Kärnvapen på svensk mark. Ja det går fort nu vad gäller om Sverige ska fixa egna kärnvapen eller inte.
I förra veckan öppnade vår ÖB Michael Classon för att det kanske behövs ifall Ryssland anfaller vårt land. Vilket nog är mindre troligt. Men iallafall så är vår krigsminister Pål Johnson nu inne på samma förslag som sin kompis … Läs mer “Kärnvapen på svensk mark undrar Kjelle i Skogsängen”
Vestlige land argumenterer for at Russland angrep Ukraina i et forsøk på å erobre landet, og «hvis Putin vinner i Ukraina, er det en virkelig risiko for at aggresjonen ikke vil stoppe der». Han vil kunne «angripe også andre land», hevder Jens Stoltenberg.
På Biblioteket i Torshälla på går sedan i fredags den åttonde november en stor utställning som handlar om de ester som under hösten 1944 flydde över Östersjön till Sverige.
US and other Western leaders are beaming at the impending addition of Sweden and Finland to NATO, although there still is an outside chance that Turkey might block their admission to the Alliance. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has hinted darkly that he may do so, unless the two candidate countries make certain concessions. He professes to be … Läs mer “12/1 – Ted Galen Carpenter: Sweden and Finland May Be Making a Fatal Blunder”
The European Union’s Foreign Chief Josep Borrell is not particularly perceived by the EU’s political elite or mainstream media as a rightwing ideologue or warmonger. But seen through a different, non-western prism, it is hard not to mistake him for one.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is producing secondary crises. Some are well publicised, such as the threat to world food supplies because the war has prevented Ukraine exporting millions of tons of grain from its Black Sea ports. The exodus of Ukrainian refugees crammed onto trains as they sought refuge in other countries was shown on every television … Läs mer “14/6 – Patrick Coburn: Turkey’s Assault on Syrian Kurds: a Secondary Crises of the Ukraine War?”
A famous quote from Desmond Tutu – ‘if you are neutral in situations of injustice then you are choosing the side of the oppressor’ – has been widely used and abused since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In numerous fora, it has been deployed to harangue countries into abandoning their neutrality and lining up behind NATO. Never mind that … Läs mer “22/5 – Joining the West”