Swedes Step up Military Contingency over Russian Activity
A top military chief in Sweden [said] the Scandinavian nation’s military [will] raise its preparedness.
“We have decided to reposition our troops…,” Lt. Gen Leif Michael Claesson told The Associated Press.
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Claesson who is the operations manger at the Swedish Armed Forces, said that some of the measures taken by the Swedish military will be visible and others will not be.
“We will act in different locations in Sweden, in different manners,” he said, adding they would be visible on the strategically important Baltic Sea island of Gotland that sits a little more than 186 miles from the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad.
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“We will operate in the air, at sea, below the surface and on the ground in different ways and in different geographical locations,” he said.
Earlier this week, Maj. Gen. Lena Hallin, head of Sweden’s military intelligence agency MUST, said that “we are far from a normal situation for Swedish security today.”
“For some time, developments have been moving in the direction of a serious security policy crisis in Europe, and it has accelerated in recent months,” Hallin said. “It is an illusion that tensions in Europe would be temporary.”
Anti-bellum 
Why would a country that has a silly little army and zero fighting experience want to get involved in a really serious conflict like WW3?
Because they make weapons and hope (fat chance) that the NATO countries will buy their planes and guns.
It is always about money.
(Hey Ikea, can you make us some ‘flat pack’ tanks?)
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