SWEDEN SLOWLY SLIDING INTO ANARCHY

There is a daily stream of news from Sweden that tells the story of how the country is falling apart. An example from Dagens Nyheter, the big daily:

This summer about 125 patrol officers are going to have to be sufficient for the county of Norrbotten, one fourth of Sweden.

Norrbotten county is 20,500 square miles. The distance from the southernmost city with 70,000 residents to Kiruna up in the north is 214 miles. With 125 police officers available in total, the county will be patrolled by 25 police officers at any given time.

Imagine having 25 police officers patrolling the entire state of West Virginia. All the cities and towns, all the interstates and highways.

Sweden's police force has been shrinking steadily, and its resources removed by budget cuts, for a good two decades now. Large areas of the countryside lack police coverage altogether. Criminal gangs like the Hells Angels drive the police out of small rural towns and effectively take over. Even in big cities like Gothenburg there is a real turf war going on between the police and organized crime.

The end result of this process is widespread anarchy, which in turn will open the door for an outright totalitarian government to seize power.