In a recently released statement, the majority of the Swedish parliament’s defence committee stated that they believe young Swedes who either refuse or fail to show up for national service should no longer be prosecuted.
Emminent historian, Måns Scareme, points out that this sentiment is wholly consistant with Sweden’s position over the past hundred or so years. “Why punish these wily youngsters for laziness or cowardice when their only historic point of reference is Sweden’s ambivalent attitude towards war and global responsibility during WW1 & WW2?”
It’s not know at this late stage as to whether in keeping with Sweden’s desperate face saving post war exercise of taking in inordinate amounts of asylum seekers so as to distract from the shame of so-called nuetrality, will be rekindled.
In anticipation of such a possibility, makers of concrete rabbit hutches, Sjuk-Dag och Fika are rubbing there hands together at the thought of all of the draft dodger’s gardens being turned over to ‘humanitarian hostelries’.
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