A new government booklet sent to every Swedish household urges citizens to prepare for war, natural disasters, and pandemics in the wake of Russia's escalating threats. The booklet outlines practical advice, including emergency supplies and shelter locations, shifting the focus from individual success to national defense.
In Sweden , we’ve been told to prepare for war. But will 21st-century citizens still rally for the common good?For decades, Swedish politics has promoted individual success. Now an official booklet urges us to unite ‘in case of crisis or war’wedes are generally not known to panic or overreact. But many of us are feeling a little shaken after a booklet with a soldier in camouflage holding a machine gun, with a fighter jet tearing through the sky in the background, landed on our door mats recently.
But primarily, it tells the citizens of Sweden to prepare for hard times, effectively saying: don’t ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. “If you take seriously what is written in this booklet, then you have made an act of solidarity for your country,” Carl-Oskar Bohlin, the minister for civil defence who is responsible for the booklet, said
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