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Estonia Fears Being "Overrun By Russia In Minutes", Sweden Sends Troops To Baltic Sea Island

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"Gotland is a big worry for us. It could be overrun by Russia in minutes and then all of us would be highly vulnerable to an attack," warned one politician recently as it appears NATO fear-mongering and Russia sabre-rattling is having a significant effect on many of the Baltic Sea's border nations. As The FT reports, Sweden will put troops back on the strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland after a decade-long absence and will also step up military exercises around the island involving the army, navy and air force. “Hunting submarines is a priority area," Sweden's defense minister explained, adding that "everything we do is a part of underlining Swedish sovereignty."

 

 

As The FT reports,

Peter Hultqvist, Sweden’s defence minister, said he would recommend placing a company of about 150 soldiers on Gotland, which lies almost midway between mainland Sweden and Latvia in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Sweden will also step up military exercises around the island involving the army, navy and air force.

 

“Gotland has a strategic location in the Baltic Sea and this is also an indication to the outside world that we recognise that Gotland is very important. Everything we do is a part of underlining Swedish sovereignty,” he told Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

 

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The three Baltic states, fearing the rise of Russian activity and influence in the region, had nervously eyed the lack of permanent troops on the island as well as Sweden’s status in not belonging to Nato. “Gotland is a big worry for us. It could be overrun by Russia in minutes and then all of us would be highly vulnerable to an attack,” a senior Estonian politician said recently.

 

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It underlines the depth of concern in the Nordic country, which has historically portrayed itself as neutral, over Russia’s behaviour in Ukraine and the Baltic Sea. Russian aeroplanes have violated Swedish airspace and practised a dummy bombing raid on Stockholm in recent years while a hunt for a foreign submarine last year is widely thought to have involved the Russians.

 

“Hunting submarines is a priority area,” Mr Hultqvist said of the increased spending. “We have had incidents that show it is very important to have increased capacity for anti-submarine warfare. We must do what we can to keep and develop our skills.”

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None of this will end well.. so buy European stocks (especially German ones).

 

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Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:32 | 5887299 BurningFuld
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Give me a fucking break.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:34 | 5887308 Ignatius
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Perfect.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:41 | 5887332 crazytechnician
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What the fuck is in Estonia that the Ruskies want again ?

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:01 | 5887381 TungstenBars
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Estonians think they have something somebody might want. It's kind of funny looking at the deluded self righteous thinking of some of these truly useless puppet states that nobody would want to even touch with a stick. 

This is like a leper with AIDS afraid of being raped. 

Reminds me of Poland. 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:04 | 5887408 tmosley
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One honestly wonders how many people will actually fall for this idiotic bullshit.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:30 | 5887461 Latina Lover
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Laughable.  +10

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:48 | 5887507 Pinto Currency
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Using the same logic, Sweden will push for Victoria Nuland to receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize and then Sweden's Riksbank will give the Riksbank Prize for Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Janet Yellen for her printing prowess.

 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:04 | 5887557 Manthong
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Maybe the bank prize should be shared with Draghi.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/there-no-nobel-prize-economics

 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:40 | 5887915 COSMOS
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This shows what the game plan of NATO was all along.  IF the oligarch based rape and enslavement failed, put a bunch of troops on Russias border, to when the day comes and they can pull a Maidan on Russia.   Let us not forget that NATO was on the borders of Ukraine.  Its a lot easier to fund and train destabilizers when you are right on the border.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:23 | 5887611 Againstthelie
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"everything we do is a part of underlining Swedish sovereignty."

Is this the same "souvereign Sweden", being talked about here?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA7Ymki71fM

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:45 | 5887658 Volkodav
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Sweden is no longer sovereign nation

 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:15 | 5887734 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Is something about Baltic Sea gives propensity for schizophreny and nutsery? Delusion runs deeper than Mariana Trench.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 03:34 | 5888151 researchfix
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Yesterday I wrote that the next submarine chase is imminent. And there we are.

 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:12 | 5887426 XqWretch
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I could shit my pants in the next few minutes! Send in the TROOPS!

