Swede victory!

A sidewalk con artist who picked on the wrong tourist — a lieutenant commander in the Swedish Navy who refused to be tricked out of $40 — was quickly convicted of attempted armed robbery in Manhattan today.

Would-be Swede swindler Louis Parson, a now four-time violent felon, faces anywhere from 16 years to life in prison for pulling a carpet knife on Lt. Commander Peter Palm near Penn Station last year.

The Stockholm-based 49-year-old commander told jurors he knew immediately that it was a scam when the drunken Parson, 41, bumped into him on a Sixth Avenue sidewalk, dropped a bag of bottles and started shouting, “That’s my liquor!”

A pair of plainclothes cops witnessed the altercation, and quickly jumped Parson when the carpet knife came out.

“It was pretty quick and pretty straight forward,” one juror said afterward of the two hours of deliberations.

The jury, he said, never believed Parson for a minute when he insisted on the witness stand that he only pulled the carpet knife when the commander tried to punch him. The sentencing is set for March 25.