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The Soviets definitely had extensive and detailed invasion plans of Sweden, a neutral country. Sure, offense is the best defense, but you make them sound as if
by ptr 5y ago
The Soviets definitely had extensive and detailed invasion plans of Sweden, a neutral country. Sure, offense is the best defense, but you make them sound as if they were just protecting what was theirs.
- nosianu 5y agoYou don't provide any context. All the great powers have all kinds of ridiculous plans [0]. None of them are meant to be "first tier", they are meant to be used under certain bad circumstances when things have already gone down the drain. I doubt that that plan for invasion of Sweden was meant to be used with nothing else going on forcing them to do so. So, could you provide the context those plans were made in and for, please? If it turns out the SU indeed just wanted to become bigger without any other pressure I'll admit you were right, but I doubt it. [0] I've no intention to single out the US specifically, it's just that this one was easy to come to my mind as an example: https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be... -- I doubt the US would actually send an invasion force, this is more a political tool. If you cut the context you could claim "US has plans to invade the Netherlands", which would be highly misleading.
- justsomehnguy 5y agoEvery good enough IT team has the "Restoring to the baremetal from the off-site backups" plan. Yet they never intend to put it in action.