Magdalena Andersson, the chairwoman of the Swedish Social Democrats, accuses Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of fomenting the confrontation.
SÄLEN This year’s Sälen security policy seminar ends with the journey home today, Wednesday.
The message of the conference was exceptionally belligerent. In most speeches, it was estimated that the security policy situation had clearly weakened in the year. Three coalition ministers and the commander of the defense forces warned that the Swedes should now prepare for war in Sweden.
Leader of the opposition Social Democratic Party Magdalena Andersson says that the Swedes’ crisis awareness could have been strengthened in other words as well. Andersson, who served as Sweden’s prime minister at the beginning of the Russian war of aggression, thinks that the ministers should have at least said that right now the war does not threaten Sweden.
– The purpose of these statements was certainly to raise awareness that we have a very serious security political situation. But it is also important to add that war is not at the door now.
The speeches made the children afraid of the war
On Tuesday evening, the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation In SVT’s TV news many Swedes said that they were startled by the war speeches of the ministers and the commander. Especially in children, the speeches had aroused the fear of war. On the other hand, orders in the equipment trade during the crisis had spurred growth.
The prime minister criticizes Andersson more strongly than war talk by Ulf Kristersson estimates of Swedes’ will to defend their country.
Kristersson said in his speech that the example of Ukraine teaches that the country’s most important resource in war is the common will to defend.
– We too have to start speaking out about the expectations that follow from Swedish citizenship. Ultimately, it’s about defending Sweden, our values and our way of life with guns in hand – and life as a stake. Citizenship is not a travel document, Kristersson said on Monday.
Andersson interprets Kristersson as suspecting that Swedish citizens with a foreign background have a weaker will to defend their country than Swedes by birth. According to Andersson, the talks are baseless.
– This is a way to divide, to increase confrontation. And this is not a good way to increase the will to defend yourself, which is based on trust and cohesion in society.
– So it was directly harmful. And he who is satisfied with such statements is Vladimir PutinAndersson estimates.