https://twitter.com/DSA_Intl_Comm/status/1525120090575884296

For more info on Left Party of Sweden opposition on NATO:

https://vansterpartiet.se/nato

  • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    i'm ideologically opposed to nato expansion but if i lived somewhere they might invade I wonder what I'd think the odds of invasion would have to be to flip that on a pragmatic basis

    it's like being anti-proliferation but if I'm iran or some other bullyable country I want a nuke yesterday

    • Krem [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      They did OK during the last cold war, but that was with a really high defense budget, and compulsory service (male only at that time). Pretty much all swedish men I know who are older millennial, Xer or boomer, spent 10 months to a year at 18 years old running around the woods, getting yelled at by career officers, digging foxholes and eating pea soup out of tins in a tent in the rain.

      Anyway, if it comes to that, I'd rather bring back compulsory communal pea soup consumption for able-bodied people (of any gender) rather than fucken nato membership. I don't live in sweden anymore but I don't feel like moving back there when I hear about shit like this. Have to figure out voting by mail so I can vote V next election I guess.