It is staggering to see how the absolute most important issues are systematically avoided on TV, radio and in newspapers. Issues that are completely crucial for the future of the Swedish people.
Text: Ulf Gabrielsson, Ambition Sverige, Defence and Security
EU, WHO, NATO
There is a total blackout regarding how the EU is becoming increasingly undemocratic and dictatorial. Not only is everything we do to be registered using AI and the EU even deciding what our transport fuels should cost, but the EU also assumes the right to sanction people with the wrong opinions, denying them access to their bank funds and imposing travel restrictions.
Nor is it questioned that the EU, now with the help of NATO, is wholeheartedly sending long-range weapons to Ukraine for attacks deep into Russia. It is now established beyond all reasonable doubt that the EU is at war with Russia, despite the EU not being a state and formally unable to declare war against another country, but that is in practice what the EU has done.
Fortunately, there are several nations within the EU that oppose this, which of course is not mentioned in the media either.
That the EU has become completely authoritarian is clearly evident when von der Leyen now seriously declares that they want to use our savings to build up our armed forces and invest more in hopeless green projects. Not even this makes the ”sleeping people” wake up. None of our parliamentary parties have protested against these draconian plans.
The conclusion is that a vote for any of the parties in the Riksdag is a vote for war, more power to supranational organisations, and now also for the confiscation of people's savings.
The Swedish people no longer have any say now that all power has been transferred to the EU, NATO and the World Health Organisation, WHO, which is not even mentioned in the election debate.
The war propaganda
All facts about the war are turned upside down. It is reported that Russia is losing many more soldiers than Ukraine, despite the fact that in the exchange of the dead, the ratio is one Russian to approximately twenty Ukrainians.
The tide of war has turned, people say, despite Ukraine now being cut off from the sea and city after city falling. Ukrainian units are being surrounded and now both Kramatorsk and Odesa are on the ropes.
Russia attacks daily with drones and missiles across the entire country. The energy system is largely knocked out, as evidenced by nightly satellite images showing that most of the country is in darkness. Despite this hopeless situation, Sweden continues to send billions to the war effort and the media reports that Ukraine has taken back the initiative in the war.
The Defence
Going forward, 5% of GDP is to be allocated to the armed forces, which represents 23.5% of Sweden’s national budget, and 300 billion is to be financed through foreign loans. Which areas of the welfare system will now have to be cut back?
Investments are now being made in long-range weapons in the form of drones and missiles. The armed forces are therefore investing in offensive weapons, not in weapons primarily intended to defend our territory.
Still, no reasonable explanation has been provided as to why Russia would want to attack Sweden. Everything is focused on Sweden becoming a staging area for NATO in a hypothetical war against Russia in a few years' time. It boggles the mind.
No party in the Riksdag questions this idiocy, and now people who oppose these plans are to be hunted down. Advocating peace and diplomacy is today described as an abomination and Russian propaganda. There are parties that oppose the warmongering, but they are systematically excluded from the debate in the media.
Digital prison
Agenda 2030 is rolling relentlessly on and in a few years, digital ID linked to a digital wallet with programmable currency tied to the individual's carbon footprint is to be in place.
None of this is discussed in the election debate or the media either.
The focus of the media is on how the polls are going and the distribution between the blocs, despite all the parties in the Riksdag agreeing that these are matters of absolute critical importance for the population of Sweden.
Wasted vote and no vision
A vote for any of the parties outside parliament that oppose all this madness leading to war and total control of the individual is considered a wasted vote when in actual fact it is completely the other way around.
The parliamentary parties are completely devoid of any vision for what they want for Sweden in the future. The only thing the Social Democrats have to offer is ”we take Sweden seriously” – what does that mean? No hope for the future for our young people, just blood, sweat and tears, and that goes equally for the parties of both political blocs.
When will the sleeping people wake up?
Text: Ulf Gabrielsson, Ambition Sverige, Defence and Security
Stop hounding the countryside to fix the municipality's pipes
There is an ongoing, silent witch hunt with no legal certainty against rural residents and holiday home owners in municipalities. Under the guise of ”environmental considerations”, municipal inspectors make five-minute visits and condemn fully functioning private sewage systems based solely on the age of the installation. Subsequently, residents are forced into exorbitantly expensive municipal water and sewerage solutions with mandatory connection fees of up to 400,000 kronor per property. For pensioners and families with children, this is a financial blow that in the worst case leads to the forced sale of their home.
Officials” decision-making data is rarely based on established facts in the form of measurements, but rather on loose guesses. The reports are overflowing with phrases such as ”it can be assumed”, ”it is probable” and ”cannot be ruled out". Is it worthy of a state governed by rule of law to ruin private individuals based on hypothetical risk scenarios?
However, the municipality's own sewage treatment plants overflow millions of litres of untreated sewage directly into our lakes during heavy rain. Yet it is the holiday cottage in the countryside that is portrayed as the environmental villain.
It is not about the environment – it is about money.
Sweden's municipalities have a massive maintenance backlog of approximately SEK 600 billion within the central water and sewage network up to the year 2040. By mandating the connection of rural cabins, current property owners are forced to pay for pipes that are oversized for the municipality's future development plans and growth. Residents are practically forced to give the municipality an interest-free loan to finance an ever-growing municipal administrative apparatus.
