JonFor
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JonFor
@JonFor
Digital Transformation & CyberSecurity Expert
Joined Haziran 2009
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Imagine the following scenario: russia attacks the Baltic countries to connect with Kaliningrad — just as it attacked Ukraine to gain access to Crimea. What will the U.S. do?
Here’s my prediction: nothing. Article 5 will be treated like the Budapest Memorandum. Trump, Rubio, and other MAGA propagandists will claim, “This isn’t our war.”
And if russia swiftly invades the Baltic states (which would be far easier than Ukraine), declares them part of russia, and then threatens the West with nuclear weapons should they respond — what will the West do? Exactly what they did for Ukraine.
The cowardice of the U.S. has emboldened russia. Those who now say “russia would never dare invade” said the same about Ukraine — right before russia did exactly that.
The only way to stop russia now is to help Ukraine and punish russia for its imperial ambitions.
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US companies got that big at the expense of European ones.
Three parts are to blame:
1. Europe didn't protect our startups
2. Europe is too fragmented
3. The American market thus captured our market, because we lacked the scale to develop as fast as them.
George@BehizyTweets
This is an insane perspective. And it's all because Europe deviated from the free-market and entrepreneurial-freedom ideals that made them rich in the first place.
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@FredrikHjelm4 We had a Riksbanken that had a negative interest rate for almost a decade. This created a carry trade heaven and the SEK went down 30%. We lost same amount in comparable asset value, and the low interest rate created asset inflation on real estates. Not a great track record.
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To the ones trying to convince me we should go euro:
i don’t want to move our decision making from sthlm to brussels or wherever the euro bankers sit
our CB and FinMin have done a great job for decades, theirs have not
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Why join same currency & CB as laggards? SE public debt ~34% GDP vs euro area 88.5% GDP outperformed FI (euro mem) since '99 via krona flex Borrow cheaper: 10Y ~2.95% vs euro ~3.49% We're stronger. Keep the krona 🇸🇪
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@BohuslavskaKate Yes agree. Russia and all the Russian psyops is very obvious.
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KALLAS: Russia is trying to get those territories they haven't been able to conquer militarily in 12 years around the negotiation table. It's the Russian playbook of negotiations: they are demanding something that has never been theirs. This is a trap we should not fall into.
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@HugodPeter @BohuslavskaKate Russian psyops-guy fake-question Ukraine. I say Russia has newer been a country. It is a province pf Sweden as it was a Swede that founded Moscovia. Hence no one need to care for Russian borders. Russia should become part of Sweden again and be ruled from Stockholm - right?
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@BohuslavskaKate Since the borders between Ukraine and Russia have never been settled and NATO promised in the declaration from Brussels in 1994 never to expand to disputed territory, we might want to question what NATO is doing in Ukraine and if it's legitimate for Russia to defend against it?
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European armies are living in a fantasy.
We do not have even a fraction of the cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, or interceptors needed to survive a high intensity war or actually deter Russia.
We are entirely exposed and relying on empty stockpiles.
We must wake up
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@salingergregor @RasmusJarlov @_6signxxx A random old statue that not show king leopold but some soldiers and that no one cares about in a random place. And this is your proof? Smells like a Russian psyops to get people in Africa to dislike Belgians.
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@RasmusJarlov @_6signxxx a Congolese woman is portrayed as living off a Belgian Free State flag or King Leopold II on horseback stands on a pillar in midst of Congolese people looking up to him...
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King Leopold of Belgium k!lled more People than Adolf Hitler did. But he's celebrated in Europe cause his victims were Afr!cans.
WELCOME TO BLACK TWlTTER @blacktwiterthrd
Hit me with the harshest reality truth.
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@FredrikHjelm4 4. Schweiz och Nederländerna och Danmark har små öppna ekonomi och har haft likvärdig tillväxt som Sverige. En egen valuta och två €/knuten till €. GDP tillväxt visar inte fördel för egen valuta. Däremot har deras valutor ökat rel SEK. Vi är rel fattigare i tillgångsvärde.
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@FredrikHjelm4 1. SEK ca 16% värdetapp sedan år 2000. Samtliga mindre valutor utom SFr tappar.
2. Calmfors visar att vi skulle haft 7-10% större handel med gemensam valuta
3. Våra (börs)bolag skulle troligtvis vara högre värderade om de har lättare att attrahera investerare från EU
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Why join same currency & CB as laggards?
SE public debt ~34% GDP vs euro area 88.5%
GDP outperformed FI (euro mem) since '99 via krona flex
Borrow cheaper: 10Y ~2.95% vs euro ~3.49%
We're stronger. Keep the krona 🇸🇪
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@usanderek @manadsloner @HALLONSA @Aktielirarn 2 tyska delstater har gått över till nextcloud. Flera svenska myndigheter titter på det. Alla funktioner finns där och du kan använda alla gamla dokument
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@manadsloner @HALLONSA @Aktielirarn En önsketanke men det finns inte realistiska, icke amerikanska, alternativ till Intune mamangement och m365. Mer troligt att EU och Microsoft skapar ren Europeisk hub som inte har transit trafik till USA.
