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[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

At about 29:00 Max asks Erik about Sweden's neutrality and this was an interesting bit. He said that in the 1980s they went through something like a Swedish Russiagate with nonstop reporting on supposed incursions of Soviet subs into Swedish waters. As it turns out, there were no such incidents, but it had its effect: prior to this only about 25% of the population saw the Soviet Union as a threat but by the end this was up to 80% or more. From the way Erik describes it, the civil government of Sweden maintained the same attitude toward neutrality but the Swedish military had very close ties with the US. He said there is a theory that the 1986 murder of prime minister Olof Polme was because of his "aggressive" neutrality policy.

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The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews Swedish engineer Erik Andersson, who led the first independent investigation to the site of the Nordstream pipelines blast sites, on the Swedish government’s sudden closing of the investigation into the terror attack on the eve of joining NATO.

Andersson also addresses US meddling in Swedish politics, and the potential consequences of Stockholm surrendering its traditional neutrality to the anti-Russian alliance.