Now there will be two very messy posts today and tomorrow and I will have to ask for patience. They are not a final sign of an increasing diagnosis, just that it has boiled over and too much is happening 😀
I will try to post the first chapter about Dengamle on Friday as compensation for this double penalty if I have time. This is thus not DenGamle and all similarities are unintentional.
Trump/USA have made good on their threats to stop the flow of information; the day before yesterday Russia fired 6 ballistic missiles at Ukraine that did not receive any early-warning from the USA, a direct hit and Kiev was blacked out.
Those of you who believe in “technical errors” can do so, but Trump is a pitch-black little scoundrel and we pray to our gods that the citizens of the USA vote him out as soon as possible.
In addition, Trump/USA have forced Greece, Spain, and Japan not to send hundreds of Patriot interceptors to Ukraine. The interceptors are close to their expiration date anyway and would have certainly saved many children’s lives, so Trump is now also a traveling salesman in children’s blood.
Those of you who have followed Johan No.1 since the start of the war in 2022 know that I have not held back criticism of Europe and eventually was no longer considered funny on another blog partly because of my criticism of the USA pre-Trump, so this is nothing new. It is 4.5 years of constantly tripping up Ukraine, which should have already won this war. A war they are fighting against; Russia, Iran, North Korea and now apparently also Trump with a fearful and passive Europe that only in the last half year or so has begun to stop betraying them.
That they endure these constant disappointments is incomprehensible and they are always the adults in the room.
In 2025 the criticism of Trump began when he took over with a couple of posts that winter, and even though he fooled me in August 2025, there have been a few posts about him for almost two years before I began to feel that no more harm could come from that direction – how wrong I was.
Now the line has been crossed even for Europe, Ukraine, and Zelensky it seems.
My working theory is that the USA is just like the bank not your global friend, which was well formed during my conversations with a Peruvian colleague in Lagos over two years who has worked all over South America since the 80s, 75 years old. There were one or two coups down there backed by the USA that apparently did not become the promised utopia at all.
Zelensky fell into the same trap and Ukraine was actually hopeful, it had been four difficult years with the USA and now came promises that everything would get better – it got worse and working subversively while giving bleeding children hope is the greatest of sins.
Therefore, we can probably conclude that Trump will spend eternity in hell, which he deserves.
Sunday and Monday were sulfurous on johanno1.se because Mango Mussolini’s barriers have completely fallen, MXT summed it up well.
Trump has tried to politically topple Zelensky for over a year, humiliated him in the White House in front of cameras instead of in closed meetings, and in other ways tried to destabilize him politically.
The last thing Trump amused himself with was trying to get Fedorov in as president instead and Musk gave a boost there.
In the past year you have seen from me a concern that Europe is not keeping up with the obvious escalation against us, but also increasingly positive tones about Europe during the summer which have now almost completely turned positive in autumn 2026.
This is because Europe has begun to make tough decisions, late and morally reprehensible to let Ukraine bleed out for 4.5 years but better late than never.
2022-2025 we suspected what was going on but only when Zelensky told us did we get confirmation.
Mango Mussolini’s latest statement, which is a serious multi-stage rocket, was leaked in full to the media by “unnamed officials” almost on the day.
From that we should be able to deduce that Europe has now had enough.
Finland is probably sitting with a long face looking at their F35s and wondering if Trump will shut them down completely in the event of war or if it is just the red launch button that will not work so they become the most expensive kamikaze missiles in world history. They will probably have to draw lots among the pilots.
We are politically independent and make our analyses on raw data before it has gone through the media filter where it has been given an opinion often with an underlying agenda.
It is not easy to hold a controversial opinion when you have the media and all analysts against you, I can promise you.
The hybrid war is now in full swing and it is high intensity – it started during the summer. Germany now claims it is worse than during the Cold War.
Putin still has a choice to make if he wants to escalate against Europe and that decision lies with him. All preparations are made and demonstrably, despite the media and analysts’ promises to the contrary (that no reserves exist), he just had a large exercise with 45,000 troops and all the capabilities of the drone weapon, the drone weapon we in Europe do not yet have.
