Sweden was the first neutral country to acknowledge the United States of America after the American Revolutionary War. The relations since then have been good, even when Sweden was under Social Democratic rule during the initial years of the 20th Century. Swedish politicians were inspired by prominent American scientists, and the younger generation was in awe of American cars, cartoons and tales from the Wild West.
The Anti-American sentiment started during the Vietnam War, when Sweden’s Prime Minister Olof Palme, following the bombing of Hanoi during Christmas of 1972, in a speech compared the attack to the Nazi concentration camp Treblinka. In the wake of these events, Marxists and a wave of political Leftists flooded the Swedish universities and academia.
Despite all of this, the United States kept its romanticized view of Sweden: Abba, Volvo, Swedish meatballs and IKEA…A beautiful little country in the North, with an intriguing people and a place where Socialism actually seemed to work!
This view completely changed in 2017. After watching a news report on Fox News in the United States covering the violence and lawlessness that is occurring in certain immigrant-majority Swedish suburbs, so called “No-go zones,” President Donald Trump on February 18th exclaimed; “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden! They took in large numbers. They are having problems like they never thought possible.”
This statement was so contrasting to the idyllic and romanticized general conception of Sweden that most people dismissed his statement as just “another outburst” from Trump. The former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt even went as far as to turn to Twitter, asking “What has he been smoking?,” implying that this was all just nonsense. Leftist liberal media US correspondents and journalists also were quick to defend Sweden’s honor: “Carl Bildt actually knows,” tweeted political journalist Anne Applebaum. “Sweden stood with us after Bowling Green. Today we stand with Sweden,” author Gary Shteyngart chimed in.
However, in Sweden there were many voices who claimed that Trump was right.
To explore whether Trump was right or not, American independent journalist Tim Pool traveled to Sweden. First he went to Malmö, a high-crime city, where he was celebrated by the Swedish media after coming to the conclusion following his visit that Malmö wasn’t so bad after all. And definitely not worse than his own hometown, violence-ridden Chicago. However, things changed dramatically when he entered the suburb Rinkeby, outside of Stockholm, where he was stalked by a mob of people and ended up having to be escorted out by the police. Pool changed his view on Sweden after that experience and pointed out that there definitely seemed to be significant problems that were being swept under the rug. He was immediately shunned by the Swedish media.
However, all the attention in the media paved the way for new connections between those voices of Sweden that claimed that the country does in fact have serious problems with violence, murder, rape, Islamism and anti-Semitism connected to immigration, and the more right-wing oriented media in the US, which offered a more welcoming attitude towards different opinions.
On February 20, 2017, an article I wrote was published on Robert Spencer’s website Jihad Watch, entitled “View from Sweden: Donald Trump was right.” In June 2017, Swedish right-wing podcaster Aron Flam was interviewed by the Rubin Report, and the other day outspoken politician Hanif Bali from the Moderate Party of Sweden discussed the situation in Sweden with Tucker Carlson on Fox News.
The President of the United States let the floodgates open, and the American media provided the infrastructure necessary for the Swedish dissidents who refused to close their eyes to what was happening and who would no longer be silenced.
Therefore, 2017 became the year when the idyllic and romanticized image of Sweden shattered. But also it was the year during which Swedes finally could start debating without fear of being branded “racists” or “xenophobes,” as in past years.
Ironically, this new movement started due to one of those “Trump tantrums” that the Swedish elite love to hate, because he is so simple, unrefined, rough around the edges…Without the polished surface that we have.
Or, rather, that we pretended to have.
Ronie Berggren is a Swedish Conservative who runs Sweden’s most active podcast about American politics: American News Analysis. His lifelong ideological inspiration is Thomas Jefferson. He is currently working on a book in Swedish about the presidency of George W. Bush, for whom Ronie campaigned in 2004. This article was translated from Swedish by Carolina Åhs.
CRUSADER says
Swedes are known for their group-think, their complaining but doing little, and their ability to drink away the sorrows of the day….and of course their tremendous capacity to think they can solve the world’s problems by offering what they have to the world.
What a formula for disaster!
Andy says
If you love your country we should all be RACISTS like Paul Weston.
NATIONALISM IS NOT RACISM!
My name is Paul Weston, and I am a racist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLjpiLvx_CI
Andy says
Nothing To Do With Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DfTEWPEj-g
Lawrence says
Even by the high standards of Condell, that is one of his best videos. Gets to the heart of the issue, the madness of the Left, as much as the Left’s allies, the true believer Muslims.
