Sweden “has made contact” with something underwater. Airspace above the area has been closed for civilian traffic. (Reagan, cost)
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Sweden has failed to present any proof of unauthorized foreign presence in its territorial waters. But they spent more than 2 mill. euros. https://newhub.shafaqna.com/EN/NN/5660591
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STOCKHOLM, October 24.
Sweden has spent €2.2 million and one week on an effort to look for a phantom foreign submarine only to eventually acknowledge the absence of suspicious “foreign underwater activity.” For seven days the Swedish armed forces were conducting a sweeping operation involving naval ships and the Marines to find nothing alarming. As follows from the armed forces’ news release, all units have been restored to the routine degree of readiness.
Sweden has failed to present any proof of unauthorized foreign presence in its territorial waters.
“The operation failed to confirm the type, nationality of form of operation by a foreign country,” the search operation’s commander, Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad, told a news conference on Friday. The operation has cost the treasury €2.2 million. The country’s fire-fighters spend as much during one week to deal with forest fires, Grenstad said.
In the past Sweden was searching for a Soviet submarine in 1982 - in the Harsfjarden Bay of the Stockholm Archipelago. No submarines were found then but the military budget went up.
In the past Sweden was searching for a Soviet submarine in 1982 - in the Harsfjarden Bay of the Stockholm Archipelago. No submarines were found then but the military budget went up.
Silly Swedes, right? But I do wonder why one would focus on 1982 and not, say, 1981? Because that was the year the Soviet Navy in all its superpower glory couldn't teach its sub officers to read a chart and ended up with this rather embarrassing result, right in Swedish waters:
That right there is U-137, a Soviet Whiskey-class diesel sub, parked high and dry on Swedish rock, to the colossal embarrassment of a Soviet government (and their "Peace Movement" collaborators) who were busy selling the idea of the Baltic as "the Ocean of Peace" and arguing that SS-20s in Poland were fine, but Pershings in Germany were imperialist NATO aggression. The excuses offered were completely hilarious - "navigational error" didn't work, because it would have had to follow a zig-zag course - so it was just left as "error", which it certainly was.
That might - just might - have had a bit to do with the Swedish military budget going up? Hmm?
(Those were fun days. The Marxists just disappeared from the public discourse, as did the Peace Movements whose entire schtick was that the Warsaw Pact was only defensive. Even the Communist Parties just had nothing to say. It couldn't be talked away, and the photos were right there.)
The Swedish Navy, all five sailors, announced today they were calling off the search.
I wouldn't underestimate the Swedes. Their navy is not blue-water, but they're right at home along their coastline, especially the archipelago - one of the hardest stretches of coast to navigate. Their military hardware is not to be sneezed at, either.
I wouldn't underestimate the Swedes. Their navy is not blue-water, but they're right at home along their coastline, especially the archipelago - one of the hardest stretches of coast to navigate. Their military hardware is not to be sneezed at, either.
North Korea could probably beat NATO if America wasn't in the alliance...
They are not part of NATO and back at the height of the Cold war they were able to hold their own to protect themselves from the Soviets to the pint that it would cost the Soviets enough losses if they were to attack the Nordic countries since they had to hold their own since NATO would not be able to respond fast enough.
Sweden is like alot of countries after the cold war and here in Canada we also let our military decline and never reinvested in upgrading and keeping at cold war type of levels it was not needed and Russia did the same as well.
It costs to much to keep a massive military mothballed and most Cold War military hardware that could be made to be sold for exports to other Countries Navy and Airforces then the stuff that was to old to sell was scrapped or used as practice targets for training purposes.
also maybe Sweden and Russia decided to that what happened would not get out and came to some type of agreement and the situation is over and resolved just neither side will say what happened if it is classified an and we can only speculate.
Based on some of the responses you can speculate maybe Aquaman made contact with the aliens and worked it out.
You could speculate that the massive search was called off as Aquaman solved the Mystery yet again and got into some type of conflict with a Pod of transient Orca whales and sadly all contact with Aquaman was lost.
As the Op I should of remembered this is Politics and Controversies and all threads are like the History Channel it gets right out there to the point of being so far fetched that it makes you laugh
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