Graeme D. Eddie

Dagens Nyheter tells us today that the French nuclear-powered carrier, 'Charles De Gaulle' is on a visit to Malmö until 2 March, as part of beef-up NATO presence in the Baltic, and signaling strong Swedish-French defence co-operation... Mr. Putin! You did this all by yourself!

Monday 16 February 2026, the final hearings in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry got underway...for the Swedish Covid-19 story, and one that cuts across the myth ... read: Graeme D. Eddie, Sweden's Pandemic Story: Covid-19, A Chronology. Foolhardy, Exceptional, or Just Principled? (New York, Peter Lang, 2026)

Most excellent!!!

Thank you Royal Library of Sweden... as far as I can see you are the first library to acquire and put this book on catalogue...

Yes… I know what you mean… and I think the rather more social exchanges have lessened over time with re-posts of ‘interest areas’ becoming dominant

@j3nhunt.bsky.social hello.. just saying hello in your new home… what finally did it for you on Facebook? No need to answer… it has been cheesing me off a bit too🫤

Book!!! Now available in e-format!!!

Enjoy this new title, 'Sweden's Pandemic Story: Covid-19, A Chronology' (New York: Peter Lang, 2026)... available from Peter Lang or your favored online bookstore!!!

€3.1 billion deal that wouldn’t have passed muster with the previous Social Democratic-led coalition you’d be excused for thinking! You're wrong! Groundwork had been laid under the Soc'Dems from 2017 onwards, contrary to the country’s earlier ‘feminist foreign policy’... dumped by the centre-right

Finland is considering revoking the post-First World War convention (1921) that demilitarized the Åland Islands. Instead, Sweden suggests more Swedish submarine patrols around Åland and closer naval cooperation with Finland... [Illustrated is one of Sweden's Gotland-class submarines]

Jesper Olsson took the photo of the Swedish Navy stealth corvette HSwMS Helsingborg (K32) on a visit to Helsingborg, southern Sweden, back in 2006. His image is in the public domain.

Earlier in April 2025 the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC) in Bydgoszcz, Poland, held a workshop on total defence and resilience. In the workshop, experts from several Swedish government agencies shared Sweden’s approach to national resilience-building.

May 2026 Sweden will host a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Helsingborg, southern Sweden, to be chaired by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. May 2025, Turkey will host the meeting overshadowed by the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, and the imprisonment of Swedish journalist Joakim Medin.

The new community of values ​​between the US and Russia suggests that a division of the Arctic in which Russia takes Svalbard and the US gets Greenland is a scenario to contend with... So suggests Niklas Granholm, research director at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute, FOI...

Sweden is prepared to do more to strengthen Ukraine, said Ulf Kristersson, prime minister of Sweden, and the government is ready to allocate larger sums to the defense budget. Today, well above 2 percent is allocated, but more will be required ['Dagens Nyheter' 3 March 2025, Frida Berqvist].

Denmark is arming itself in the Arctic to the equivalent of £1.5-billion. Investments will send three new warships to Greenland and new drones for maritime monitoring. Would the new investment be enough to tone down Trump's rhetoric...??

Martin Liby Troein suggests: 'Trump's speech on Greenland forces new questions – about Swedish nuclear weapons'... He doesn't really want Denmark to give up Greenland, he just doesn't want the Chinese and Russians to dominate the Arctic. Europe, the Nordics... all have to up their defence game...

Reported today, 'Dagens Nyheter', Saturday 18 January 2025... 550 Swedish soldiers arrived in Latvia, heading to Camp Valdemar base, near Ādaži, to become part of the multinational NATO force, with approximately 3,000 soldiers from several countries....

In December 2024, Sweden signed up to the NATO Multinational Brigade in Latvia. In February, troops from the South Skåne Regiment will arrive in Latvia to join the Canada-led NATO Multinational Division North... the first time Sweden has participated in a NATO mission on allied territory...

Donald Trump Jr. visits Greenland as his father says deal for US to buy it 'must happen' Donald Trump, Jr., son of President-elect Donald Trump, emphasized that his visit to Greenland on Tuesday was just a personal one.

Its all about the rare-earth-metals... and the coming northeast / northwest passage... China has an Arctic Policy which embraces Greenland, wanting a ‘Polar Silk Road’, playing a major role in shipping and in mining for these metals... abcnews.go.com/Politics/don...

Regular behaviour of a devout Muslim man really… I saw this regularly when Muslim delegates and visitors came to my workplace… invariably declining the offered hands of female colleagues… bar that, behaviour otherwise gracious…

It isn’t unusual for a Muslim man to decline a handshake with a woman… we watched this regularly when Muslim delegates and visitors came to me workplace, refusing the handshakes of female colleagues… they were, otherwise, gracious but for that…

More Jas-39 Gripen planes for Brazil...!!!

I love leafing through the Swedish books in IKEA... good random reading practice...!

The Peter Lang Group Breaks Their Silence and Re-emerges at the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair - Peter Lang Contact: Marketing@peterlang.com The Peter Lang Group plans its return to the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair after several years restructuring and creating new collaborations. As the world has been in trans...

Peter Lang announced - in 2022 - that they had agreements with various print-on-demand distributors e.g. Amazon (Kindle Print-on-Demand)... I have tried the Amazon service... The paper quality and binding is 'poor' and 'cheap'... The Peter Lang 'product' is very much better...

...not sure that 'frying' folks is the way to go... but hey...!!!😀

The last incident... suspected to involve a Chinese vessel...???

So, here we have it!! Sweden and NATO... Russia might ‘huff and puff’ a bit... there might be increased violations of airspace, cyber activity, hybrid threats, sabotage... etc.. And now we have that...

Swedish foreign policy, 1809-2019: A comprehensive modern history | Dunbar Swedish foreign policy, 1809-2019: A comprehensive modern history, Dunbar, East Lothian, United Kingdom. 25 likes · 2 talking about this. Academic and entirely readable work for all levels describing....

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