WI: The United States invades Sweden in the 1970s?
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Imagine ABBA with the militant leftist anthems like Spanish bombs and Sandinista
Those 3 nuclear powers will not go to war with the strongest military on the planet to protect Sweden 🇸🇪
I’m not trying to be jingoistic here just being Kissinger-esque
And again let me clarify that I think this is purely theoretical, no way is this scenario is happening in real life unless Swedish govt is implicated CLEARLY in a 9/11 like terrorists attack
BUT if this does happen then European powers cannot stop the US juggernaut, the power imbalance is just too great
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US has ZERO power projection capabilities into the baltics without its european allies. Europe can simply close off the straits and there is no war.
No I think they should've invaded and also bombed every IKEA.
In all seriousness the amount of alcohol consumption needed for a US official to make this decision would cause their liver to combust far before they could do so
While Sweden did allow Germany to ship soldiers going to and from leave to Norway over the Swedish railway network, as well as food and other non-contraband goods, it sold iron ore and ball bearings to Germany, neither of which could be considered war material.
Iron ore was sold to Britqin too before the Germans took Norway, and ball bearings were sold throughout the war shipped on fast motor gunboats, flown by BOAC or brought in by escaping Norwegian mercant vessels.
They are replaced in ttl by Guerilla Metal group sABBAtage, spreading partisan anthems like "Waterloo", "Under Attack" and "The Winner Takes It All".
Okay let's dial this back to the most half-way plausible idea:
What if the CIA attempts regime change, possibly through something as low-level as elections tampering, in Sweden?
What if the CIA attempts regime change, possibly through something as low-level as elections tampering, in Sweden?
might be the only good thing about the scenario
