Posted on 10/01/2010 10:50:56 PM PDT by WesternCulture
Of course, this scenario is a nightmare, but not a lost cause.
The most stupid thing to do while at war with Northern Europeans is to try and annihilate their base.
We won't be there.
The Romans feared the people living East of the River Rhine (the Germans).
They also knew the Northmen.
Fighting the people of Scandinavia was not even an option as the Romans were well aware the Northmen were twice as tall, three times heavier (in sheer muscle weight), four times as drunk and many times swifter at water than they were.
Hitler (a Central European who never understood the greatness of Goethe and Schiller), learned the hard way bombing London was of no use.
But what would the fate of Russia be under conditions accounted for above after an attack by the Swedish Navy?
1. Russia would cease to function as a nation (a situation not wholly unfamiliar to them). Large parts of their infrastructure as well as their navy would be taken out within one hour.
Vital Russian targets don't lack protection, but its a matter of speed.
Compared to what SAAB Aerospace and Ericsson know about computing destruction their level is mongoloid B+.
2. Formerly opressed nations in Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary etc) would take up arms against Russia.
If any problems would arise, Nato would finish Russia off.
If that effort too would fail, we would have to call in the Finns, the only nation ever to defeat Stalin (see below).
IBTZOT...
Easy, -— Obama would go to the UN and Apologize to the World that He's sure the US made them mad enough to do this and don't worry. Obama will just write a check to rebuild all the damages and that's all folks!
“Obama will just write a check to rebuild all the damages and that’s all folks!”
We’re gonna need some new printing presses! I hope he makes ‘em bigger and better!!!
Or, not...
The Europeans would try to ignore it for fear of getting in a fight and appearing hateful?
Anti-Defense is Homo
If France and UK get nuked, they sure would nuke back. What would Sweden do? Don’t know.
If Germany was nuked...
- we would worry about the environmental impact and whether this will accelerate the climate change.
- we would lament about the evil of mankind in general (not the russians).
- “perhaps we deserved it”
- Spiegel Online would construct several stories which make out the U.S. as the root cause of this conflict (”understand the russians”).
If France and UK get nuked, they sure would nuke back. What would Sweden do? Don’t know.
If Germany was nuked...
- we would worry about the environmental impact and whether this will accelerate the climate change.
- we would lament about the evil of mankind in general (not the russians).
- “perhaps we deserved it”
- Spiegel Online would construct several stories which make out the U.S. as the root cause of this conflict (”understand the russians”).
Well..., okay....
Good to see you!
Your threads are always lively!
Sweden *was* going nuclear after wwii. What held them back was basically the prospect of USA balancing the Soviets plus the UN nonproliferation deals. The Swedes even had a nuclear strategig bomber on the drawing board, if I'm not mistaken. Of course, we were also well on the way to the bomb at that point, but that was also rendered null and void by the various treaties we all ended up with...
Which is bad, in a philosophical sense.
I think Sweden, like any other sovereign country, should have the means to annihilate any of its traditional adversaries, without external dependencies.
Poles also defeated Stalin.
Poles also defeated Stalin.
We (i.e., the West) would NUKE Moscow.
Damnit!
Someone had to say it.
This thread is totally nuts.
In a true World of Realpolitic they would just get away with that. No one could react other than with a strong letter or a speach at UN to that.
The cost of getting into a hot war with a major military power posessing thousands of nukes is too high. No alliance is worth that.
The thread is lunatic.
Moscow is not going to be nuking anybody.
Ridiculous topic.
It’s nukes from _somewhere else_ that we’d better be concerned about.
Excellent! Now go and get one more bottle of vodka. I want to read a story about how swedes would repel the martian invasion.
And what will WE do when London, Paris, and Amsterdam are all attacked by islamic extremists in the next few weeks?
We will wring our hands and Hollywood will have a telethon. They will call for a complete withdrawal from the middle east.
Funny how a few different words in a headline can make such a significant change in the answer.
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