12:36 – Johan No.1
Yes, you have some first-hand information about the Palme murder that you will go public with “when the time is right” I got a barely audible message on WhatsApp from you a few weeks ago so I guessed you would share my conclusions.
On topic – it is easy to recoil and say that one “is doing the right’s bidding” but if my children’s graduation party had been stormed by a criminal gang my sense of security and trust would have gone to zero. If me, my wife, and my child had been shot by a criminal gang I would never set foot in Sweden again. And if I had to pay protection money to the local gang I would question the tax liability. It is easy to have opinions when you yourself have not been exposed and it just seems to be getting worse so the likelihood that one will be exposed oneself increases.
13:10 – Johan No.1
This sounds economically violent, has it escalated during the day?
Then I wonder if this was everything or the start of a new sanctions package?
Should be able to sting among large and medium-sized oligarchs I think and a step closer to Pinhata and luxury marina.
https://x.com/maks_nafo_fella/status/1801190030163026070?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
13:21 – Johan No.1
BRICS is perhaps the planet’s most dysfunctional institution 🤣🤣
Yes, that’s what I wrote but also that if they are forced into a currency cooperation, maybe because the West is using economic warfare, they could get a common currency to work.
Basically it must be about being able to buy a product with one currency and if you can do that it works?
That is, if country X that has the product (China) accepts your currency then you get your product.
What China wants is natural resources which many BRICS countries have so then they can do counter-purchases, kind of?
Not an economist…
15:45 – MatsExtrude
Yes, you almost sound like a certain type of troll! 😉
I don’t believe we have been boiled like a frog as DENGAMLE writes, on the contrary. It has gone fast in recent years and that probably makes it feel extra unsafe, we are not used to it.
If someone says they are going to move to the USA, it’s not like everyone will discourage the person from going because they are afraid they will be shot on day one. We are not quite at the USA’s level yet in terms of all crime. Also, so far, significantly more people die in traffic accidents than from violence.
NOTE! I am not saying that nothing needs to be done!
Things are going in the completely wrong direction now, and hopefully it can be turned around.
However, I believe that the fear of encountering something is somewhat exaggerated compared to the actual risk of something happening.
12:08 – Johan No.1
It must be incomprehensibly difficult to be in this war for 2.5 years, many units have been pushed very hard and have been at active fronts almost continuously even though battalions rotate in and out of the contact lines.
These are not six-month tours to Iraq where you have all the extras at the bases between patrols.
The average age is supposed to be 43 years, a very humane decision to mobilize those who have already started families (had their children) in order not to crash the demographics, but that means many family fathers have been away from their families for several years.
The stress on the partners at home is enormous and probably many families have had to flee, had their homes destroyed, and have little money – all things that break a Swedish family and then a constant stress of dying or having your partner die, for 2.5 years.
Then when you get that long-awaited leave, the soldiers are mentally worn out and have been away from their partner and children for a year, and the leave is too short for them to find balance again.
Or you get the letter that your partner has fallen, or they come home as war invalids.
Now, admittedly, the average Ukrainian seems to be quite resilient but it is no small external pressure put on the families which breaks the children down.
It is easy to forget this and there are very good reasons to be resigned about the West’s actions here but it is starting to brighten up little by little.
The Lions
https://x.com/ukrainiansquad/status/1800952570648670513?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
Apparently, the USA has cut off USD to Russia and all IT, which is very good, should be able to cause serious chaos. That it took 2.5 years is probably the worst part but good that it came. Then the exchange rate went down again so so far it hasn’t exploded at all which is unfortunate.
https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1800955998041174466?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
China has sold much of its currency reserves/paper in USD and it is portrayed as if they want to bring down the West but it is more likely that they have economic problems and are burning through their currency reserves.
But…
Saudi Arabia has not renewed the agreement that they would only sell their oil in USD but now accept other currencies. I don’t know if this is a dud because they will renew the agreement soon again or if it is a serious situation.
The USA is not the same, say probably Gaddafi’s relatives who are still alive.
Maybe standing a bit on the fence here, I think it could be important how India chooses to act going forward – so far skipping the dollar has only led to Russia sitting on a huge pile of rupees that they can’t buy anything with except Tata mopeds.
But if China accepts other currencies and oil and other producers do too, it could get lively, or if they manage to agree on their own BRIICS currency.
Much of what we buy is produced in China, right, and much of the raw materials in the other countries that will be part of the currency cooperation.
India will attend the peace conference, so far it looks good.
And BRIICS has to date clearly shown that they have zero loyalty to each other.
But.. if they are forced into a currency cooperation that works, the West will have a new playing field to relate to.
I am now sitting and wondering if October 7 and the EU election are connected, we know today that the terror attack had Russia’s fingerprints on it and in the EU election right-wing parties have made strong gains in the aftermath of antisemitic demonstrations (I don’t write lynch mobs) sweeping through every country and parts of the MENA diaspora have declared war on J.ar – a much-needed boost simply for citizens to seek parties that want to solve migration problems.
Somewhat the same as the refugee crisis in 2015 came very timely for BREXIT where the biggest reason for it all was dissatisfaction with migration (probably Russia hoped for more exits).
I often meet Belgians, Dutch, French, British, Portuguese and some other nationalities at work. Well-traveled and not infrequently they have met someone during their travels whom they married.
At dinners, exactly everyone loudly complains about gang crime, criminal clans, a justice system that has been subjected to activism and an intolerant religion. The Netherlands seems to have it really tough as they are also the center of the drug trade which turns over so much that they can bribe their way into civil society and the justice system.
It was a bit like when I got most upset about the closed nuclear power plants when my electricity bill skyrocketed and I started to take an interest in the subject and realized that they have managed to do exactly the same throughout the EU, shutting down paid-off electricity production in the name of the environment without reasonable alternatives.
