dictators, again, yeah?

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think the Nordics have to worry about a successful invasion from Russia, but an unsuccessful one would also suck really bad

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and the response from the west would be swift. At least I hope and assume so.

    The whole point of NATO is that if you attack one country, the others come to the rescue, meaning the US war economy is frothing at the mouth just begging that Russia does something stupid with a NATO country. Not their backyard anyway.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even less so now, after they insisted on showing the world just how incompetent their military is.

    Which, for example, the Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish militaries still haven’t.

    Do you realize that a military that doesn’t do a certain kind of activity (like mass warfare) loses capability for it over time? That’s truer for the Russian military with all the corruption, but there’s a little problem, - it has had 2 years with lots of learning.

    There were widespread myths about Israeli military professionalism, but in the last few months they’ve shown the reality to be worse than expected too.

    and the response from the west would be swift. At least I hope and assume so.

    Yeah, see, there’s an element of “what if we feed him <country name> and expect him to eventually choke on it”. International law and allied obligations seem to have become fuzzier concepts in the last decade or so.

    Seems a really weird action to invade a Nordic country still. Their policy seems to be about bullying ex-Soviet states to remain authoritarian shitholes.

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  • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’re doing our best to fight against the backward degenerates.

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