I am very sorry to hear that you have "lost" your military capability due to political irresponsibility -- but you have been electing such leaders for decades and they have been misleading you.

It is also important to order a new, modern, long-range air defense system so we can defend Stockholm, Gotland and all our bases. Only the Sweden Democrats demanded a return to the level of defense spending Sweden had in 1999, which would require an additional 40 billion kronor (around $4.6 billion USD) from 2016 to 2020. You could send 10,000 bottles of olive oil and meet the demands of solidarity.

With that there is a response by Russia. And now Sweden's and Europe's disease has leaped the Atlantic and there stands a president in Washington remarkably like old Olof himself -- vain, convinced of his own moral superiority, clueless about what happens in the word when there is no force for good helping to maintain order, and utterly contemptuous of the military entrusted with protecting his own nation and world order. National defense is always a dynamic enterprise, as the capabilities of (expected or undeclared) enemies wax and wane. In the mean time why don't you join NATO and perhaps we can work together with Australians to build some great warships. Those whose reserve units have been disbanded would then be used to cover combat casualties of the active reserve units in time of war. "For example," Kihl says in the documentary," we had 850,000 flyswatters in stock. The focus of the Swedish military now turned to international operations. One only needs to see how far the Russian tanks were from the border of Denmark in 1945 to see part of the problem. Some people still believe that Russia is not a threat. — Owe Wictorin, former Supreme Commander. Areas that have or are in Russia's sphere of influence are different than European countries (states?)

", Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves was not impressed by the declaration. © 2020 Gatestone Institute. The highest military leaders in the country were convinced that the threat of invasion was all in the past, and that the country's defenses could therefore be shut down. We all liked your Volvo and SAAB cars.

Even though, the first one to see the problem will be M$ and they will find the fix first & then send the fix updates to all the other AVsoftware programs to keep them up to date. You can sign in to vote the answer. At that time, there were 100,000 active-duty soldiers in Army combat units; and counting local defense units and Home Guardsmen, another 350,000 men were available. The old Gripen airplanes should be saved for us to increase the number of military aircraft divisions.". Except that the file is important to the operation of the OS, and the machine will thus be bricked. Politicians save money by cutting the military, then those same politicians are surprised, when their military cannot function as they want it to function. Now America wants to be Sweden.". It's that simple. Contact: info@gatestoneinstitute.org Joining NATO never appealed to Swedish politicians, but in 2009, the Swedish Parliament suddenly announced a "declaration of solidarity" with the EU. Now it is. All rights reserved.

Suddenly Swedish politicians understood that we need to have some kind of ability to defend ourselves, if we against all odds were to be threatened again. Otherwise get an antivirus, such as bitdefender, kasperski, eset. Tom, it's not just Norway that has maintained at least some of the defence strength of the Nordics.Finland has maintained the now 99-year-old conscription based system and made it more and more efficient by dropping off most of the unnecessary military barrack tasks many countries suffer from (a lot of them are now carried out by personnel who are hired for the jobs).An average rifleman conscript gets to shoot thousands of live rounds in pretty advanced live fire exercises - both day and night and on natural assault advance (ie. By declaring itself neutral -- and allowing Germany to use the Swedish railway system to transport weapons and personnel to and from Norway -- Sweden was able to avoid the fate of Denmark and Norway, which were occupied by the Germans. Stop or we will fight you.'". ": "Sweden has cut its manpower very, very drastically in recent years, so that it now has almost the smallest forces and smallest army of any Nordic state -- despite being twice as big as any other. ... Defense Minister wears a dress...". It is easy to see why the defense budget needs to be doubled to achieve the reality the politicians speak of so beautifully: To be able to defend Sweden. I have used various free antiviruses before, and I currently use the Microsoft Defender that comes as default. (thus phucking it up)  They were real slow to protect their programming & it was filled with "holes" that could be accessed by other programmers to mess with THEM. So drawing a conclusion that Russian/Georgian conflict equates to Sweden being threatened is questionable at best. Other programmers learned how to write bad code and insert it into Windows programming. The current American administration is among those blind politicians. Also one thing that the Microsoft AV will never get wrong that often do go wrong with 3rd parties is that sometimes they may falsely identify an important system file as an infected program, and lock it up, quarantine it. According to Sweden's Supreme Commander Sverker Göransson, we can, at best and in five years, defend ourselves in one place for one week. But they are asking for peanuts. "The dismantling of the old structure.

