Sweden is launching its own MI6

As russia prepared to invade Ukraine in 2022, American and British intelligence agencies sounded the alarm. Yet some of their European counterparts were unconvinced. Among the sceptics was Sweden’s military-intelligence service, known as must, which had long prided itself on its expert knowledge of Russia’s armed forces. Along with spy chiefs in France and Germany, must’s bosses judged that launching a full-scale war was too risky and irrational for Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, to countenance.In May the government announced the creation of a new spy agency, the Utrike underrattelsetjanst (und), or Foreign Intelligence Service. (UNSPLASH)Now Sweden wants to make sure it never repeats that embarrassing blunder. In May the government announced the creation of a new spy agency, the Utri