KD in line with Macron about Europe’s defense

Macron has opened to discuss a European nuclear weapons strategy.

Alice Teodorescu Måwe and KD are on the same line.

– What lies in the scales is that Europe’s map is redone as it looked before 1989. No one in Eastern Europe wants back to, says Alice Teodorescu Måwe.

Where any European nuclear weapons should be placed, what types to be manufactured and how to agree in Europe, KD submits to future discussions.

The idea that is mainly highlighted is that the EU will help Europe’s already existing nuclear powers, France and the United Kingdom, to build its arsenal.

– My conviction has only been strengthened after what we saw in the White House last Friday. It was both surreal and sad to witness but we cannot sit back now. It is obvious that Europe needs more independence and independence in order to defend our continent and our citizens, says Alice Teodorescu Måwe.

If the United States turns away from being the guarantor of the regular world order, there is the risk that Russia’s actions inspire, for example, China to give up on smaller countries, says Teodorescu Måwe.

– Although it is under boring and dangerous circumstances, it is healthy that we see about our own house. It is regrettable that we have not done so before.

Isn’t there a risk that Europe is only dependent on France and the United Kingdom as they have done with the United States? Imagine, for example, France would distance itself from the EU in the future.

– The significant difference is that Europe is the ones who are primarily at risk of being attacked by Russia. France and the United Kingdom have a completely different geographical closeness and experience the threat in a way that the United States does not, says Alice Teodorescu Måwe.

Sjöstedt: “unthinkable proposal”

The Left Party’s EU parliamentarian Jonas Sjöstedt agrees that Europe needs to break the dependence on the United States and increase its defense capabilities but do not want to see European nuclear weapons.

– The important thing now is to support Ukraine and weaken Russia. I don’t think you do through nuclear weapons. Getting a stop on Russia’s shadow fleet and oil exports in the Baltic Sea would have a better effect, says Jonas Sjöstedt.

He states that Sweden should break the relatively new DCA agreement between Sweden on the United States that gives the United States access to Swedish military bases and regulates the law on US soldiers in Sweden.

“What we saw last Friday confirms that it is not possible to trust the United States and that the Trump administration is leaning with Russia but I do not think that is what the American people want,” says Sjöstedt and continues:

– Our own defense ability can instead be strengthened with, for example, deeper Nordic collaborations and other collaborations with like -minded countries. But some kind of EU core weapon feels like an unthinkable proposal. Nuclear weapons policy is a national issue and I don’t think the Swedish people want it either.