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So just saying, if someone wants to be a very idiosyncratic contrarian about the Nuke, Palme's got your back with a position!

Most of the Soc Dem party, including Erlander, were thinking of national defence though, and Palme's position was in the minority, if not a one man cause.

Even he, though used Realpolitik to argue for nuclear weapons in a speech for the soc dem youth league in 1958.

Palme's argument for the bomb was idiosyncratic. He suggested that were small neutral states like Sweden to acquire an independent capacity, they would force the great powers to negotiate disarmament.

In its internationalism and exceptionalism, it is hard to imagine a position more Palmean.

In 1958 the Swedish prime minister Tage Erlander formed a group on nuclear weapons in the SAP, of which Palme became the head. Ultimately the project would fall apart due to immense opposition by prominent figures in the party, esp. Inga Thorsson. By 1963, with the LTBT, the momentum was gone.

One of the least appreciated episodes in Nordic history is the Swedish debate on the nuclear question in the two decades after WW2. In fact, Olof Palme was one of the staunchest supporters of Sweden acquiring its own deterrent in the 50s. A small 🧵

load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society

Great review of Melinda Cooper's Counterrevolution by Nic Johnson

HS-analyysi | Suomi on jumissa Microsoftissa, ja se käy veronmaksajille kalliiksi Suomi on valinnut tien, jossa ei ole talouden eikä turvallisuuden kannalta järkeä. Yhteiskuntamme toimi yhdysvaltalaisen teknologian varassa.

"Suomi" -- aika monta vuotta itsekin tästä puhunut, mm. kun kotiyliopisto "valitsi" microsoftin

Suomi on jumissa Microsoftissa, ja se käy veronmaksajille kalliiksi
www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...

Managing the geopolitics of Europe’s fossil-fuel exit - Nature Energy As Europe gradually phases out its fossil-fuel imports, some producer economies face rising risks. With careful management, the European Union can turn this shift into an opportunity to advance both c...

Far too rarely discussed, what are the politics of a hydrocarbon glut post-transition? On this and more in this great short piece by @thijsvandegraaf.bsky.social

The Strong Will Suffer What They Must Vaclav's Grocer and American Hubris

"self-proclaimed pragmatists who quote “the strong do what they can” imagine this as a stable equilibrium, a description of how power works forever. But the Athenians who deliver that ultimatum to Melos are not wise statesmen..They’re men drunk on their own power, ready to sail into catastrophe."

3) En ole vakuuttunut, että "uusi järjestys" olisi syntymässä. Tai jos on, on sen muoto yhä epäselvä.

Oletuksena puheessa uudesta järjestyksestä on liian helposti se, että jokin "uusi tasapaino" löytyisi. Mikä tämän takaisi?

Järjestyksen kehikko voi kuitenkin olla ihan hedelmällinen (ks. linkki)

2) Kaikki normit, joille valta perustuu, eivät myöskään ole "moraalisia" tuon kirjoittajan käyttämässä mielessä.

Myös esim. kauppasopimukset ja talousrakenteet ovat usein "sääntöpohjaisia" ja perustuvat normeille. Sama kela ei oikein toimi maksujärjestelmille ja vapaakauppa-alueille.

Pari pointtia tästä.

1) Sääntöpohjaisen järjestyksen moraalinen osa on yhä olemassa: esim YK ja kansainväliset tuomioistuimethan ovat tuominneet Israelin kansanmurhan aika yksiselitteisesti.

Tätä ei pidä vähätellä liikaa!

Uusi barbarismi #2 - Carneysta, “sääntöpohjaisesta järjestyksestä” ja sinisilmäisyydestämme Maailmanjärjestystä myllätään nyt uuteen uskoon.

Ajatuksia Carneyn puheesta, Trumpista ja Suomen ulkopoliittisesta keskustelusta

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.

Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

💯 Also, every NATO/🇪🇺 leader rightly speaking out now about the far right authoritarianism coming from 🇺🇸 has 20-25% of his/her electorate at home voting for Trump equivalents in their own far right authoritarian parties. Let's not write entire publics off because of a common domestic threat.

Me when someone asks why I think Trump is doing Greenland and Venezuela

We ran a progressive slate for the Akademikerpension board elections 10 years ago (and won), because we wanted fossil fuel divestment. I don’t think we ever imagined we might one day help trigger a margin call on U.S. Treasuries.

This expresses better and more diplomatically the unease I have felt about the growing dominant rhetoric in the liberal transatlantic sphere around this the last few days (also applies even more to centre and center-right European leaders)

Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.

Let me introduce the concept of weaponising firesales

Vahingonkorvauksia maksamaan tuomitut aktivistit saivat apua lakitoimistolta, joka on perustettu ajamaan luonnon etua Lapin käräjäoikeus tuomitsi Aalistunturin mielenosoittajat suuriin vahingonkorvauksiin. Aktivistien oikeudenkäyntiavustaja Tuuli Talvinko tulkitsee tapauksen esimerkiksi siitä, kuinka pyrkimys tukahdu...

”Se” on saapunut Suomeen.

"”Se” on kansainvälinen ilmiö, jossa yritykset yrittävät tukahduttaa ilmastoaktivismia ylimitoitetuilla vahingonkorvauksilla."

SLAPP-kanne, jonka tavoitteena on tukahduttaa aktivistien toiminta taloudellisen pelotteen avulla.

www.lapinkansa.fi/vahingonkorv...

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Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social

The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think.

“They were openly calling for murder” Mr Gietinger, almost 100 years have passed since the night from 15 to 16 January 1919, during which two leading figures of the German workers' movement, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, were murder...

In this interview from 2019, marking the 100th anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, Klaus Gietinger speaks about the events that lead up to the murders, and who was responsible for them.

Been thinking about this text a lot recently

It is valid to be wary of U.S. intervention anywhere—certainly, the United States does not have a glittering track record, and Trump is only adding to the lowlights of American foreign policy—but to write off what is happening as a U.S. (or Israeli) masterplan does a disservice to the people of Iran, who have been doing everything they can for decades to fight their oppressors. They are not pawns in some geopolitical game. And perhaps an uncomfortable truth for some is that they need our help. In 2009, when millions of Iranians took to the streets to protest a stolen election, they called on then-President Obama for his help. “Ya ba oona, ya ba ma,” they chanted in the streets, a pun on Obama’s name that translated to: “You’re either with them, or you’re with us.” Their calls went unheeded. Whatever happens this time around, all I know is this: The Iranian people deserve to be free, and they will be soon; whether the American left wants to play a meaningful role in their liberation or continue to defame them is their choice to make. But Iranians have long memories.

I wrote for @newrepublic.com about how I'm sick to death of how the left is talking about the protests in Iran as people are being killed in the streets:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...