Trump has helped by pulling all offensive American units out of all of Eastern Europe and then directly promised new units that “are coming soon”. They have not come.
Right now, two exercises are taking place in Belarus with surprisingly tough names “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026 and Barrier 2026”. Not a word of criticism from Trump about these exercises by the way. Trump probably has some trade agreement with Belarus where Lukashenko recently had to admit that they could not deliver?
What has now happened is not that the USA has fundamentally changed in the Ukraine war but that Trump is an infinitely bigger bungler than his predecessors and also gets cash into the account for services so it went really far beyond what reasonable decision-makers in the rest of the West have been able to tolerate. And even then our patience with Mango Mussolini has been that of an angel.
I am also beginning to wonder if there is some truth in that about kompromat, I have thought that he survived four years of everything thrown at him and also already has enough money but he really sticks his neck out for Putin here – why?
Trump is not known for liking losers and the biggest loser this year is Putin – Trump protects him at the expense of himself and his family (soon). In a whole working life he was the friend who betrays the second you are no longer strong. Instant block on WhatsApp after a couple of crying laughing emojis at your misfortune.
However, the underlying direction is the same as it has been since 2022, just more open and considerably bolder. My working theory is that the US doctrine since 1945 has survived, that Russia shall be a threat to Europe so we are weak and do not rise up the wrong way again.
The reason for this is not unreasonable, first we colonized the world and then in 1939 we became the worst in class.
Now that Russia is weak, they are instead kept under the arms as far as possible, and Ukraine is the country that destroys this important doctrine. Ukraine is collateral.
I have difficulty finding other explanatory models after following this daily for 4.5 years.
Europe has been forced under the noose to shift its position (albeit belatedly), but we are heavily burdened by Russian subversive activities and by having made ourselves totally dependent on imports in many areas – we have a weak position and every attempt to support Ukraine stings terribly both politically and economically.
Our politicians also have a big dark secret; they know that their own careers can come to a permanent end with a bang from some subversive curveball they never saw coming if they go too hard against Putin, but together we are strong and that is where we have arrived now.
Everyone surely remembers the government’s nomination for special security advisor a few years ago who was an excellent candidate but had to turn back at the door because he had spent too much time fishing on adult sites online. The story goes that China and perhaps Russia have bought some of our most popular adult sites, so all politicians who hang out there already have both size and home number on file.
The only one who was not discouraged was Indonesia’s Sidharto when Russia showed pictures from a hotel room with two young women. Instead, he asked for a color copy because he wanted to show the whole government how proud he was – it works differently in different cultures, the Russians learned then.
For a very long time, the easiest thing was to turn a blind eye to Putin because otherwise you had half a year until the scandal hit the media or a criminal gang stood admiring your garden.
Martin Kragh, one of Sweden’s best Russia experts who tragically died of cancer, was smeared by Aftonbladet, for example. He was ridiculed in every conceivable way and personal attacks rained down. He was completely right and Aftonbladet wrong, but life went on—just not for him.
Have you all followed Trump’s latest statement about the US buying Russian diesel?
Would have led with this but there were many detours as usual.
The logic falters considerably; it’s all Ukraine’s fault for drone-striking Russian refineries after the US made itself an enemy with Canada and imposed 100% tariffs with soaring prices as a result, and then closed the Strait of Hormuz all on its own. When Iran didn’t close it, Trump closed it in rounds.
This spring, we at Johan No.1 predicted that the US would stop delivering LNG and oil products to Europe; the US accounts for about 60% or so of both, and it’s a ridiculously simple pressure tool that it would almost be criminal not to use.
Sure enough, Trump recently threatened us with stopping diesel exports to us.
After that, he forced the EU to open our emergency reserves and sell to the US; with a bit of luck, we’ll drag this out because as soon as we’ve sold off these reserves, Trump still has all the good cards left, which I think everyone understands.
If you want to be generous, you can laugh heartily at the poorly dressed orange car salesman trying to sell you a scratched Skoda without brakes, but unfortunately, it’s probably worse than that because he is now trying by all means to sabotage Ukraine.
He didn’t stop there; the US has called and threatened all sorts of countries in Europe that we must stop delivering equipment to Ukraine.
