Authored by Peter Korzun via The Stratgeic Culture Foundation,
US Defense Secretary James Mattis visited Helsinki on Nov. 6-7 to attend a meeting of the Northern Group, a multilateral forum of 12 countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Authored by Brian Cloughley via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Sweden’s most recent military cooperation with the US-NATO military alliance involved hosting armed forces of the many countries which participated in Exercise Aurora in September.
A police station in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg was hit by a powerful explosion in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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As The Local reports, a large part of the building and even the windows on the building opposite were damaged by the force of the blast, though nobody was injured.
Sweden's National Police Commissioner, Dan Eliasson, was visibly shaking when he raged:
Sweden's new ambassador to Iceland has sparked a major controversy after warning that Sweden is "in the process of dismantling democracy" and could be on a slippery slope towards technocracy or a dictatorship.
Håkan Juholt, a former leader of the centre-left Social Democrat party and ambassador to Iceland since September, made the comments in an interview with the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.
"How old is your son? Four?" he asks the reporter.
In September of 2015, not long after Sweden followed the SNB and ECB in going "full NIRP", we warned that "Sweden Goes Full Krugman, Gets Massive Housing Bubble", in which we first showed the unprecedented surge in Swedish home prices, which have been the one asset class to "benefit" the most from the Riksbank's ultra loose monetary policy hoping to stimulate inflation, even as broader economic inflation failed to materialize.