Richard says
Bravo! A country is more than a plot of land. And a race is more than the blood of its people. It is their shared values and aspirations which are what makes up a civilization. We had a civil war in this country because people in this nation disagreed about slavery. We could have allowed slavery to continue under the banner of “inclusiveness” “You be you and I’ll be me”. We didn’t. Hitler loved he English people. Churchill could quite easily have surrendered and have his country become like Nazi Germany. He didn’t. Poland could have had the attitude that it didn’t matter whether they ruled themselves or resisted the German and Soviet invasions. The Poles didn’t surrender. You either are something or nothing. If your country and its ideals are worth dying for, you must be willing to die for them or you lose them forever. Europeans and Christians are committing suicide all over the world because they are not willing to reproduce. Nor are they willing to stand up for what they believe in. I can only speak for the Catholic Church, where I go into a cathedral for Mass and hear the Bible mistranslated because any condemnations of sins which might offend sinners are carefully expunged from the readings. Everything that was right when I was in college is today considered despicable. Everything that was despicable when I was in college is today considered right. And, by gosh, you had better agree with it if you know what is good for you! For me to roll with those changes would be to become schizophrenic. So, like Richard III “I can smile, and murder while I smile, and cry content to things which grieve my heart. I can change colors with the chameleon”. And I can be miserable and worthless because of it. Or I can have no friends but God and the angels and saints, remembering what a cardinal once wrote: “One with God is always in the majority.” There is a beautiful scene in the historic Icelandic Njal’s Saga, where men rode past the grave or Gunner of Hliderend late at night and the earth opened and Gunner’s corpse emerged, chanting “I Gunner of Hliderend, a mighty oak towering over the field of battle, lashed by the limbs of lesser trees in the hurricane of war, proudly declare that I would rather die than yield. Yes, much rather die than yield!”
Another Racist
Andy says
Richard,
My hats off to you sir!
“Never has a truer word been spoken.”
Andy says
Paul Weston: Civil War in Europe; Which Side Are You On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETqcIcUNRG8
LeftisruiningCanada says
There’s something to this man’s speech,
Or i’m another racist.
CRUSADER says
Richard,
When were your college days?
Were they in the USA?
mortimer says
Ronie Berggren is courageous to speak out against Sweden’s blinkered Ostrich Brigade!
How many truck rammings and rapes do the Swedes need to understand that Islam is at war with Sweden?
Islam is intrinsically SUPREMACIST and rejects inclusion, assimilation and pluralism.
Question for Swedes: “What is it that a supremacist wants?” “Vad är det som en supremacist vill ha?”
Billy Chickens says
I will not spend vacations in parts of Europe that have accepted Muslims into their countries – Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, etc. I would travel to Poland and the Eastern countries which have NOT taken in the invaders.
Who wants to spend a vacation afraid of being murdered by an Islamic psychopath?
Andy says
Billy, You have to join the club of Andy, Mad Max and Paul and become a racist to help countries back from the brink of total annihilation!
Billy Chickens says
I keep telling people that Islam is not a race, it’s a religion. I’m not against any race, I’m against Islam which does not make me a racist. They then say I’m an Islamophile but I remind them that Muslims are Kuffirphiles.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Billy.
Andy says
My own family is a multicultural family and we are not racist, but we all see what is happening with Islam and think that POLITICAL CORRECTNESS HAS TO STOP!
Norbert says
Didn’t you mean Kufarphobes?
LeftisruiningCanada says
+1 Billy.
Who says your an islamophile?
Walter Sieruk says
All this Muslim crime ,riots and violent misogyny in the nation of Sweden may serve as an example of Muslim ungratefulness and unthankfulness for letting them enter Sweden to live. This this further exposes the Muslim’s Islamic contempt for people who are Westerners and Western civilization, Western laws.
This Muslim violence may be yet better explained by one of the fables of Aesop which is entitled THE FARMER AND THE VIPER. So here it is “Once in ancient Greece there was a farmer outside on a very cold winter day walking in if field to make sure that everything is in order and as it should be. The farmer came upon a half-froze viper about to die from the bitter cold. The kind yet foolish farmer took pity on the viper and in an action of kindness put it his is vest jacket to warms and up and thus save its life. The viper warned up revived and then bit farmer through the vest jacket. So the kind but foolish farmer died a slow painful death in awful agony because he felt sorry of the viper and saved it life. The point to this fable is the no amount of kindness will change and vicious and evil nature.
