I post, as known, on johanno1.se and there is an excellent comment field in Swedish and English directly translated by magic.
Then on Substack where first a Swedish post circulates and then an English version a little later in the day.
Today it will be Omfall C – probably the most likely outcome if the West can just make up its mind at some point.
“Igor I want to watch Lethal Weapon 1 on Rossiya, can you change it,” “absolutely Mr. Putin but it’s not possible, it’s just Swan Lake in black and white.”
A sense of unreality sets in and a now sweaty Putin who pulls an old KGB trick – WhatsApps all his silovik buddies “surely you also see Lethal Weapon 1, how great is it, right?”
When he hasn’t received a response for over half an hour even though it’s only eight o’clock, he starts to get seriously worried.
Long glances towards the security guards who he feels have been absent-minded and on their phones a lot, which they are not supposed to have – must bring it up with the security chief tomorrow morning he thinks and makes a mental note of what he learned in KGB school.
For all of us who have social media, it’s a streamlined jump from Moscow to Dubai in small private jets, a sign that the power struggle has begun.
It didn’t start with all the oligarchs and siloviks tossing their gold and bundles of dollars into their Gulfstreams with one hand and shouting “To Dubai” with their breath in their throats and trophy wives with mink coats in a tight grip around their necks in the other.
It started in Ukraine when the army had had enough.
In 2023 there was an attempt at a shuffle within the elite and to this day we still don’t know how many were purged and which ones Putin “forgave,” meaning he didn’t shoot them in the kneecaps because he needed them.
Yes, Ukraine had a hand in this as everything was perfectly timed, but the FSB chose Putin and someone leaked the plan.
During 2024-2025 desertions became epidemic and the army’s morale worsened, offensive operations ran out of gas by late 2025.
Since Ukraine was finally allowed full asymmetrical warfare, the big mess spread over Russia, the one that should have come in 2024 or early 2025 but was prevented by the West.
Then in October, the “operation turn off the lights” was restarted and this time they really pulled down the curtain on Russia, not the constant start-stop they were forced into earlier in the war whenever Putin complained to the USA and Europe.
After the rasputitsa and a stunning pre-emptive strike on Crimea, Ukraine began its invasion of the peninsula – the Kerch Bridge was completely cut with a few Flamingos, they landed at the pier down to Crimea and went on the defensive, conducting raids with all 300 amphibious craft along the coast from Kinburn Spit and down around Crimea.
As soon as the Black Sea Fleet stuck its nose out, they died in a cloud of drones and naval drones.
The loss of Crimea was too much for Putin’s silovik pals – someone had to take the blame and it had to be Putin before the army spontaneously revolted and hung us on the lampposts.
After months of negotiations, they convinced the FSB and on that fateful day when Putin wanted to watch Lethal Weapon 1, the plan was activated.
So they hung Putin upside down in a gas station after marinating him in diesel and lit him on fire – “now the masses’ bloodthirst will surely be quenched,” they said to each other.
Those on the Learjets to Dubai were Putin’s confidants who knew they would first get a severe wedgie and then be thrown out of a window due to the power shift.
However, the siloviks completely misjudged the army’s discontent with the situation, and the army misunderstood the elite’s attempt at a power shuffle, interpreting it as a starting gun for a popular people’s revolution – they simply smelled the morning air.
Army corps left their front sectors in Ukraine, ran over the barrier battalions, and headed towards Moscow to “liberate the country from the oppressors in a real people’s revolution with a lot of mäsk.”
The siloviks really hated Lenin now but realized they were the next layer of the onion to be peeled off and would be shot against a sauna wall, so they boarded their planes to Dubai – we saw it as wave two of the Learjets where the siloviks half-jogged on board the planes with trophy wives in a tight neck grip and some bundles of dollars tucked into their waistbands.
The Lion from Damascus, Yanukovitch, Steven Seagal, and Rickard Olsson all shared a plane to Bahrain – they were shot down already over a suburb of Moscow.
The FSB, who had prepared to counter a palace coup, were completely caught off guard, and after the revolution, it would emerge that Ukraine, having caught wind of everything, had started working on army chiefs quite early with tips about the revolution.
