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TFF PressInfo: Sweden – no longer a force for good
May 3rd, 2014 | 
Author: Sweden’s elite more loyal with NATO, the US and EU than with its people
By Jan Oberg
May 2, 2014
• Over the last 25-30 years Sweden’s military, security and foreign policy elite has changed Sweden’s policy 180 degrees.
• These fundamental changes were initiated by the Social Democratic government under Goran Persson and foreign minister Anna Lindh and have been carried through virtually without public debate.
• The rapproachment with interventionism, militarism and US/NATO in all fields has been planned, incremental, furtive and dishonest; in short, unworthy of a democracy.
• This elite is more loyal with Brussels and Washington than with the Swedes.
• If your image of Sweden is that it is a progressive, innovative and peace-promoting country with a global mind-set and advocate of international law, it is – sad to say – outdated.
How Sweden has changed
Sweden is no longer neutral Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Armament, Conflict and war, Foreign and security politics, Jan Oberg, Media perspectives, Peace, Political, Security and defence, Sweden, TFF PressInfo, Uncategorized, US Empire, US politics & security, USA, Violence-prevention | 
Tags: Carl Bildt, common security, furtive member of NATO, international mediation, JAS Gripen, Karin Enström, military-industrial complex, MIMAC, neutrality, Olof Palme, PfP, Prtnership for Peace, Sweden, Sweden association with NATO, Sweden cruise missiles | 
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