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> As Norway has become progressively richer these jokes in Sweden about Norwgians have more or less disappeared however. Yeah, the prevailing notion in Sweden
by fl7305 2y ago
> As Norway has become progressively richer these jokes in Sweden about Norwgians have more or less disappeared however.
Yeah, the prevailing notion in Sweden is now that Norway is so much better off that we swedes should declare war on Norway.
After which we promptly surrender, and all our problems become Norway's problems instead.
- rags2riches 2y agoSimilar jokes were made when the outlook for a Swedish NATO ascension was bad. The much more cool-headed and diplomatically grounded Finns were set to join NATO without trouble. So the solution was obvious: Sweden should join Finland instead of NATO. Relevant context is that Norway was the junior partner of a personal union with Sweden for most of the nineteenth century and until 1905. Also Sweden and Finland was one and the same realm for six centuries or so until 1809.