Today we want to educate you on how Russia has tried to dismantle our will to defend ourselves but also our actual ability to resist Russian aggression.
You have already learned that Soviet/Russian subversive activities win wars if you have followed the posts.
Back in the days when we didn’t hesitate to ethnically cleanse German provinces, the Caroleans were Europe’s most feared troops. Indeed, it was a time when war meant launching an army that swept through enemy territory like a locust swarm, killing everything that lived and couldn’t be eaten, and then burning down the rest just because they could.
We simply followed what was trendy at the time, fashion-conscious as we were.
A Carolean attack was not what you might think if you’ve seen Gladiator – the Carolean soldier, if he was +170cm tall, was considered tall, sturdy, tough, and dressed in a uniform apparently in Pantone 2955 C color with hints of yellow here and there – yes, that’s a bit mismatched 😀
Probably the uniforms were worn out, patched up, and some probably had turned gray, so they didn’t exactly fight like colorful peacocks to scare the life out of the enemy.
Since they often fought at a numerical disadvantage, a tactic was formed that required determination, aggression, offense, edged weapons, and strict discipline.
In addition to the tactic working excellently, the rumor spread like wildfire about how short one’s life would be if they tried to face a Carolean attack head-on, which also contributed to the spectacular victories.
The artillery was probably fully integrated and provided effective fire support against enemy shooters – this was a time when both sides lined up and the one left standing when it was over won with a high probability, so they had likely figured out how to get the most out of the pre-battle phase.
The Carolean shooter line advanced from its starting position in formation and presumed pace until it broke up, all under total silence, and if I may guess, drums were used to keep the rhythm.
Trumpets were probably used to signal the start?
At around 30m distance from the enemy line, all weapons were fired at once – probably the front line had to kneel down, so it probably took a bit too long, and if the enemy team had figured out to hold their fire until just when the Caroleans were trying to get organized, it might have been lively, but they never did, luckily.
After the weapons were fired in a point-blank broadside right into the enemy’s neatly lined colorful shooters, they “went on the attack with edged weapons.”
Bayonets were of course already fixed, officers had swords, and apparently there were pikes. If I were to guess, they tried to cover the remaining 30m as quickly as possible and with the highest possible noise level. The world will never know what a Carolean battle cry sounded like, even if they figured out the “rebel-yell” before the last Confederate soldier died, and it was brilliant.
It consisted of three “barks/howls” in different keys that, when performed by thousands of soldiers, were totally paralyzing. Some museum apparently took those that were recorded, multiplied them into a brigade, then tested it at reenactments to know how it sounded. There were many descriptions of how the defense froze or fled in panic when they heard the rebel-yell.
Probably, as history tells us, the Caroleans didn’t have a battle cry like “God is with us” or “for the king and the fatherland,” but rather some version of the rebel-yell where they could achieve the highest possible intimidation effect without completely losing their breath and collapsing in a heap two meters in front of the surprised opponent.
This apparently worked surprisingly well – the combination of facing a huge line of completely silent shooters who didn’t care at all about their own losses advancing towards you, a devastating broadside into their own ranks where soldiers fell like skittles on both sides, and finally a loud storming of a forest of shiny sharp bayonets often led to the loss of the will to fight and the desire to live taking over – they fled.
The Carolean cavalry had a similar tactic, they had managed to learn to ride “knee to knee” in an extremely tight formation that became like a battering ram pushed in where it was deemed appropriate.
The Caroleans could attack at a numerical disadvantage of 1:3, and they tried to use terrain and weather to their advantage. In military training, the armored infantry should have a numerical advantage of 3:1 to attack, which was better than the Russians who needed 10:1.
Total discipline and obedience were expected, and the officer corps was presumably also highly competent as they didn’t waste the shooters too many times – the list of spectacular victories was much longer than that of embarrassing defeats.
These soldier skills are probably called toxic masculinity today?
I caught a glimpse of our police force in the 90s when I worked as a security guard during university, and encountered the old mean cops if you were out on a pub crawl in Stockholm and got too drunk, which I managed to do.
Even as a partying young man, I quickly learned to behave if a police patrol showed up, and our criminals knew that if they tried to escalate things with law-abiding citizens, their lives would become a never-ending hell.
And to somehow use violence against the police – no criminal with any survival instinct did that at all.
The police force has gone through a long process of reflecting on how the country looks overall, and the concept of “dialogue police” was used for a long time. During a period, the old mean cops stopped because their skill set was no longer appreciated – instead of beating up troublemakers behind the train station, they would reason with them, and Sweden would become much better.
