In this opinion video, Daniel Perminger explains why he is choosing to invest in AI. The script was written by Perminger and the video was staged with AI assistance.

Why I’ve chosen to get involved with Ambition Sverige.

My name is Daniel Perminger, I am 54 years old and live in north-west Skåne with my wife and our 3 children, 2 daughters and a lad. I am Swedish. I am law-abiding.

I have worked, paid taxes, been a sport shooter for many years, trained others, and watched as the country my parents and grandparents built has been slowly sold off, eroded, and transformed into something I barely recognise.

I have seen open borders, a lax migration policy and a welfare system that have created parallel societies, insecurity, shootings and bombings.

I have seen how law-abiding citizens, those who work, provide for themselves and follow the law, have to pay the price while the state looks the other way.

I have seen how nuclear power has been dismantled, electricity prices have soared and billions have been pumped into green pipe dreams while households and industry suffer. I have seen bureaucracy, special interests and political correctness crowd out common sense, responsibility and honesty.

Watch the statement as a video on Rumble

And I have seen how even those who promised to put Sweden first, the Tidö parties, are pursuing symbolic politics against legal hunters and sport shooters. Symbolic politics based on the debunked leakage theory with general clauses that give the Police Authority arbitrary power and which undermine legal certainty and total defence.

All established parties have in various ways failed the Swede and Sweden.

The Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Green Party pursued this policy devoid of demands for decades. The Moderate Party, the Christian Democrats, the Liberals and the Sweden Democrats have in practice continued to hand over sovereignty to the EU, accepted supranational frameworks and are now legislating against the most law-abiding group of citizens in the whole of Sweden, gun owners, while illegal weapons continue to pour in.

It is no longer a question of right or left. It is a question of whether Sweden is to be an independent country where the citizens govern or a petty state where decisions are made in Brussels, where the will of the people is overridden and where the working Swede is increasingly marginalised.

That is why I have chosen to get involved with Ambition Sverige.

Ambition Sverige is not just another party promising more of the same. It is a grassroots movement that puts Sweden and the Swedish people first.

A party that proceeds from the assumption that power must be subject to the law, that politicians should not be permitted to do as they please, that the best interests of the people and the nation must take precedence over international pressure, that self-determination and non-interference are fundamental, and that every individual has the right to freedom, security and dignity.

Ambition Sverige wants Sweden to be a sovereign country. It wants us to leave the EU as soon as possible. We want to return to an independent, non-aligned defence and security policy, leave NATO, terminate the DCA agreement and build security on our own strength, diplomacy and détente, not on foreign troops or alliances with major powers.

That we regain control of migration with a recovery period, clear requirements for work, self-sufficiency and respect for Swedish law, democracy and values.

That we prioritise a functioning energy system with nuclear power at its centre, halt the continued expansion of wind power and put the needs of Swedish households and industry before export demands that drive up prices.

That we make Sweden rich again through lower taxes, more efficient administration and stopping giving away taxpayers' money. That we defend Swedish culture, re-introduce law and order and protect the countryside, agriculture and forestry from excessive bureaucracy and activism.

When it comes to firearms issues, Ambition Sverige stands with law-abiding hunters and sport shooters.

We see the more than 620,000 legal gun owners as an asset to total defence, not as a problem. We want to move licence management from the Police Authority to a more impartial and competent authority, involve those who actually know and understand the conditions and regulations, and create more shooting ranges. We are taking an open-minded, comprehensive approach and we will draw a sharp distinction between legal and illegal weapons.

We refuse to accept symbolic politics that punish law-abiding gun owners whilst criminals and their smuggling are left untouched. This is not ideological romanticism. It is pragmatism and responsibility.

It is about rebuilding a safe, well-functioning country where the person who works, takes responsibility and wants to leave something better for their children and grandchildren is at the centre. Not global agendas, supranational bureaucracies or political careers. Sweden's self-determination and neutrality must not be sold out. What generations before us have built must not be given away.

I am getting involved because it is still possible to turn the tide. Because honesty, competence and national self-determination must come before loyalty to Brussels, Davos or party-political compromises.