A civil war naturally broke out in western Russia when war veterans in entire intact army corps completely overran the FSB and GRU units who had only learned to shoot fleeing own soldiers in the back. Here they faced them in tanks, which didn’t work at all.
Wave three of the Learjets to the promised land were all from the FSB, GRU, SVR, and others who landed all over the Middle East and Asia where they had negotiated positions in the countries’ security services and torture centers.
At some point, the army stood there somewhat surprisingly and realized they had crossed the moat and taken the castle.
After the customary looting and mäsk drinking, calm settled.
Even before the great FSB war broke out, about a dozen sub-republics had declared independence and stormed their provincial governments and security forces headquarters.
The six provinces closest to Ukraine all declared themselves fully autonomous and solemnly declared that they wanted to start a bright era of trade, exchange, and joy with Ukraine starting tomorrow.
Kaliningrad immediately approached the EU and offered full demilitarization in exchange for an agreement with the EU as an autonomous province – they argued that there was no functioning government body in Russia to negotiate with, even though it was obvious that they seized the opportunity in the chaos.
Lukashenko was actually quicker to board his plane than the Russian siloviks when he helped load the gold bars and bundles of dollars on board together with his sons.
Belarus fell overnight and immediately submitted a pre-filled application to the EU with von der Leyen’s email in the margin as she had filled out the document for them.
Approximately a day later, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands began pushing in the EU to normalize relations with Russia immediately for peace in our time.
The Nordic countries had enough and started a counter-movement in the EU where they managed to get country after country on board with a total visa ban and full financing of “the great shiny wall of peace,” which in reality consisted of deep minefields with troops and vehicle mines, fortifications, and a completely closed border with Russia stretching from the Arctic Ocean, through Finland, the Baltics, Belarus, and all the way to Ukraine’s easternmost border with Russia.
We included in the motion that the six oblasts Ukraine wanted to deal with were not covered by the visa ban, but that Ukraine was responsible for border control.
None of those involved, from Igor who couldn’t turn on Lethal Weapon because it was just Swan Lake all the way to Von Der Leyen who falsified an application to the EU for Belarus but forgot to remove her email, yet understood the implications of what had happened.
The country of Russia, which had been a constant virus and parasite on the side of Europe since the Viking Age, had died, and it was the beginning of hundreds of bright and peaceful years – future researchers called it “Europe went from dark to light without even realizing it themselves.”
It was never pronounced out loud, but Europe had unanimously agreed that Ukraine had a mandate for all eternity to trim down Russian leadership when necessary through a Mossad-style organization called “The Peace Corps for Peace in Our Time and Integrity.”
Churchill had a very famous statement where he said that “a living Russia is a dead Europe,” he later clarified that he did not mean to kill every Russian when the UN brought him to court, but rather it was more figurative.
Peace settled over Europe.
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Russian losses in the war in Ukraine 2025-09-17:
SLAVA UKRAINI
It was a long time ago since we were >1000 KWIA?
😂 Best in a long time! 👍👍👍
We are keeping our fingers crossed for “Omfall C”!
We are really keeping our fingers crossed for Omfall C 😀👍
Russia launched a massive drone strike last night targeting substations powering Ukraine’s railway network, Deputy PM Oleksiy Kuleba said. Over 20 passenger trains were on routes during the attack, none hit. Still, 26 trains are delayed over an hour as Russia seeks to disrupt transport.
You know that Sweden is part of the Nordic countries?
“The Nordics had enough and started a counter-movement in the EU…”
Most of the rest sounds reasonable, but that Sweden would oppose the peacekeepers when they have the chance, I am very doubtful about.
Admittedly, we have toughened up a bit with NATO, initiated rearmament, and especially when it comes to weapon deliveries to Ukraine, but I suspect you are right.
It will probably not only be the peace doves but surely also many others who want to normalize the relations.
Perkele Sweden! Come now! Let’s attack Russia….
I have found the solution to the locks.
Strawberry takes a thousand bucks for a murder and they are not overly many.
Considering whether I should need to delete that comment, maybe it crosses the line of what is legal?
