If Sweden’s been so well armed for 200 years, how do you explain the game of footsie the Swedes played with Hitler during WW II? You know, all that iron shipped out of Narvik [one of the main causes of both German and Allied military operations in Norway], permitting German divisions to go from Norway to Finland via Sweden for Barbarossa, etc.
I'd cut Sweden a little slack on that. Even in 1944 the Nazis could have occupied Sweden if they so desired. It would have been bloody, but they could have done it.
Sweden = one well-armed man
Nazi Germany = a dozen well-armed SWAT members
Sweden was rather well armed in 1939 (population 6.5 millions) but could not have defended itself even in theory against Germany.
At the end of the war, Nazi-Germany was weakened and over half a million Swedes were mobilized.
At this stage, Swedish troops also were well equipped.
Sweden could have risqued her own security, but did not.
It was not our war anyway.