When honesty becomes a liability and power takes the place of competence, trust is eroded and we have already gone too far. Right now, Ambition Sverige is the only option that consistently puts the Swedish people and Sweden first, that respects the will of the people, and that dares to say no to the developments that have made our country less secure, poorer and less free.

That is why I support Ambition Sverige. Not because it is convenient, but because it is necessary.

I am not getting involved for my own sake. I am doing this for my children and their children's sake.

Help us rebuild a strong, safe and dignified Sweden. My name is Daniel Perminger and I am standing as a candidate for Ambition Sverige in Ängelholm Municipality, in Region Skåne, and for the Swedish Parliament.

The security situation for residents and those moving to Barkarbystaden has changed radically – without Järfälla Municipality having informed the public.

The Armed Forces have reactivated the mountain base Barkarby 4:1 (Robot Height) and have begun new construction. What was supposed to be civilian urban development is now an active military facility right next to our homes and the new metro station.

This is being hidden from you as a resident:

  • The council is covering up the information: Järfälla Municipality refuses to release the Swedish Armed Forces' classified referral opinion to Master Plan 2050. Access to how the defence perceives the risks in our immediate vicinity is completely closed.
  • Strategic bombing target modern Russian hypersonic missiles, like Oreshnik, are in practice impossible to stop with today's air defence. Placing protected military infrastructure directly next to a densely populated residential area makes Barkarbystaden a primary target in the event of a conflict.
  • There are no shelters. Despite living right next to a primary military target, the planned housing development lacks civilian shelters.
  • Lessons from the Middle East: Experience shows how vulnerable it is to concentrate strategic resources near civilians. The USA has repeatedly lost the initiative and bases in the Middle East because fixed facilities cannot be protected against modern missile and drone attacks.

The crossroads: Diplomacy or economic devastation?

Europe's current security policy is stuck in a dangerous deadlock. Without a clear strategy for how the conflict should end, support for Ukraine continues, draining the EU's resources and increasing the risk of a major war.

The risks of the current line:

  • Economic exhaustion Europe's countries bear a heavy economic burden that directly impacts welfare and industry.
  • Escalation spiral When military means do not yield results, the stakes are raised, bringing us closer to a full-scale conflict.
  • Political prestige The fear of failure prevents decision-makers from reconsidering strategy, which locks in policy.

Ambition Sverige’s way forward:

To secure Sweden's future, a shift from confrontation to diplomacy.

  • Open channels: Dialogue is not weakness. Conflicts can ultimately only be resolved at the negotiating table.
  • A realistic peace A sustainable security architecture in Europe must be based on a balance that reduces the risk of future wars.
  • Domestic focus: Sweden's resources should primarily be used to secure our own economy and the welfare of its citizens.

It takes political courage to choose the negotiating table over the battlefield.

In her summer talk, Elsa Widding, leader of the Ambition Sverige party, delivers a scathing critique of Swedish security and foreign policy, the EU’s influence and the political debate in the Riksdag. She describes how Sweden risks being drawn into a major war with Russia and argues that the government and the Riksdag have capitulated to supranational agendas.

Elsa Widding begins with a brief personal note. She refers to previous summer programmes where she spoke about her husband's death from cancer and her time with her sons, but states that hope for her family is now gone. She speaks of a long-standing grief over the estrangement of her adult children and believes more people need to dare to talk about it. She then moves on to politics.

Elsa Widding's Sommarprat 2026

She describes her path into the debate after the books The climate carousel (2019) and Common sense on energy and climate (2022) as well as YouTube films. The topics have broadened from climate and energy to freedom of expression, Covid, geopolitics and the power of supranational organisations. She believes that censorship is increasing and that freedom of expression is being eroded in Sweden.

Criticism of the EU and supranationalism

Widding argues that Sweden is gradually implementing EU legislation that reduces national self-determination. She describes the EU as a socialist project where decisions are made behind closed doors and voters' influence is shrinking. Agenda 2030 is described as a driving force behind the government's and parliament's actions, along with the UN, WHO, and World Economic Forum. She claims that power over Sweden has been taken out of the people's hands for the benefit of these organisations.

