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Our commitments were made in an entirely different realpolitik environment, before the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Swedish gdp per capita has been stagnant for several years with significant real wage decline, particularly for low to lower mid-income households - an estimated 6.5-16.5% decline since pre pandemic levels in 2019, only starting to properly recover in the past year or so.
Simultaneously there's increasing healthcare costs tied to an aging population, massive needs to increase defence spending (1% of GDP in 2019, 2.4% currently, 5% goal) as well as significant and increasing societal economic losses from crime.
Something has had to budge and this is, unfortunately, one of those things. Work continues albeit at a lower priority.
Make no mistake. Sweden is still and will continue to be leagues ahead of most developed nations, and does really well even compared to the global average. Compared to a Swede, the average human has a carbon footprint 26% larger, European 50% larger, German 90% larger, Chinese 126% larger and each of y'all americans emit almost as much as 4 Swedes put together on average.
1 stuff your BP carbon footprint.
2 Even then the numbers are misleading at best.
It's not what 'Chinese' do, it's mostly emissions for the western market by western companies in China.
3 stuff your defense spending.
4 Knowing what a right-wing POS shit, Shitrael defending and anti-immigration articles poster racist you are stuff your ' increasing societal economic losses from crime' too.
There won't be anybody to save our asses if the Ukrainians tire of sending their young into the Russian meat grinder - supporting them, and preparing ourselves means SPENDING ON DEFENSE. That's not to mention how dependent we've become on China for all things manufactured and the US for all things software.
Oh, and for the record, Belgium has the 8th highest per capita consumption emissions in the world, so maybe focus on your own politicians before whining about us ๐
LOL we don't need to be 'saved' by anyone.
Your propaganda fueled 'the Russians are coming' is completely absurd.
Anyone serious and knowledgeable about geopolitics ridicule those scaremongers, then again, they're not in some western think tank or tied to the MIC trying to convince suckers there is a threat.
And BTW the ukros are tire of sending their young into the Russian meat grinder already for a long time.
They get kidnapped of the streets to die for the US/UK cowards always using proxies.
To the last ukrainian!