All Sweden had to do was pretend it was neutral with Putin, like it did with Hitler in WWII.
Spare us oh mighty Putin! Conqueror of South Ossetia and Abkazia.
Restoring to Russia that which Catherine the Great bequethed her.
And that which Lenin and Stalin restored.
For surely the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest tragedy of the 20th Century.
And Russia remains the second greatest military power in Ukraine.