Security policy and the risk of war

The bulk of the discussion is dedicated to security policy. Widding criticises The DCA agreement with the USA, which she claims means that Sweden has relinquished territorial sovereignty. The USA has the right to use 17 large bases and areas, potentially install nuclear weapons and wage war from Swedish territory – something she believes will provoke Russia.

She views the war in Ukraine as a proxy war in which Sweden and NATO are escalating the conflict in a way that risks dragging Sweden into it. She points to corruption in Ukraine (citing figures in the tens of billions of dollars), previous peace efforts in 2022 which she claims the West thwarted, and the fact that Russia views NATO’s expansion as an existential threat.

According to Widding, the government and NATO are mistakenly believing that Russia will remain inactive while the West re-arms until 2030.

Minister of Defence Pål Jonsson, Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, and the Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson called ”jelly rats” who give in to the defence industry, vaccine industry and excessive climate policy.

She warns parents of soldiers, especially elite soldiers, amphibious soldiers and units that can be deployed in the Baltics or Finland, as the risk of war is imminent. The government has been granted the mandate to send soldiers without parliamentary approval, which she views as serious.

Widding quotes herself from a parliamentary debate: If Swedish sons fall in a NATO-Russia war, the government will have their blood on its hands. She urges soldiers not to trust politicians.

Democracy, party discipline and migration

She harshly criticises parliament's working methods. Members are described as ”clueless button-pushers” who are controlled by party and group leaderships, which in turn are controlled by the EU and other international bodies. Speaker Andreas Norlén receives criticism for maintaining the facade of democracy and for expensive private flights at the taxpayer's expense.

The offset debate in spring 2026 is highlighted as an example of how the system works – or doesn't work.

Regarding the Sweden Democrats, she says the party abandoned its ideology for power: they have accepted EU supranationalism, climate goals, WHO health policy, CBDC, and warmongering against Russia. Migration policy, according to her, has not delivered, despite higher demands for citizenship, many new citizenships and residence permits were granted.

Ambition Sverige wants a pause in immigration, focus on self-sufficiency, order and control of exclusion areas, and a census.

Sweden as an alternative

Widding presents her party as the voice of the people for common sense and a free, sovereign Sweden without coercive agendas. The party will consist of experts in various fields. She urges listeners to read the party platform at Ambitionssverige.se, to help with ballot papers, and to realise that time is short before the 2026 election.

”As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.”, "she says to those who vote for the established parties. She concludes by hoping she is wrong about the risk of war, but believes the government is gambling with Sweden's security and that diplomacy with Russia would be preferable.".


Transcription, photo and summary: Torbjörn Sassersson

Elsa Widding, website

Bosse Hansson, deputy leader of the Ambition Sverige party, says that your pension and retirement should be a reward for a lifetime of hard work, but unfortunately pensioners are not benefiting from the growth in their pension capital and are therefore not receiving the pension increases they should be entitled to.

Hansson says that it takes a long time to change the pension system, but that what can be done in the short term is to raise the basic deduction for pensioners, so that they receive much more from their pension than today.

The quickest way to tackle the problem is to increase the basic allowance. The Ambition Sverige party wants to raise the basic allowance to two price base amounts, which means that the first 10,000 kronor of the monthly pension will be tax-free.

This means that the vast majority of pensioners will receive an extra 2,100 Swedish kronor in pension after tax each month. This can be financed by cutting the number of government agencies in Sweden and also by discontinuing foreign aid.

Torbjörn Sassersson asked Hansson what he would recommend younger people, those in their thirties and forties now, to consider in order to get a good pension.

Bo Hansson:

”Above all, they should think about saving themselves, individually in private equity funds. Start saving early. It builds your capital, your own capital in the long run, and that's where you'll get a decent life from.”

Hansson continues by pointing out that today's income pension system is not actually your own capital, but a claim on a payment that the state has full control over.

”Save privately instead and start early. This builds capital so that you have a more bearable future.”

