The Great Swedish Sub Hunt is over. Nearly a week after a potential Russian submarine was spotted in the Stockholm Archipelago, the Swedish authorities are calling off their search, ending a saga in which the Scandinavian country’s anxieties towards Russia were clearly on display. It’s not that the Swedes were chasing something that wasn’t there. Throughout the effort, Swedish military officials expressed utter certainty that a foreign vessel had violated its territorial waters, with the country’s top military commander going as far as to call the situation “f–ed up.” The search’s inevitably fruitless conclusion owes more to the simple fact …read more
Source: Business Insider
