Schweden schickt der Ukraine sein bislang größtes Militärhilfepaket mit Booten, Luftabwehr- und Panzerabwehrraketen, Torpedos und Munition

by Zogramislath

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  2. For more context:

    Assuming Sweden’s gdp as $585.939 billion this package is 0.117%

    If the U.S. were to pledge a package of the same percent assuming their gdp as 25.462 trillion it would be a package worth $29.790 billion

  3. Good, the world is starting to wake up to the real threat of an advancing and highly dangerous Russian autocrat. It’s going to take an all-hands effort to defeat him and deter him from trying this again.

  4. Thanks, Sweden.

    Paradoxically, but Ukrainian war helped to many European countries to better understand themselves. Not to mention overall European rise of cohesion by mass-remembering about pan-European values. Or, more precisely, about risks of their absence.

    Before the war, Sweden wanted to become some regional, or even World’s, humanitarian leader, moral authority.

    But morality not some theoretical abstraction as almost all other cultural aspects, it’s also part of biological empathic apparatus. Real thing that exists for real things.

    So when Sweden begun to move away from practical empathic morality to theoretical, institutional/bureaucratic one, it also started to move away from achievement of own goals. To somewhere where now Austria and Switzerland.

    Ukrainian war, smell of barbarism and fanaticism ammonia, brought Sweden, as and almost everyone else, back to Earth. Where… Moral/ethical problems still the same as they were always – foremost results of rudimentary instinctiveness, ignorance-stupidity. That self-evident.

    But what not self-evident – recent evolution of answers to these problems.

    Richard Feynman once said that “If you can’t explain something to a first year student (or child), then you haven’t really understood.”

    In theory, to achieve some humanitarian leader status, Sweden should be able to explain to the poorest countries in the World how exactly, not theoretically, but practically, they could achieve the Swedish standards of living. That not really too much difficult:

    1. Sociocultural evolution – heir of biological one. Ideas/memes as like animals, and after countless iterations of “survive the fittest” was created ecosystem with the most adaptive sociocultural species: Golden Rule of Morality, Rationalism, Humanism (/Rational Humanism), Secularism, Rule of Law, Democracy, Freedoms, foremost – Freedom of Speech (information transaction costs) and so on.
    2. To understand and start using (via more long-term and more Win/Win social strategies) of which needed understanding of complex abstractions and rational thinking that could be achieved by Academic Logic. And basic understanding of human nature (oneself in others and others in oneself) that could be achieved by knowledge of Cognitive Distortions, Logical Fallacies, Defense Mechanisms.
    3. To understand of which needed…

    And there, until recently, was a huge problem. How to get people to study something that has no practical application and immediate benefits?

    The answer to which recently given modern technologies.

    If people could use smartphones and Wikipedia to read information about Academic Logic, Logical Fallacies, Defense Mechanisms, or even something else (as base Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, IMDB-250 as universal base of social strategies and information for training of emotional intelligence), then why overcomplicate more?

    If such knowledge could be tested by voluntary tests created and checked by Open Source, why overcomplicate more?

    If the main motivator for passing of such tests could be just peanut money from government or philanthropists, why overcomplicate more?

    With such approach, a huge number of problems that previously were unsolvable due to organizational reasons now reduced to just question of money availability. That also not a problem, because rise of social Human Capital create money, and sometimes even markets, by itself.

  6. Anti-tanks? The direct opposite of a tank, the anti-tank.

  7. Considering the damage they’re doing to russian shipping now, imagine the damage they could do with an actual boat.

  9. Package contains the following:
    -10x Combat Boat 90 H & E [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB90-class_fast_assault_craft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cb90-class_fast_assault_craft)

    -20x G-class landing craft [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-class_landing_craft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/g-class_landing_craft)

    -Unspecified amount of RBS 70 MANPADS [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBS_70](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rbs_70)

    -Unspecified amount of 155mm Artillery shells

    -Unspecified amount of RB55 (TOW) [https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/bgm-71_tow)

    -Unspecified amount of GRG m/48/84 (Carl Gustaf Recoilless rifle) including ammunition [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_8.4_cm_recoilless_rifle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/carl_gustaf_8.4_cm_recoilless_rifle)

    -Unspecified “underwater weapons”

    -Unpecified handgrenades. Most likely Spränghandgranat m/56

    -Unspecified medical equipment

    -Unspecified medical transport vehicles

    -Training

    -35 new CV9035 to be ordered (Joint financing by Sweden and Denmark)

    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Vehicle_90](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/combat_vehicle_90)

  10. *Thanks for sharing this Bloomberg story. Here’s more from reporter Jonas Ekblom’s piece:*

    Sweden will send 7.1 billion kronor ($680 million) worth of additional military aid to Ukraine, Defense Minister Pal Jonson said at a news conference Tuesday.

    The package, the largest Sweden has sent to Ukraine since Russia’s large-scale invasion two years ago, is comprised of a wide array of weapons, including 155 mm artillery shells and grenade launchers, he said.

    There are also funds for Ukraine to finance future purchases, such as combat vehicles.

  12. Hooray for Sweden! This will most definitely help the Ukraine people defend themselves against that Putin Dog and his Kremlin killers! Fuck Putin the murder and long live Ukraine! Thank you Sweden.

  13. Combining the sea drones with torpedos woud be devastating

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