Torbjörn Sassersson: Are you talking about pension funds or your own savings?

Bo HanssonAmbition Sverigeanswers that it doesn't matter, but rather that it's about saving in something you feel comfortable with. He recommends equity funds, preferably index funds that have the lowest fees in the long term. ”That's the winning concept.”

Torbjörn Sassersson: If we take those who are furthest from retirement, the twenty-year-olds who have just entered working life, do the same principles apply to them, or should they think in a particular way?

Bo Hansson:

”Yes, fundamentally the same principle applies, but when you're twenty and before you're thirty, there are so many other circumstances and costs.”
”I didn't save separately for my pension before I was thirty, so I have complete sympathy for that, but at least as soon as you pass thirty, you should start thinking about saving yourself, individually in some index fund for your own pension future.”

 


Interview and compilation: Torbjörn Sassersson

In her summer talk for the Ambition Sverige party, parliamentary candidate Erika Dittmer describes how a personal commitment to freedom led her into politics. She emphasises that she is driven neither by power nor status, but by the desire to restore genuine freedom for the individual and the family.

Dittmer begins by stating that she is not interested in politics in the traditional sense. What drives her is the freedom to live as one wishes, without harming others or the planet. She highlights four simple principles that she believes are more than sufficient: you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not lie, and you shall not be greedy.

According to Dittmer, society has sold an illusion of freedom and choice. Beneath the surface, she finds control, surveillance, and punishment for those who do not follow the prevailing narrative.

”What you see is freedom for a few, while the great mass is gradually bound into a web of slavery.”

She explains that she therefore felt she could no longer stand on the sidelines but had to get actively involved in dismantling what isn’t working and building something new. That is why she is standing as a parliamentary candidate for Ambition Sverige. Fear as a tool and criticism of education policy

Dittmer warns that someone benefits from keeping humans in constant fear. From fear, the need for more control, laws, and surveillance is born. A calm and reflective human, on the other hand, is harder to influence, she believes.

Her criticism of family policy and the school system takes up the most space in the discussion. As the mother of two children, who are now 11 and 12 years old, she explains how she became aware of the system's lack of choice when her eldest daughter turned six and school became compulsory from the age of six. She criticises the state for progressively trying to lower the starting age and for the classroom being the only approved place of learning.

She paints a picture of how parents are pressured to hand over young children to preschool despite their gut feeling telling them otherwise.

According to Dittmer, the result is that the child's attachment to their parents is damaged and that loyalty is instead directed towards ”the group,” the system, and authorities outside the home. This is, she argues, partly intentional in order to create a more controllable society.

Listen to Erika Dittmer's Sommarprat

Ambition Sverige’s family policy as a solution

Dittmer presents parts of the family policy programme that she is working on within the party. Central to this is freedom as a guiding principle. Among the proposals, she mentions:

  • Greater choice for families based on children's actual needs.
  • Home care will become a subsidised alternative to preschool.
  • Compulsory schooling replaced by compulsory education – no coercion.
  • Financial security and pension points for those who choose to stay at home with their children.
  • Teachers should be able to focus on teaching instead of administration and order.
  • Political ideologies should be removed from the curriculum.

She stresses that no universal solution fits all, but that freedom of choice is a necessary part of the answer.

The conversation concludes with an invitation for the listener to reflect on the thoughts that have been raised. Dittmer refers to her autobiography *Kameleontflickan* for those who wish to know more about her personal journey and provides contact details for political matters.

In summary, Erika Dittmer paints a picture of a society in which the state is increasingly taking control of the lives of parents and children, and suggests that Ambition Sverige should be the force that restores the freedom of the individual and the family.

Christian Steinbeck is a business economist and former CFO who has investigated the economics of wind power by studying over 1,500 annual reports from 2017 to 2024. He concluded that the investment in wind power in Sweden is the greatest destruction of capital in modern times.

Steinbeck studied which companies own the wind turbines, but ”It’s not going well at all. It’s going terribly badly.”.

”The only ones making money out of it are those who build wind farms and then walk away. And there you'll find OX2, Eolus Vind, these project developers, but you'll also find SR Energy.