So it is with those Muslim migrants who were allowed to enter Sweden to live . Those violent migrants who are Muslims will not be impress and change because kindness of Westerners. This is because those violent Muslims have that ungrateful dangerous viper nature because of their venomous and violent religion which is Islam.
Norbert says
As I recall, the farmer asked the viper why he returned a kindness with venom. The viper responded “You knew what I was when you brought me into your house!”
Terry Gain says
No offence to the Swedes but I think the situation there is hopeless and so the sooner it is clear that Sweden has fallen to Islam the better. The rest of Europe and Canada may then take heed. Few Canadians understand that a solid voting block of 10% can control the country. Already with only 5 % of the population Muslims are pushing for Islamic blasphemy laws and most Canadians and almost all elites self-censor when it comes to the evils of Islam.
gravenimage says
Sweden is 6% Muslim–a shocking number, but by no means a majority. Why are you counseling Swedes to turn over their country to the invaders?
Terry Gain says
I’m not counselling anything. I am observing what is happening. You are living in dream land if you think the Swedes will do what is necessary to save their country.
Bill says
I share your observations. Recently some politicians in Sweden have advocated for the Swedish military to patrol the streets to stop what they euphemistically called “gang violence”. That is what they call Islamic terror when they are not calling it “mental illness”.
I believe that if troops are set loose on the streets of Sweden it will be to round up, threaten and intimidate “Islamophobes” and other critics of the Swedish government.
I also have to admit that I find it amusing who the whole of the Swedish government took the time to first point out how they are the first feminist government in the world and then mock President Trump and ridicule his observations about Sweden. All of which were painfully obvious when he made them and have become only more obvious since.
Sweden has surrendered and there is no turning back. Surrender is not even really the right word because surrender suggests prior resistance. I never saw any resistance, only cooperation.
Terry Gain says
Furthermore, GI, people who are invited in are not invaders.
StellaSaidSo says
They don’t need a majority, GI. They only need sufficient numbers in key areas in order to swing a ballot their way.
StellaSaidSo says
You are right to draw attention to the situation in Canada, Terry Grain.
With a relatively small population, no immediate prospect of removing the traitor Trudeau, and the current relentless push for sharia compliance, Canada may yet be more vulnerable to capitulation than Sweden.
jewdog says
The Socialist globalists who have been running Sweden for so long have been lucky in that the Socialist measures they adopted were moderate enough not to destroy the economy, as happened in Venezuela. Now, however, their luck has finally run out, as they have opened the borders to Islam in the name of cultural relativism and internationalism. This is a far more serious mistake than an economic one, as it will be much harder to reverse; it could bring endless woes in the years ahead as their good intentions pave the road to Hell.
6woods says
My cousin is a very liberally-minded (is there any other kind?) university professor in Sweden. She’s very sympathetic to the “refugees”. She’s also raising three young girls. I’m terrified that her worlds will collide. There’s no talking to her.
MFritz says
More like: 2017 was the year when the truth could no longer be repressed. Not even in Sweden.
mortimer says
Agree with Fritz: the ruling party in Sweden has criminalized criticism of Islam. Only politicians speaking in parliament can freely criticize Islam without fear of being prosecuted.
thesailor says
+
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
(…just for the record… according to the … )
OFFICE OF THE HISTORIAN (official historian of the United States):
https://history.state.gov/about/faq/first-to-recognize-US
What country was the first to recognize the United States?
France recognized the United States as an independent state on February 6, 1778.
mortimer says
Sweden was the fourth country to recognize the US after 2) Netherlands, 3) Spain.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, Robert Spencer rightly identified Sweden as the first *neutral* country to acknowledge the United States, meaning they were not recognizing us at least in part as a twit to Britain.
Sarah says
I read an article on a news site from Australia yesterday that said the Swedish government has sent out prepare for war pamphlets to every household.
Apparently, they haven’t been updated in a good 20-30 years and they explain to the residents what is expected of them, by the government in regards to war breaking out and how to survive, what to do, etc etc.
The article promoted the idea that the reason why Sweden is doing this now, is because the government is alarmed at the increasing risk of a Russian invasion, again.
That just doesn’t quite make sense to me… Hell, Sweden has actually gone so far apparently, as to reintroduce the damn draft, so they’re plotting something- but Russian invasion? Is that REALLY the threat on the horizon?
Or is it that civil war is getting closer and closer with every passing day?
gravenimage says
This article does mention terrorism–but just in passing. You have to know what is going on in Sweden now to realize the significance of this.
https://qz.com/1180771/how-to-cope-with-the-outbreak-of-war-sweden-is-reissuing-a-cold-war-pamphlet/
StellaSaidSo says
The fingerprints of the globalists who call the shots in Sweden are all over this one.