This kind of thing is interesting, a criminal gang storms a student party.
https://x.com/polisorten/status/1801095202444029964?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
Or what there was no major national gathering around at all – a family that had the same last name as a gang criminal and there a man, woman and a small child were shot, she was probably pregnant too?
https://x.com/dim127113/status/1800995342520922268?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
Or the prosecutor who leaked information to gang criminals, is unpunished but has ties to a criminal clan.
There was a very tough restructuring of the police in Sweden where old hands simply gave up and they wanted to bring in some new thinking which gave the criminal clans and gangs the chance to get their unpunished candidates into the police’s inner circle. What a jackpot, one must conclude in hindsight.
And this is how it looks all over Europe if you believe those I meet at work – exactly the same!
Much criticism of the search zones and that it would become a police state. That can of course be healthy opposition but what are the alternatives I wonder seriously, that the majority society has criminal clans and gangs to relate to and that the monopoly on violence no longer protects everyone?
This was actually a clever rhetorical question because the monopoly on violence has already surrendered in some suburbs and the majority society in those areas has criminal clans and gangs to relate to but I am lucky enough not to live there.
Can they deduct the protection money to the criminal clan on their taxes?
That no one dares to testify against criminal clans or gang criminals anymore we already know but the prosecutors and courts – are they really completely immune to influence, what we might perceive as activism can also be threats and bribes, right, where ridiculously low sentences are handed out?
It came to a head when a couple in Hallonbergen was going to testify and then the gang got access to the preliminary investigation and they went directly and almost ritual murdered them – that probably discourages future witnesses.
Who lives in the apartment buildings where all the bombs exploded in the entrance?
And Theutenberg on how Sweden was infiltrated during the Cold War, where did all these people who were never identified go, what are they doing today?
https://x.com/theutenberg/status/1800853208262414715?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
We will see if the US strategy of not escalating will work, we in the West have a democratic framework to relate to but Russia uses the whole palette and so does China. IF (if…) they manage to get a common currency working, that would be quite significant. That China and Russia are taking over Africa is quite clear, which should worry the West enormously but it doesn’t after every politician understands that this is a no-go zone if you want to survive politically.
Right now I see a fairly coordinated attack on France coinciding with Macron taking a strong position against Russia.
Houthi has just cut another ship loose and they are left alone.
https://x.com/aviation_intel/status/1800930006929117225?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
I..el seems to seriously consider entering Lebanon so there is a risk of escalation there as well.
Then the pressure will increase even more in the EU between different groups so “someone” is probably pushing Hez…ah quite hard right now if one may guess.
My point with all this, and the detour into Swedish criminal clans, is that the longer this war goes on the worse it will get. Russia_is_at_war_with_the_West and they are currently conducting full asymmetric warfare against us on all levels.
Swedish gangs and criminal clans that have infiltrated the police, judiciary, and municipalities are an excellent infrastructure for foreign powers and now that witnesses have gone completely silent in criminal cases – do you think our politicians are never subjected to influence at all, either advanced bribery schemes or traps, or threats from the gangs?
Everything has to be voted through and if the margin is small one vote can defeat the proposals.
Completely unreasonable you say but that’s how it works in Italy and quite a few countries in the EU.
I have to admit that the S500 on Crimea contradicts the idea that they are evacuating LV.
https://x.com/ukraine_map/status/1800990141630058676?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
This should make Putin give up and go home, Zelensky is now a very popular head of state who has a direct line to 15 other heads of state and they sit and WhatsApp each other.
I have also felt a shift in how the West treats him, in 2023 it was “ungrateful damn Ukrainians” and now on June 6 he was almost the guest of honor and then he got to speak in the German parliament.
https://x.com/maks_nafo_fella/status/1800966618098413909?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
If you have been interested in following the twists during the Cold War you know how messy it was, no one knew who they could trust and closed groups formed that acted against each other where Sweden had a dark blue “deep state” and then to some extent an infiltrated S and departments/authorities. That is what Theutenberg tries to highlight and there are others who have written books on the subject.
Everything came to a head when our head of state was murdered. It was during a turbulent period when it was almost war in our archipelago with Russian submarine intrusions in the autumns. When Ingvar Carlsson took office and was sleeping in Sagerska two short-haired men knocked on the bedroom window and waved.
Don’t be like Jerry Martinger and try to uncover the truth in the Palme murder soup.
I am beginning to feel that we are taking steps in that direction again, actions that reasonably cannot be explained except by not having the West’s best interests in mind in all sorts of matters over the last 10-15 years and that coincides with Russia deciding to restore its reputation.
For me, these things are connected, now the US has tried “defund the police” and it became almost a parody of the whole thing when Chicago’s mayor finally had to hire a private security company to protect himself when the police no longer had resources but it resulted in sharply increased crime throughout the West – when everything was supposed to get better by making the police less tough.
Then everyone stands helpless and wonders why citizens vote for parties that promise to crack down hard on crime.
And those are parties where Russia has bought influence.
They have sat as a puppet master and steered development where they want.
Russia is incredibly good at this, it is a state-prioritized function and apparently 85% of the KGB’s budget went to destabilizing the West precisely because it was so easy.
The world’s largest criminal clan cooperating with criminal clans and organized crime in the West to actively destabilize the West.
During Soviet times the state cooperated with organized crime in the country to keep the majority society in check.
Today the war in Ukraine is really going badly for Putin so it is not unreasonable to assume that Russia has ramped up destabilizing activities throughout the West as compensation.
Do you know when calm spread in the West for a while?
Between 1989 – 2010 roughly…