Sweden’s Chief-in-Command maintains that Russia might want to take Skåne (Southern Sweden). If so, he should be replaced.
According to the liberal daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet today, the Swedish military Chief-in-Command (in Swedish, ÖB) Micael Bydén considers it necessary to conduct large military exercises in Skåne, the most southern part of Sweden because “Russia might want to take Skåne – in order to control the Baltic Sea” (stated in the headline) and establish a bridgehead on Swedish territory. “If the enemy takes hold here, he can control the movements and passages in and out of the Baltic Sea,” he maintains. I would asses such a statement as coming from a calm hysteric. Unfit for the extremely responsibility-demanding job he