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I boken "The Secret War Against Sweden" avslører Ola Tunander hvordan NATO-ubåter jevnlig besøkte svenske farvann på 80-tallet, med svenske myndigheters stilltiende samtykke. Antall svensker som så Sovjet som en trussel gikk samtidig dramatisk opp.

Dette er en kommentar. Den gir uttrykk for skribentens analyser og meninger.

Demonisering og svartmaling av Russland og Putin står for tiden svært høyt på både norske og svenske journalisters dagsorden, så kjente bøker om NATO-ubåter på hemmelige Sverige-besøk kan derfor ikke nevnes. It`s all very hush hush...

Min uthevelse;

It was stated by then U.S. defence secretary Caspar Weinberger that:

..."“NATO” or Western submarines operated regularly in Swedish waters in order to test Swedish defences after US-Swedish Navy-to-Navy consultations. “It was part of a routine regular scheduled series of defense testing that NATO did and indeed had to do to be responsible and liable.” However, according to Weinberger, “at no time, to my knowledge, did NATO simply send a submarine directly into Swedish waters without consultations and prior discussions that that could be done”.

That’s it. Sweden was informed – and accepted – that US/NATO would regularly be present in Swedish waters.

Naturally, a formally neutral country couldn’t say aloud.

Things may have changed since the 1980s of course. But with the increased confrontation thanks to NATO’s expansion and the Ukraine crisis leading to a kind of resumption of Cold War attitudes, this interpretation would indeed be relevant today too."...

..."Following the stranding of a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine in 1981 on the Swedish archipelago, a series of massive submarine intrusions took place within Swedish waters - later described as the first Soviet military initative against a western European state since the Berlin crisis. After a dramatic submarine hunt in 1982, a Swedish parliamentary comission stated that six Soviet submarines "had played their games" in the Stockholm archipelago - one even in Stockholm harbour. The Swedish goverment protested strongly to the Soviet Union, and relations between the two countrys were icy for several years afterwards. Today, however, the evidence for these alleged Soviet intrusions, appears to have been manipulated or simply invented."...

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