Furthermore, this procedure contravenes the law. Parliament tightened the Water Services Act in 2023. The municipality is now obliged to investigate whether residents' needs can be met more cheaply and better through local joint facilities. Yet people are being steamrollered. The Land and Environment Court of Appeal has also established that the municipality may not condemn a sewage system solely on the basis of its age – they must prove an actual, functional defect. Yet the administration is ignoring this.
To our democratically elected politicians on the environmental committees: It is not acceptable to routinely say that ”the documentation is good enough for me” when your decisions crush people's lives and personal finances. You are elected by the citizens, not by the officials. Take control of your administration! Demand that inspectors stop issuing age-based bans, demand real evidence and analytical results instead of subjective guesses. Respect the 2023 law by allowing those who live in the countryside to build their own individual or smart communal solutions.
Mikael Richter
Ambition Sverige
Anneli Kullberg
Ambition Sverige Mark
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When a power cable to Germany recently broke and electricity prices in southern Sweden plummeted immediately, we got the definitive answer: the interconnectors are a direct threat to Swedish households and Swedish businesses. We must cut the cables to other countries and look after our own interests. The electricity price fell from around 1 SEK to just a few öre, which is more reasonable during a warm summer.
The power cables to Poland and Denmark were disconnected in early October 2022, which gave southern Sweden the cheapest electricity since the beginning of August that year.
– The more Sweden exports, the more electricity is needed, and then more expensive electricity generation is brought into use. All of this has an impact because the electricity price is generally higher in our neighbouring countries, stated Erik Ek, Head of Strategic Operations at Svenska Kraftnät, at the time.
We live under the EU's thumb: under EU regulations, Sweden is obliged to offer other countries the opportunity to buy the electricity available in Sweden, as long as there is capacity in the cables. As a result, we are infected by the high prices in other countries. After all, the EU is built on the free movement of goods and services; electricity included.
One more example: In December 2024, the electricity price in southern Sweden rose to 8 kronor per kWh for those with an hourly electricity contract. Why is that? Simply because the wind wasn't blowing! That's what happens when an entire continent makes itself dependent on something as unpredictable as the weather and the wind. Are we really going to shut down our industries when the wind doesn't deign to blow?
Sweden has become a raw material colony for the rest of the EU and we Swedes have become an enslaved people to be exploited. We are destroying our nature and property prices by building wind turbines we do not need in the name of the holy climate. Little Sweden with delusions of grandeur is going to save the world. We export all produced wind electricity. The ”export cables” are in practice imported price increases.
Through foolish energy policy, Germany has completely shut down its nuclear power, become dependent on expensive gas and coal, and when their prices soar – which they do regularly – we in Sweden are supposed to bail them out, just like the Danes who have gone all in on the mercy of the weather gods.
Vattenfall’s investments in nuclear power will have to wait, reports Dagens Industri. Instead, SEK 62 billion is to be invested in wind power over the next five years, primarily in Germany and the Netherlands. ”We want to contribute to the climate transition,” says Chief Financial Officer Kerstin Ahlfont. No, she wants to contribute to greenwashing! With our forests, we are offsetting our carbon emissions to 100%.
Even if the whole of Sweden disappears tomorrow, nobody will notice any difference. It’s easy to be generous with other people’s money. It’s downright criminal how things are run. How is it possible that a state-owned company is allowed to throw Swedish electricity consumers’ hard-earned money down the drain on worthless wind power. What’s more, in other countries, money that should be going towards electricity transmission from the north to the south of our own country. It is completely mental.
Why should we subsidise Germany's mistakes? Germany chose to close all its nuclear power plants. That was their decision, and it is their problem. Not ours. Yet it is Swedish electricity consumers and Swedish industry that have to pay the bill through exorbitant electricity prices while the Germans continue their unsustainable energy policy.
The government realised this when it stopped Hansa PowerBridge, the planned new cable to Germany. It has also paused Konti-Skan Connect to Denmark until further notice. Denmark is practically Germany's electricity trading partner, and the cables there simply become a gateway for German prices.
Electricity is not an ordinary commodity. It has to be produced in the exact same second that it is consumed. Our industrial workers cannot wait for the next delivery if the price skyrockets, and our pensioners cannot negotiate the electricity price when the cold bites.
If other countries are dependent on Swedish electricity to stabilise their grids, then it is they who should pay for our security – not the other way around. Why should Swedish consumers get German prices when we produce cheap Swedish electricity?
Sweden has enough electricity generation to supply itself every day of the year if we expand transmission between north and south. The money is already there in the form of the congestion revenues. The same money that the EU also wants to pinch and use in other countries.
The problem is that we are exporting a fifth of our production and thereby driving up prices in our own deficit areas.
Norway has already realised this – their governing party wants to cut the cables to Denmark. It is time Sweden does the same. We should not produce cheap electricity for others and get their high prices back in return. We must put our own house in order first. Leave the EU, cut the cables, lower the prices, secure Sweden's energy future.
Astrid Lofs, biologist, PhD, Ambition Sverige | The Swedish electricity grid | Image: Grok AI
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