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:07 | 5887664 The Big Ching-aso
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Is there any chance there could be a company or two of battle hardened ex-runway model sweaty Swedish and Russian women combatants like wrestling in the mud, yanking their hair, inadvertently ripping off each other's uniforms, and other similar Geneva Convention allowable stuff here?

I mean like don't get me wrong I' m totally against unnecessary wars, man.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 01:08 | 5888039 dogismycopilot
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I would say their women, but you can rent them on the open market pretty cheap already. No need to start a war to get one.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:09 | 5887700 WhyWait
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Estonia's population is 25% Russian, Estonian nationaiism is defined in terms of anti-Russianism, and as the economic crisis develops the politics of purifying Estonia by driving the Russian-speakers out is moving to the fore.  Estonia's hysteria about a Russian threat, which would from what I can see be non-existent if the US weren't pushing NATO toward a war with Russia, may reflect the fear generated by their own guilty consciences.

On the other hand, if NATO goes to war with Russia, taking Estonia, which controls access to the port of St Petersburg, would be a strategic necessity for Russia.

Estonia's best defense would be to work within EU and NATO to make sure that war never happens.  But talking about that would perhaps be like expecting a scorpion to not act like one. 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:27 | 5887892 iofera
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Bob, Vlad invaded Ukraine under the pretense of protecting Russians living there. 

Over 300,000 Russians currently live in Estonia, so there's that 'vital interest' to protect.

You silly goose!

 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:50 | 5887933 COSMOS
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You silly troll, get the F out of here.  I have heard that lame idea and silly goose quote on mass media channels ad nauseum.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 01:29 | 5888061 sun tzu
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It's funny how these imbecilic trolls parrot the lame stream media talking heads and expect informed people to nod their heads in agreement.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 12:56 | 5888898 iofera
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Bob, you need an argument that's not an ad hominem attack.

You silly goose!

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 00:13 | 5887966 TungstenBars
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Member for
5 weeks 3 days
Another government troll/pedophile. 
Sat, 03/14/2015 - 08:58 | 5888414 HowdyDoody
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Larry, stop making stuff up.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:42 | 5887918 TheReplacement
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If you think about it, countries like Estonia should be very worried.  Russian aggression or not, they are on the front lines between the big guys and will certainly get it good and hard if conventional fighting starts.  Their very survival depends on them being like Switzerland.  Sadly, all we see is dog and pony.

150 guys for a very important island... mkay.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 01:30 | 5888064 sun tzu
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The logical solution is to leave NATO and stay neutral

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 00:59 | 5888035 Homple
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"What the fuck is in Estonia that the Ruskies want again ?"

 

Whatever they wanted the first time, I suppose.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 15:58 | 5889303 Volkodav
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what first time?

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 01:18 | 5888050 williambanzai7
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Gotland is where they plan to exile Assange if they can ever get him.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 08:40 | 5888395 25or6to4
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Wb7
Well, it's main town, Visby, is walled already so that would make sense .

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 08:46 | 5888401 BurningFuld
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Well then it might make sense that Russia wants to invade so they can be there to pat Assange on the back and buy him drinks.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 11:42 | 5888730 tonyw
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statute of limitations runs out this year i think.

 

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 12:21 | 5888817 Anunnaki
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What makes you think Obunghole and his Europoodles respect the rule of law

Assange is just a blonder hornier Bin Laden

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 08:23 | 5888373 That_shits_broken
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I think thats where Skype was invented.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 08:24 | 5888374 That_shits_broken
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I think thats where Skype was invented.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:41 | 5887333 MisterMousePotato
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BFD. I saw a Russian nucular sub, piloted by Putin himself, surface on Lake Coeur d'Alene this afternoon. Now that's worrying.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:47 | 5887515 disabledvet
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He and his pet Polar Bear...no shirt while singing "happy iceberg."

 

Throwin back the Stoly's, tootin the horn while waving at all the land lubbers.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:41 | 5887652 Volkodav
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Brown Bear

Rodnik   Samara Brewery

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 11:47 | 5888743 Anunnaki
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He was saddled on top of the Couer d'alene Lake Monster pissing lightning and shitting thunder

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:43 | 5887343 TungstenBars
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They should quit stalling and do Americas bidding and just attack Russia already. I never liked those Baltic nazi assholes anyway..it would make an interesting show of force to the rest of Americas lapdogs to see one of them get vaporized for sucking America dick so hard. 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:45 | 5887350 Rockwell
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Yeah, 150 soldiers on an island should protect Sweden. Good investment!

