Do the US authorities have any sway over the Swedes???
You mean something like a pending application for NATO membership?
The Russians are always and forever threatening the Swedes with their Navy, so they are not as popular with the Swedes as the Russian Navy’s cute trained beluga whale that, in true Russian fashion, defected a while back. Knowing Russia, they probably sabotaged themselves by writing “America did it,” in Cyrillic on the pipe.