Europe

8484 readers

1 users here now

News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe 🇪🇺

(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, 🇩🇪 ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures

Rules

(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)

Be nice to each other (e.g. No direct insults against each other);
No racism, antisemitism, dehumanisation of minorities or glorification of National Socialism allowed;
No posts linking to mis-information funded by foreign states or billionaires.

Also check out [email protected]

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Sweden's call for population to prepare for war sparks panic and criticism (www.france24.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

24 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It’s been described as a bombshell moment. The upper echelons of Sweden’s government and defence forces last week shocked the nation by explicitly warning that war might come to Sweden, and that each and every Swede should prepare themselves. While some have taken the warning seriously and flocked to the stores to stock up on fuel and survival kits, others have accused the country’s leaders of fear-mongering

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"If you want peace, be prepared for war." — various warmongers through the ages

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, one of the most quoted person on the topic of war:

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well there is single battles aka fighting, and there is the war as an armed conflict as a whole.

A succesful siege, while brutal to the besieged, falls under the quote, as the enemy is subdued without a fight