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:42 | 5887498 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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With half of them made of gays and women because progressive policies and equality must be respected like a religion...

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:22 | 5887608 TungstenBars
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If you put it that way, I'd stay off that Island!

Hey, the policy might work..

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:45 | 5887922 TheReplacement
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Women, gay or not, and gay men make just as good cannon fodder and $1M super soldiers.  Tripwires are expendable by nature.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 00:03 | 5887954 TheFourthStooge-ing
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More than adequate to fight off pieces of driftwood imagined into submarines.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:50 | 5887372 Muh Raf
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I am deeply concerned that ZH and its loyal followers have failed to grasp exactly how evil Putin really is. Fortunately the UK bookies are on his case and are valiantly attempting to expose this puppy murdering megalomaniac by offering decent odds. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/429750/Crufts-Jagger-poison-...

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:17 | 5887441 me or you
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I would wish my girl friend misses me when I disapear for a week just like US MSM is missing Mr. Putin for his brief disappearance.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:20 | 5887446 me or you
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I would wish my girl friend misses me when I disapear for a week just like US MSM is missing Mr. Putin for his brief disappearance.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:39 | 5887647 Condition 1SQ
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I'm pretty sure the sky is falling (for the .. 5th time today?)

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:22 | 5887881 Parrotile
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Well, night fell last night (and it took me ages to pick it up . . . . . . . . . :-) )

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:10 | 5887713 one_hundred
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I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 05:41 | 5888239 BlackChicken
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Fuck you. I'm sick of seeing you spamming little bastards.

Of all the great thinkers on this site that were banished for saying great things in a non-PC manner, I have to see posts like this from someone without an original thought, or set of balls. You are no different than a politician or banker; you just want to take/sell/whore yourself.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 01:34 | 5888067 luckylongshot
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If you look at a world atlas the one thing it is obvious Russia needs less than any other country is more land.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 07:39 | 5888340 August
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The Russians have no more interest in seizing Gotland than they have in Öland. 

If the Swedes actually want to look for an enemy, they should look within their own borders.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:36 | 5887318 stilletto
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More hysterical hysteria about the Bogeyman. Guess they are prepping their public to vote through new spending on some of their 'pork barrel' projects. Such utter BS.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:53 | 5887833 Omen IV
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The Swedish governemnt should buy the Video -  Ghost Busters -  for every citizen in the country - so they all know what to do  and they can play it over and over

--- cheaper than listening to the MSM and the US of A

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:49 | 5887929 TheReplacement
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Somebody has to pick up the tab for the end of the Saudi contract.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 03:41 | 5888154 researchfix
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Yesterday´s news about the Swedish wanting the driving licenses for the Saudi women made me at once thinking about submarines.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 03:58 | 5888168 ThirdWorldDude
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You know what's funny? The ignorant hypocrisy of Swedish brainwashed mouthpieces frothing at the mouth in defense of the broken Saudi contract.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet one of them, a local politician elected in one of Sweden's regional county councils, at an after-work mingle. When I asked what is Sweden going to do about the ongoing weapon sales contracts with UAE and Qatar, I got this blank stare and it suddenly became inconveniently quiet. 'Angels passing by', as Swedes say...

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 06:55 | 5888299 researchfix
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They even did business with Adolf. Should stop pretending.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:38 | 5887324 Semi-employed W...
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Since when does Sweden care about protecting its borders?  They can never import enough third world trash to satisfy their liberals, though they are really trying.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:42 | 5887328 Kirk2NCC1701
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Is this the Circus part of Swedish Bread & Circus?

Seems like an easier and nicer diversion from the social and criminal problems in the scary Stockholm ghettos, inhabited by MENA scum (that Barbara Specter is so fond of importing).

