You 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

You 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.