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Originally Posted by Gideon
You fight for national independence, when your country is threatened. That makes sense, right? Well, in this case, Sweden already had national independence, but if Sweden would have chosen to fight, that national independence would have been lost.
That is not a very strong motivator to fight. Any other country would have done the same thing.
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No. Even if occupied no great devastation could have been inflicted. Perhaps not at all. There would have been the government change and that's all. The capitulation on battlefield would have certainly saved the pride of nation. To be enslaved is not shame, but to collaborate and support cowardly out of commercial interest. Sweden has made good money on the deals with Nazis. Flipping to the side of the stronger, quick betraying the previous master, commiting the base things to prevent any material problems and earning profit on the selling lives of communists and nazis means anything but national independence.