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Vänstern har i slutändan inget alternativ till att samarbeta med C; C kan dock alltid släppa sin röda linje mot SD och ansluta sig till Tidö. Alltså strukturellt sett är det C som har mer manöverutrymme än V här.

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But somehow I doubt what I said will get through, because you already know everything. And you have 2 passports! :O

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Nämen i Sverige är vår korruption helt fint och lagligt!

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Eurowhiteness - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

By the way, a blind, singular europeanism that overlooks its particular contents is itself not so different from a sublimated form of (supra)nationalism. Maybe expand on your conception of modern europeanism, educate yourself a bit further?

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Book by Hans Kundnani. Hurst Publishers, 2023

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Flinging around accusations of nationalism (if only you knew how ridiculous they are) attests to your own limited intellectual repertoire, revealing your singular obsession on a beefed-up EU to counter your ur-villain, the USA. Thanks, but Europe shouldn't become USA itself in trying to counter it.

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Someone who is trying to project his US-Democratic ideal onto a continent he treats as the promised substrate for his dejected utopia back home, with little patience for the actual people & cultures living there.

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Arguments any british colonialist could just as well use for their imperialism. From your writings, you seem to have little actual immersion in any European culture nor any patience for the actual social-economic-historical dynamics in specific societies.

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Alltså det är inte en så svartvit fråga. Ja, vi måste motverka amerikanskt inflytande, men inte till priset av att själva bli USA.

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Göran Therborn, Twilight of Swedish Social Democracy, NLR 113, September–October 2018

Det är ju inte bara borgarklassen som kräver det; borgarna skulle vara nöjda med ett starkare EU som skulle minska den demokratiska kontrollen över ekonomin. Tex när folkomröstningen om euron 2003 misslyckades var avskaffandet av arvsskatten 2004 en politisk eftergift från Persson till näringslivet.

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Hailed with relief for fear of a bleaker outcome, the SAP’s poor performance in the September 2018 election underlines the malaise afflicting social democracy’s global flagship. Therborn charts the co...

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Ja, jag håller med om att världen har förändrats och att kampen inte kan vara enbart nationell, men det är också sant att EU institutionellt sett är i stort sett detsamma som det var för 20-30 år sedan, vilket också är problematiskt ur ett vänsterdemokratiskt perspektiv.

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En av de 'frugals' är till exempel också Österrike, ett katolskt land. Iaf, vad gäller Sverige har det alltid handlat om EU:s odemokratiska och nyliberala egenskaper som stör den riktiga vänsterpolitiken. Det var V och MP som motsatte sig EU-medlemskapet 1994, och S har alltid varit splittrat.

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Men det har ju faktiskt ingenting med kultur eller religion att göra. Om det vore så hade Sverige aldrig varit den socialdemokratiska förebild det en gång var. Dave är en amerikansk journalist utan kunskaper i europeisk historia eller sociologi, så han bara slänger omkring sig ogrundade gissningar.

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The 'religion' argument is complete nonsense. Europe is not America and Scandinavia is one of the least religious places on the planet. Please, ground your reportage in at least some degree of socioeconomic analysis, not armchair-cultural handwaving.

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Flytta inte över makten till bankirerna i Frankfurt

Sverige (och Norden överallt) har alltid hållit avstånd till EU, särskilt på vänsterkanten (det är ju Liberalerna och näringslivet som har varit de största eurofilerna). Även starka vänsterprofiler från t.ex. Katalys fortsätter att argumentera mot att införa t.ex. euron.

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Om Sverige överger kronan flyttar makten över den ekonomiska politiken till Frankfurt, bortom demokratisk kontroll, skriver Max Jerneck vid den fackliga tankesmedjan Katalys.

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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

How can it be political theatre when it's simultaneously not even something that is reflected in the national debate (as pointed out)? This is a completely nonsensical explanation.

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Det tar bara två minuter att skriva under medborgarinitiativet om naturens rättigheter inom EU. Gör gärna det! eci.ec.europa.eu/067/public/#...

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European Citizens' Initiative

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But you can also go on being an arrogant and clueless american coming over to 'enlighten the natives', contributing nil to substantively moving the european integration forward.

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If you are serious about improving the EU's reputation in this context, it takes an entirely different approach than condescending snipes about 'domestic political theatre'.

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And there are political reasons why the EU is not as popular in Scandinavia as in central Europe and poorer members, having to do with its neoliberalising tendencies and threat to the nordic labour model. The biggest europhiles in Sweden are conservatives.

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Taking his cues from the Swedish opposition.

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What Mexico Can (and Cannot) Control

And instead of regulalry referring to Canada, which for various reasons is not a good analogue for Europe, maybe consider Mexico, which is similarly heavily dependent on the US, though on different aspects?

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Mexico can focus on navigating tensions with the United States while putting its own house in better order, writes a former policymaker.

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You just keep mindlessly repeating your spiel. Keyboard warrior who does not remotely live in the real world par excellence. Engaging with the US and its administration is a must in the context of the Ukraine war considering dependencies that cannot be willed away with political stagemanship.

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The ideal scenario was always Ukraine winning with plausible deniability on its own, which isn't much of a lie anyway with the innovations the Ukrainians have made, in order to cause a genuine & long-lasting reappraisal of these 'little-Russians' in Russia.

