Why was the pipeline cut, Anders? What is wrong with you, that you can't see what the US is doing to you?

You think it was really Sweden's will, to step into the breech, against your very large bear neighbor, that was provoked to go berserk since 2014, when its folk, naturally long term settled in Ukraine, began to be ethnically cleansed by the Ukrainian government?

Do you have long term Russian sympathising folk, with Russian roots, living in Sweden?

What is to happen to them, will they be ethnically cleansed now also, or will you just quietly usher them back to Russia, before you start exchanging shots? Will they even want to go?

You might have had independence, but you don't now, you are ruled, nay owned, by the US, from this point onwards. They will expect some value for the money they already paid for you.

Ask any American, they will tell you, they drive a very hard bargain, always.