11:29 – MatsExtrude
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11:29 – Johan No.1
Ok, while Biden is giving his 1941 speech, Trump posts the video below…
Not very statesmanlike directly, and above all, what he opposes is a better world.
https://x.com/yashar/status/1765952240983183839?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
Then I might think it was a fun new approach and probably it will backfire on him in the future.
12:26 – Johan No.1
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15:21 – Johan No.1
Lancet hit in an Archer that does not explode in a mushroom cloud – what kind of black magic that is, the Russians are probably wondering right now 😀
Absolutely incredible how resilient our weapon systems are, especially compared to the Russians’.
https://bsky.app/profile/johanno1.bsky.social/post/3kn6vkafy422y
15:26 – Johan No.1
Nice to read that the Russian threat in Africa is on the agenda; we’ve discussed that a bit in the thread, and a neat angle that France might retaliate for old grievances that they were kicked out of West Africa thanks to the Russians.
Down here, everyone is pro-Russian right now, and that interacts with a huge Russian influence operation that is very simple. Think QAnon but they run the colonial angle instead, and it’s not exactly hard to make the citizens anti-Western.
Ukraine is the only place where you can get to Russia directly and they can’t hide behind proxies, and Ukraine can reach the country Russia.
Really refreshing to read Grankovitch 😀🛒
06:40 – Johan No.1
UA has drone-struck the factory facility that upgrades the A-50 aircraft.
https://x.com/pstyle0ne1/status/1766333140224672091?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
07:33 – MatsExtrude
Soft big defeat! 85!
07:35 – MatsExtrude
Ah, that wasn’t supposed to be here..
07:59 – MatsExtrude
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10:31 – Johan No.1
The Lions
https://x.com/ukrainiansquad/status/1765816708017651939?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
All of you who have wondered how the Peruvian I work with reacted to the news don’t have to guess anymore – we are going to perish in a nuclear war and then arm ourselves to the point that our children will starve.
At breakfast it sounded like this: “you are still hopeless against nuclear weapons,” JohanNo.1 “oh, are we – Ukraine has shot down the weapon carriers and we have bought Patriot LV so we can probably defend ourselves,” the colleague counters – “the best thing would be not to buy Patriots at all and buy food for the people instead.”
The northern flank is secured with our NATO membership. There have been many speculations about JEF and how this would be resolved with the northern flank and the outcome was the best possible.
Of course, countries can do like Hungary even though they are in NATO but Sweden will live up to its role and we will take our responsibility for the Baltics in solidarity.
We have already heard discussions about the two brigades intended for the Baltics in case the barbarians crawl over the ramparts in the future.
At least I am keeping my fingers crossed that they send off 8 Gripens or so to Ukraine fairly soon – my god how much they are needed 😐
Macron has completely burned his buddy status with Putin and Finland has also burned all the bridges – just keep going.
How do you think Putin felt yesterday?
His predecessors have, through persistent subversive activities over decades, managed to keep Sweden in check and then Putin in his empire dreams has managed to get both Finland and Sweden into NATO – that is bad, says the boss of the northern flank who glances anxiously at the map.
Guess how Putin will feel (if he is still alive) when Kaliningrad gets autonomous and demilitarized status and Belarus its popular revolution, and both have agreements with the EU.
When the Ukrainian sun rises, Russia falls – not Nostradamus but his grandchild Dudayev and Putin can recite these quotes by heart by now.
The Russia apologists strongly feel that Putin was forced into this, nothing is his fault, everything is NATO expansion’s fault.
I saw how Europe opened the doors wide and invited Russia into the drawing rooms and that jackpot they managed to crash totally – you almost have to look for a more self-inflicted fate, pure self-harm behavior.
You can never convert a doubter but if you have followed the blog you know that Ukraine has stockpiled death ahead of its spring offensive and that the critical line is when this death is delivered.
We hear absolutely nothing from them about negotiation peace or other uncertain statements and this should make Putin terrified. He knows very well that he has poked the wrong hornet’s nest and now when EU rhetoric almost starts to become unpleasantly threatening and Macron took up the banner when Scholz stumbled and faceplanted in the mud, he has no out left.
We should follow Zelensky’s peace meeting in Turkey attentively, what is said is important.
It might be China then but they have already asked Iran to sit down and keep quiet so he can forget about that.
