Jag ska erkänna att jag inte sitter på svaret. När jag efterlyser en debatt om nordiska kärnvapen så menar jag just det, att jag vill ha en publik debatt mellan de som kan dessa frågor bäst.

Indeed. This has been my argument since “Liberation Day” at least.

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Indeed. It's one thing to know, and another to truly let the magnitude of it all sink in and start to really think about the consequences. Happy to have discovered your podcast, Marcel. Looking forward to catching up with it.

And here is Max's and @ottosvendsen.bsky.social's full CSIS report on How Europe Can Defend Itself with Less America:
www.csis.org/analysis/how...

You're right, of course. I forgot.

At the same time, the US ambassador to Canada just went full mobster with a "Nice airspace you got there. Shame if we had to take control of it..." An attractive offer by Sweden's SAAB has turned a Canadian F-35 procurement review into a referendum on the country's dependence on the USA.

Bra. Mycket märkligt uttalande av Rutte. Han försöker förstås hålla ihop alliansen men det får snarast motsatt effekt när han uttalar sig så nedsättande om Europeiska förmågor.

Maks, I think that you should make a habit of providing links to your sources. Thanks.

She’s not wrong. He’s certainly unifying much of Europe in opposition to him.

Jag vet att många mer rutinerade kommentatorer på svensk politik himlar med ögonen kring detta trötta tjat om en cordon sanitaire istället för sakpolitik, men demokrati handlar om process. För mig som liberal är denna fråga absolut central. SD har dessutom djupt problematiska rysslandskopplingar.

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Europe needs to wake up to the urgency. Moldova did and its democracy still stands as a result. We must stick to our principles, but we must fight hard and sometimes dirty to defend them.

Her argument mirrors those I made in my recent Substack series. Saying that our polarization and eroded trust have domestic causes misses the point. Russia identifies and exploits our weaknesses.+

I don’t think that Western institutions have sufficiently investigated the flow of Russia’s dark money (primarily to the far right) in European politics.+