100% support for the Third World War resolution from the Riksdag's parties

Published 21 September 2024 at 09.01

EU. On Thursday, the EU Parliament voted through a resolution calling on member states to “immediately” escalate the conflict in Ukraine and, among other things, give Kiev the right to attack targets deep inside Russia with Western long-range weapons. Sweden really stood out in the EU because the support for the resolution was 100 percent among the Swedish members.

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The resolution rules out any kind of negotiations with Russia and instead states that EU member states must support Ukraine militarily “in every conceivable way until Ukraine wins”.

Peace, according to the resolution, must only be established “on Ukraine's conditions”.

In addition, Ukraine should immediately be given the right to attack targets inside Russia with Western long-range weapons, which, according to Russia, would mean the outbreak of the debated third world war.

Ukraine is also to receive the Swedish-German Taurus robot which would enable them to bomb the Russian capital Moscow.

“Calls on member states to immediately lift restrictions against the use of Western weapons systems supplied to Ukraine against legitimate military targets on Russian territory,” the resolution says.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, has warned that such a move would mean Russia declaring war on the US, NATO and the European countries involved, as Ukraine cannot use these weapons on its own without the help of the NATO countries that supplied them.

– If they make that decision, it means nothing less than that the NATO countries, the USA and the European countries get involved directly in the war in Ukraine. It would mean that they participate directly, and it would of course change the core of the conflict significantly, Putin said on Russian state television on Thursday.

He also said:

– It would mean that NATO, the USA and the European countries are at war with Russia.

Germany has already announced before Putin's sharp threat that it will not approve the use of German long-range weapons to attack targets inside Russia, such as the capital Moscow.

When the resolution was adopted by the European Parliament this week, it is true that 71 voted percent of the participating German members for the resolution. But 17 of the total 96 German members did not take part in the vote but abstained.

Otherwise, the vote offered a divided picture in most EU countries. The most negative were the Hungarian members, where only two of the country's 20 members supported the resolution.

In Sweden, however, support for the resolution was one hundred percent. All 21 members were present and all – including the Left Party's two EU parliamentarians Hanna Gedin and Jonas Sjöstedt – voted in favor.

However, it still remains to be seen what the US, which ultimately decides in these kinds of issues, decides himself for. So far, the White House has pushed back on the issue and there is still no approval to help Ukraine attack targets deep inside Russia.