Scandinavian Thread

[Legbiter]

First time since the Kalmar Union that all the Nordics are in one security alliance.

[Jacob]

[Barrister]

Very nice!

[Tonitrus]

Hopefully we won't be taking ours down next year. 

[Legbiter]

Holy shit the Børsen in Copenhagen is burning down. 

[Jacob]

Pretty crazy. I wonder what caused the fire?

[Legbiter]

Well the building was under renovation. Seems very similar to what happened to Notre Dame.

[viper37]

Pretty crazy. I wonder what caused the fire?

These old buildings, it's like the African Bush.  Every once in a while, they must be burnt to let the new one regrow...

Sorry...

It sucks really.  Hopefully, it can be rebuilt like the original.

[Josquius]

It does seem to be weirdly close in timing to notre dame.
Or maybe I'm just paying more attention these days and missed the every 5 years burnings before that?

[Threviel]

Apparently there's a Nato exercise going on an km-long queues of Nato vehicles in northern Sweden.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbotten/kilometerlanga-nato-konvojer-fardas-langst-vagarna-i-norr

[Admiral Yi]

 

Now please help us nag the others to kick in their 2%. 

[viper37]

Now please help us nag the others to kick in their 2%. 

Already done.


Denmark is 1.4 and rising.

[The Brain]

The Riksdag approved the Defense Cooperation Agreement with the US regulating US troops based in Sweden etc. There has been debate whether there should be something in the DCA that prohibits the US from placing nukes in Sweden. The Social Democrats have stated that the Non-Proliferation Treaty already covers this, so the US can't move nukes into Sweden according to the NPT. This appears to me to be a novel interpretation of the word "transfer" in the NPT and the history of NPT nuclear weapon states placing nukes in other countries. My guess would be that they are being dishonest to protect themselves against no-nukes people wanting nuclear weapons to be regulated in the DCA.