Then I realized it’s your site, it’s obvious from the name. I’m just helping out with some development and not taking any responsibility for the content! 😂
Let’s see how it goes for Axelsson…
“Today, Flashback’s CEO and founder Jan Axelsson is facing court, reports P4 Stockholm. The court will determine whether the site has removed offensive and criminal posts quickly enough.
Axelsson is charged with violating the law on responsibility for electronic bulletin boards. The focus is on twelve posts written in 2022 and 2023. The posts contained calls to violence and insults such as “goat fucker” and “plague carrier.” The prosecutor claims that Axelsson has been grossly negligent and failed to remove the posts.”
https://omni.se/flashbacks-vd-infor-ratta-for-krankande-inlagg/a/zAaqMw
Exciting insight C, with a rapid development.
“The loss of Crimea became too much for Putin’s silovik pals – someone has to take the blame and it has to be Putin before the army commits a spontaneous revolution and hangs us on lampposts.”
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“Army corps left their front sections in Ukraine, ran over the barrier battalions, and headed towards Moscow.”
A loss of Crimea, I believe, can individually change the battlefield for the other front sections. Partly logistics, which to some extent goes through Crimea, right? Then the Russians in Donetsk are exposed from the southeast. Ukraine can roll up the coastline towards Mariupol and at the same time further cut off Russian logistics from the east to the Donetsk fronts.
But certainly a blow to prestige that would deflate many generals on the fronts.
Speaking of Russia in chaos. China is likely to act. Something that in the USA has been perceived as a threat even before Russia invaded Ukraine. Now it’s an open goal for the Chinese army to take control of the easternmost parts of Russia as a start. What will the USA do?
aha, the old battle plan 👍
Ukraine would secure Crimea and then drive their brigades NE straight into the soft parts of the Donbass.
Satire at its best. I appoint Johan no 1 as the undisputed heir of Olof von Dalin. By the way, he was ennobled.
Johan No.1 is the king, he can just knight himself!
Maybe the website should change its name to Argus? 🤔
Good suggestion.
I’ve damn well tried to become a knight for ten years, no one listens to me 😐
Maybe if 5 million Swedes demand it, we’ll get there 👍
“Overnight Russia launched 172 drones, mostly Shaheds, along with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and an S-300 from Kursk and Rostov regions. Ukrainian air defense downed or suppressed 136 drones. Strikes hit 13 locations with missiles and 36 drones.”
Falling total with more falling fronts except for the most active ones recently, with a peak in Siversk and stable pressure in the triad Toretsk-Pokrovsk-Novopablivka.
👍
DeepStateMap, unfortunately doesn’t look good at Kupiansk.
Ukraine must do something soon to cut off the Russians.
The enemy advanced in Kupyansk, near Holubivka and Novoivanivka.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 The EU is rushing to spend billions on setting up a “drone wall” with technology that has been battle-tested in Ukraine, – FT Hours after Nato jets shot down drones that entered Poland’s airspace, Ursula von der Leyen said Europe had to “build a drone wall” on its eastern border.”
Ok – so UA technology and improvements, but they should not be included in that?
Off-Topic, Trump, the bully
“Donald Trump clashed with Australian ABC’s reporter John Lyons when asked about his finances. It was the question of whether it is appropriate for an American president to conduct so much business that pushed things over the edge. Trump asked where Lyons works and accused the reporter of “hurting Australia very much”.
The president also threatened to bring up the reporter in the upcoming talks with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
– I’m going to tell him about you. You have created a very bad atmosphere, he says.
When Lyons tried to ask his follow-up questions, Trump told him to be quiet.”
https://omni.se/har-ryker-trump-ihop-med-reporter-fran-australien/a/almVkE
Trump Approval Ratings 2025-09-15
In the three most recent polls, he has slowly been improving, but this time he dropped significantly by 2.6% and is now down to -17%. The lowest so far and 3% worse than at the same time in his previous term as president.
Fox News has finally updated I discovered a bit late.
The latest one is from Sept 5-8. It’s the same time as the previous measurement in the one from The Economist above, when Trump was at -13%.
46% Approve and 54% Disapprove gives -8%, exactly the same as in Fox’s previous measurement in July.
