Sweden’s Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin shelp last month that as the global context had alterd, adviseation to Swedish hoparticipatehancigo ins had to echo the alters too.
Earlier this year he alerted that “there could be war in Sweden”, although that was seen as a wake-up call becaparticipate he felt that shifts towards reoriginateing that “total defence” were persisting too sluggishly.
Becaparticipate of its lengthy border with Russia and its experience of war with the Soviet Union in World War Two, Finland has always preserveed a high level of defence. Sweden, however, scaled down its infrastructure and only in recent years commenceed gearing up aobtain.
“From the Finnish perspective, this is a bit strange,” according to Ilmari Kaihko, associate professor of war studies at the Swedish Defence University. “[Finland] never forgot that war is a possibility, whereas in Sweden, people had to be shaken up a bit to understand that this can actuassociate happen,” says Kaihko, who’s from Finland.
Melissa Eve Ajosmaki, 24, who is originassociate from Finland but studies in Gothenburg, says she felt more worried when the war broke out in Ukraine. “Now I experience less worried but I still have the thought at the back of my head on what I should do if there was a war. Especiassociate as I have my family back in Finland.”