And he thinks Zelensky should be fired.
Trump has said that there is now an energy peace.
Russia drone-struck Kiev’s combined heat and power plant two hours later so the city was blacked out, and Lavrov and Peskov have publicly said that ceasefires are silly – I will never understand why they behave like this because they always undermine Trump’s attempts to do favors for them, but that’s how it is.
The ceasefire only applies to stopping attacks on refineries, and Ukraine has none left. The White House clarified this after calls about Russia not following the ceasefire, “they do, as it only applies to refineries.” Brazen, cynical, and generally disgusting.
Trump is trying to stir up an opinion against Ukraine in the West; tough times are coming, you know if you have read the posts, and now the groundwork is being laid that everything that becomes more expensive was Zelensky’s fault for refusing to listen to good advice. It won’t work, but that’s what he amuses himself with when he’s not playing golf.
Then the deal itself is really a way to try to stop Ukraine from drone-striking the refineries. An attack on a refinery is an attack on the US, you will hear soon from Trump, “our time’s Pearl Harbor.”
If that doesn’t have the intended effect, the US will probably send an oil tanker to the Baltic Sea or the Black Sea that Russia will drone-strike; both blame Ukraine and the images of burning American sailors drowning are making the rounds in the media.
Besides that, Russian media now says that the US will provide all spare parts needed to repair Russian refineries – they refer to Trump FINALLY fulfilling promises from the Anchorage meeting if you wonder what was discussed with the Putin copy in private without any officials. Mango Mussolini probably got a list of points and dates?
Everyone seems to have completely forgotten that Russia bombs children and the elderly every day around the clock nowadays; apparently, that is unimportant. Human safari in Kherson is of no interest to Amnesty, the Red Cross, the UN, or anyone at all. And these are Russian accounts proudly posting their videos where they chase pensioners on walkers with explosive drones just because they are bored.
Albanese at the UN just came out hard against Ukraine and their horrific aggressions.
Zelensky has already responded to Trump on this issue, unusually, and he knows it is a personal provocation, but he probably had enough after almost five years.
It is rumored that Ukraine will now increase the pace; Zelensky has given that order – a reasonable reaction and if nothing else, Yandex servers disappeared immediately.
The story also goes that Budanov got really angry at the meeting with Kushner, but highly unconfirmed and a good story until it’s no longer one.
And this one, Trump is probably furious, one hopes, such a grin probably goes straight into the dark heart that beats once a minute.
It is clear that Ukraine is now making itself an enemy of Trump – and that more is coming is also clear because Trump is notorious for being vindictive and Putin WhatsApps him daily now asking if he is a little coward or a man.
At some point, when Putin’s trash army retreats too quickly, Trump will demand a ceasefire and then blame Ukraine for being the aggressor along with some at the UN apparently.
That Russia – the US have a direct line that we in Europe are not part of is established fact.
That the US continues as from 2022 and rigs everything to Putin’s advantage as soon as it goes as badly as can be expected from the lousy Russians is also clear.
Those of you who have read Johan No.1 know that Ukraine was infinitely many times pressured to halt offensives that were going too well or denied permission for those that could be assumed to be going too well. There were geographical restrictions, and when a Ukrainian colonel at the US communications center happened to see where the cruiser Moskva was located in the Black Sea, “went out for a smoke,” and then the flagship sank (true story), the US went completely crazy and the communications officer had to leave.
Trump is significantly clumsier and more obvious, which in some way caused Europe’s enchantment to break.
South Korea has some suspicious beef with Ukraine over two North Korean prisoners they received, which Zelensky confirmed in the media.
South Korea has supplied a huge amount of diesel to Russia this summer.
Zelensky humbly apologized with elaborate bows, and South Korea said the apology was not sincere – it was not accepted.
South Korea recently recalled its ambassador from Ukraine.
India, China, Iran, North Korea, and several others all wholeheartedly support Russia. All participated in a large military exercise of 45,000 troops recently.
Chinese technology drives the Russian war machine, and China has built production lines for maximum volume now inside Russia. Made in China but in Russia, which overnight can be directed against us.
