denmark has the highest level of private debt in the world and a bigger per capita carbon footprint than the US.

its income inequality has doubled over the past few years and high costs of living in the cities have dumped the poor, elderly, and immigrants into rural jutland https://twitter.com/pseudocia/status/1297603667474997248
in norway, the xenophobic radical anti-islamist party breivik supported won 16.3% of the vote and entered coalition government.

the country's reliance on oil revenues is causing Dutch disease, all as norwegians hold the world's largest sovereign wealth fund built on oil
finland has the highest murder rate of developed european countries, and the nordic countries' highest suicide rate. alcoholism is an endemic and ongoing public health crisis. its much-touted educational system had finnish students burning porvoo cathedral and shooting up schools
sweden is one of the world's largest arms exporters and has a higher youth unemployment rate than the EU average. it continued a program of non-consensual eugenic sterilization up until 1975, and its right wing party is the third largest in the country
and this all ignores the fact that nordic social democracy is built on the joint pillars of exploitation of the global south, ruthless realpolitik, and stauch traditions of xenophobic isolationism
BIG LIST OF SOURCES:
Danish ecological footprint: http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_2012_summary_booklet_final.pdf
Norwegian sovereign wealth fund: https://www.swfinstitute.org/profile/598cdaa60124e9fd2d05b9af
Finnish suicide rates: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finland_sees_more_suicides_than_eu_average/10559106
Alcoholism as a cause of death in Finland: http://www.stat.fi/til/ksyyt/2010/ksyyt_2010_2011-12-16_kuv_001_en.html
Finland sees more suicides than EU average

After decades of declining numbers of self-inflicted deaths, Finland's suicide rate increased for the second year in a row last year.

http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_2012_summary_booklet_final.pdf
Forced sterilization in Sweden: https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/06/stephenbates
Racism in Sweden:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/18/racism-becoming-the-norm-sweden
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/14/sweden-far-right-wartime-past
Sweden pays for grim past

After years of denial, Sweden began moves yesterday to compensate thousands of citizens sterilised in a grim social experiment in eugenics which lasted more than 40 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/06/stephenbates
Swedish arms exports: https://www.thelocal.se/20180226/swedish-arms-exports-topped-11-billion-kronor-last-year
Norway intensifying oil drilling operations:
https://fortune.com/2019/10/18/norway-drilling-climate-oil-and-gas/
Swedish arms exports topped 11 billion kronor last year

Swedish military exports rose by 2 percent last year, inflated by the sale of fighter jets to Brazil. But critics say the most worrying trend is that Sweden continues to sell to non-democratic states.

https://www.thelocal.se/20180226/swedish-arms-exports-topped-11-billion-kronor-last-year
a very good addendum: https://twitter.com/no_slave_coasts/status/1298287131878662144?s=20
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