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:07 | 5887703 25or6to4
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Sweden for all practical purposes is no longer a country in the proper sence of the word. The vast majority of it's politicians are fit for an insane asylum and they consider Sweden a " multicultural superpower". Stockholm is quickly becoming a trashed out hell hole with panhandlers harassing swedes relentlessly when they are not urinating and crapping in the streets. Thanks to recent imports from the third world Sweden now ranks number two in the world in rapes per citizen. While the Sweden of 35+ years ago was no paradise it was a safe place to raise a family and have a comfortable way of life. Thanks to the cultural marxists that is all gone now.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:16 | 5887871 Volkodav
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Sweden is no longer a sovereign country.

 

 

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 03:42 | 5888155 ThirdWorldDude
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Sweden hasn't been a sovereign nation for a veeeery long time...

 

NATO's secret army in neutral Sweden(pdf) - by Daniele Ganser & Mats Deland

Ole Damegard - Coup d'etat in slow motion: The Assassination of Olof Palme - RedIceCreations interview

(links open in new windows)

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 09:03 | 5888417 HowdyDoody
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The Swedish politicians are all US butt buddies.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:42 | 5887336 sudzee
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Maybe some ting up:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/13/8208413/uk-nuclear-weapons-russia-traf...

Also rumour that the Russian embassy in UK has been evacuated this week.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:45 | 5887338 Hannibal
Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:51 | 5887362 TungstenBars
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So you're saying Putin has already invaded?! With 300,000 Cossack warriors dressed as men women and children? Quick, call CNN!! 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:35 | 5887640 Volkodav
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Tricked again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdPvaIXxm4Q

Kuban Cossack Choir "You Tricked Me!"

feature: Yevgenia Dzhevaga

 

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 00:07 | 5887960 SilverSavant
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Thats a lot of Cossacks.   I didn't know what I was missing.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:14 | 5887435 Winston Churchill
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And the Balts trat them like shit, worse than blacks

were in S.Africa during apartheid.They have good reason to be very afraid.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:51 | 5887528 disabledvet
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There are black people in South Africa?

 

I had no idea.

 

Ahhh, the KGB days.  Dosvidanya comrade!

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:40 | 5887807 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Don't forget to take your trihexyphenadyl.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:28 | 5887893 Parrotile
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How about a combination of Phenelzine and Tranylcypromine.

(And go easy on the Chianti!!)

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:42 | 5887812 25or6to4
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WC
A better more recent example for your argument would be as follows; treated worse than whites are by the current S. African regime.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 17:07 | 5889466 Benjamin123
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Whites in South Africa are not treated worse than regular blacks, by the government. Just because the government is black and the cronies are black and lots of whites get killed all the time, does not mean the non-connected blacks have it better.

I know whites are inherently more valuable than blacks, but that is still no reason to make shit up. You can recognize the struggles blacks go through without somehow having to humanize them.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:45 | 5887353 Fix It Again Timmy
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My what a big head WE have...That invasion would be over in less than 5 seconds...minutes, my ass......

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:16 | 5887592 Volkodav
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actually balts tend to have small round heads

 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:39 | 5887912 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

actually balts tend to have small round heads

Maybe that explains this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNK1uiDZR-U

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:46 | 5887354 czarangelus
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Fag Europe can't put itself in the line of fire fast enough.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:46 | 5887355 Kirk2NCC1701
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"There will be wars and rumors of war..." is a line that's almost 2000 years old.

Let's keep our cool, and maintain context, perspective and balance. TGIF.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:48 | 5887359 Eahudimac
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Where's that Latvian chap that is always posting here? Freedom123, I think is his handle. Maybe the Russians invaded and got him already. Off to the siberian gulags with him. 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:49 | 5887363 TungstenBars
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We aren't that lucky. 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:59 | 5887390 Volkodav
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Siberia don't want him..

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 11:27 | 5888702 Anunnaki
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In catch and release they throw te little ones with the big mouths back into the brine

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:57 | 5887360 nmewn
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So which part of the "Swedish socialist miracle" goes to guns again?

