The Peaceful Sweden Has Been Abolished

by Fjordman –  reposted with permission

In seven hours between March 4 and March 5, 2024, bombs detonated at two different apartment buildings in the Stockholm region, in Lidingö and Farsta.^[1] Individuals suspected of being linked to rival factions in the country’s bloody gang wars are said to be living at these locations.^[2]

Two bombs in one day in Sweden’s capital and Scandinavia’s largest city would at one time have been truly unexpected and shocking. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case. Now, it is just another Monday or Tuesday. This is the brutal reality of Swedish society today.

Over the years, I have written many essays about crime in Sweden. If I no longer do so as frequently as before, this is not because crime has gotten less. It is simply more difficult to mobilize sufficient mental energy to write about unpleasant subjects such as gang rapes or gang crimes.

You know that there will be more bombings, shootings, or arson attacks in Sweden next week, and the week after that, and the week after that. Why write about all of them? This is hardly news anymore. It is simply part of everyday life.

Perhaps this can be described as a form of war fatigue.

I was a child in the 1980s and understood little of Islam or ethnic conflicts. Nevertheless, I remember sometimes mentally tuning out when hearing news from the war in Lebanon. There is only so much human suffering one can stomach. Yes, it was sad to hear about people being killed in attacks, but one expected more deadly attacks in Lebanon the next day.

I had similar reactions to the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. Hearing about human beings being shot or bombed was always horrible. But again, one fully expected more of the same next week and was often proven right.

Partly to my dread, I realize that I now have similar mental reactions to atrocities in Sweden and other countries in Western Europe. I suffer from war fatigue. Not from attacks in Lebanon or the Balkans, but in France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

It may sound strange to develop war fatigue from countries that are nominally at peace. Yet Sweden suffers from violent attacks of some kind almost daily. Is that truly what peace looks like?

In 2008, the Swedish writer Anders Lugn wrote an article titled “Sweden’s road to disaster.” Somewhat unusually, he even had this text published in the major newspaper Aftonbladet. In the 1980s, Lugn served as a captain in UN-led peacekeeping forces in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. While living there, he asked himself how it was possible for such a wonderful country with so many good people to commit national suicide and self-destruct? Among several reasons for the collapse of Lebanese society, he mentions a weak sense of national identity and common values, weak national armed forces, a weak police force, easy access to weapons (legal or illegal), and easy access to drugs. There was also a general sense of powerlessness among average citizens.^[3]

Anders Lugn was deeply concerned to observe that many of the factors that contributed to a brutal civil war in Lebanon are now also at work in his native Sweden.

Things have gotten a lot worse since then. In 2024, Swedish authorities publicly admit that the number of individuals linked to violent criminal gangs in Sweden almost certainly exceeds the country’s entire police force.^[4]

This development did not happen overnight, though. Many people and groups contributed to the disaster.

Birgitta Ohlsson, born in 1975, has been an active politician for several decades. Between 1999 and 2002, she was chair of the Liberal Youth of Sweden (LUF), the youth wing of the Swedish Liberals.

While becoming a young Liberal leader, Ohlsson in 1999 gave an interview with the newspaper Aftonbladet in which she stated “I want to dissolve the nation states.”^[5]

In the same article, Ohlsson further said that as a feminist, she also wanted “to dissolve gender roles.” In her mind, fighting against the nation state and against the patriarchy were apparently two sides of the same coin. Which, indeed, has often been the case in Sweden as well as in other Western countries for the past 50 years.

In 2001, Ohlsson had a debate article published in the Swedish national newspaper Expressen on June 6, the National Day of Sweden. The article was titled “Abolish Sweden!” (“Avskaffa Sverige!”). In it, she stated plainly that in a globalized world, nation states must be dismantled:

“It is time for us who call ourselves world citizens to dust off world federalism as a vision for a more just world, by striving for a global union with a federalist state. Each country must cede parts of its national sovereignty. Through a global legal order, conflicts between peoples can be resolved peacefully. A global law must be enacted by a democratically elected world parliament and enforced by a world police. The idea of peace is central to world federalism, as is the belief in international law and our common responsibility to ensure that human rights are fulfilled everywhere.”^[6]

That the leader of one of Sweden’s political youth movements publicly advocated abolishing Sweden did not harm her political career. On the contrary.

In the 2002 general election, Birgitta Ohlsson was elected a member of the Swedish parliament (Riksdag) for the Liberals. She retained her position as an MP for the next 16 years, until 2018.^[7]

From 2010 to 2014, Ohlsson was Minister for European Union Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. As late as in 2017, she nearly became party leader of the Liberals.

While no longer a Member of Parliament today, Birgitta Ohlsson has expressed no public regret for the immense damage that mass immigration has done to Sweden and the rest of Europe.

During the 2022 general election, Ohlsson admitted that she did not vote for the Swedish Liberals, which she has represented for several decades. Instead, she voted for the Centre Party. She feared that the Sweden Democrats (SD), who have been critical of mass immigration, would gain political influence.^[8]

In October 2022, the Moderate Party leader, Ulf Kristersson, was elected Prime Minister of a coalition government consisting of the Moderate Party, the Christian Democrats, and the Liberals. They rely on parliamentary support from the Sweden Democrats.

The Liberals and other Swedish parties currently attempt to govern a violent and unstable society, critically damaged by decades of immigration from incompatible cultures which they have themselves promoted.

The previously peaceful Swedish society has already been abolished. Forceful action will be required to save what remains of the Swedish nation.

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