By 2025, we have much more serious crime that has seeped into civil society than we had in 1993 – and the increase is mainly in criminals targeting the majority society.
Previously, they used to take each other’s lives, which was a societal benefit in a way, but it was still reported and investigated responsibly because we have laws, regulations, and empathy.
Today, there are entire areas where 700,000 citizens, mostly immigrants, live under the rule of criminal gangs and/or a criminal clan.
The concept of vulnerable areas didn’t even exist in the 90s, even though there were some back then too.
Threatening, killing police officers, or in any way defying the rule of law wasn’t a thing in the early 90s either – back then, you were arrested on your way home from the store, thrown into the police van, given a proper beating, and reminded that you were now on the watchlist.
Our defense forces have gone through the same process in the name of “eternal peace,” and where Reinfeldt took it to a new level by calling the defense a “special interest.”
Not only do we lack emergency stockpiles, mob depots for a million soldiers, a civil defense worth mentioning, or a total defense that engaged 10% of the citizens – 800,000 people, but instead we have a defense force of only 25,000 today.
The defense force has also gone through the same process as the police, where the old mean soldiers were not the future.
When I did my military service, toxic masculinity was still considered a good addition to the CV, even though the attitude towards women was completely wrong. Especially, they behaved terribly towards the women who voluntarily tried to do their military service and often quit.
Women are also excellent soldiers, as the Peshmerga and Israel have shown us, haven’t they?
That probably had to do with the fact that we hadn’t progressed enough in gender equality thinking yet and didn’t believe that women could kill as effectively as men, but today we know better.
First of all, by doubling the personnel pool, in the event of a war of extermination like in Ukraine, we would have more to draw from when losses escalate, so we should definitely introduce conscription for all gender identities, in all units and in all roles.
How do you think our last line of defense against internal and external threats has been managed since the 90s?
I’m thinking of SÄPO, MUST, and those that Jallai usually writes about, whether they existed/exist or not.
During the Cold War, we had a policy and we had a “dark blue deep state” that considered itself the last bastion against the Soviet threat. Too much was done under the pretext of necessity, and personally, I have zero interest in going back there.
When you take a group that at the time mostly consisted of men, give them a free pass and the most violence capital in the country, no one should really be surprised that not everyone did what was best for the country. Some realized that they had taken the hill and could now work on significantly improving their own lives at the expense of others.
Just as our police force should be shaped to face external threats and not reflect a society at large that cannot handle organized crime, the same applies to our defense forces.
It should be sized to defend the country, or the group we want to be part of, and not reflect society at large because society at large does not take other people’s lives and they do not excel in it.
Today, the external enemy unleashes drones over you, and if they capture you, you will be raped, castrated, and maybe amputated if they don’t shoot you on the spot.
Now, the above was not the point I wanted to make, it’s coming below, I apparently have a tendency to digress 😶
First and foremost, there are many examples of transitioning from the current Swedish situation to mobilizing broad popular layers that become excellent soldiers – Finland, Ukraine, and Israel are not bad examples at all.
However, right now, after three years of intense warfare in Europe, we are doing the opposite and trying to make it harder for sports shooting, hunting, and gun ownership. Also, it’s not a big plus on Tinder if you are “very interested in weapons and like uniforms.”
Unfortunately, there are also many examples where the rather small defense forces were overrun before they could mobilize broad popular layers that became excellent soldiers, and the country surrendered instead.
Then there are examples of large defense forces that couldn’t handle the warfare they faced and collapsed completely – in 1939, Poland had more tanks than Germany, and France had more, or at least more modern tanks and aircraft than Germany (with the risk of some memory gaps here…).
The whole of Europe during WW2 falls within the two examples above except for Finland and Germany – but they can’t really be counted in 😀
And then there are plenty of examples where countries with a small defense force feel they cannot spare it to help neighbors in need, and today most countries in Europe are in that situation, aren’t they?
Russia is somewhat of a world leader in balancing the slack line so that neighbors do not come to the rescue, just as Hitler took over all of Europe in the same way, one small country at a time.
If all of Europe had attacked Germany in 1938, World War II would never have happened.
If all of Europe had attacked Russia earlier, children wouldn’t have been tortured to death in front of their parents in Ukraine by laughing Kadyrovites, and we wouldn’t have taken several steps towards global escalation, for example, on October 7, 2023, which is now devastating Gaza entirely unnecessarily.
