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I would go in summer, any time really. Late June to mid July is when most Swedes have their summer vacation, so it can get a little crowded (relatively speaking, still manageable in the outer archipelago). Late summer might have the better water temperatures (for mandatory skinny dipping) but the sun is up longer in late June/early July.

Weather is a gamble, it can rain a lot but the sunny days are worth the risk and getting rained on a little (and the rainy days are not a waste either). There usually aren’t a lot of mosquitos in the archipelago, but can vary from year to year. I’d say it’s never even close to the notorious areas in the north of the country.

Stockholm also has an incredible archipelago that’s accessible by boat from the city center. Boat passes cost very little and wild camping (free!) is permitted in most places. Hard to beat value proposition.

Germany has done a lot of good with green energy too, so it’s not all bad

Most campaigning wasn’t along party lines though.

But it’s a curious trend in Sweden, to revisit old referendums to go against the outcome.

one of Europe’s greatest vulnerabilities: its heavy reliance on US [insert noun]

The UK is not in the EEA though

There’s no way Russia could just nibble a little on an EU/Nato country with a full response from Europe, regardless of whether the US backs it up. Whether Europe is in good shape to deal with that is a different story, but I’d say there’s little room to do anything “small” under their own flag.

Yeah, he wouldn’t dare join a direct war against Iran, invade Venezuela or impose massive (even if not as big as he said) tariffs on the world…

The bisexual union

Conceptually, I’m not against the American threat to our way of life being discussed in fewer threads (as opposed to a single megathread). But where you draw the line on what’s “a new and important developement” is hard. Most would draw it far before the US invading Greenland, I.e. the probable triggering of the “find god, quickly” phase of human civilization.

I think you just have to live with a lot of posts being about the unfolding break in the world order for a while. I mean, sure, some posts might have been suitable to merge, but mostly they’re about different developments. The posts are also getting a lot of engagement and generating discussion.

If you’re not European, you may never have learned to make fun of the depravity and abject misery, poverty, alcoholism and bizarre horror drugs that is Russia. This is funny because wehave lately learnes that Americans are just as worthless and we can finally laugh at them in the same way.

It’s not that we don’t have sympathy for drug addicts or people who are down on their luck, it’s that Russians and Americans are garbage to be mocked relentlessly.

I think it’s better to focus on the tail end of their arguments, as opposed to whether it’s technically possible.

European banks and investors are stuffed with Treasuries. If they tumble in value because of a threat of a European boycott, then it would probably end up harming Europe just as much as the US, if not more so. Moreover, a large-scale repatriation of capital would send the dollar tumbling and the euro rocketing, which would alone possibly be enough to send many European countries into a recession.

For example, forcing your bank sector to sell off a bunch of assets that are considered “risk free”, comes with consequences.

Also consider that a majority of European leaders seem to be banking on the whole Trump era to blow over at some point soon. They hope to be able to rely on the US again and don’t really want to do any lasting harm (probably).