The EU must seize Russia’s frozen assets, Maria Malmer Stenergard believes, because any other solution would be unfair to Ukraine’s biggest backers.
Nordic countries can’t keep taking on a disproportionate share of supporting Ukraine, Sweden’s foreign minister warned in an interview with POLITICO.
“A few countries take almost all of the burden,” Maria Malmer Stenergard said on her way into a gathering of foreign ministers in Brussels. “That is not fair and it’s not sustainable in the long run.”
She added: “The fact that the Nordic countries, with less than 30 million people, we provide for one-third of the military support that the NATO countries, with almost 1 billion people, provide this year … This is not sustainable. It’s not reasonable in any way. And it says a lot about what the Nordics do — but it says even more about what the others don’t do.”
Nordic citizen here. As much as I agree with the sentiment, I’d happily pay more to have an unlubed dildo of consequence hypersonically delivered to the Kremlin.
We can tiptoe around russia, hoping they’ll play nice any day now, or give a slap that won’t be forgotten.
Lesson:
Russia used to do these “mistaken navigation” into Turkish airspace all the time. Until turkey shot down an encroaching aircraft. Suddenly russian pilots got a lot better at navigation.
Russia only respects force.
They will push and prod and poke and if you’re soft they get bolder and bolder. Like a school bully.
But kick them in the nuts real hard once and they’ll back down