€3.1 billion deal that wouldn’t have passed muster with the previous Social Democratic-led coalition you’d be excused for thinking! You're wrong! Groundwork had been laid under the Soc'Dems from 2017 onwards, contrary to the country’s earlier ‘feminist foreign policy’... dumped by the centre-right

Finland is considering revoking the post-First World War convention (1921) that demilitarized the Åland Islands. Instead, Sweden suggests more Swedish submarine patrols around Åland and closer naval cooperation with Finland... [Illustrated is one of Sweden's Gotland-class submarines]

Earlier in April 2025 the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC) in Bydgoszcz, Poland, held a workshop on total defence and resilience. In the workshop, experts from several Swedish government agencies shared Sweden’s approach to national resilience-building.

May 2026 Sweden will host a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Helsingborg, southern Sweden, to be chaired by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. May 2025, Turkey will host the meeting overshadowed by the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, and the imprisonment of Swedish journalist Joakim Medin.

The new community of values ​​between the US and Russia suggests that a division of the Arctic in which Russia takes Svalbard and the US gets Greenland is a scenario to contend with... So suggests Niklas Granholm, research director at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute, FOI...

Sweden is prepared to do more to strengthen Ukraine, said Ulf Kristersson, prime minister of Sweden, and the government is ready to allocate larger sums to the defense budget. Today, well above 2 percent is allocated, but more will be required ['Dagens Nyheter' 3 March 2025, Frida Berqvist].

Denmark is arming itself in the Arctic to the equivalent of £1.5-billion. Investments will send three new warships to Greenland and new drones for maritime monitoring. Would the new investment be enough to tone down Trump's rhetoric...??

Martin Liby Troein suggests: 'Trump's speech on Greenland forces new questions – about Swedish nuclear weapons'... He doesn't really want Denmark to give up Greenland, he just doesn't want the Chinese and Russians to dominate the Arctic. Europe, the Nordics... all have to up their defence game...

Reported today, 'Dagens Nyheter', Saturday 18 January 2025... 550 Swedish soldiers arrived in Latvia, heading to Camp Valdemar base, near Ādaži, to become part of the multinational NATO force, with approximately 3,000 soldiers from several countries....

In December 2024, Sweden signed up to the NATO Multinational Brigade in Latvia. In February, troops from the South Skåne Regiment will arrive in Latvia to join the Canada-led NATO Multinational Division North... the first time Sweden has participated in a NATO mission on allied territory...

Its all about the rare-earth-metals... and the coming northeast / northwest passage... China has an Arctic Policy which embraces Greenland, wanting a ‘Polar Silk Road’, playing a major role in shipping and in mining for these metals... abcnews.go.com/Politics/don...

More Jas-39 Gripen planes for Brazil...!!!

Peter Lang announced - in 2022 - that they had agreements with various print-on-demand distributors e.g. Amazon (Kindle Print-on-Demand)... I have tried the Amazon service... The paper quality and binding is 'poor' and 'cheap'... The Peter Lang 'product' is very much better...

So, here we have it!! Sweden and NATO... Russia might ‘huff and puff’ a bit... there might be increased violations of airspace, cyber activity, hybrid threats, sabotage... etc.. And now we have that...

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