Steinbeck shows a diagram of the actual production of wind power in terawatt hours from 2015 to 2025. Production is rising, ”and that's what everyone is so proud of. We're getting more wind power in Sweden.”, but with the maximum capacity increasing, production cannot keep up.

”This is because we now have such a capacity for wind power that we have to shut it down when it's windy, otherwise the power grid will collapse, and yet more is to be built.” ... ”So we are building wind power that we cannot use, and that is perhaps the strangest thing in today's energy debate in Sweden.”

Steinbeck says that politicians want to build more wind turbines even though they are unprofitable, because a lot of the electricity that could have been produced is lost as the wind turbines are often stationary. Furthermore, wind power is financed to a very large extent by public money on which we never get a return.

Watch video 1

During a bike tour in a pedal bar at Almedalen Week in Visby, Steinbeck shows a diagram of Sweden's electricity consumption and states that since the turn of the century, consumption has fallen by ten percent. The reduction is due to us adding insulation and expanding district heating, as well as the electricity tax being so high that many cannot afford to use electricity.

According to Statistics Sweden (SCB), six percent of Swedes can no longer afford to heat their homes as much during the winter months.

”There's so much talk about global warming, but we have global cooling in many Swedish homes. People are turning the heating down to, say, 17 degrees instead of twenty. This is a public health problem.”

Steinbeck therefore questions whether we should build even more wind turbines that we have to shut down when electricity demand is low, despite the wind blowing, because the electricity cannot be stored. This involves large amounts of electricity which are instead exported at very low prices.

Watch video 2

Our politicians are proud of Swedish electricity exports, but this is therefore about an overproduction of electricity from wind turbines that cannot be stored, and then it is exported out of the country at bargain prices. Sweden does not make any money from this.

”If you're selling electricity for perhaps five pence per kilowatt-hour that cost perhaps eighty pence per kilowatt-hour to produce, then that's a very bad deal.

It's no wonder wind power companies are going bankrupt, argues Steinbeck.

”We sell a lot of wind power to people who get it randomly. I'd rather call it random power than wind power.”

 

Interview and photo: Thomas Åkerberg, Ambition Sverige  | Torbjörn Sassersson

The JAS 39 Gripen aircraft, which Sweden is considering sending to Ukraine, is not the biggest problem, according to security expert and former fighter pilot Ulf Gabrielsson. The Gripen's missiles can reach Moscow and deep into Russia. That is where the danger for Sweden lies.

It is instead the advanced weapons that are planned to be integrated onto the aircraft, particularly the German The long-distance robot Taurus, which he sees as a serious threat to Swedish security.

In a statement, Gabrielsson warns that the Swedish weapons systems dramatically change the risks for Sweden. This concerns up to 36 Gripen aircraft that the government wants to donate and sell to Ukraine.

”They're not messing about. It's a long-range air-to-air missile that can shoot down other aircraft from up to ten miles away, that's one hundred kilometres,” he says.

The Gripen's robots can reach Moscow and deep into Russia

The Meteor missile [not the Taurus missile as the editor incorrectly wrote] can pose a significant threat to Russian aircraft, which currently operate relatively freely as they launch missiles and drop glide bombs on Ukrainian targets. The Meteor missile has a range of over 200 kilometres.

”A JAS can take down this robot over Ukrainian airspace and it can reach as far as Moscow. It weighs 1,500 kilos, has a 500-kilo TNT warhead, and can take out bunkers, bridges, and ships,” warns Gabrielsson.

He stresses that the weapons would be very effective for Ukraine, but from a Swedish perspective, he sees significant risks:

”Looking at Sweden's security, this is a huge threat to us. We are becoming an even higher priority target, and our arms industry, with SAAB in Linköping and SAAB Dynamics in Trollhättan manufacturing parts for the Taurus missile.”

The statement comes at a time when the government and the Armed Forces are investigating a comprehensive delivery of Gripens to Ukraine, concurrently with Sweden already supporting Ukraine with other weapon systems and ammunition.

A decision on the aircraft and their weapon load is expected in the near future.

