Sweden stole Finland’s crown jewel – Expert: “Finland should hire Swedes to market”

In Helsingborg, you can see how Sweden happily and proudly markets its own total defense model, which was supposed to be Finland’s trump card.

First went the sauna, Santa Claus and Moomins, now Sweden has also “stolen” Finland’s praised overall safety model.

Secretary General of NATO Mark Ruttekin visited Revinge on Thursday before the start of the meeting of the defense ministers of the union to admire the activities of the training and training center of the Swedish Civil Defense.

“It’s really impressive. I saw with my own eyes what Sweden’s overall security concept means,” NATO’s Secretary General beamed.

Rutte described how professional soldiers and civilians train together to provide search and rescue operations, first aid, transport of wounded civilians and drone detection.

“We also saw close cooperation between the authorities, rescue services, armed forces and the private sector – it was and is very impressive, and this is exactly what resilience looks like in my opinion, NATO’s Secretary General said.

Sweden also has its own minister responsible for civil defense, who has been to NATO headquarters to tell the good news of the Swedish civil defense, because preparedness and civil defense are seen in Sweden as a very important issue in the world of the future.

At the same time, the city of Helsingborg is marketing to international journalists participating in the NATO meeting a city that is praised as being at the forefront of preparedness and crisis preparedness in Europe. In addition to speeches praising the Swedish model and company meetings, the journalists were given a book with handsome pictures, which presents how companies and the public sector work together in crisis or war situations, when there is no clean water, the air is polluted, or food shortages threaten.

I first thought about the Hakaniemi civilian shelter, which is considered the crown jewel of Finland’s overall security, or at least numerous international dignitaries have been taken there to marvel at the bomb shelter dug under the market.

Finland’s praised model of overall security rots in the eyes like mortar on the walls of the Hakaniemi shelter, when I even think about the Uusimaa drone alarm fiasco. Finland’s meddling in warning civilians does not at least increase our supposed reputation as a model country for total security.

On Thursday in Helsingborg, I had a conversation with an expert well-versed in the overall defense model of Sweden and Finland, who said bluntly that “Sweden has a great overall security model”. Instead, according to him, Finland’s problem is that Finland does not know how to market its own model.

“Finland should hire Swedes for marketing,” the expert said, and he wouldn’t be wrong.