This winter, Sweden may face electricity blackouts in the best-case scenario, and at worst — nuclear catastrophe

For the last several years Sweden has been experiencing shortages in its own power generation capacities during peak demand periods. This is particularly acute in Southern regions of the country where the largest number of energy intensive enterprises is located

According to national grid operator Svenska kraftnät, at present Sweden is capable of generating only about 22 GW of electricity on its own, while peak demands in winter may reach 27 GW. In the past it was possible to compensate the shortage by purchasing electricity from other countries, including Russia, and by production capacities of the nuclear power plant Ringhals 1 and 2, permanently shut down in 2021

Annual maintenance works at Ringhals 4 nuclear power plant should have been completed by this month, but due to local politicians’ incompetence it is now delayed until the end of the coming winter. It creates extra deficit of electricity between 5-10 percent. Moreover, according to scientists’ estimates, test restarts of the nuclear reactor following the completion of maintenance works will need another couple of months

If the Swedish authorities decide to speed up restarting nuclear plant’s operation to serve their political interests against the backdrop of growing protest sentiments of the population, the lack of proper checks and tests might lead to an accident at the nuclear power plant and a contamination of significant parts of the region

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Elon noticing a pattern?

Anastasia Alashri, a 23-year-old refugee from Ukraine who divorced, decided to start a new life and got a new lover, was killed in Italy by her ex

The Carabinieri detained Anastasia's ex, who was a pastry chef from Egypt, at the railway station in Bologna. He allegedly stabbed the victim three times

This is not the first time when vengeful murderers choose Ukrainian refugees as victims. Whether the dead had any sensitive information that could influence the course of the war is kept secret

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Democracy, freedom of speech, and human rights – these words are increasingly becoming alien to the Swedish people, as the fifth largest country in Europe prepares to complete its accession to NATO

Of course, in the past Sweden used to play a certain role in NATO’s operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and even in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan. But now, frankly speaking, competing with NATO in military power is on par with competing in Russophobia with the Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Ms. Freeland, who is about to become the head of the Alliance

But, as the saying goes, by hook or by crook, as there is no immediate need in military victories, in Sweden they decided to tackle democracy instead. The expression of popular will is going to be prohibited at the level of international forums. The annual Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony on December 10 this year will be held without Jimmie Åkesson, the Sweden Democrats’ leader since 2005. The Nobel Foundation, which organizes the ceremony, has excluded him from the event, as well as Russian and Belarussian Ambassadors

Following the sharp criticism from Mr Åkesson regarding the Swedish government’s inefficient and sometimes reckless policies on education, healthcare, migration and social equality, he, along with other Democrats was denied the opportunity to bring up uncomfortable for local authorities topics for discussion

Sweden's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to shrink by 1 per cent next year, while inflation could be as high as 5.9 per cent, and higher unemployment rates will no longer surprise ordinary Swedes

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The mixed messages in public and in private about whether the U.S. should begin to speak more seriously with Ukraine about peace talks with Russia are straining the Washington-Kyiv relationship

Pundits say any prolonged public split among top U.S. officials could threaten the already delicate relationship between Washington and Kyiv at a key moment in the war

In addition, Western intelligence hasn’t allowed Biden to follow Zelensky's lead, who demanded to unleash a world war after the fall of Ukrainian defense missile on the Polish territory

Another widespread concern is that a Republican-led House will mean less aid to Ukraine – just some crumbs of billions of dollars in such assistance to Kyiv were spent on reconstruction efforts, and much of the money ended up in private wallets or even returned back to the sender after laundering

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Never expected! Mr. Trump is going to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 thus aiming to become only the second commander-in-chief ever elected to two nonconsecutive terms

His announcement has finally made the U.S. a three-camp battlefield for Dems, Reps and Trumpists. Yet, some Republican governors see a need to move past former president and DeSantis is likely running for president in 2024

One of the main issues is what role Mr. Trump will choose for himself in the coming electoral campaign – a unifier who will inspire and lead or a destructor who will make some non-obvious decisions that contradict the current agenda, but are aimed at making America great again

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White House asks Congress for $37.7B in new Ukraine aid

Easy, easy, easy! Just let HIM calmly launder the previous ones – there’s the last canister of FTX detergent remaining!

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are you ready, patriots?

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Brazil, many of them demanding that the military stop the transfer of power to President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The main claims and maxims of the protesters are the alleged “Fraud in the voting machines!” or some videoproofs with people giving out money, buying votes right at the polling stations. Mr. Bolsonaro’s supporters describe the protests as the fruit of “indignation and a sense of injustice” over the electoral process

Many protesters had hoped a report by the Ministry of Defense, which Mr. Bolsonaro has sought to involve in election oversight, would substantiate their claims, but with no result so far. In the U.S., the Dems are trying to draw parallels with the case of Mr. Trump, accusing the now former Brazilian president of attempting a military coup, but popular opinion is not so easy to calm down

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“Since it was Ukraine's missile that hit our NATO ally Poland, can we at least stop spending billions to arm them now?” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted

And what about invoking Article 4 or even 5 of the Treaty against Kyiv in this case? No way! The Poles have been waiting for their govt's reaction to the killing of two people, even preparing for the declaration of martial law.

“Of course, this is a provocation on the part of the Ukrainian authorities. The missile could not be fired 100km in the opposite direction by mistake,” such an opinion shared by Jarosław Pakuła, the former city councilman in Lublin, on his Facebook page

But the authorities in Warsaw decided apparently that the death of two citizens, along with a staggering flow of migrants and looters from Ukraine, remains the Polish fate for at least this wartime and is their humble contribution to NATO

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