In the Nordic I have planned to detail a neutral, but war damaged Sweden. In order to keep in line with the available offical lore.
Due to what is described, Sweden cannot have entered the war fully, but must have reluctantly or mistakenly been pulled into the war by both sides.
Basically, the NATO offensive through northern Finland fails as described in the lore, BUT, retreating US forces get cuts off and forced to retreat through Sweden and the border town of Karesuando, then onwards through Svaapavaara and Kiruna until they reach Narvik. However, tempers flare when one officer refuses to hand over his mother-of-pearl inlaid revolver for safe keeping while in transit. Shots are exchanged in what is later dubbed, "the Massacre at Karesuando". First deaths in Sweden in the Twilight War comes from 5.56 mm NATO rounds.
With Soviets hot on the tail of the americans, things devolve into a short but brutal three-way fight near Kiruna ending in the routing of US forces to Narvik, Soviets stuck in and near Kiruna and Sweden's counter-offensive got bloodied and pushed back by the Soviets.
During that week, there was border skirmishes along the Sweden-Norway border, but in the end a cease-fire was reached between Sweden and NATO, and with NATO being technically the initial aggressors the Soviets/Soviet commander in Kiruna brokered a deal that they will stay put for now and act like a buffer against Narvik. To much wailing and gnashing of teeth of the Swedes. But... Sweden did not and could not act due to it being political suicide. Since they saw how destructive this war is and was.
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