(A difference of 5% compared to The Economist).
Since Fox’s previous measurement in July, there has been no change overall.
Which is a bit strange since the independents have dropped quite a bit. But apparently, the Democrats have unexpectedly become a bit more satisfied (+1%). The conclusion is that there are not so many independents included in the survey, otherwise their decline would probably have had a greater impact. They have gone from 37% Approve and 63% Disapprove to 31% and 69% respectively.
It’s actually quite fair that they don’t have a greater impact because most people belong after all to either the Republicans or the Democrats.
When too many people get angry, they take to the streets, but it must reach a critical mass.
Similar to the UK now.
Fun writing by Johan today about Putin’s sweating behind his phone wall. Who’s calling? Or who hasn’t called? Why isn’t X calling? It’s like in the mafia in Sicily. It’s about who isn’t calling. Telephone silence is ominous. If the phone goes completely silent, you are excommunicated and don’t have much time left to live.
It’s quiet now on his WhatsApp, deadly silence 😀
Good that it was liked 👍👍
“❗️🇺🇦Himars strike at a concentration of 🇷🇺Russian assault motorcyclists”
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3lyzhntdh222p
“🇱🇹 On the border with Russia, Lithuania’s Defense Ministry has opened the first of nine schools across the country where children aged 10 and older and adults will learn to fly, assemble and program FPV and other drones, — Reuters.”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lyzhi7iyhk2g
Wondering how reliable they are after 85 years?
“Ukrainian reconnaissance unit “Tur” of the 225th Assault Regiment claims to have found detonators at a Russian ammo depot, marked with Nazi swastikas. They date back to Soviet-Nazi cooperation of 1939–40, when the USSR imported German military tech.”
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lyzhgy6a6s2x
“❗️A 🇺🇦Ukrainian fighter jet using a precision-guided bomb destroys 🇷🇺Russian positions in Shevchenko on the Pokrovsk front.”
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3lyzh7n6ie22p
“The situation with gasoline in the LPR & DPR is terrible. Prices have been jacked up 2-3 times” People complain that the fuel crisis in the occupied territories of the Luhansk & Donetsk regions has reached a critical point: prices have soared, at some gas stations, gasoline is available only with coupon” https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3lyzh575vq22q
Maybe ChatGPT will be right when it comes to how the war in Ukraine will end.
🌊 ⚡ Ukrainian forces have disabled and flooded a massive underground pipeline that Russian troops were using to move supplies and personnel near Kupiansk.
#Kupiansk
https://united24media.com/latest-news/underground-pipeline-near-kupiansk-turned-russian-lifeline-until-ukrainian-forces-flooded-it-11714
AI doesn’t really shine when it comes to analyzing longer texts and more complex reasoning and questions.
Especially in subjects where not much has already been written, so it doesn’t have much data to rely on.
The latest version of LLM has training data from September 30, 2024.
ChatGPT doesn’t really reason in the usual sense, but rather tries to find the most likely answer based on the data it has access to. It does work surprisingly well with simpler amounts of information and limited concrete questions. However, when there is too much information and loosely defined questions, it easily gets lost. It’s like it can’t hold the entire text in memory and understand it as a whole.
Sometimes it also struggles to separate things, so the answer to the latest question can suddenly be partially based on something discussed earlier in the same thread.
Danmark låter sig inte avskräckas av Rysslands hot.
⚡️ Denmark just fast-tracked a Ukrainian missile fuel factory near its F-35 base, clearing 20+ laws to let Fire Point start production immediately.
https://united24media.com/latest-news/denmark-clears-legal-path-for-ukraines-critical-missile-fuel-factory-on-its-territory-11659
Well done, Denmark!
Probably would never happen here in Sweden in peacetime.
It works if you want to – take notes on all governments in Sweden ever since the million program
By the way, it is true that it lacks self-criticism. It is only when pointed out that it is off track that it realizes it is wrong, even though sometimes it delivers completely obvious nonsense.
I agree about ChatGPT or copilot as it’s called in the MS world.
You get extremely good help when it comes to very concrete facts that you ask for. For example, I have received incredibly valuable help with programming in the statistics program R.
