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Swedish Foreign Minster "suddenly and shockingly" resigned today according to Eurofreak and American media today. To the westoid reader, of course it's weird that the foreign minister of the newest NATO member suddenly resigns without any deeper context. But to us news enjoyers, it's very interesting that he resigns just one day after the deadly Poltava strike by the Russians, where Swedish personnel were hanging out according to reports and there was also a Facebook post by some Swedish ghoul that was mourning a dead friend in Ukraine. It wouldn't be the first time Swedes eat shit in Poltava, history is basically a circle. Media are talking about staff disagreements or whatever, but I'm noooooooticing something very fishy here. The true story about the scope of NATO's involvement in Ukraine will be fascinating when it slowly bubbles up in a few years after they throw the corpse of Ukraine to the wolves.
- Mass resignations in Ukraine's government today as well, all across the ministries. Biggest name to resign was Kuleba (it's Kulebover)
- fucking Sweden, Nordic model shitheads with imperial phantom limb syndrome
- The Swedish connection is interesting because Ukraine has recently received some mini AWACS aircraft from Sweden, with the intention of bolstering the Ukrainian air force's capabilities along with the 80 planned F-16 fighter jets (only a handful have been delivered so far). The Swedish advisors were likely there at the Ukrainian Electronic Warfare school to instruct the Ukrainian military on how to operate these fancy "eyes in the sky". It's also interesting because Ukraine has tried to obtain Gripen fighter jets from Sweden in the past (a jet whose capabilities are much better suited towards fighting against Russia than the F-16) and got really close to a deal before it was called off.
  
  No, no, NATO isn't at war with Russia. It's definitely not calling most of the shots while using Ukrainian boys as expendable cannon fodder to be slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands to achieve NATO's goal of opening up russia to western capitalists and stealing all of ukraine's farmland ahead of global food disruption caused by western carbon burning!
- But wouldn’t that be like defense minister? Just as likely some age of consent type deal
- It is a plausible hypothesis. If the purge of the Swedish foreign minister is connected to the Poltava strike it could mean that:
  They fucked up security and has been blamed for Russia finding out when and where to strike, and
  You don't just purge a top minister without having a good reason. The strike could have hurt the Swedish state more than they're letting on. Either some really bad intelligence fuckup happened or the dead Swedes might have been hard to replace military specialists whose absence is significant for the Swedish military.

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