When this war ends, the story will be that it could have ended much earlier if the West hadn’t delayed with weapon deliveries but it would always have ended with Russia retreating back to the 1991 borders.
The US embassy in RU warns of terror attacks. It will surely be a mix of Putin-ordered pitch-black terror attacks to accelerate his chance of victory and then the liberation fronts’ and Ukraine’s liberation deeds for a brighter future. The attack on a kindergarten is of course Putin’s.
https://x.com/jayinkyiv/status/1765863537258172660?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
We have discussed this earlier in the thread that the Bulgarians were compelled to open their depots and that they have equipment in enormous quantities, here is probably an indication that that was the case – the thread was right again. 100 BTR-60s were just what was fronted.
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1765706484703256952?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
I want to return to France again and try to get across that this is a hard course change we are seeing. Macron has obviously managed to handle Russian subversive activities and internal opposition in the right way and survived politically.
Now Macron has a security agreement with Moldova which at the same time announces that RU is actively working for a coup in the country.
If we stick to this, Macron is on a direct collision course with Putin on this issue.
https://x.com/jayinkyiv/status/1765731061680537882?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
We already know that Transnistria would be the way in to topple Moldova, then Serbia and Hungary would immediately become Russian allies after Ukraine fell.
France just crashed the whole party and they are alone in this. UK or Germany have not followed.
Daring to take that lead is a sign of health.
The rhetoric from the EU is now also granite-hard, everyone who hasn’t read that resolution should do so immediately because it hurts Putin.
France has thrown down the white glove in front of Russia and I expect more.
Read the text below, quite offensive to say the least, go team Macron 😀
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1766003366944030880?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
China has delivered 1500 golf carts or however many it was and more and more are being knocked out when they are used to bring shooters to attack targets. They are not shrapnel-protected. Asking for a friend – where are the shrapnel-protected vehicles?
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1765625237259812874?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
Something is happening in NK, they are building fences against the border with China and if one may guess it is to prevent citizens from fleeing?
https://x.com/glasnostgone/status/1765845050481688998?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
I think it is very good that the USA is sending troops into G..a to set up a temporary port for aid. For me personally, I..el has lost the goal of the operation and now that it is dragging out in time there is a risk of starvation. We said when it started that urban combat is a monumental task and that I..el would have problems which is what we see.
Now that was not the point but the point is – why can’t the USA do that in Ukraine, no congressional decision was needed for this right but they have COMPLETELY stopped supporting Ukraine since sometime last summer. Biden can send as much as he wants without congressional approval.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1765810082892148874?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
Anyway, I am quite curious about Budanov’s fireworks ahead of the presidential election a little over a week away. When RU fired rockets at the Greek president in Odessa it said they had broken the agreement not to shoot at other countries’ leaders who are visiting.
RU has also not shot at the presidential palace in Kiev and Budanov has not gotten to put his Grom 2 in the Kremlin.
RU has also never hit the infrastructure for transit gas through Ukraine but when RU wants they can cut a café in Kharkiv with a direct hit.
So yes, there are certainly some who deliberately do not shoot after agreements, but I believe that Budanov’s dismantling of the Russian refinery and export capacity must have been one of Putin’s very red lines.
It aligns with proportionate response, and Zelensky was clear that “an eye for an eye” applied, and maybe an escalation ladder.
The rain of missiles is conspicuously absent, isn’t it?
One can only hope that the West does not have many yellow cards left because Navalny has just been brutally murdered, the war is going terribly, the lights are out in the country, and the oil industry is seriously in decline.
If the right buttons are pressed before the presidential election, there is a possibility of popular protests everywhere.
Imagine when protesters in Ingushetia storm the parliament and the governor’s palace and to their surprise discover that not even then do the FSB, OMON, or Rosgvardiya come; they have taken over Ingushetia and look at each other in surprise.
You probably have to look for a better opportunity, but yes, the West’s deliveries of materiel will arrive after election day, so there is a risk here that the West still hasn’t gotten out of its diagnosis and is playing yellow cards with withdrawn support as a threat.
Budanov at least does not lack drones or saboteurs.
I’m also struggling a bit with whether all three Putins need to be hanged at the gas station or if one of them is enough; I’ll have to think more about that, but the liberation fronts have at least confirmed that gasoline is what applies for the marination.