However, if you ask about something complicated that requires a qualified assessment, you must be extremely cautious. Sometimes I have almost experienced it as asking a question to a schoolboy who doesn’t know the answer but tries to come up with something (an answer).
Ukraine’s ‘revenge operation’ in Russian Far East blows up troops accused of war crimes, intelligence source claims. The operation struck the 47th Airborne Assault Battalion of the 155th Guards Marine Brigade stationed in Russia’s Primorsky Krai, a HUR source told the Kyiv Independent.
Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) carried out explosions in Russia’s Vladivostok as a “revenge operation” targeting troops accused of war crimes, a HUR source told the Kyiv Independent on Sept. 16.
Vladivostok, a major port on the Sea of Japan near China, lies about 6,000 kilometers (3,730 miles) east of Ukraine, making it one of Russia’s most distant cities from the war’s front lines.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-revenge-explosions-in-russias-far-east-hit-troops-accused-of-war-crimes/
Quite impressive that they can have such a range in their operations.
“They don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine,” US President Donald Trump said, naming the brutal reality: Moscow’s war machine is grinding on, but that machine is starting to buckle under pressure.
The Russian Monster Built on Oil and Loopholes is Already Choking
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/the-russian-monster-built-on-oil-and-loopholes-is-already-choking-11661
👍
Brussels is in the process of figuring out how to reallocate 170 billion euros in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine. This is reported by five sources with insight to the Financial Times.
The plans include, among other things, transferring the assets to Ukraine without technically seizing them. One proposal is to use the assets in sanctioned Russian banks to purchase EU bonds with zero interest.
Another proposal is to use a so-called special purpose vehicle, SPV, to arrange the investments. This would also open up for countries outside the EU to participate.
Resolving the issue is of utmost importance for Kyiv, which expects around 50 billion dollars in budget support next year, the majority of which must be shouldered by the EU as the USA has denied further aid.
“They need the money and there aren’t many options,” says an anonymous official to the newspaper.
Very good, finally after three long years.
In the discussion about Russia’s ability or not, unfortunately an important detail is forgotten; China.
What are they planning to do? How do they plan to do something?
We know that China supplies Russia to a large extent with weapons, personnel, and technology, among other things through proxies (North Korea) or through other means. We know that Chinese special forces have been present in Belarus before, but we do NOT know where they are NOW.
We know that China has an explicit goal of “world domination” – Made In China 2030/2050.
We know that a divided Europe benefits these ambitions.
We also know that Russian and Chinese logic and doctrine differ greatly from Western logic and doctrine.
Someone on another blog assumed that Russia would need to withdraw 25% of its resources from Ukraine to be able to carry out an attack on a NATO country. But, what if the assumed 25% instead comes from China? Which has better education and (we can assume) better discipline than vodka-drinking meat eaters. And can be disguised as “North Koreans”?
My assumption – which may be wrong – is that if Russia believes it has the capacity to take on NATO in one way or another, it indicates that they have approval, resources, and backing in the form of China.
Can we handle that?
Yes, you have a good point.
Where we are today now after a drone cloud into Poland – Russia would never do that without China’s approval.
Putin is also surprisingly self-confident despite total chaos in Ukraine.
More to come is easy to see.
Northern Luhansk is moderately fun – Ukraine would probably want to keep that area entirely because when they are on the other side of the Oskil river, they can never retake it unless RU collapses.
Then, at Kamyanske, RU has now reached Stepnohirsk, and they are behind the fortifications on the southern front and can start rolling it up.
A few reconnaissance battles along the northern front again, and the Azov thrust will probably come, but overall, it suggests that Ukraine has limited resources and is doing the best they can.
We can assume that they have offensive plans because they always do.
I think Europe could increase the stakes a bit in favor of Ukraine, but of course, we will not do that.
Zelensky is refreshingly clear nowadays – criticizing Trump, mocking Putin, criticizing Poland, and generally suggesting that Europe should buy security from Ukraine 🤣🤣🤣
Did you see that most parts for Geran came from the USA, then China and Europe?
We are building Gerans 😡
It has looked the same every time Ukraine dissected Russian robots and drones.
