Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) appealed on Tuesday to the parties in the Riksdag to avoid division in a serious situation.

His message after the security policy meeting with the Riksdag's party leaders was that everyone needs to contribute to cooling the temperature.

But this hope was quickly dashed.

It is clear that a civil peace between the Riksdag parties is not in sight despite a difficult situation.

New infected brawl

After the meeting with the prime minister, on the contrary, a new infected quarrel broke out immediately between S leader Magdalena Andersson and SD leader Jimmie Åkesson.

The background is that Andersson criticized the prime minister for leaning towards a party like the Sweden Democrats in this crisis-like situation.

A party that, according to Andersson, is unreliable in terms of security policy.

This has caused Jimmie Åkesson to react.

On Tuesday, he went on the counterattack against Andersson and said that the Social Democrats are only trying to hide their own mistakes, for example the collaboration last term with the then political savage Amineh Kakabaveh.

But the domestic political debate also contains other issues.

The Social Democrats have criticized Kristersson for unfortunate choice of words in public crisis management.

SD leader Jimmie Åkesson has also accused Kristersson of disloyalty towards Turkey.

Pressing for Kristersson

This debate is of course pressing for a prime minister who has made the NATO issue perhaps the government's most important issue right now.

A consequence of the Koran burning last weekend has meant that the Swedish NATO process has come to a standstill.

Several important meetings between Sweden and Turkey have been cancelled.

Tuesday's meeting should be interpreted as an attempt to get the Riksdag's opposition parties behind the government's line in crisis management after the Koran burning.

But if Kristersson hoped that the tone would cool down, he was probably disappointed after yesterday.

Tuesday's meeting should also be interpreted as a signal to voters about the seriousness of the situation.

Every government is tested in times of crisis, and the voters' judgment afterwards can play a decisive role in how a government is valued.

Multidimensional crisis

The security policy crisis for Sweden is currently multidimensional.

At the root is the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the uncertainty of how this conflict will develop, i.e. the risk of escalation and what consequences it may have for Sweden and the surrounding area.

The second part concerns the NATO issue, where there is broad support in the Riksdag for NATO membership, but where the membership process has come to a screeching halt after last weekend's Koran burning in Stockholm.

How and when this process can be started again is unclear.

The third component of this crisis, and the one that was the main focus of Tuesday's meeting with the Prime Minister, is about the disinformation campaign of hate and threats that has taken off after the Koran burning.

The situation is described as serious and the Agency for Psychological Defense, MPF, warns, among other things, of the aggressive messages being put forward that Sweden is a legitimate target for terrorist attacks.

Russian state actors are also involved in this extensive disinformation campaign with false claims aimed at damaging Sweden and Finland's NATO process.

One of Russia's most important foreign policy goals regarding Sweden and Finland in particular is to try to keep these countries outside of NATO.