There’s a brisk wind from the Baltic on the Southern tip of Sweden. Its subdued roar moans through the structures of our seaside hotel. We’ve arrived here for a bit of R & R.
Sweden, is a geographically large nation but relatively small in terms of population. From our location on the southern tip of the mainland to Kiruna in the north, it’s a distance of 1,845km.
From the nearby town, ferries leave for Swinoujscie in Poland and for the Danish island of Bornholm.
Although it takes just 20 minutes to cross the Sound from Helsingoer to Helsingborg, you drive off the ferry to find yourself in an entirely different country. The language, shops, and landscape change almost immediately.
I’m old enough to recall the time when Sweden once commanded the respect of the entire world. It enjoyed neutrality, even though quietly pro-NATO. It had a prime minister willing to openly criticise the holy cow of United States foreign policy, particularly US-backed coups in South American states, and the then war in South-East Asia.
But that was then, and this is now. Gone are the days when Sweden was an internationally respected humanitarian superpower. It’s been seduced by USAID-funded Russophobia and has adopted a hawkish stance in the Baltic.
Speaking of the Baltic, we have a great south-facing sea view from our room at the ‘Saltsjöbad’ seaside spa. People have been coming here since 1897. It’s a huge place with various spa options and cosy bars and restaurants. I’m rather distracted by the framed photographs on the walls and corridors, mostly black and white images from the 1960s.
Bardot, JFK and other icons of the era stare at you. Together with more recent artsy images of young people enjoying sea and sand, the photos create a retro ambiance. And with the slightly hypnotic and omnipresent modern cafe jazz, there’s a sense of nostalgia for times past.
On the 11th, we noticed many flags flying at half-mast: a sorrowful reminder that Sweden is not the country it once was. A 35-year-old Swede had shot and killed 10 people at an educational institution in the town of Örebro. The police are not speculating about the motive but others have noted that a number of the victims were from Syria and Bosnia.
The days of prime ministers and politicians mingling with the public, without a care for their personal safety, ended decades ago. The brutal murders of Olof Palme and Anna Lindh, seen by some as Palme’s successor, shocked the nation.
The flags at half-mast were part of a nation-wide minute’s silence held on the 11th of February as a mark of respect to those killed in the recent school shooting.
Not far from here, as the seagull flies, is the symbol of Sweden and Northern Europe’s capitulation to trans-Atlantic foreign policy. The undersea ruins of several pipelines, feeding Europe with inexpensive Russian gas, lie on the seabed just over the horizon. The environmental evangelists of erstwhile green parties said very little about one of the biggest man-made releases of greenhouse gases in history. Still, they’re injecting cows with anti-fart chemicals to offset the damage done.
Back in Scotland our elected officials have a golden opportunity to declare neutrality, to distance sovereign Scots from belligerent, Russophobic English foreign policy. But instead of striving to adopt the mantle of international statesmanship, recently discarded by Sweden, our remaining SNP MPs continue to adopt British security state positions. These snivelling toadies are all that’s left of Alex’ glorious 56, elected by a Scottish public expecting them to ensure that the terms of the Vow, and all of Better Together’s promises, were fulfilled.
Unfortunately, Alex’ successor, and most of the 56, betrayed us all. For almost 10 years she deceived and lied to us. Sturgeon carefully body-swerved the virtual independence that 56, then 35 and 48 SNP MPs gave us. She embraced the socially divisive Stonewall agenda, and took part in a conspiracy to destroy Scotland’s independence hero, Alex Salmond.
I’m quite convinced that Nicola Sturgeon will go down in history as Scotland’s most notorious traitor. The moment to seize independence was handed to us on a plate after 2014, with the broken Vow, Smith Commission betrayal, and then Brexit. And yet, Sturgeon and her now discredited husband, managed to steer Scottish society and the SNP government to the edge of oblivion. Whether by accident or design she has been a willing pawn in the British state’s hybrid war on Scotland.
Our nation is European impotence in microcosm. An appalling, ill-informed political class chosen for their obsequiousness rather than any intellectual capacity. Then there’s a media full of paid propagandists, some of them in direct receipt of money from the CIA regime-change vehicle, USAID.
Whether the US is experiencing a long overdue Glasnost or an internecine political war – truth will out. Starting with the JFK files seems appropriate. The coup d’etat that deposed JFK from power left the US in the hands of the thoroughly corrupt Lyndon Johnson, and at the mercy of the deep state. That deep state failed to overthrow Roosevelt in the 1933 ‘Business Plot’, but succeeded 30 years later in Dallas. That event sent the United States down a very dark path, fomenting coup d’etats and carrying out political assassinations. The United States will never be truly free until the windows are thrown open on the deep-state era. It could be the US equivalent of the collapse of communism.
We Scots could do with a bit of Glasnost and perestroika, too. Clearly the apparatus of the British state is using delay and obfuscation to cover its tracks in the plot against Alex Salmond. It feared him in life and its paid stenographers in the media have been tasked with defaming him in death. These people may think they’ll be exonerated in some future ‘truth and reconciliation’ event, post-independence, but I wouldn’t be so sure. The stain of national and personal betrayal will remain with them, forever.
Meanwhile the colonial plunder of our nation’s wealth of resources gathers speed. England is putting in place the infrastructure to loot our energy. Hapless members of the English unionist parties clap on command like performing seals, perhaps too dumb to even understand the extent of their unforgivable national betrayal.
Illegal Freeports and SEZs are established with the only resistance coming from the unpaid heroes at liberation.scot and salvo.scot.
As for our erstwhile nationalist MPs and MSPs, most of them would struggle to find work at a Supermarket check-out or in their local tourist office. They are a monument to failure. They are the re-incarnation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, that was swept aside by real Irish nationalists in December 1918. In a just world, the SNP, the party that has betrayed Scotland’s cause would be swept from power in 2026. It may yet be. The corruption is too deep. Its infiltration by bad actors, terminal.
My own hope is that voters will have the option of a liberation alliance – parties and candidates from a broad group, who will remain focused on Scotland’s historic cause. People who, if they stay the course, will be remembered centuries from now as victors in our final war of independence.
“An’ when the eastern blink grows wide,
An’ dark still smoors the west,
A Baltic brig will tak’ the tide
Wi a lad that canna rest !”
Violet Jacob
peteryoung.dk 