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Sammanfattning: Our paper starts with a reflection on how the classic left and right-wing scale has become less relevant in modern politics. Instead, we argue that completely new divisions in society are being formed. Examples are issues of globalization, immigration and identity. These are questions often associated with the other axis of the political scale - conservative or progressive. To examine this in practice, we conducted a survey on swedish youth politicians - specifically on how they viewed international interventions. The 216 respondents got to position themselves on the political spectrum. We then compared how the results differed across the scale. Our results show that if you divide them by progressive and conversative, their views on real-life interventions such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya will differ wildly on a case by case basis. It is on the other hand not possible to establish a general sentiment on interventions in any of the groups. This varies based on the country and conflict in question - something our inclusion of fictitious examples also supports. This reconnects with the original reflection about new divisions beyond left-wing and right-wing. We consider this an interesting development in modern politics well worth noticing. Specifically because the tendency can be found within groups of future politicians.