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lol...get over yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgIqecROs5M

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:49 | 5887366 Jack Burton
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Sweden's defense budget was not long ago up for review. The last year's Russian threat has caused a totally new outlook in Stockholm and plans for military spending are set to rise. Plus this works well to create a sense of threat and ensure deep loyalty among a population fast ceasing to be Swedish. Being one of Europe's chief immigration destinations, another generation of multi cultural Muslim Sweden will require a strong force for internal stability. Of that is my humble thought. Immigration advocates and Multti Cultural lovers will certainly hate this post.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:33 | 5887466 Latina Lover
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Beg to differ, Jack Burton.  My 2 cents: the leaders of Sweden are compromised by the NSA and beholden to power and bribes. They are just following the USSA state department dictates.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:40 | 5887488 nmewn
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What "leaders", king gustaf, his court, the elected leaders, who?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGt-8adyabk

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:02 | 5887554 disabledvet
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Used to be an Empire.  Absolutely annihilated Poland...something Poland hasn't forgotten actually.  Almost made it to Vienna....which was undefended at the time as they were defending against the Ottoman Hoard in one of the greatest battles in history.

 

That CV-90 is top of the line.

Poroshenko has proven he's a fighter...now 17 billion has rolled in.

 

Bad place to start rearranging borders.  Lotta stuff over there used to be someone else's.

 

Nothing but dead burried there as well.

 

More than anywhere else in the world.

 

Nameless, faceless...never recognized or remembered.  From every walk of life, caste, class and structure.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 00:22 | 5887984 TheReplacement
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With a little effort you have the makings of an interesting poem.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 02:24 | 5888105 fleur de lis
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Poroshenko was bought and paid for by DC. Nuland has him and the others on a dog leash. The only question is where will they flee for asylum when things get bad?  

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 03:45 | 5888159 researchfix
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Look for the name of the US ambassador in Sweden and there will be no more explanation necessary.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 07:38 | 5888338 Pretty Maggie M...
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Brzezinski, hmmm surely not. 

 

But yes the son of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Mark Brzezinski is US ambassador in Sweden. FFS.

 

Good call on the submarine chase thing btw.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:47 | 5887516 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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The Muslim won't go to war against Russia, as long they get their welfare they will stay here, cut that, they will go out of Sweden and Europe ASAP.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:16 | 5887737 25or6to4
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JB
Sweden spends more on it's immigrants than it's does on it's military.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 23:39 | 5887913 Serious.Lee
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True, and it's an ever increasing figure.  

(btw, "it's" is only used for "it is" or "it has."  It never denotes possesion.)

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:54 | 5887376 Hannibal
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There Is No 'Move to War'. US Is Already at War with Russia

This article originally appeared at Peak Prosperity

For several weeks now the anti-Russian stance in the US press has quieted down. Presumably because the political leadership has moved its attention on to other things, and the media flock has followed suit. 

Have you read much about Ukraine and Russia recently?

I thought not, despite the fact that there's plenty of serious action -- both there as well as related activity in the US -- going on that deserves our careful attention.

As I recently wrote, the plunging oil price is a potential catalyst for stock market turmoil and sovereign instability. Venezuela is already circling the drain, and numerous other oil exporters are in deep trouble as they foolishly expanded their national budgets and social programs to match the price of oil; something that is easy to do on the way up and devilishly tricky on the way down.

But consider the impact on Russia. From the Russian point of view, everything from their plunging ruble to bitter sanctions to the falling price of oil are the fault of the US, either directly or indirectly. Whether that is fair or not is irrelevant; that's the view of the Russians right now. So no surprise,  it doesn't dispose them towards much in the way of good-will towards the West generally, and the US specifically.

http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/01/14/2379

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1518185245071489&set=vb.14522850183... video

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:52 | 5887377 surf0766
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Maybe the Russians will remove the radical muslims  from Sweden

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:50 | 5887409 nmewn
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Wut?

Its all filmed on a Hollywood back lot with fake blood for public consumption!

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Fucktards don't like it being thrown back in their face, do they? ;-)

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 06:01 | 5887525 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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Lulz, apart that Russia have 30 % Muslims and more than 150 different Ethnicities, that's why she is named Russian Federation.

 

Edit: Obviously the downvoters don't know Russia so much, I will blame that on ignorance then...

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:54 | 5887379 Rootin' for Putin
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Someone want to explain how russia cant get to sweden without stopping at that island first?
I dont see it.

