If you want a strategic alignment, make it *asian*. Get China and Russia on board with a military entente & trade deals in exchange for breaking of US sanctions.
Both of these countries are hugely dependent on trade, and militarily of much lower capabilities than the hype...
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Holy shit. OK Kalmar policy makers will have some really interesting geopolitical debates.
I think, though, that one of the unifying "substrates" for the Kalmar project is our shared humanitarian ideals, our roles as idealistic middle powers, and our social democratic practice
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Very unimpressed with socdem politics (despite sharing your affiliation with it).
It has not held off neoliberal poachers, who have opened the way for fascists almost everywhere.
Worth remembering that the US is the genesis of socdem policy as practiced today. Now look at it.
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Yes, all of what you say is true. And yet socdem motivations are an important substrate that unifies the Kalmar states.
Proposing this as the imperial anthem. Yes, author is not a Kalmarian, but he will receive Order of Merit and honorary citizenship
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The idea is that the socdem policies are table stakes. Most everybody in Kalmar shares them, even our conservatives, libertarians, VC types and captains of industry.
The other piece that unifies is that Kalmarians progressively (i.e. more and more) wake up to the implications
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...of climate crisis/chaos, and decide to act better than we actually are. Mostly this manifests by opening our polity up to massive amounts of refugees, and figuring out how to properly and peaceably settle them.
It also manifests in creating a civilian corps that co-operates
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...with the Kalmarian military when needed in setting up extra-territorial refugee centres. I.e. Kalmar will build and facilitate in situ refugee "cities" in various other countries (assuming climate disaster)
Yes this is a fictional, sci-fi/cli-fi scenario. And yes, in this...
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...fiction, Kalmar works closely with NGOs and hires folks like to manage deployment and consult on engineering and strategic questions
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Developing that fiction into something publishable and fun to read (for more people than just us weirdo political enthusiasts) may well help!
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Oh man that would be a fun project. Just have to read a ton of Stieg Larsson (for the publishable/fun to read aspect), then put together a trip to your part of the world!
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Lots of summer jobs etc. if you want the inside scoop on living here. That's why I'm even in Norway, happy emigree that I am.