What's the odds on Putin dying by falling from a first storey window?
He'll probably die of 'natural causes'.
With that said the regime is telling the population that 'total war' on Ukraine is the way out of this jam.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1569368457602387969Even if that satisfies her bloodlust it won't bring Russia any closer to its goal of returning Ukraine to the empire.
The Swedish left party is basically Swedish social democracy as it was in the 90's.
The actual current loons in Swedish politics are the greens and the "center party" (anti union people who used to be in the right wing block and are probably further to the right of SD on 90% of the issues, excluding immigration and crime)
And the left party specifically went to the election reducing their idpol sperging by 90% and this time they didn't really speak that much about the "far right" SD - who are idpol sperging, but their actual platform is probably the least right wing of the entire right block.
From what I've seen reported here in the Netherlands the SocDems in Sweden did a 180 turn on migration and especially integration.
The left here too was convinced that was the winning strategy.
It's funny that 10 - 20 years ago the right in Europe always accused the left of bringing in all the migrants as new voters and most of these left wing parties now mostly rely on those votes and lose when they circle back to the importance of the national identity and local culture and things like that. While on the flip side the center-right now depends on these migrants as cheap labour so they don't really do anything to secure borders and limit migration either. At the same time this gives them an excuse to curb welfare and benefits because they say that will make it less attractive for migrants to move here.
The greens are loons across Europe. I don't understand why people vote for them. A few years ago our Green Party won a bunch of local city elections and could set the energy policies.
And to 'transition' to green energy they shut down all sorts of plans for cheap and reliable energy in favor of building incinerators to burn trees.
In Germany the greens ran on an anti-war platform and now their leader as foreign minister says she doesn't care about her voters and that they should simply suck it up, accept their higher bills and the war in Ukraine must continue.
At the same time Germany barely delivers any military support to Ukraine. The US, Poland and UK are doing the heavy lifting since the start.
Oh well hopefully Sweden gets a functioning government that can reduce the crime and lawnesses in some cities.
