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DENMARK: The Danes have also largely adopted the "American Way of Life" with the entire "buy and throw away consumer culture." With today's geopolitical shift, a European political project should be formulated.

POLICY: SV once stood for a third position in the Cold War: Weapons were not the way to peace, and security should also be sought for the opposing party.

SV:MODERN TIMES publishes here an open letter to the SV leadership. Why is the previous work program's claim that NATO is not primarily a defense alliance being deleted? And why should SV no longer believe that NATO is "a tool for promoting Western economic and foreign policy interests"?

RUSSIA: Jan-E. Askerøi has visited Ukraine and seen what consequences a boycott of Russia has had on Ukrainian industry.

VIOLENCE: Is man fundamentally violent? History does not show exactly that. We have several examples of large societies in prehistory showing few traces of war and authoritarian rule. For example, the Stone Age can be essential for anyone who wants to say something about human evolution and nature.

THE LAW OF THE PEOPLE: Russia's formal justification for carrying out its "special operation" against Ukraine is an exact mirror image of NATO's justification for bombing Yugoslavia in 1999 – despite established international law.

BORN: Although Rødt and SV claim that they support Palestine, with the new attitude to NATO they support the maintenance of Israel's 'security'.

TURKEY: Last autumn, MODERN TIMES met two intellectuals in Istanbul regarding today's Turkey – and attended a major conference there on political economy. We look here at the use of force, at freedom of expression, the media, militarization and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's political pragmatism.

WAR: The fear of a third world war is becoming palpable. Last year, 59 armed conflicts were registered in the world, the highest number since the end of the previous world war. Can one today compare states at war with teenagers who have not yet developed the ability to think about consequences? Today, the possibility of nuclear war is undoubtedly present – with Norway linked to a nuclear-weapon dependent NATO.

MILITARISERING: Extraction of minerals on the seabed will increase the war room, according to the Norwegian company Seabed Solution. As the company writes: "NATO is our most important guarantor of future freedom." In order to strengthen NATO's access to key metals and rare earths that are used for weapons and weapons technology, the argument here is that Norway's most important contribution to the military alliance is to establish offshore mining.

BORN: Instead of showing magnanimity to an adversary that no longer wanted to be an enemy, the US continued to exclude Russia and rejected any idea of ​​a common European security architecture.

HEGEMONY: Will the genocide continue until the Palestinians are exterminated or forced into Egypt – or indeed until America's global hegemony is defeated? No true friend of Palestine should therefore support this hegemony's arms deliveries to Ukraine.

NATO/USA: Often the media is flooded with statements from 'experts' from think tanks – which are directly sponsored by the military industry – demanding more weapons for Ukraine, but without disclosing the conflict of interest they face due to the funding of the arms industry. And a whopping 85 percent of all interviews, statements and other references to think tanks are industry-sponsored. NATO is not just a military collaboration, but also with its network of sub-organizations spun into not least American business interests, on which both current and future members are sought to be made dependent.

GERMANY: How 'war-ready' should a country be? With a number of top positions in international politics, crisis management and security, security expert Carlo Masala is regarded as an undeniable authority in the field.

WAR: Is man fundamentally violent? History does not show exactly that. We have several examples of large societies in prehistory showing few traces of war and authoritarian rule.

ESSAY: Russia's war and the scare campaign that it will be extended to other countries turns out to be just a cover for a policy that, in the long term, intends to tie Sweden more strongly to the US's military geostrategy – primarily through NATO. We take a closer look at one of the people primarily responsible for this development – ​​Defense Minister Pål Jonson.