Comments by "Mosern1977" (@Mosern1977) on "Paul Warburg" channel.

  1. Norwegian here - also from a rich country - but we've culturally solved things a bit differently than in the US. 1. We're collecting a lot of tax of people, and use that to remove personal risks and challenges in society as a whole and move that to the government to sort out for us. ("Free" education, healthcare, pension, benefits, etc). 2. Culturally it is not seen as positive to flaunt wealth. (Money is something you have, not something you talk about). 3. We do enjoy taking a hike into the forest, with our without skis - and we have a healthy work/life balance. One of the main differences is then a society that is and looks much more equal, and that people are generally more content and less stressed out living in it. On the flip-side, it might come across as exceedingly boring. Which is why we enjoy watching the action/chaos around the world unfold from the comfort of our safe/boring homes.
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  2. That would be a very long, dangerous and tedious walk.
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  3. The airforce of all Nordic countries are already under the same command (NORDEFCO), so its not like it would be only Swedish fighter jets involved. This combined airforce is one of the biggest in Europe, with state of the art equipment.
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  4. UK and northern Europe is already closely cooperating through JEF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Expeditionary_Force
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  5. I find this argument the most plausible. However, as soon as new equipment is bought in, there is a surplus of old equipment that then would be shipped off to Ukraine. So it might help Russia in the short-term, but in the long term, it has the opposite effect.
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  6. It was. And a lot of NATO countries were in Afghanistan helping the US there.
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  7. Trump has really been burning through carefully managed stockpiles of US soft power at an alarming rate. The talk about not ruling out military power to take Greenland really doesn't go down well either. If he said that "of course we will never attack a military ally" and that only economic or diplomatic avenues of persuasion was on the table, then that would have been fine.
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  8. Yeah, we were getting along swell, until Russia found out it wanted to be a bully again. Back in the 00s everything was cool.
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  9. True. That's why it is going to be some country with a lot less friends than Sweden.
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  10.  @mikolajtrzeciecki1188  Socialism never work. Mixed economies do work. Just need to get the mix right.
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  11. Trump is burning through American Soft power at an alarming rate. And your "hit in the face" analogy is absolutely correct. The long term damage Trump has done to the US's standing in the world will be hard to quantify, but it is going to be huge. Even the fact that he has been threatening a fellow founding NATO member with taking their territory, is more than enough to sour moods a lot. Its like your friend says: "I need your microwave own, and I will have it, one way or the other - pointing to a gun in his belt". Yean, that will have some real consequences even if the gun is never actually used.
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  12. Interesting info, that for some reason is often glossed over.
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  13.  @tessjuel  - its secretly going to be Norway.
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  14. I wonder if this is a Russian counter-inteligence operation. Tell some suspected agents that Russia will attack Sweden, some Finland, some Estonia, some Norway, etc. And see which ones leak out. Just the airforce of the combined Nordic nations are pretty big, and very modern and up-to-date. The problem with a limited (but clearly actual) strike, is that it also only requires a limited response from NATO. And it is much more likely that NATO countries are willing to do a limited response than anything else. An incursion on Gotland will be handled by JEF easily.
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  15. Denmark can and will in a wartime scenario. There will be no naval movement in the Baltics that isn't NATO-aligned in such a scenario.
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  16. As a Norwegian, that is what worries me the most. There seems to be an unhealthy large portion of the American population that will follow along with whatever the government says and will swallow government bullshit at face value. I guess living in an all American bubble for your entire life, will make this a thing. It is somewhat similar to how Russians operate, living in their Russian bubble, gobbling up government bullshit.
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  17. Because WW2 is a long time ago.
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  18. I mean, if the Ukraine invasion showed us anything - it was that an outside threat was very effective at bringing different countries together.
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  19. Yeah, its way too difficult to do Sweden or Finland. Baltics are easier targets, and with a substantial Russian population, they can conjure up some "save Russian people from nazis" bullshit. But in the day of drones and satellite surveillance, any army buildup would be spottet easily and NATO would be able to reinforce the Baltics if need be. The Ukraine war didn't happen in a vacuum, so I personally don't think Russia will test NATO by invading. However, making NATO countries focus on self-defense rather than supporting Ukraine, is plausible. Only issue with this strategy, is that Ukraine gets a lot of the older stuff that NATO countries now replace with newer stuff.
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