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And if Ukraine 'won' with overt involvement from Europe, what processes would this generate in Russian society over the longer term? Russia will always be Europe's neighbor, and fueling revanchist sentiments over the longer term could end up backfiring in a decade or two.

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Anders Bergquist @fambergquist.se · 10/10/2026

This is increasingly a concern indeed. Still, what would a more pro-active strategy look like that wouldn't risk escalation from Russia or play into the hands of the Kremlin propagandists of Russia being in a war with NATO?

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Det är bra att ha koll på fakta när de rikas lobbister kommer med påståenden utan fakta.

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A brit and an american naturally agree lol

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@davekeating.substack.com is sensible on certain issues, but so thoroughly American in his overall sensibilities, of course he views cultural diversity as economic inefficiency, with a casual arrogance & ignorance on top.

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Good, culture is something that any taxpayer should pay for! Painting national languages as unnecessary in passing -- yet another americanism from this big 'pro-European'.

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You act so pro-european, but simultaneously are so inherently american about it: confident and dumb. You don't theorize and handle, you just want something and go gung-ho over it like a little child.

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The issue is not just 'our leaders' or the actions of the Council or Von der Leyen, but much more structural-historical. One needs serious understanding & solutions there, not just banging the same drum day after day.

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On Italians not willing to die for a piece of Latvia, you bring out precisely the issue of why people in eastern-Europe trust self-interested US hegemony more than a European solution, but then just glide past it to your usual vacuous talking points.

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Could also describe US hegemony itself, which was never too keen under presidents of any color on signing onto global institutions or international law. Trump is merely the symptomatic figurehead of much deeper systemic forces.

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Peter Hellman @hrhellman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What I cannot understand is why so many people think that Trump and the US are meaningfully different at this point. What Trump is doing now is much older US imperialism boomeranging back home!

undistinguished cultural and political antecedents. It figured
prominently, for example, in the writings of Werner Daitz, the
head of the Third Reich's Central Research Institute for National
Economic Order and Large Area Economics, and of Vichyite
apologists such as Drieu La Rochelle and Francis Delaisi.
Obviously, current Euro-integrationists draw no inspiration from
such distasteful precedents, but these disreputable forms of anti-
Americanism still lurk on the extremes of European politics and
have the capacity to impinge on the centre at times of tension and
crisis. The main home for such sentiments remains France, where
they are espoused by both pro- and anti-European forces and,
indeed, sometimes expressed at the very top. Thus, Georges-Marc
Benamou, in Le Dernier Mitterrand, quotes the late French
president as having said in his latter years: "France does not know
it, but we are at war with America. Yes, a permanent war, a vital
war, an economic war, a war without death. Yes, they are very
hard the Americans, they are voracious, they want undivided
power over the world." And at the EU summit in November 1995
in Madrid, President Chirac, himself ostensibly a conservative,
extolled the alleged victory of "European values" over the ideology
of world conservatism (led by the United States). The unhelpful,
not to say neurotic, French response to the pre-eminence of the
United States in the world is well illustrated by recent French
antics in respect of Iraq.

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Nu har över 100 organisationer, däribland flera svenska fackförbund så som ST, Kommunal, Vårdförbundet, Vision, skrivit under ett öppet brev som uppmanar Europa att helt sluta använda Palantir. Ett klokt upprop mot en programvara för massövervakning. www.expressen.se/nyheter/krim...

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ST: Säg upp polisens avtal med Palantir nu

Palantir används av flera av Europas myndigheter och regeringar. I ett stort upprop uppmanar över 100 organisationer Europa att helt sluta använda den kontroversiella mjukvaran. En av de som skrivit ...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/10/2026

Got interviewed by one of the largest Swedish newspapers and they led with the best headline/photo (translates to “it’s easier to see an angry man than the truth”) www.svd.se/a/pB7E0G/ed-...

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”Lättare att se en arg man än sanningen”

Han har kallats galen, bett en AI-vd att hålla käften – och i åratal varnat för en börskrasch. Nu har den högljudda outsidern tagit klivet in i finrummen. Ändå känner sig Ed Zitron fortfarande behandl...

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fn-ix @fn-ix.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Agreed, though @70sbachchan.bsky.social comes around to a much better response later in the thread: bsky.app/profile/70sb...

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fn-ix @fn-ix.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes, but NATO is just the institutional form of the protectorate-relationship, which is why politicians are always keen to frame any European initiative as not competing with NATO. Russia is a nuclear power, and there is no real Europe-wide alternative to the US nuclear deterrent.

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So there is no European with the authority to credibly threaten Russia like that. This was always the US's job, and it worked during the cold war. It doesn't anymore, but the physical-military realities will take a long time to change, especially when Trump is pressuring even more vassalage.

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Nicholas, you should do some basic reading on European politics before broadcasting your ignorance on social-media. There is no centralized European military command or European-level armed forces. Everything is set up to depend entirely on the US for command & control.

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My comment was also a more directed reply to the particular issue of the energy transition that @sophieintveld.bsky.social brought up.

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Diesel and heating-oil share the same resource pool in storage.

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