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Swedish government asks parliament to approve sale of Gripens to Peru and GlobalEye to Denmark.

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When Vance said Denmark is “not being a good ally” to the United States… Danes were stunned and stung. Our country has been nothing less than a stalwart ally of America. Many of us felt as if we were losing a longtime friend — almost as if a brother were abandoning us www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Social media cleanse: Live stream of Sweden’s annual moose migration🫎

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The Swedish campaign to get US university and research talent has begun.

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”Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”

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Wow, we are now being officially advised against travel to the USA by the Canadian Association of University Teachers. I never thought I'd see the day. ☹️ #AcademicChatter

submitted 2 days ago • 212 comments

Vance would do well to take his own advice and listen to Europeans on Ukraine and save the entire world from the strategic disaster that is America’s current Russia policy.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Swedish govt purposes authorising sale of up to four S 106 GlobalEye AEW&C aircraft to Denmark. Doesn't necessarily mean that a deal is forthcoming, but a pretty solid indication that the Danes have made a formal RFI and are thinking seriously about airspace C2 and surveillance in the Arctic.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

💥 Whopper scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social: Brussels is issuing burner phones & basic laptops to commissioners & senior officials travelling to the US for IMF/World Bank spring meetings next week to avoid risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for China. www.ft.com/content/20d0...

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

On the one hand, the dollar is a little weaker and flying a bit cheaper thanks to falling fuel costs. On the other hand there's a non trivial risk of a border agent seizing my phone, examining it for critical social media, subjecting me to hours in custody and bundling me back home. Dilemma.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

New French Ambassador to Sweden is open for greater defence industrial cooperation, including the purchase of surveillance airplanes. The ambassador frames 🇸🇪-🇫🇷 cooperation as increasing European strategic autonomy. He notes US made engines in the Gripen are problematic, but solutions can be found.

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The Swedish stock market is down 10% on the year. BUT! The krona is up 13.2% against the dollar — making it one of the strongest currencies in the world since Trump took office. So, winning the trade war? 🤷‍♂️

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The key difference being that Nazi Germany was militarily defeated. The more accurate historical equivalent to making a deal with Russia over the head of democratic Ukraine is Molotov-von Ribbentrop 2.0.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

With Trump’s trade war threatening to leave Norway in the crossfire of US-EU sanctions, Norway is facing a similar moment of truth about EU membership as Finland and Sweden did with regard to NATO 3 years earlier. I argue that it’s time to make it official - for a strong Norden in the EU

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Official Swedish statements on US relationship to Europe beginning to shift. After months of Sweden laying low, expressing continued trust in the US, Foreign Minister Stenergard states, ”it’s clear trust is shaken,” but hopes for relations to improve. First time such doubts are officially stated.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

A dual Finnish-US citizen received a mail from Homeland Security stating they needed to leave the country. It was likely an administrative error, but ”administrative errors” have already gotten people sent to El Salvador.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I hate this

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🇸🇪 headlines making clear where the blame lies: “The market panic isn’t about tariffs — it’s about Trump” “The ‘Trump-crash’ is the worst I’ve ever experienced” “Complete confusion in the White House — stocks collapse after denial [of 90 day pause]” “The world’s dumbest financial crisis”

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Skriver om varför vi också bör lämna Ottawafördraget, i senaste Svensk Tidskrift.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

It’s all so very sad, and so very dumb. With very real consequences. We can either laugh or cry. Formula to help get through tough times: Content creation is inversely proportional to stock market performance.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Inte för att gå all in aktietwitter men

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Excellent, trenchant post by @dandrezner.bsky.social, on the failure to realize what we are facing. Deeply unsettling. For confirmation, just reread the beginning of the 9th book of #Plato, Republic on the tyrant. It's all there.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I lived next door in Alpine, New Jersey, for years, and all I can say is this: If people are protesting on Route 59 in Nanuet, New York, something is up. Something is seriously up. Something majorly wild is up.

submitted 11 days ago • 119 comments

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

submitted 11 days ago • 616 comments

Memes = k / (Stock Market)

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It’ll be tough, but Europeans are just going to have to drink more wine to help get through this trade war. We must all do our part.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

One of those days

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BREAKING: #Colombia has selected Saab 39 #Gripen E/F as its future fighter. 🇨🇴🇸🇪 LOI signed. - President Petro Gustavo Official source: x.com/petrogustavo... #military #aircraft

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Americans are not alone in the #TeslaTakeDown. Major Swedish and Danish pension funds have begun selling all their Tesla stock. "Our patience has run out," said a pension fund representative, citing Tesla's anti-labor and union rights.

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🌊🛳️ The Full Story of the Sinking of — Moskva from NYT: US and Ukrainian naval officers were conducting reconnaissance when something unexpected appeared on their radar screens. “Oh, it’s Moskva,” the American officials said.. The Ukrainians replied, “Oh my God. Thank you very much. Goodbye.”

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

Key line: “This is not just history, it is destiny.” Any American schoolchild will hear echos of “manifest destiny”, the ideology that justified westward expansion — with and without force. This propaganda video is laying more rhetorical groundwork for the annexation of Greenland.

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments

In September 2023, I spent a week in Greenland on a study trip. I still remember the discussions with political representatives. They all spoke of their high regard for the US. And that is exactly what the Trump administration is now destroying. They had so much soft power there, all gone.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

It’s important that people from all walks of life and background, and all rational political perspectives, show unity in support of democracy and the rule of law on April 5, somewhere near you. Show your love for your country and for what it should—must—stand for: handsoff2025.com/

submitted 18 days ago • 281 comments

This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 19 days ago • 118 comments

Disrespectful to Greenlanders not to wear a suit.

submitted 19 days ago • 25 comments

Meanwhile, the public discourse in Sweden: ”Send Greenland troops and air defense”

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

History teaches us not ”what will happen” but ”what can happen.”

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In reflecting a bit more on this what should concern Europe is how central it is to the discussion. The main objection to strikes is they believe it helps rather than hurts Europe. Sticking it to Europe is thus a core policy priority. Prepare for massive collisions www.csis.org/analysis/tra...

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

I think this is an understatement.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Swedish journalism is usually known for the understatement. ”Trump’s ministers seem to be complete idiots”

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“I recognized that this conversation possessed a high degree of verisimilitude...And I remained mystified that no one in the group seemed to have noticed my presence.”

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment