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What about Finland and Sweden? What about if it was just the island of Gotland, and not an all out invasion. Edit: And how much will you give up to avoid a Nuc
by vertis 5y ago
What about Finland and Sweden? What about if it was just the island of Gotland, and not an all out invasion.
Edit: And how much will you give up to avoid a Nuclear War. Assuming the other side is not rational and can't be trusted to protect their existence in a MAD scenario.
Maybe Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are not worth "the world being destroyed".
Where does it stop.
- georgeecollins 5y agoFinland and Sweden haven't asked to be in NATO. It was clear that Germany was not even willing to send defensive weapons to Ukraine. So I don't think the NATO countries were ready to fight over Ukraine, including the US. I don't know if Germany would go to war to protect Gotland, but if Swedes think it could happen maybe they should join NATO? That would clarify the situation one way or another.
- deepsun 5y agoFinland already did, just this week.
- tim333 5y agoI imagine we'd protect Finland and or Sweden / Gotland. Though not a foreign policy expert or anything. I think it's a bit of a practical trade off. I'm in London and while it's tempting to do a UK/US no fly zone I'm don't especially want the risk of an off his trolly Putin nuking here. But maybe we could slip some planes and missiles to Ukraine - depending on what we can get away with.
- pasabagi 5y agoI don't think the Russians would do well against Finland and Sweden. Both are big economies, both produce a lot of arms, and the Finnish army is both large and modern. They could maybe win against Sweden alone, since it's largely demilitarized, but they don't actually have a border, and I don't know why Finland wouldn't get involved. PS: Finland also does conscription, so there's like a million fins who could be called up if a war broke out, and they'd all have training.