Bullish for bullshit.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:00 | 5887393 TungstenBars
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I find the meme in these fucked up useless countries, that they are "something that someone wants to invade" truly baffling. The level of self righteousness and self honouring is truly stunning in these wastelands. Who the fuck would want socialist, broke, and utterly difunctional lands as some sort of trophy? Are you kidding me? If anything, if I were Russian, I would want to make sure what they have doesn't mix into my society.

 

This is like a leper with AIDS being afraid of being raped. 

 

These countries have literally gone insane.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:51 | 5887527 Sandmann
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They lose their young populations to better prospects in Western Europe and now want to turn the exodus into a flood

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:55 | 5887382 WTFUD
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Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania , 3 non-entities being buggered by Vichy DC.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 19:55 | 5887384 Kirk2NCC1701
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And yet Russia hasn't done the EASY thing: turned off the gas to Kiev this winter.

And then there's this puzzling gem: "Russia to provide $13.75mn as part of first IMF loan for Ukraine – finance minister"
http://rt.com/business/240517-russia-ukraine-imf-tranche/

WTF? Is the Kremlin schizoid?

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:03 | 5887556 ross81
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The thing the Russophobic morons in the Western media don't get is that Putin's very much a moderate. At the end of the day he and his colleagues want a neutral & unified Ukraine. That explains many of the reasons why the gas hasnt been cut & why credit & other favours keep on flowing to the Kiev regime. But keep on prodding the bear and Russians may opt for a hardline Communist or ultra Nationalist who really will not take any more shit from the EU/US & their motley collection of eastern European running dogs.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:08 | 5887567 rejected
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LOL.... Sure doesn't make a lot of sense but they may have some hidden reason. Maybe the beat spouse syndrome where the abused spouse tries to please even as the abuse is ramped up....

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 05:47 | 5888248 Mepaulus
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From that article,

"The bailout comes with strict terms which have already made Kiev make huge cuts to its 2015 budget. Ukraine’s austerity measures include cuts in social spending and the price of utility services almost tripling."

 

Putin knows that those conditions won't exactly endear Kiev and the junta to the Ukrainian people.

Smart move really.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:04 | 5887405 WTFUD
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Sveden , what a bunch of limp cock-sucking assholes. Interpol says Assange is still laying low in Ecuador's embassy in Londres.
The two purported rape victims are dining with Barry Bullshit.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:23 | 5887451 Herdee
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The U.S. is afraid of losing its' currency around the world for trading.They resort to war,or attempt another losing battle once more.

http://www.silverdoctors.com/tag/jim-willie/

The CIA is up to their old kid games ...

http://www.silverdoctors.com/cia-lies-economic-collapse-the-bankers-ww3-...

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:24 | 5887454 Niall Of The Ni...
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On the contrary, Russia should, and must, have military control of the Baltic Sea, one of its natural boundaries.

"Estonia" is Russian territory. Created in 1918 by the Germans after Trotsky sold them half of Eurooean Russia, it only ever made sense as an independent country to people who want a base for German or American troops at the gates of St. Petersburg.

Get that joke of a made-up country off the map before Billary fills it up with diverse and vibrant grunts offered all the white pussy they can rape if they take St. Petersburg in battle. Let any "Estonian" willing to accept Russian language, Russian law and the Orthodox faith stay in his home. Put the Nazi-lovers and traitors on the first cattle train to Siberia.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:49 | 5887522 Sandmann
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Estonia was part of the Swedish Empire which lost it to Russia in 1721 when Sweden was defeated. Russia does not need Estonia but it should have been neutral like Austria

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:30 | 5887777 25or6to4
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Sandman
Thank you. Any country that has it's own language doesn't qualify as " made up". A good example of a made up country would be Belgium , not Estonia . Unfortunately for Estonia it's been in a middle of a tug of war between Russia and Sweden over supremacy of the Baltic for many centuries.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 00:20 | 5887978 Niall Of The Ni...
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Languages go extinct all the time. By 1917 the Estonian language was already in irreversible decline, gradually being displaced by Russian---much as French has displaced Breton in Brittany. Ripping the Estonian-language area out of Russian hands only slowed down the process.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 07:04 | 5888306 RisingSun
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Niall Of The Ni..., you officially are the dumbest phuark on this website. LOL at Estonia(assuming also other Baltics) being historically Russian. Before soviets we didnt even have 10% Russian population here. Clearly you dont know anything other than Russian TV propoganda tells you. Part of Russia my ass lol, go learn about Livonia, Swedish empire, Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Special kind of a moron you are.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 11:05 | 5888660 TungstenBars
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You're still a bunch of nazis tho. Aggrevsive too...will probably get your country destroyed if you keep it up. 

