After days of wandering around the Baltic looking for a mystery submarine, Sweden’s military now says that they are ready to use “armed force” to try to force the submarine to surace.
Sweden’s Navy has been scouring the area off the coast after reports that someone spotted a “man-made object,” putatively a submarine, surfacing in the country’s waters.
Supreme Commander General Sverker Goranson claimed the submarine was violating Sweden’s sovereignty. Swedish officials have speculated that it was a Russian ship in distress, adding a sense of Cold War intrigue to the situation.
Russian officials noted that the Netherlands was carrying out a naval exercise in the Baltic that included an emergency surfacing exercise. The Netherlands and Russia both maintain that the submarine, if indeed it exists at all, is not theirs.
What this means if Sweden does start dropping depth charges remains to be seen, but Swedish military officials concede that despite many previous searches for submarines, they’ve never actually caught one.
Perhaps it's one of those home-made drug transport submarines.
Maybe it an Israeli submarine they Germany gifted them earlier, preparing for a false flag against Sweden. Remember, they were the first major western country to recognize Palestine.
Sweden was also the first nation to invade Russia and get soundly trounced (Poltava).
Apparently, despite the years, that catastrophe still smarts with some Swedish militarists..
Fortunately Sweden is not a member of NATO.
Yup – my thought also.
That is what I thought, but maybe it is on a routine run, seeing how far in they can get undetected. A false flag is definitely in the offing with those subs.
Evil and satanic Russia is at it again, starting the Cold War all over again. Enough all ready, of such fiction, fairytale and fantasy, for the Western powers need a big bunch of enemies to always accomplish a big bunch of expansion.
Like a dog chasing a car, what will they do if they do if they catch it?
A Russian submarine in distress is a plausible scenario, given the rickety state of the cold war-era Russian military. As with the Kursk, the Russians will, of course, deny everything and refuse all help until it's too late to save the crew. And, of course, after Putin's repeated claims that he didn't intend to annex Crimea, any denial from Russian officialdom has to be put in the "I did not have sex with that woman" category.
Kenny, your need some oxygen to breath. Your current posture with your head way up your ass is not helping.
On the other hand, if the Swedes start dropping meatballs from Strict Helga's All Day Swedish Buffet on the mystery submarine, things might be very different–
Your Russophobia shows up very well. Putin did the right thing in annexing Crimea.
What if it turns out to be some harmless eccentric millionaire living Captain Nemo style?
If they kill him, then what?
Its probably a whale.
I had heard that the Swedes admitted that some of their Cold War sightings proved to be seals. If a few fragments of seal skin float to the surface after the bombardment, the Greens will no doubt be much irked.