Posted on 06/14/2019 7:33:38 PM PDT by bkopto
The bomb exploded shortly after 9 a.m. Friday in a blast that ripped through two apartment buildings and could be heard for miles. Twenty-five people suffered cuts and bruises and 250 apartments were damaged. A nearby kindergarten was evacuated. Hospitals jumped into disaster mode. Photos from the scene show rows of demolished balconies and shattered windows. It was ”absolutely incredible” that no one was severely injured, a police spokesperson said.
It is the kind of news we usually associate with war zones, but this bombing took place in Linköping, a peaceful university town in southern Sweden. Remarkably, it was not the only explosion in the country that day; another, seemingly unrelated, blast was reported in a parking lot in the city of Gothenburg earlier in the morning. Three explosions have been reported in Malmö since Tuesday morning. As of this writing, no arrests have been made.
Sweden has experienced a sharp rise in explosions in recent years, predominantly related to conflicts between warring criminal gangs. The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police. In response, the government issued a first-ever ”amnesty for explosives” in the fall of 2018, allowing people in possession of such weapons to hand them over to police with immunity. But this didn’t stem the tide: some 50 explosions were reported in the first three months of 2019 alone—an average of more than one every other day and an increase over the same period in 2018, a year that saw a record number of more than three blasts per week. (snip)
According to the prevailing ideology of the Swedish political establishment, this wave of violence, which is baffling to many European neighbours, should not be happening. A longstanding cornerstone of the country’s political conversation dictates that crime must be understood in socio-economic terms, and that welfare provisions are a cure-all against violence and social unrest. Yet Sweden is one of Europe’s most generous welfare states.
They also were complicit in running the German war machine’s wheels, the ball bearings industry in Schweinfurt. We lost a hundred planes in one raid on these Swedish enterprises.
Sweden didn’t have much of an army? Neither did the Poles, but that didn’t stop them from sending horse cavalry against the German supply trains in 1939.
Irony.
Sweden thought they could import a million Muz “refugees” and keep their society intact.
The U.S. has been importing Central Americans for 30+ years and Democrats say we’ll have “socialism like in Sweden.”
Ah yes. Irony.
The ballbearings Germany got from outside their country came from Switzerland (as did watch movement parts,etc - but the US also got them to counter what the Germans had).
Sweden provided some materials but I just don’t have the list in front of me.
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