Editor's note: The article below questions how Swedes, once leaders in some world affairs, are now distancing themselves from the U.S. and otherwise. Distancing themselves from the U.S. these days however is a sign of leadership: It is not good in our opinion to maintain relations with a government that has gone deep into the dark side in its ambitions and activities. Swedes may want to reconsider strengthening relations with the other Scandinavian countries, however. They are part of the same cultural heritage and their similar anti-U.S. stance shows a similarly elevated consciousness and disbelief about the merits of U.S. "world leadership." The only thing the U.S. government is leading the world now in is immorality in the Middle East and its anti-people global economic policies, and because of that the world has to become multipolar.
A mere ten per cent of Swedes consider it important to nurture a long-term relationship with the United States, according to a survey carried out by the Nordic Council. This makes Sweden the most sceptical of the Nordic countries when it comes to transatlantic relations, Dagens Nyheter reports.
Danes place a higher value on cooperation with the US than any of their Nordic neighbours: 44 per cent view the American connection as particularly significant. This can be compared with 36 per cent in Norway, 23 per cent in Iceland, 17 per cent in Finland and, at the bottom of the pile, 10 per cent in Sweden.
"That's scary," Berit Salheim, Managing Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Sweden told The Local. "I wouldn't have expected that at all."
