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..
- 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.
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