Are Sweden and Finland really telling folks to prepare for possibility of war?

[Anonymous]

The above seems true. Most of the 300 applications I received for a new position indicate they are now or recently students.

[Anonymous]

Ukraine is depleted trying to win a three week war against Ukraine. What army are they going to use to open another front with?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The divide is what has concerned me for a long time now. How do heal from this? And what do we need to do now that we are so focused inwardly?

Let Trump crash the economy.
Let people see “American First” quickly and with clear eyes.

I'm not going to root for our economy to crash.

This is what the people voted for.

This is what people voted against

U.S. sets record with 1.1 million foreign students
https://washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/18/us-sets-record-11-million-foreign-students/

One million too many.

And anyway, nearly 1/4 are not students at all, but foreign workers masquerading as students (so called "Optional Practical Training" or OPT).

No Babe, we elected an entire platform. We are getting project 2025 and tariffs too.
Did you think you were getting just the anti immigrant part of isolationism?
Nope. We are getting all of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ukraine is depleted trying to win a three week war against Ukraine. What army are they going to use to open another front with?

Do you mean, Russia? Or are you suggesting Ukraine us fighting Ukraine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only country not concerned is Sweden. They will let the Russians roll through their country claiming neutrality like they did with the Nazis. Cowards then and now.

Like 'bone spurs' Trump?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure your boys are registered with Selective Service, ya cowards.

How about they register have felon elect serves his time??

How about Biden serve. He only got married so he wouldn’t have to go to Nam. Time to do do penance for twice inflicting Trump on the country.

As long as Trump serves aa well

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure your boys are registered with Selective Service, ya cowards.

How about they register have felon elect serves his time??

The baby boy you spent $100K to conceive through IVF and who is heavily doused with Ritalin and Xanax is perfect for cannon fodder because he will have no other useful purpose. Let him be a hero or a burden. You choose.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only country not concerned is Sweden. They will let the Russians roll through their country claiming neutrality like they did with the Nazis. Cowards then and now.

Like 'bone spurs' Trump?

Yes, like 'bone spurs' Trump and the other sissy boys who fled to Sweden during the Viet Nam war, stayed in grad schools, or had sham marriages to avoid processing the body bags at Tan Son Nhut so that they and their progeny could feel morally superior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The divide is what has concerned me for a long time now. How do heal from this? And what do we need to do now that we are so focused inwardly?

Let Trump crash the economy.
Let people see “American First” quickly and with clear eyes.

I'm not going to root for our economy to crash.

This is what the people voted for.

This is what people voted against

U.S. sets record with 1.1 million foreign students
https://washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/18/us-sets-record-11-million-foreign-students/

One million too many.

And anyway, nearly 1/4 are not students at all, but foreign workers masquerading as students (so called "Optional Practical Training" or OPT).

No Babe, we elected an entire platform. We are getting project 2025 and tariffs too.
Did you think you were getting just the anti immigrant part of isolationism?
Nope. We are getting all of it.

Yes, cupcake, all of it. Including the project 2025 provision that posters are not allowed to refer to others as "babe."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The divide is what has concerned me for a long time now. How do heal from this? And what do we need to do now that we are so focused inwardly?

Let Trump crash the economy.
Let people see “American First” quickly and with clear eyes.

That is the path to shoring up national security?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ukraine is depleted trying to win a three week war against Ukraine. What army are they going to use to open another front with?

Well, over a half million Ukrainian men of fighting age have fled their country for greener pastures in the EU.

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Anonymous wrote:They updated their civil preparedness guide, that’s it. Trump’s daddy and the Chinese are over there waving missiles around and cutting communications lines underwater, so it’s just like preparing for hurricane season. Get batteries, have an emergency supply, know where the shelters are, etc.

However, they are NATO members now, it would be pretty stupid to attack them directly.

https://apnews.com/article/sweden-finland-norway-denmark-russia-nato-war-9ebe1ca0d714cacd8ec279945598d6c1

It's more than this. Finland has a very long history of conflict with Russia. Russian tried to invade Finland in 1939-1940, but basically was unable to succeed and ended in the Moscow Peace Treaty. The Finns have lived with an aggressive USSR/Russia on their border for almost 100 years, and until the Ukraine invasion, their strategy was to have an incredibly strong defense that incorporated the whole society.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians and Poles are convinced at the government and grassroots level, that they are next after Ukraine. Everyone anticipates that if the Russian invasion ends with either a cease fire or peace treaty that leaves Russia in control of any Ukrainian territory - any of the Donbas or Crimea - that Russia will simply use the absence of fighting to rearm and then destabilize and attack Poland and the Baltics.

While it seems stupid to attack NATO, if Trump makes it clear that the US won't come to Europe's defense, Putin will see that as a green light for a narrow window in which he can attack again without any repercussions. Even if he doesn't do it openly, he is already running a shadow war all across Europe -- cutting communication cables, setting fire to critical installations, assassinating opponents in England, Spain, and Germany, testing the air and sea space by violating former boundaries on the daily, etc.

This isn't some chicken little fantasy, this is their lived history for the last century and more. Everyone in Europe knows what is coming sometime in the next 4 or 5 years. Only the US is so stupid and naive as to believe that we can force Ukraine and Russia to sign a peace treaty and all this will go away.

The border has been there for more than 100 years and they have dealt with Russia as a neighbor from time eternity and shall continue to have that border for all eternity.

If only the lunatics in the middle east could understand/realize the same

[Anonymous]

I was surprised about Germany being so much further away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only country not concerned is Sweden. They will let the Russians roll through their country claiming neutrality like they did with the Nazis. Cowards then and now.

When Russia invaded Finland in 1939, Sweden sent volunteer soldiers, supplies, and war material.

Sweden knew, with the Germans occupying Norway, that the Allies could not help Sweden. So, Sweden performed a delicate balancing act with Hitler.

80% of Germany’s iron ore came from Sweden. Hitler would do anything it took to keep that ore coming, including invading Sweden.

When the allies advanced far enough into Germany, Sweden cut off the iron ore shipments.

It’s easy for someone, who doesn’t live next door to the bully and homicidal maniac, to call a person who does a coward.

Sweden did the best it could given its location next to the crazy man who bombed Rotterdam to ashes and confiscated so much food prople died of starvation.

Swedes aren’t stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only country not concerned is Sweden. They will let the Russians roll through their country claiming neutrality like they did with the Nazis. Cowards then and now.

When Russia invaded Finland in 1939, Sweden sent volunteer soldiers, supplies, and war material.

Sweden knew, with the Germans occupying Norway, that the Allies could not help Sweden. So, Sweden performed a delicate balancing act with Hitler.

80% of Germany’s iron ore came from Sweden. Hitler would do anything it took to keep that ore coming, including invading Sweden.

When the allies advanced far enough into Germany, Sweden cut off the iron ore shipments.

It’s easy for someone, who doesn’t live next door to the bully and homicidal maniac, to call a person who does a coward.

Sweden did the best it could given its location next to the crazy man who bombed Rotterdam to ashes and confiscated so much food prople died of starvation.

Swedes aren’t stupid.

When the crazy man sitting next to you on the train starts to threaten you, take action. Don't wait for him to stab you.