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 11:18 | 5888686 corsair
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Yeah, I also read about this great Aztec empire...

but it turns out they all speak Spanish now.

 

Fun fact: the word potato comes from now extinct Arawakan language Taino.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 13:57 | 5889027 Max Steel
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Risingcunt is back .

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 13:58 | 5889030 Max Steel
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Risingcunt is back .

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 13:58 | 5889031 Max Steel
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Risingcunt is back .

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 15:47 | 5889280 Niall Of The Ni...
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So your point is the Estonians have been taking the side of potentates who refused to accept Russia's natural boundaries as rooted in reality, and losing, for hundreds of years? All that proves is how fuckwitted you and your miserable "nation" really are.

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. Next time, the Baltic coast will be as thoroughly Russified as East Prussia. Feeling lucky, are you?

You want to live in Russian territory, part of the deal is loyalty to the Russian nation. You can't guarantee that loyalty, Moscow has no obligation to guarantee your safety. If you want to be Sweden's or Germany's cocksuckers, the ferries to Scandinavia aren't hard to find. You don't want to be ruled by Moscow? Get the fuck off Russian land, and stay off, because you really, truly won't like Siberia. 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:26 | 5887457 Dapper Dan
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Greek defense minister: If Greece leaves euro zone, Spain and Italy would be next

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-2994194/Greek-defense-minister-If-Greece-leaves-euro-zone-Spain-Italy-next.html#ixzz3UJbGl44L
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BERLIN, March 14 (Reuters) - If Greece were to leave the euro zone, Spain and Italy would also end up quitting the common currency bloc, Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos told German newspaper Bild in an interview to be published on Saturday.

"If Greece explodes, Spain and Italy will be next and then at some point, Germany. We therefore need to find a way within the euro zone, but this way cannot be that the Greeks keep on having to pay," he said, according to an advance extract of the interview.

He also said Greece did not need a third bailout but rather "a haircut like the one Germany also got in 1953 at the London debt conference." (Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Ken Wills)

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:33 | 5887467 BullyBearish
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Latvia, Estonia, etc. accept the West's pocket lint to whine about Russia

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:46 | 5887509 Seasmoke
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Everyone has their part to play. 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:36 | 5887472 Surging Chaos
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LOL Russia isn't stupid enough to invade Estonia. They know Estonia is in NATO and as such the self-defense pact would be triggered immediately.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:46 | 5887506 TungstenBars
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I would like to see how much of a "pact" it really is. My bet is ore than a handful of countries will say "Fuck you America" if this shit ever gets hot. 

I'd be surprised if anyone besides the anglo world, baltics and Poland actually fought a war against Russia.

 

Why fight for an American empire on the other side of the Atlantic especially when that empire is at its sunset?

NATO won't last when shit gets hot. I call bullshit on that expired alliance. 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:59 | 5887547 tarabel
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And I call bullshit on the Warsaw Pact.

I win.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:18 | 5887599 TungstenBars
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You can't possibly believe NATO is a real pact. 

The only entities that are truly on board are the anglo countries and a handful of east european lunatics. The rest will jump ship the second they see real danger. 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:20 | 5887746 Anunnaki
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NATO doesn't fight countries with credible airforces. Much less ones with ICBM's

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:04 | 5887695 Volkodav
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off topic and tired...

Warsaw Pact is defunct

Do  not conflate Soviet USSR with Russian Federation

Soviet was never a Russian construct

 

 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:10 | 5887715 Anunnaki
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Nobody is going to war over a hillbilly shithole like Estonia. They wish they were worthy of being invaded by Russia

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 06:58 | 5888300 RisingSun
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"Nobody is going to war over a hillbilly shithole like Estonia. They wish they were worthy of being invaded by Russia"

 

Thats right, must be the reason why we have 26% Russians in Estonia and 27% in Latvia, they simply just wont leave our shitholes mate! Circus(Soviets) left, but they left their clowns (soviets) behind. Infact, many Russians are buying property here in Latvia for safety and access to Europe...but dont let get in the way of that RIA, RT and other Russian sponsored BS that you keep on listening to.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 10:42 | 5888607 TungstenBars
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LOL!