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$Microsoft
Bäst köpläget på 10 år eller sentimentsförändring?
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Should Sweden finally adopt the euro? ft.trib.al/tFhQ4Yr | opinion
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@xwonde6 @stats_feed That was the most stupid thing I have read this year!!!! And I have read many stupid things. Yep, you took the prize!
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@stats_feed Poland's GDP exploded by rejecting mass migration and preserving its culture—meanwhile, Sweden's "enrichment" experiment turned it into Europe's crime capital while its economy stagnated. Culture > open borders.
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GDP in 2000
🇸🇪 Sweden: $263 billion
🇵🇱 Poland: $172 billion
GDP in 2026
🇵🇱 Poland: $1.1 trillion
🇸🇪 Sweden: $711 billion
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@alemannoEU You do understand that many goods are exempt, like pharmaceuticals etc and that wighted it is not 15% but rather 7-9%. It is still an increase of 5%-ish. But it is manageable. Gives enough time to increase defences.
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How on earth is the EU Parliament ratifying von der Leyen’s US-EU surrender deal?
15% tariffs on EU exports against 0% on US imports, plus over €1tn in forced purchases of US oil, LNG & weapons.
With Trump threatening Greenland, targeting Spain, and his own Supreme Court striking down his tariffs, MEPs are about to rubber-stamp a deal that’s manifestly an own goal for europe.
They do so against the public opinion they’re supposed to represent.
This isn’t ratification. It’s capitulation.
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@bv9122 @terjehelland I have a better idea. Europe stop supporting US, abandoning it. The US goes broke, giving currency sovereignty back to Euro nations. Fixed it for you.
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@terjehelland I have a better idea. America leaves NATO, dissolving it. The EU is broken up, giving individual sovereignty back to each nation. Fixed it for you.
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🇭🇺This should be clear: if Viktor Orbán is re-elected, Hungary should, for security reasons, be removed from NATO, Schengen, and the EU.
Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦@jurgen_nauditt
Hungary immediately leaks all EU talks to Moscow. Sijjarto “reported” directly to Lavrov about the EU meetings, - The Washington Post. According to the newspaper, the Hungarian Foreign Minister called Moscow directly during the EU meetings and relayed details of the discussions to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Sources say this communication allowed Russia to stay informed about the internal discussions of the European Union. Sijjarto himself has not commented on the situation. However, he has visited Moscow several times since 2022 and met with the Russian leadership.
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@GewaltesKaiser @Douglasthoor Om det inte är några som jobbar så lite och det är en internationell standard är det inget problem. Att många skriver om det och får det att låta som om det vore ett problem är däremot ett problem. Jag förstår mao inte varför du väljer att ta upp det…
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@JonFor @Douglasthoor Nu är inte min poäng om 0.02% endast jobbar 1h/veckan utan att måttet endast är 1h/veckan. Måttet borde vara 20h/veckan för att anses sysselsatt.
Jag förstår inte riktigt vad du argumenterar för/mot?
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Vad det gäller sysslolösa unga finns nästan inget land som har så få som Sverige!
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@GewaltesKaiser @Douglasthoor 0,02% som jobbar endast 1h/v, dvs det är försumbart och inte ett argument. lindellch.quarto.pub/statistik-och-…
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@JonFor @Douglasthoor Jag har inte påstått något om hur mycket folk arbetar eller inte.
Jag har sagt att man räknas som sysselsatt om man arbetar 1h/vecka, jag kritiserade att det används som referensvärde.
Vad är ett "ologiskt rykte" när det jag sagt är sant?
ekonomifakta.se/sakomraden/arb…
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@GewaltesKaiser @Douglasthoor Som 1000 andra svar på X visat är det nära 0% som har 1h/vecka i sysselsättning eftersom sysselsättning är det vu benämner arbete och studier och en extremt stor majoritet har heltid - men det vet du säkert redan på riktigt och gillar bara att sprida ologiska rykten.
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@Douglasthoor Man anses sysselsatt om man jobbar 1h/vecka. Det mother borde ändras eftersom att det är grovt missvisande.
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@RichardHanania Hmm - there are different way of taxing. In Sweden Social taxes of 36% are deducted from the employer BEFORE Salary to the employee (that are taxed). Hence all info about ones salary is after Social taxes. To compare net salary/employee cost u need to add 36% to the ”salary”.
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Average income of physicians
US: $458,100
Canada: $194,700
Netherlands: $185,700
Sweden: $115,200 nber.org/papers/w34956
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