I want to assert here that what Europe does or does not do will be very important because Ukraine is fighting against half the world entirely on its own and has very few friends left.
The US has already stopped sending materiel, is holding back what has been paid for, and has demonstrably cut off intelligence cooperation because Ukraine does not leave the refineries alone.
It is obviously morally reprehensible when Russia bombs Ukraine every day, but it is also dangerous because Ukraine needs all the support it can get, and now they only have Europe left.
Ukraine does not need as much support as before, so they are pushing forward. But without European support, things can quickly go downhill, and this is a tightrope to balance. The technological advantage Ukraine has today has an expiration date and must be maximized within this time window.
Above all, Ukraine MUST nurture its EU membership, so if we in Europe slow them down in any way, Ukraine will comply. If Zelensky becomes the man who interrupted EU membership, it will be political total chaos.
Poland is angry at Ukraine for various reasons, and now Ukraine is not allowed to sell agricultural products to the EU – but we still buy from Russia.
The EU still buys LNG, oil, diesel, and gasoline from Russia as much as we can before we implement a total ban at the turn of the year.
The EU has withheld financial aid to Ukraine on administrative grounds, like too much corruption and the like.
The frozen Russian funds held in Euroclear in Belgium are being held by the Belgians, who refuse to release them.
The support must be total and not just on fancy letterhead with long words; they fight for their survival every day of the week.
In previous years, when things went too well, Europe also completely stopped its direct support together with the US. Ukraine then had to halt because the artillery tubes simply went silent. They had no ammunition to shoot with and had to accept that this or that offensive could not be carried out as soon as they began to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Since Europe supports Ukraine, we are also a big target now. The Palestinian demonstrations have, just like the Vietnam demonstrations in their time, become an arena for revolution against capitalism and the West – Russia is just dusting off old influence operations.
We will probably not get enough gas, oil, diesel, and gasoline this winter, combined with attacks on our electricity transmission and LNG storage. If we happen to have enough to get by, we won’t after a couple of inexplicable spontaneous fires.
When the financial crisis unfolds, this revolutionary group that has formed over the past couple of years will create chaos together with right-wing extremist counter-demonstrators. In essence, they are not wrong – everything is more expensive, we cannot afford it, but it is Russia behind it, so they direct their anger in the wrong direction.
First of all – everyone wants a weak Europe, and the Cold War was designed for exactly that. As someone living in Europe who does not work full-time in the Dominican Republic, I do not want that at all. Europe today is a sane voice in an increasingly authoritarian world, and the worst excesses we collectively shame for in Europe have a low probability of recurring.
Secondly – may Ukraine continue with the refineries because it hurts Putin so much that he has had to ask the US for a very big favor where Trump knows he exposes himself even internally, and just before a midterm election.
You see the symptoms everywhere, but the disease is Russia; that must never be forgotten.
After empirical lab tests, the data is indisputable – if Europe can stand strong in its support for Ukraine, the Russian soufflé will completely collapse.
When Russia falls, calm will settle over Europe, and Ukraine will become a highly valued member of the EU alongside Canada and Australia.
Europe has exactly everything to gain from this, and if we also continue to do it the right way, we are even better off.
Historically, of course, we go bananas and open extermination camps, but Europe is now a union of 27 countries, and we have a very long history of democracy.
Europe has every chance to become the light if we just don’t make direct mistakes when it is easier to do right. Over time, we are strong enough that no one can defeat us, and then we could become a good force in the world. It rarely ends that way, of course, but one can hope – that is Johan No.1’s vision of utopia.
Without Ukraine, chaos would already be upon us, and it is ultimately the Ukrainian shooters who lie in trenches for half a year straight and half-starve who are the thin line between us and Russian barbarism – we owe them everything.
Of course, it will not turn out that way, and after the war, this burned generation will sit and drink on their failing porches in financial ruin like all other great generations who sacrificed everything. Zelensky will immediately lose the election and die prematurely as he has burned himself out.
But through their sacrifice, a free Ukraine was born and hopefully a bright Europe, unless a full global conflict happens first.
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Dengamle – a not always so successful journey through world history – will hopefully come on Friday; I am sitting and finalizing it.
Reminding of this one, very good.
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