David M says
The war they were preparing for is with Russia. Sweden should be worried about the Muslims instead of Russia. How can a country be advanced in technology like Sweden, yet be full of absolute dumb asses?
gravenimage says
2017: The year the idyllic and romanticized image of Sweden shattered
……………………….
And yet, except for insanely high taxes and harsh winters, Sweden *was* pretty idyllic until just recently, when she began letting in floods of violent Muslims. Now this once lovely country is falling into rape and chaos. All so unnecessary.
And yes–most people in the rest of the world did not realize the terrible changes there, or knew but tried to ignore them. This is becoming increasingly difficult now.
Westman says
The new image of Sweden: A bearded 12 year-old with a Palestinian flag in one hand and a grenade in the other.
CRUSADER says
But still able to play volleyball and dine on halal meatballs…..
StellaSaidSo says
And the latest cell phone in the pocket of his Levi’s.
Lydia Church says
Most of Europe is like a dead woman.
You can literally mourn over her.
Once she was grand.
It is a true loss to civilization.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Islamic dead woman…
Might have company in their grave.
tgusa says
President Trump thinks we should consider taking immigrants from these formerly good, upstanding western countries that have been turned in to western euro s__tholes but I am not so sure. not without deep (and I mean really deep) screening, and absolutely no euro lefties. They stay there until whatever end.
I would say see ya, but, I probably wont.
ploome says
you mean the year the facade of denial began to crack
Baucent says
“But also it was the year during which Swedes finally could start debating without fear of being branded “racists” or “xenophobes,” as in past years.”
Really? That is a point you need to elaborate on.
Politicianophobia says
The Swedish taxpayers are paying $125,000 a year to keep each one of the invaders in their country, good luck with that. I must have a look at what we poor Canadians are paying.
Prabh108 says
Sweden belongs to ethnic Swede. (Law of Manu)
Prabh108 says
Let me clarify: when I state ethnic, I am referring to those persons of Swedish extraction who speak Swedish and uphold traditions of Swedish ancestors. (not scummy vehicular jihadist bastards descended from long line of rapists, murderers, and master torturists )
Revive Arya religions of original Swedes if possible otherwise explore Dharma at Hinduism.co.za
patriotliz says
For those of us regular readers of Pamella Geler and Jihad Watch…that “idyllic” image of Sweden was shattered long before 2017. That’s when Trump pulled the bandage off quickly…only because the Left Stream Media had kept a lid on the bad News in Europe (and still do) about the IslamoNazi occupation…that’s why the West thought he was nuts. But not quite clear why Trump wants to take immigrants from Norway…unless he means native Norwegians escaping the horrors of Islamization.
The reason for the deception and cover-up by the Leftist equivalent of “Jim Jones” cult-like political Leftist leaders and media is something like the “Emperor’s New Clothes” fairy tale. “See the lovely migrants…welcome the nice unfortunate suffering migrants w/ open arms…they are BETTER than you…they will bring prosperity to a dying Europe/America/Canada/Australia….multiculturalism is superior to any white majority Europe even if your ethnic nationalist heritage goes back centuries w/ all their struggles for freedom….Black/brown races are better than dirty old Nazi White people and whites should be ashamed of themselves—and stop having white babies…abort, abort, abort.” The REALITY is that this the great deception for the “The Great Replacement” of Europe w/ 3rd world peoples w/ cultures that don’t assimilate to Western values…and you’re supposed to like your ethnic cleansing and if you protest you are a racist, Nazi xenophobe. The Leftist Globalists Democrats in America are forcing the cyanide-laced kool-aid down our throats w/ their passion for DACA and open borders as if it is some kind of “MORAL IMPERATIVE” (or to paraphrase Pope Francis’s Leftist political propaganda…”What would Jesus do?”) that trumps any consideration about the impact of uncontrolled migration on our demographics, economy and security. Ditto for Canadian Leftists and Trudeau.
Politicianophobia says
Trudeau supports the same “divide and conquer, invade and occupy” theory as the so called Swedish politicians do. You can’t fix stupid but you can vote it out of office.
Politicianophobia says
How sweet, Fatima Khawari, Young in Sweden, says her goal is to become Prime Minister, that must make Swedes feel all warm and fuzzy.
Politicianophobia says
How sweet, Fatima Khawari, Young in Sweden, says her goal is to become Prime Minister.