Zelensky and Ulf Kristersson had a new business meeting on 9 June 2026 about the sale of Gripens to Ukraine | Screenshot from Kristersson on X

Ulf Gabrielsson has previously criticised Swedish security policy and warned that increasingly deep Swedish involvement in Ukraine could draw Sweden into a direct confrontation with Russia.

In a announcement varnar Gabrielsson för att svenska vapenfabriker i t.ex. Karlskoga kan attackeras av ryska missiler om svenska plan används för att slå till djupt in i Ryssland. Putin har nyligen gett det ryska försvaret grön signal för att attackera utländska vapenfabriker som tillverkar vapen som används mot Ryssland. 

2026-05-22 Mats Nord Uncategorised 1

The Riksdag parties have jumped into the wrong barrel.

The warmongers want war. If you win the war, you write history. If Putin wins, our politicians will end up on history's rubbish heap along with everything else our “democ-tatorship” has planned to control the people. Historically, rulers have threatened "if war comes" to retain power – then the war comes.

Had Mr Hitler won, encouraged by many leading figures in this country, we would be speaking German today, not English. .

Geopolitics

My memory consists of 1kg of fat. The best before date has passed. Sometimes it's difficult to remember what I'm supposed to do after I've unlocked the door. But I remember the book “1984”; I read it about 60 years ago. I remember the manipulation of power with Newspeak. “War is peace.” That's where we are now with the Eternal war and the Ministry of Truth. The struggle is ongoing between the superpowers Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia (USA, Russia, China) with their constant wars.

It is from this eternal balance of power that the Party's famous slogan arises: ”War is peace”. Since the state of war is completely stable and permanent, the effect is the same as permanent peace – nothing changes in the power structure.

  • They are too equal: None of the three superpowers can be completely defeated, not even if the other two join forces in an alliance. They are simply too large and have too strong natural defences.
  • Alliances are constantly shifting. Just so that no one becomes the absolutely dominant “strong” power, the alliances shift all the time. If one country risks becoming too powerful, the other two immediately join forces to restore the balance.
  • War is an illusion Since no one can win, the war is in practice permanent. The real purpose of the war is not to defeat the enemy, but to consume society's economic surplus. By keeping the population poor and afraid, the elite can maintain their absolute power over the citizens.

Our political elite, “The Party,” has jumped into the wrong barrel. The Atlantic Council, Nato's lobby with Wallenberg, Bildt, Pål Jonsson, and other supporters of Pax Americana, has sold out Sweden's sovereignty to get a piece of the spoils after the divided Russian empire. Western economies need constant growth to cope with their increasing debts; ”He who is in debt is not free.”.

The Swedish policy pursued is that “Putin must not win”, it is not said that “Nato must win” because there is no plan or strategy for how that would be possible. The war must therefore continue with millions dead. If Putin wins, the politicians, “The Party”, will have to show all their dirt. From 2014 to 2020, the outskirts of the million-strong city of Donetsk have been shelled and bombed. 14,000 deaths, including 600 children, have been reported. Two broken peace agreements were made, according to Merkel and Hollande, so that Nato could rearm Ukraine. The violations have been registered and documented by OSCE with Nato personnel. Note 14,000 killed and a new large attack on 19/02/2022 against Donetsk (not Kyiv) documented in detail by OSCE. See the extensive OSCE report. It was a provocation and a outright attack from Kyiv.

See further details OSCE Report 2020 02 19

Consequence: The political elite, the “Party,” cannot step out of the barrel because the neo-Nazi filth would then be visible. They continue to send increasingly deadly weapons, causing more deaths of Russian soldiers and civilians. Russia is registering this but has tactically refrained from counter-attacks thus far. With the USA occupied and NATO's armouries depleted, the situation will change.

Järfälla’s military-strategic industries are potential bombing targets.

All public authority in Sweden derives from the people, and the Riksdag is the people’s foremost traitor.