The Swedish Army was outdated. However, conscripts could not be ordered to serve abroad; that mission required professional soldiers. How common do iPhone get malwares? My God - here I am on the 26th November in 2017, just UNDER TWO YEARS after you wrote your comment - and the only thing you got wrong was assuming it'd take a decade.... 80% of the Swedish Police force are wanting to quit, no-go zones are in full effect, the country is starting to fall and no-one wants to even admit it, let alone face it and stop it from falling. you still need antivirus software. Oh, poor Sweden so advanced but your head is in the clouds. Maybe IKEA can chip in something as well? Dont you think Windows Defender is the only best security solution while others are just a plain timepass? But surely, Sweden has at least made sure that Gotland is well defended? No money for defense but plenty for welfare payments to Muslim barbarians happily rotting the country from within. It reads: "Sweden will not remain passive if a disaster or attack should hit another member state, or Nordic country. In 1992, interest rates were raised to a staggering 500%, and politicians were searching everywhere for possible budget cuts. Should we be supplying military support? The total defense of Gotland now consists of 14 tanks tucked away in a storehouse. They will have little Hamas pockets and will be paralyzed, not wanting to act like the Israelis and defend themselves. But from what I hear, before the Russians invade Sweden the Mohammedans will conquer it from within.

In 1994, Kihl spoke of "hacker platoons," sensors that could monitor all of Sweden, unmanned airplanes and balloons that could report on everything that moved. Johan Kihl says that due to lack of resources, the Armed Forces are unable to defend the country in any sensible way. It seems Sweden and these other members of the EU have much bigger problems internally with the growth of Islamic fundamentalism and misguided cultural marxism. That is not "Socialism" but rather Social Democracy. I got a text message from a 5-digit phone number saying "Tap to reset your Instagram password" even though I never tried to reset it? Still would do nothing. We're talking about a week on our own.". Maybe the wars of the future would be completely different -- maybe fast, agile forces were the way to go? Twice a year we invest a small amount of money ($125k) in a large number of startups.

The order for new SAAB 39 Gripen E should be increased to 100 planes. "One needs to … When General Wictorin suggested defense cuts and reform in favor of modern and flexible armed forces, the idea sounded as if it were a Christmas present. What was appropriate even a year ago may not be now. Maybe say: 'I see what you are doing. So how do Swedish politicians imagine defending the country if the Russians get it into their heads to, say, invade Gotland? Sounds crazy but just give it another decade and few more immigrants. The potential was huge if you went full throttle, which we never did.". "The idea of defending Sweden as the most important thing was lost." Acquiring early customers, figuring out who to hire, closing deals with banks, raising money -- YC's partners were closely involved and crucially helpful. “It’s okay. Sweden is a textbook example of everything that is corrupt and self-defeating in European social democracies with more than the usual soupcon of anti-semitism so that it's impossible to feel sorry for the people who once gave the world Raoul Wallenberg. Raif Badawi may now face the death penalty for apostasy in Saudi Arabia, according to recent reports. Out of the four I believe that the free version of Bitdefender is best,then Kaspersky,then Avast. I wish Sweden all the best, but, I fear, good wishes may not be enough. I'd be the last to defend Swedish government, especially considering their policies of housing, feeding, and supporting Jihadis. ... [Sweden] today does not have that capability.". But the lingo about you downloading your own antivirus software is still there. We expect other countries to act the same way if Sweden is hit. Every last item stored in the mobilization repositories was hauled away to central storage bases. "Now," according to Agrell, "there was a stone in our shoe. Sweden has such a large defense industry, it has been proud of having heavily mechanized forces.

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