Sweden, After 200 Years, Seems Set To Take Sides, Thanks to the Doughty Finns

‘We need to think new,’ a young Swede tells our man in Stockholm.

AP/J. Scott Applewhite
The Swedish prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, at Washington May 19, 2022. AP/J. Scott Applewhite

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — “We need to think new.” That’s the explanation a young Swede offered the Sun under a darkening Stockholm sky as he reflected on the change that has transpired in this Nordic redoubt of 10 million people in the months since President Putin launched his attack on Ukraine.

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