Russian Times om Calle Bildt. If any single European politician has blood on his hands in Ukraine this year, it’s Stockholm’s resident neo-con fanatic. He constantly encouraged the violent ‘revolution’ in that tragic, divided nation. This weekend, his administration was busy spilling it around the streets of his own country. Nazi party, Svenskarnas parti(The Swede’s Party), were holding a meeting in Malmo and over 2,000 people gathered to protest in a square near the Oresund Bridge – an engineering marvel that connects the country to Denmark. As its leader, Stefan Jacobsson, appeared on stage, the concerned citizens began to chant: “No Nazis on our streets.” At this point, police on horseback – for reasons I can’t fathom – riding at full gallop charged the crowd in defense of the fascists leaving ten people injured, five of them seriously. Dozens of protestors were also arrested. Now, we do know that southern Sweden has something in common with western Ukraine - a strong fascist community and this has been apparent for decades. Swedish mercenaries have popped up in Kiev in recent months and their foreign minister was clearly the most radical European politician in supporting the coup, which was primarily instigated by far-right elements. The Sundance Kid to his Butch Cassidy, Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski, was incredibly vocal at first, but has largely vanished after leaked tapes showed him expressing his concerns that the Polish-US alliance isnt worth anything. How much this owes to political concerns back home and how much to Bildt’s own fantasies is unclear. It is true that the Sweden Democrats, a previously marginal grouping, are now clearly the country’s third-biggest party, scoring over 12 percent in recent opinion polls. In the 2010 election they obtained only 5 percent, which shows they are a movement on the rise. Meanwhile, Bildt’s Moderate Party has fallen from 30 percent to about 20 percent.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:52:37 +0000