Why Russia FEARS Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland Alliance

🚨"All Swedes should mentally prepare for war."🚨 Supreme Commander Micael Bydén's stark warning on TV4 about 🇸🇪 Sweden's readiness amidst rising tensions with 🇷🇺 Russia shook the nation. With a surge in interest in bomb shelters and crisis info, the question arises: Is Scandinavia bracing for conflict? This video delves into the preparedness of Scandinavian nations for war, examining military capabilities against Russia's formidable forces and exploring the potential impact of NATO alliances. 🌍💣#SwedenPreparesForWar #scandinavia #ScandinaviaVsRussia #MilitaryReadiness #NATO #NATOAlliance #GeopoliticalTension #Denmark #Norway #Sweden #Finland #Russia #militaryanalysis
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[MrKristianNorrman]

Since you're including russian WW2 tanks, you should include viking longboats to our navy.

[TrynePlague]

Russia has 12K tanks, half of them in pieces in Ukraine, the other half rusting away and unusable.

[harrygordon]

I doubt that Russia has 12, 000 tanks anymore.

[steveburke]

Having ZERO aircraft carriers is far superior to having one Admiral Kuznetsov.

[bradgardner]

Scandinavian can't stand up to Russia??
Seriously???
That's what was said about Ukraine! Two and a half years ago!

[lopaka]

At less than 7 minutes in, I have to say the Scandinavians combined military budgets goes to the military. Russia"s budget goes into the black market and pockets of corrupt officials.

[stevedolesch]

Orbán and Erdogan, to me, are two-faced. Both are in NATO. Personally, as a native from Hungary, I'm quite pissed off of Orbán.

[AngeFIN]

VERY poorly researched video, you're too obsessed with raw numbers instead of actual effectiveness and strategic impact. The only aspect where Russia is genuinely ahead is manpower (questionable quality) and nuclear weapons, that's why Nordic countries are NATO members.

[kristiansandsmark]

War is expensive, and Russia is burning money faster then they can count it. As a Norwegian i see the horror they commit in Ukraine and i don't want that on my doorstep. The thing we in Scandinavia have that Russia does not is a well trained army, and better logistics. Also every combat unit are trained buttom up instead of top down. This makes them able to take command, when command is not given. Also remember an invading force has a huge disadvantage. The invading force must in general have 3 times the force of the enemy to gain any ground.
Scandinavia also have 4th and 5th gen planes. F 35 and JAS Gripen witch are considered to be some of the greatest jets in the world.

Based on the invasion of Ukraine think about this. Russia failed to gain air superiority against a country with little to no airforce, and Ukraine managed to somehow destroy the Russian navy to such a point that they had to pull back to the Crimean Peninsula.
This is very impressive considering Ukraine does not have a Navy.
It is also a good indication that the Russian army is extremely mismanaged, undertrained, with bad morale, and few resources.

[vicolin]

When you list the aircraft for each country, you use F16 as the background footage of Sweden. This is completely wrong, as Sweden uses their own "Gripen" multirole jets. They look nothing alike.

[larslarsson]

There are a couple of items missed out. 1) Naval force - what Russia needs are landing crafts; air carriers are quite useless in the Baltic Sea; 2) about half of the defence budget in Russia disappears in corruption; 3) the Finish borderland. A single rail line goes between Murmansk and along the coast down towards the south. That make a military build-up/supply lines difficult. Much of the land between Russia and Finland are lakes and marchland which makes tanks useless; 4) the Nordic countries have more sophisticated hardware and nimbler military used to the local conditions.

[davidioanhedges]

Ukraine has no nuclear weapons, no navy, and all of its armed forces are and were miniscule compared to Russia...
Finland alone could resist the Russian military as it is now known to be ... And Russia would be automatically be fighting all of Scandinavia and NATO... So it would lose

[hermes]

The Scandinavic countries might have relatively small militaries but they are modern and they have a huge home turf advantage. The territory of the Nordic countries is very defensible not friendly to the movement of armored vehicles. Finland is mostly lakes, woods and swamps, while Sweden and Norway have significant mountain areas and a lot of rivers.

[swedishmake-upgeek]

Regarding the naval powers you need to remember that a lot of Russia’s ships, including its flagship, was sunk by a country without a navy 🇺🇦
Swedish subs ”sunk” American warships in war games. The Americans had no clue the sub was even there. And American ships are infinitely better than Russian ones

[bjorsam]

There are many ways to calculate defense spending. Should you include coast guard stuff? How about civilian bomb shelters? The video pegs my country, Sweden, as spending 1.3% but mind you Sweden already meets the 2% NATO target, going by NATO spreadsheets.

Also, why the bloody hell would any Nordic country want an aircraft carrier? Especially a Russian one that keeps braking down. We don't aim to project power over blue water distances. We have Gotland, it's right there and hard to sink.

In 1975 Sweden's armed forces changed name from Krigsmakten (Armed force) to Försvarsmakten (Defense force), because that's the mission. A mission much cheaper than, say, keeping logistics and what not for an invasion of Iraq.


Say what you want about lacking military spending, but the Nordic countries have World leading social trust, which amounts to a willingness to defend each other, low corruption and general effectiveness. Especially Finland and Sweden can boast a lot of civil defense, preparations for preventing landings and a mentality to never ever surrendering. Russia would dominate with artillery, men and vehicles, so the strategy here was to also offer up guerilla tactics with no end in sight. But today they would outright lose the air war even if they bombed all our air bases. The VKS can't even handle Ukraine and would find itself up against F35's from Norway, Finland and Denmark together with 100 dispersed Gripens from Sweden. Armed with a thousand helicopters and that formidable wonder of reliability Admiral Kuznetsov, stationed in Murmansk. Ok bro.

On a last note, if Russia attacks Finland it would find itself in war with Sweden no questions aksed and probably Norway and Denmark too. Finland was a part of the same country for over 600 years. There are family ties, history, passport free travelling since 1957 across all the countries - I could go on. These vids made by people from other places just don't get it. There is no attacking Finland INSTEAD of Sweden. Sounds positively deranged to me and I'd dare say to most swedes.

2/10, wouldn't watch again, but I still had to write and give the creator the attention because I figure people might want to know.

[PuffTMagicDragon]

@TheMilitaryShow This is absolutely nonsense. Russia does not have 12.000 main battle tanks. They had about 7.500 at the beginning of the war and have lost about 3.000 in an assessment from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). They are already resupplying with T-63's from 2023 and T-55's from 2024. Get your facts straight before publishing.

[BgLupu]

Swedish goverment: "All citizens should prepare for war. Be afraid, be very afraid"
Finnish goverment: "Ready? What a silly question, we have been preparing for 70 years, ofc we are ready"

[vilandar]

Why bring up Russias 2400 aircraft if they have only 700 fighter and multi role which is close to being on par with Scandinavian fighter/multi role. Its not like 1400 helicopters can operate in a contested airspace.

[patrickuotinen]

There is a ready term for Scandinavia and Finland and Iceland, the Nordic countries.

[andreasholmqvist]

The Russian figures are not correct at all.