You've been brainwashed. I've been to the Baltics before and I've seen first hand the strong armed propaganda the USA is pushing onto your people. You need to learn to question the bullshit instead of eating it until bombs eplode around you. 

You will pay dearly if you don't start seeing reality. 

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 11:00 | 5888649 Anunnaki
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Your whole society collapses if those Russians leave. You know that is true. russian ingenuity brought modern improvements to the armpit of Eastern Europe

How about a thank you, you ungrateful hicks

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 13:59 | 5889032 Max Steel
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got sand in your vagina again canukie ?

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:29 | 5887519 WTFUD
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Surging ,a rhetorical question, not directed at you; why invade your mother in law's asshole?

NATO are the scum of the earth, obsolete SOON.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:47 | 5887517 ross81
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"That Russian bear's coming right for us"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt6kKhlX8vU

 

 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:51 | 5887530 Condition 1SQ
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My God, if one were to take all the ZH headlines seriously, the entire planet should be nothing more than craters and roving warbands by now.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 20:55 | 5887541 FredFlintstone
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You must live in the burbs

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:12 | 5887574 Condition 1SQ
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We're both writing in the comments section of a niche political website, so the tough guy competition is off to a pretty lousy start, Francis.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:10 | 5887570 dsty
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You got to admit.

It is a funny headline.

So if Russia actualy did move in, the Swedes wuold certainly bow and head home.

I understand that Scandinavia would be worried the way things have been going.

They have missed the bullet a few times.

So it is all blustering.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:36 | 5887603 fleur de lis
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There is no way the Swedes will duke it out with the Russians. They wouldn't last 5 minutes and they know it. They can't even control the no-go areas of their own cities. They import angry immigrants and give them generous benefits, and instead of thanks they get more social unrest and they can't control it. Their own native population is subject to roving gangs of angry, disoriented immigrants and they can't control it. And NATO expects them to fight with the Russians? They can't.

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:20 | 5887607 Condition 1SQ
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I put that at a 0% chance, but hypothetically, if it did happen .. fan, meet shit.  "Taking" Ukraine is one thing, but going after Sweden would be outright insanity.  In other (more important news), there is supposed to be a big announcement out of Russia this weekend.

http://vlasti.net/news/213426

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 22:54 | 5887670 fleur de lis
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The Russians will not take Sweden, but if the Swedes shoot at the Russians it's over. The Russians don't have to "take" Ukraine, either. The areas where the ethnic Russians live was Russian territory anyway until Stalin brought his crayons to the map and simply redrew the borders, thus Ukraine was expanded. 

Things started spinning out of control when the NATO morons asked Ukraine if they could put bases along the border with Russia. Then there's the little matter of Sevastopol, which NATO coveted. Now isn't that asking for trouble? Ukraine's president said no because he knew it was a bad deal, and so the game was on.

Nuland got busted planning a coup in Kiev and her phone conversation was broadcast everywhere. The Kiev government was overthrown and a CIA-approved gang installed. The very first thing they did was to declare that there would be no more Russian spoken in schools, government offices, etc. The eastern population saw the writing on the wall and decided to get divorced.

At no point is this the business of any countries but Russia and Ukraine.

 

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 03:14 | 5888140 basho
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hypothetically is a BS word signifying an imagination over-stimulated by monsanto and mcdonalds. 

you even admit your hypothesis is insane. isn't it time for you medication.

Sat, 03/14/2015 - 02:48 | 5888117 Boogity
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The Swedish dudes are too busy trying to strap NATO-issue impenetrable titanium chastity belts on their horny women who are chasing Arab and African monster dick. 

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 21:09 | 5887569 Kreditanstalt
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Where is this militarist bullshit coming from?  Sometimes it seems like we're living in some kind of Alice-in-Wonderland Looking-glass world where verything is upside down, War is Peace and we are always at war with EastAsia...or is it Eurasia today?  And these governments all work together in lock-step.

 The only threat is from the American imperialists...

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