Also, Russian attacking Sweden is very unlikely because, even though that country does not belong to the NATO, it is still part of the European Union. It is a big diffirence between being aggressive against a non-aligned eastern European country than attacking a Nordic country like Sweden.
What excuse could Russia possibly use to try to fool their population and the world about their reasons to wage war against Sweden? I can't think of anything.
Yeah, that part about Sweden doesn't makes much sense. If Russia would prepare for another invasion, I doubt that Sweden would be their first target. Probably it would Poland, Baltic states, Finland maybe.
Finland and Russia have a very long story when comes to conflict of major scale, they both were involved in the Second Word War. I believe Findland first allied with Nazi Germany and later they turned against it, in favor of the Allies.
Anyways, Poland also has a long history of Russia (as the Soviet Union) trying to take over it and annex it by force, but being Poland part of the European Union, I still makes me skeptical whether Russia would be so reckless to try to face such a conglomerate of countries which back each other.
On the other hand, Donald Trump has alledgely declared in the past and off the record that he would not have intentions to support Europa if it's countries were to be attacked. That leads me to think that Putin would feel very reasured if Trump was reelected as president of the United States, so the Kremlin can continue to carry out it's plans, having a American president who is friendly/submissive to Russia as Donald seems to be.
Sometimes, It makes me consider those nasty tapes of Trump secretly recorded by Putin's secret agents could actually exist and being used to blackmail him into doing whatever is good for Russia, from the White House.
