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Either way this is a very interesting battle.
As a Swede of course I hope that Tesla caves.
One thing I cannot understand is people who are against worker's rights. Do they not understand that workers make up the majority of all people?
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Also, Finland is already complaining that Russia is weaponising immigrants, so much so that they've closed 7 out of 8 border posts they have with Russia (if I got the numbers right), and seeing how the problem of immigrants is a very delicate one for Sweden (and for many other Western countries generally speaking) the Swedish people holding the monopoly of violence might think twice when it comes to this trade unions issue.
What are you darkly hinting at here? Russia's not going to attack Sweden because Tesla can't get license plates, and NATO's not going to pick Musk over Sweden.
This is incredibly uninformed. Sweden is to important for NATO to care about helping Musk.
But if you want "informed" opinion, I've just gone through this series of studies: "Military Strategy in the 21st Century - The Challenge for NATO" [1], where on page no. 415 there's an essay titled "Military Strategy in Denmark" by a guy called Petter Viggo Jakobsen, Associate Professor at the Institute for Strategy at the Royal Defence College, while on page no. 433 there's another study titled "Norway's Military Strategy after the Cold War: Between Demise and Revival", by a guy named Tormod Heier, lieutenant colonel in the Norwegian Army and Professor in Political Science at the Norwgeian Defence University College. Both of those studies underline how both Norway's and Denmark's strategy deeply rely on the good-will of the United States.
Granted, Sweden is not Norway nor Denmark, but it's not De Gaulle's France either, so I suspect, based on my informed readings, that their military and defence strategy is closer to today's strategy of Norway and Denmark than to the military strategy espoused back in the 1960s by a country such as France (which could back then to say no to the Americans).
Let alone the simple facts that Russia doesn't even have a land border with Sweden and that its Baltic Fleet boasts a total of 1 (one) landing ship capable of reaching Swedish shores, and some 10 landing boats.
If Russia attacked Finland, Sweden and Norway at the same time it wouldn't be pleasant but Sweden would be last and least to suffer, and Russia just doesn't have anything at its disposal to commit to that at the moment.
It’s open secret Sweden has had secret security guarantees from US for decades (probably part of agreement that Sweden will not develop their own nuclear strike capability).
This is not something US would back out of on a whimsy.
It’s not that Sweden is important in itself (though I’d like to think it is, as a swede), but this is a little bit like suggesting placing a Russian army base in South Dakota. South Dakotans being pissed would barely register compared to the reactions from the US beyond that.
Sweden is Tesla's fifth largest market, they're not going anywhere.
Wtf, seriously?!