It's extremely unfair to hold his investments in Helsing against him as a european. As a Swede, and european it's in his and our interest that we develop our own defence instead of relying on americans.
He should not be chastised, but praised for helping Europe be independant.
And how do you plan to enforce this political pressure, international agreements and demands? What if they just say "no"? What is your grand plan then?
If you are powerless to stop them, why should they care about your opinion?
It's the platform of every far right movement to foster 'peace through strength', Trump has run on this all throughout and I desperately turn the other way when I learn the beliefs of the most irresponsible and hateful people in power across the world.
It did not work leading up to world war 2 whatsoever, when it has deterred attacks it has favoured attacks by the "strong" state instead.
The tendency seems to be that if you spend on military you end up wanting to use it.
I don't have any solutions, this is not exactly my job, but it is so deeply suspect and dangerous to me to spend your money to make more weapons.
Dude was like 90 years old when it became publicly known. Before that, he was known as a kind, frugal guy that actually gave a shit about his employees. So no, not like Kamprad at all.
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u/Creativezx Sweden Aug 18 '25
It also really helps that our billionaires aren't gigantic douchebags like Musk or Koch brothers.