“The future battlefield” said Swedish Defence Minister Pål Jonsson in an interview in Svenska Dagbladet on 2 August last year – as if it were already on the calendar. The Government-sponsored People and Defence meeting in January was full of even more alarmist statements. Of course, Russia was in the firing line.
But no-one can believe that Russia, which has such problems with Ukraine – a quarter of its size – would voluntarily go to war with the whole of Western Europe plus the US, together eight times its size? There must be something else behind all the war mongering.
Six suggestions:
Activists for Peace 