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Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by hackermailman on Thursday March 02, 2017 @10:55AM (#13774958)
South Korea you do 3yrs mandatory service or 2yrs jail and life long shame so motivation isn't a problem. After basic it often involves just working at a desk somewhere only a few stay as professional soldiers rest are moved into cheap civil service labor.

I suspect Sweden has brought back conscription to try and integrate it's new massive foreigner population as a way to make them more Swedish not because of any shenanigans in Kosovo. ...edit oops variable scope error, threat:= Russian shenanigans

Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by syntheticnature on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:23AM (#13775287)
A minor point, but Baltic tensions, not Balkan tensions.
Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by pilsetnieks on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:23PM (#13775985)
Coincidentally, kinda relevant though, because a large part of Sweden's foreigner population are actually immigrants from former Yugoslavia, a lot of them because of the Kosovo War.
Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by weavie on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:27AM (#13775332)
Balkans =/= Baltic