Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all...
by guappa on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:46AM
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> We won't get more weapons factories because of NATO
We'll spend more in weapons. I never said it must be a swedish factory owner to be doing the corrupting.
Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all...
by impossiblefork on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @05:31PM
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Yes, but we'd spend even more if we were not in NATO, and we'd spend it on weapons we'd make ourselves.
Sweden was officially neutral, so the Germans were permitted to buy iron in return mostly for coal, which we needed not to die during winter.
Once Germany had occupied Norway they argued that it was permitted to transit troops. Some transits were indeed permitted, but at the same time Sweden accepted many Norwegians in and many of them were trained militarily to later retake Norway.
With regard to the marked passports, that is not in any way support for the Nazis. We wanted to be able to control our immigration and to know who was attempting to enter. Policy w.r.t. to Jewish immigration was also reversed as the attacks on Jews in Germany crossed the line.
>Or… hear me out… they're corrupt and got something from the owners of weapons factories?
We won't get more weapons factories because of NATO. Much of our weapons industry is successful because we've been one of the few highly industrialised third world countries.