The Swedish people are going to the polls. The election is about War or Peace..

a brief historical description of trade with Russia:

During the 19th century, under a new French king (who was not Russophobic), we enjoyed extremely good trade relations with Russia. Nobel, L M Ericsson, Atlas and others were major industrial firms with pioneering technology in Russia.

1918: Lenin, economically sponsored by Swedish and German interests, seized power. Many fortunes were made, both legally and illegally, while others suffered significant losses. Lars Magnus Ericsson lost his factory in St. Petersburg and control of the entire company in Sweden. Other companies sold locomotives, electric generators, and turbines for hydroelectric power plants, among other things.

1939: The Winter War was a war over nickel. The Soviet Union lacked nickel for its war industry in the run-up to the impending war with Nazi Germany. The mine in the town of Nickel had ended up on the wrong side of the border, according to the Russians. During the war years, nickel production was exported to Germany, which was short of raw materials. After the war, the town ended up on the Russian side.

Sweden's exports to the Soviet Union during the period 1945–1991 were high-tech and industrial. As a neutral country with a strong engineering industry, Sweden managed to balance between Western restrictions (CoCom) and Moscow's great need to modernise its economy.

Swedish exports to the Soviet Union consisted primarily of the following goods:

  • Engineering and Mechanical Engineering: This was by far the largest export category. Sweden sold heavy machinery, turbines, generators and complete factory equipment, including machinery for the Soviet paper and pulp industry.
  • High-quality steel and metal products: The Soviet Union needed Swedish special steel, stainless steel pipes and, above all ball bearing from SKF, which was a critical component for their heavy industry.
  • Telecommunications: Telephone Limited Company LM Ericsson played a key role. Sweden exported advanced telephone exchanges and telecommunications systems to help expand the Soviet telecommunications network. Standard Radio computers for the Bajhonour space station. Datasaab Air traffic control computers. .
  • Transport equipment and ships: Swedish shipyards built and exported specialised vessels, refrigerated ships and fishing boats to the Soviet merchant fleet. They also supplied heavy goods vehicles and spare parts from Volvo and Scania was exported.
  • Food industry equipment: Companies that Alfa Laval exported separators, dairy plants and other equipment to improve the efficiency of the Soviet food supply chain.
  • SAS was the first airline with scheduled services. Volvo was the only foreign car brand with a service workshop in Moscow.

Since 1991, a number of Swedish companies, both large and small, have established themselves in Russia in addition to those mentioned above, such as IKEA and H&M, with sales and production operations. For example, Volvo Trucks accounted for 9% of Russian production of heavy goods vehicles.

Following the sanctions imposed by the West on companies operating in Russia, Chinese firms have taken over the market.

The political class does not work for the country, they work for poverty and eternal war.

We have to change, no one else cares!

It is your DUTY!

Elsa Widding, Jamal El-Haj and Lorena Delgado Varas all decided to remain in Parliament – despite breaking with their respective parties. Now the ”parliamentary troublemakers” meet in the Politics Bureau studio for a discussion about what it's like to go against your own party colleagues.

Furthermore, they will reveal how they intend to vote on some of the spring's hottest issues where government policy is at risk of falling. Guests: the party-affiliated MPs Elsa Widding, Jamal El-Haj, and Lorena Delgado Varas.

Programme leader: Karolina Skoglund.

SVT

Members of Parliament Elsa Widding and Jamal El-Haj | Image: SVT Play

Thabo Motsieloa interviewed MP and political maverick Elsa Widding on the podcast Zeitgeist Sweden.

Amidst the storm that has followed the conflicts with the Tidö parties, criticism from Jimmie Åkesson, and the threats that have led her to cancel public appearances before the election.

In a long conversation with Thabo Motsieloa, she talks about the war in Ukraine, NATO, the EU, Swedish sovereignty, and why she believes Sweden is being drawn deeper and deeper into a great power conflict.

Widding directs sharp criticism at the media, the DCA agreement, migration policy, and what she describes as an increasingly narrow public discourse.

She also talks about the threats, democracy in Sweden, the energy crisis, and why many people, in her opinion, no longer feel represented by the established parties.

Source: Thabo Motsieloa, Zeitgeist Sweden