Fade wrote:
@ Dan
"So our military is a pure defense force. We are never going to invade anybody with because, our military doesn´t have to obey those orders."
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Yes Sweden has done some strange things during war. Being a neutral country they kind of stayed out of WWII.
Not being officially involved, it seems Swedes volunteered to be in both the German and Finnish armies,
That is the freedom of the individual, there was a few nutcases that moved to Germany and joined SS. But the volunteer effort to help Finland was unofficially approved by the governement.
Anyway if YOU wanted to join the French Foreign Legion how could the american authorities stop you?
although officially they did manage to take quiet a few allied prisoners and hold them till the end of the war.
As you just said we were neutral, that meant that any foregin aircraft was forced down, and the crew taken as prisoners. The germans usually volunteered to be prisoners.
Better to be a prisoner in Sweden than a corpse in germany.
If I remember my history correctly, they were also a repository for a lot of stolen war booty
I have never heard of that, but as Whabang said, we got paid in with stolen goods. Anyway, that is what capitalism is all about isn´t it, money don´t smell and all that.
and was rife with spies and espionage.
Oh, there was this house in Malmö that was used to monitor radiotraffic. The funny thing was that during the first part of the war the germans used it and during the second half it was the allies. :lol:
But the real point is that Sweden can´t invaded anyone!
That would require a rewrite of the law, and that would take at least 5 years(2 decisions in parliament with, an election in between)
Do you really think it´s reasonable that one single person should have the power to involve your country in a war?
That there is a reason to go to war if nobody is trying to invade you?
