Russia Simulated Nuclear Strike On Sweden

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/12139943/Russia-simulated-a-nuclear-strike-against-Sweden-Nato-admits.html

Pretty scary, honestly. Also, here's an article reporting that Russia could steamroll Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in less than 3 days: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/12139050/Nato-cannot-stop-Russian-tanks-in-the-Baltics-wargames-predict.html

What are your thoughts on this? What should NATO be doing to ward off Russia's continuing provocations and dangerous actions in eastern Europe?

Mmm.... simulating attacks on other countries doesn't necessarily mean too much. The US has a plan for war with Canada.

Yeah, but actively simulating nuclear strikes is sort of different, I think. Especially since the Swedish air force was caught completely unaware- which is alarming given Russia hasn't tip-toed around the idea of using nuclear weapons if it feels threatened.

Sounds like Russia is doing NATO a favor by conducting all these exercises and exposing shortcomings in NATO security.

Um..why would Russia be attacking Sweden, of all places.

Also, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia would be steamrolled by pretty much any average size army. These countries have like 2, 3 million people each.

And on a side note, NATO would do jack sh1t about it.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Sounds like Russia is doing NATO a favor by conducting all these exercises and exposing shortcomings in NATO security.

@OV: good point, lol.

@Stigma: Well, the combined active personnel for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is about 46,000 - but factoring in the reserve personnel it's about 300,000 more. Also, there are American troops and NATO military installations in the Baltics as well.

To halt Russia in its tracks NATO would need: A force of about seven brigades in the area, including three heavy armored brigades, and backed up by airpower and artillery, would be enough “to prevent the rapid overrun of the Baltic states,”

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/03/if-russia-started-a-war-in-the-baltics-nato-would-lose-quickly/

Originally posted by Stigma
Um..why would Russia be attacking Sweden, of all places.

I'd be surprised if they couldn't steamroll those countries if they really wanted to.

Must be a slow news week cos they do this to NATO/EU countries on a weekly basis and only ever gets reported when nothing else is happening or the governments decide their populace needs a reminder that they're not the bad guys but Russia are.

They simulate nuclear strikes against NATO countries/allies on a weekly basis?

Originally posted by Q99
Mmm.... simulating attacks on other countries doesn't necessarily mean too much. The US has a plan for war with Canada.

I want to ask which plan is that, since the only plan I'm aware of is almost a hundred years old and concerned war with Great Britain as a whole, but the U.S. probably has plans of invasion for every country.

Originally posted by Stigma
Um..why would Russia be attacking Sweden, of all places.

To many migrants probably.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Sounds like Russia is doing NATO a favor by conducting all these exercises and exposing shortcomings in NATO security.

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Originally posted by |King Joker|
They simulate nuclear strikes against NATO countries/allies on a weekly basis?

They violate airspace atleast once a week, in the Northern Europe. Besides that they conduct plenty of land simulations and fleet exercises in the same area. This is nothing new.

Originally posted by |King Joker|
They simulate nuclear strikes against NATO countries/allies on a weekly basis?

Pretty much. They sent nuclear bombers into British airspace 7 times in 2015. That's just 1 NATO country.

Originally posted by jaden101
Pretty much. They sent nuclear bombers into British airspace 7 times in 2015. That's just 1 NATO country.

Originally posted by |King Joker|
Source? I think I heard that but I don't remember where.

Originally posted by FinalAnswer
I want to ask which plan is that, since the only plan I'm aware of is almost a hundred years old and concerned war with Great Britain as a whole, but the U.S. probably has plans of invasion for every country.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure every country with nukes runs simulations on nuking everybody else- Russia's just hamfisted enough to not give a shit about being subtle.

Originally posted by FinalAnswer
I want to ask which plan is that, since the only plan I'm aware of is almost a hundred years old and concerned war with Great Britain as a whole, but the U.S. probably has plans of invasion for every country.

War Plan Red is probably the one you're thinking of (it continued to be worked on and adjusted til 1935), but I've heard military people talking about planning out that kind of thing less officially.

Just as, like, an exercize to keep their planning muscles sharp.