onsdag 27 november 2024

Can Sweden Return to the 1658 Peace in Roskilde?

Sweden has fought many wars with Russia with the last victory in 1658 at the peak of the Swedish Empire followed by defeats in the wars 1700-21, 1741-43, 1788-90 and 1808-09 (Finland lost), whereafter Sweden retreated to a long (and fruitful) period of no-war and neutrality. However, this ended in March 2024 when Sweden joined NATO in an effort to return to 1658 by supplying Ukraine with so much weapons made in Sweden that Putin/Russia would be defeated and the Swedish Empire could be re-established. 

This was made very clear in the press conference of the Nordic-Baltic-Poland Summit today, hosted by Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson setting the Agenda: 

  • More weapons and ammunition to Ukraine soldiers to do the fighting for Sweden.
  • More sanctions against Russia to weaken Russian economy already weak..
Kristersson forcefully followed up with:
  • We are at a pivotal moment. 
  • Freedom is never for free.
  • We will enhance our military support including production in Ukraine of weapons of Swedish Design. Swedish Steel is strong.
  • We support Ukraine in its path to NATO.
  • Everybody desires peace in Ukraine, except Russia.
  • Together we will act to constrain, contest and counter Russia's aggression in the Baltic Sea, in Ukraine and beyond. 
  • Russian soldiers fight for money.
  • Western sanctions work despite Russian propaganda.
  • Russian economy is sinking deeper into an unsustainable imbalance between an escalating war expenditure and starvation of the rest of the economy.
Recall the war in Ukraine is the result of the plan of NATO to expand to Ukraine, viewed by Russia as an existential threat (and also by NATO), but evidently still the plan. 

What Kristersson has not yet understood is that the new Russian missile Oreshnik changes the game completely. What will he say when this game changer has sunk in? Maybe after all, it is better to seek peace with Russia? At least for the Swedish people if not for (the very strong) Swedish Weapons Industry.

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