That was something I felt thoroughly deceived by early in the war when it turned out that Russia could so easily bypass all sanctions.
Among other things, several Swedish companies significantly increased exports to the Russian neighboring countries and blamed it on not having any idea that it could end up in Russia.
Looks the same in all European countries.
Is there anyone on Twitter who usually compiles a “shame list” showing just how exports have increased significantly during the war but can’t find it right now.
The only problem for Russia is that it becomes more expensive when they need to go through intermediaries.
Let’s hope that they at least don’t have it so easy to access purely military-grade circles.
It gets even better when you dissect the entire skyrocketing export increase of Europe to Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, 5000% or something since the start of the war per country type as you say.
And that we are still trying to buy refined Russian crude oil from India.
I think we have been way too kind in our criticism of Europe really, we are rightfully angry at the USA, Biden and now Trump but Europe is slippery eels all the way, almost.
They recently got the heavy machinery for pipeline, for example.
Fck Trump 😡
Does Ukraine get 170 billion, will the production of war materials take off like a spear?
Zelensky keeps saying that there is redundancy throughout the chain.
Johan NO1 this is for you now when you are a STAR!
Never wear Suede shoes!
https://youtube.com/shorts/qwszzUm0R8Q?si=kbanIo7RdE7R_2nI
As good as it gets 🤣🤣
Yes, John Wayne and Michael Caine sometimes text each other on WhatsApp 👍
😂
Here is one in the same genre as Churchill!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9P2j7L8k0Y&t=14s
Maybe quite off-topic but in the flow, there are COUNTLESS who have been to the demonstration in the UK who were not right-wing extremists – old elderly women, elderly men, immigrants, non-white immigrants, and so on, and everyone says it was like a family outing.
In interviews, they say, “we don’t agree with everything Tommy says but so much is wrong that we have to show our dissatisfaction.”
Yes – it is done for a purpose but it is always accompanied by a film from the demonstration that supports that narrative.
The police in the UK were caught posting a video of riots from 2020.
It was not 100,000 at the demonstration, several times more.
Sir Spencer on Sky News has done a new interview now where he reiterated his observations from the demonstrations and it is COMPLETELY the opposite of what Starmer and Khan are saying.
At the same time as Starmer, Khan, and others say that citizens are terrified of this scum of the earth and that the best remedy is more new diversity and then the country should also be taken away from these Nazis because the UK is tolerant and not Nazi – the UK will be better off if these disappear into the forests.
That’s about how it’s going right now – they have made several statements so maybe they missed something?
If Starmer takes a tougher stance with the opinion laws after this to curb the violent Nazism, he probably risks testing how large this group of old female pensioner racists is.
If it is larger than what he can handle, he will have problems.
Furthermore, some police districts that previously completely ignored grooming gangs and have a crime-solving percentage for serious crimes like in Sweden approximately – 6% to 10% apparently have completely shifted to arresting for thought crimes and are putting significant resources into combing through social media and arresting sinners.
A bit like when our police chase sticks and think speeding is a better crime than gang murders that can never be solved anyway.
Since Russia is lurking around here, my guess is that Starmer will soon be gone because he cannot handle this at all, completely incapable.
Inspired Johan about the events in England. Greetings from a pensioner racist from the whining belt.
Interesting, I haven’t really looked into what’s happening there, but it seems like things are looking a bit dark for Starmer
We will start with the reverse language our leaders think I.
“we bring shiny beacons of peace” when we start bombing Moscow.
Off-Topic, Krisersson criticizes Orbán!
“Dear Viktor,
I understand that it is election season in your country, and that this time you are truly challenged for power.
But we do not interfere in your election campaign and we do not want to be a part of it.
Sweden and the Swedes have always been friends of Hungary and the Hungarians, you know that. We have been your friends before your government, during your government, and we will be after your government.
We remember when Hitler’s mass murder of Jews affected Hungary, and how in 1944 Sweden sent diplomat Raoul Wallenberg on a special mission to Budapest to save as many Hungarian lives as possible.
Tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews survived because we provided them with provisional protection passes and citizenship here in Sweden. When the Soviet Union later invaded Hungary, Raoul Wallenberg was taken to Moscow and disappeared.
