The Western newspapers and electronic media, just now, are filled with references to the Big Stick policy, meaning that President Reagan is trying to revive Teddy Roosevelt’s way of dealing with tiresome Latinos. But there is nothing in Ronald Reagan’s behavior to compare with the utter contempt with which the Soviet Big Brother has been treating the Swedes.
Point One is that neutral Sweden is politically pretty useful to Moscow. The current, and former, prime minister, Olof Palme, is perhaps (along with the German Social Democrat Egon Bahr) the most useful European politician in Soviet eyes.
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