Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "ENEBLAD: "Russia will never stop being a threat until…demolished"" video.
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AndyWoohoo666
I do not doubt Emil Eneblad is pro-Sweden and against russia. I am quite happy seeing this video actually because there are people with some correct views that are not like the party leadership that is towing the Kremlin line. So I got nothing personally against Emil or the average Sweden democrat.
What I do hate about politics is all enigmatic statements, where politicians gives a hint what they really wanna do, but does not dare to say unpopular things openly because then would everyone stop voting for them. Like that Trump cannot openly say that he supports the dictatorship russia and wants to throw Ukraine under the bus. Party leader Jimmie Åkessons statement that we cannot give endless support to Ukraine should fall into the same category as Trumps statements that he wants to make peace over a single day (and the only way to achieve this is to betray Ukraine and cut all US military aid to them, and since Europe does not have the military muscles to compensate for a US withdrawal of support would this be catastrophic for Ukraine).
All these other nonsense ideas imported from the populist right in USA and continental Europe also becomes extremely silly in a Swedish context. We do not have many religious fundamentalists here in Sweden like in USA, Hungary or Poland. A large part of the population are atheists, and I guess the majority are non-practionary believers. So obsessing about abortion makes no sense in a Swedish context. The issue is dead here. If you try to take away womens rights your party will tank.
And cancel culture and woke are things they obsess about in USA, Germany and Hungary. We do not need those things here. We are adults. We got better issues to talk about.
So flirting with these Putinists parties is something the Sweden democrats has done for some years now. And that is not a good sign, when we see Le Pen, Trump, Farage, AFD, Orban, Wilders, Fico side with Russia. So the Sweden democrats should stay Swedish and democrat. And not continental European.
I think your literarly interpretation of what Åkesson said is incorrect. You have to read between the lines. And you also have to look at the wider context when this statement has been made.
Talking about an upper limit is just silly. This is a war very much in our national interest, and then we should spend a large chunk of our GDP to win it. Borrow and spend the money needed to win and taking up the bill can we do later is probably what we would have done if Finland was attacked by the Commies.
And I think we should do a similiar thing for Ukraine. I am not saying we should give Ukraine half of our GDP or something. Right now have both Norway and Denmark given more of their GDP to Ukriaine than Sweden so talking about upper limits to our aid to Ukraine now is just silly. A totally useless statement, unless its meant as russian propaganda.
We are surrounded by other Nato countries. What will happen if we gave away "too much" weapons to Ukraine?
Will Denmark that just gave away all of their artillery to Ukraine now see a chance to invade Sweden and retake Scania after some 350 years?
Our military equipment was built with only one possible enemy in mind. So I see it as a criminal waste of resources that we do not put it into its intended use. Its better that the enemy is fought in Ukraine than having to fight him here in Sweden later on as I sees it. Losing a CV90 in battle and having its crew killed is tragic. But from a cynical selfish Swedish perspective is it better that Ukrainian are the ones fighting inside that CV90 than we are losing our own countrymen doing this fight.
Ukrainians will die in this war no matter what, and we have the ability to save Ukrainian lives by giving them better weapons. We can build more vehicles. We can pick up the price tab later.
Our government made a huge military support package for Ukraine of 70 billion Swedish crowns (about 7 Billion Euros).
That is much defense money even for countries like Germany and USA, just to put some scale to things. However are we drowning ourselves in debt as Åkesson and the Russian bots say?
Not really. 70 billion out of Sweden's GDP of 5000 billion per year, is not crushing us.
So either are the people making this argument clueless about economics. Or they are insincere dishonest liars that tries to mislead the public to help russia.
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