The Swedish diplomat died, but tens of thousands of Hungarian lives were saved. We had done it again.
We also remember when the Soviet Union brutally suppressed your Hungarian democracy and freedom struggle in 1956, and when Prime Minister Imre Nagy was later executed for his attempts to democratize the country.
When the Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian freedom struggle, the Hungarian people asked the UN and all Western powers for help. Almost no one listened.
But one country that showed deep solidarity with you was Sweden.
We opened our arms to your freedom fighters and opposition. We allowed you to build up exiled opposition against Soviet communism here, despite our neutrality. It was not without risk for us. But we did it anyway – because it was the right thing to do.
Today, over 40,000 people of Hungarian descent live in Sweden, many of whom are descendants of Hungarian refugees who came here during the 1956 revolt. They are a well-integrated immigrant group in our Swedish society.
Democratic states help each other, then and now. And stand up against countries that try to oppress others.
That is why we, just like in 1944 and 1956, support democratic countries that Russian tanks try to overrun. Back then it was Hungary, today it is Ukraine. And if we do not act, it could be another country tomorrow.
That is also why today we often express concern about the developments in Hungary in recent years. Hungary eventually regained its freedom, but freedom must also be defended. That is why we question when you go and have coffee with the leader of the same country that crushed your countrymen’s freedom struggle in 1956, and that today attacks your neighboring country Ukraine.
Hungary and the West are not strengthened by closing the door to European friends, or by attacking each other and what actually sets us apart from barbarism – democracy and the rule of law.
Let me conclude with some wise words from yourself in 2007:
“Our message as a kind of new Western generation to those younger than us is that they should persevere with a Western Hungary, that they should not let anyone push Hungary off the path it has taken, that they should like that Hungary is a Western country, which means that we believe in human free will, and that we believe in the responsibility we take for each other, something inseparable from Western culture.
It may be that oil comes from the east, but freedom always comes from the west. And democracy cannot be controlled from above, it can only emerge from people’s hearts and thus create a flourishing life in Hungary.”
Finally, I would like to convey Sweden’s respect for the Hungarian people, and wish your country a free, peaceful, and successful election.”
[Original source](https://x.com/SwedishPM/status/1968348175720173825?t=z1mmGoFyIG1ecwZQ8-sMGQ&s=19)
Diplomatic kick in the groin.
Well said by Kristersson, Orban has been corrupted by power, not many can manage to stay in office for more than two terms without being affected.
If you have listened to Kristersson lately, he has a rather harsh rhetoric in general.
Starmer would probably have labeled him as a Nazi at least.
I think it’s a good sign that we are starting to address the problems that exist one by one 👍
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If Kristersson can’t pay the strawberry 5000 SEK, can we get five contract killers to go to Hungary and take down Orban from an electric scooter?
Very On-Topic MXT.
The human tick might get upset about this.
I don’t think Orban is actually pro-Russia and Putin. He is at an age where he remembers what it was like when Hungary belonged to the Eastern Bloc. He is against Ukraine and therefore Russia’s and Hungary’s interests coincide. Agriculture, old grudges about border delineations, and neighborly relations in general over centuries have resulted in Hungary wanting to prevent Ukraine from becoming too powerful. If Ukraine becomes a member of the EU, it will likely disadvantage Hungarian farmers. Poland has about 1.5 – 2 million farmers. They think the same way – a strong Ukraine in the EU would mean that tens of thousands of farms would have to close. In Nawracki, the farmers have found a good listener, and therefore the president is perceived as pro-Russian. But it is Ukraine he is worried about.
Fico in Slovakia is actually a communist. He switched parties to the Social Democrats because it better served his career. Additionally, Hungary and Slovakia have several points of contact. For example, Bratislava was the capital of Hungary for several hundred years. I believe Fico, on the other hand, is an admirer of Russia and Putin, unlike Orban and Newrocki. Completely unscientific post. Just my own thoughts.
Well, there you probably hit the nail on the head and I think it’s becoming clear that Poland is backing off from everything now when they should increase the pressure or join the war.
It will probably end with everyone you describe above doing everything to make it difficult for Ukraine to integrate into Europe.
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