Now you have a great opportunity that exposes Russian subversive activities today, just like during the Soviet era – Ukraine.
In the 1990s, Russia managed to disarm Ukraine of all its nuclear weapons, which had been an effective deterrent for future wars of extermination.
Then, until 2014, Russia, through its defectors in Ukraine, managed to essentially dismantle the entire military.
When the war started in 2014, brigades had at best a company armed with terrible weapons and short on ammunition, and none of the soldiers were particularly eager for war, while the officers had lived a life of luxury and thought it was lifelong.
They had demoralized the military, corrupted it, ensured that soldiers were not trained, and that there were no weapons or ammunition.
Why do you think that is?
Well, to make it easier to conquer the country, of course – everything was part of a long-term plan.
They have effectively managed, just like the Soviet Union did, to persuade other countries not to help – the goal is not to prevent support but to delay it as long as possible and stop certain weapons that would make a difference. They understand that zero support would never fly, but if they can make Europe’s leaders feel they have done their part when they send helmets and weapon straps, they have come a long way.
During the Cold War, we had wild peace and environmental movements, and you can see Swedish peace inaction today, where their latest suggestion was not to defend against invasion but once invaded, to turn the traffic signs instead of confusing the aggressor – look it up if you don’t believe me 😀
During the Cold War, environmental movements amused themselves by establishing nature reserves, and then the areas were not allowed to be fortified – a constant fight with the military about that.
Eastern Baltic countries seem to be dotted with nature reserves that have received EU funding, and where one can guess that environmental movements are keeping a close eye to ensure no mines are laid or bunkers are built that harm nature.
Then, with the help of political parties, peace movements successfully got rid of anti-personnel mines, cluster munitions, thermobaric weapons, and other effective weapons that we ourselves agreed to get rid of and scrap just for us so that there would be peace.
Russia never complained about anything, so they kept all those weapons and have now gained enormous advantages over Ukraine because of them.
Guess if peace movements and certain political parties in Europe now want to ban the inhumane and terrible drone weapon – yes, they do and preferably immediately if you google around a bit 😀
In Europe, we have negotiated away our best defenses against Russian aggression over the years, but Russia has never been subject to the bans and has never negotiated away anything, but they managed to crash themselves completely without our help.
Like when we were going to set up a forest of wind turbines between us and Kaliningrad that made it impossible for us to see landing operations from Kaliningrad on the radar, and also unable to combat them with anti-ship missiles – luckily the defense forces won that battle, but they were branded as climate deniers for it.
Do you think Russia has taken over the baton from the Soviet Union in trying by all means to persuade us to disarm and at the very least not help neighbors who have been attacked by Russia?
You all remember the Russian Easter and that the Supreme Commander came up with a right interpretation of the concept of exercising units so that they basically sent the entire defense forces to Gotland on a really long mission that turned out to be permanent.
Technically, something like that should go through the parliament, but the defense forces had secretly managed to conceal some competence and loyalty to the country of Sweden, which was revealed at the right time 😀
Rumor has it that Russia intended to take Gotland but we preempted them – right or wrong, only top-secret archives and the Russians know.
Anyway, they had excellent help from the port in Slite which was built without explosive charges, which political parties made that decision you can look up yourselves.
I also read somewhere that Sweden understood that no one would come to help, or maybe I remember wrong.
Russia uses a whole range of tools to drive its subversive agenda –
-red storm and nuclear weapons, going to war with Russia is pointless because they will win anyway.
-influence citizens and shape a broad opinion against war, the USA left Vietnam because of this so Russia can definitely win wars this way.
-take what you want first and ask questions later, it has been shown that especially Europe completely lacks the ability to prevent Russia from doing something, denying everything, and then finally saying, “well, what are you going to do now that this is ours.” One could argue that this was exactly how we acted during WW2 and for example the Yugoslav Wars?
-set completely unreasonable demands so that you get what you want in the end anyway.
-disarm countries as much as possible through environmental movements, peace movements, and political parties, and shaping an opinion against war. I personally believe that the moment we are faced with the choice of sending combat units to the Baltics, this will kick in.
-confuse everyone in the stands with a cloud of information/disinformation, Trump has used this Russian tactic all the time and it works incredibly well.
-war is peace, make sure to turn all expressions around so that it never looks like Russia is waging war but that everyone else is warlike.
Sweden went from a total defense in the 80s that the Soviet Union would never have penetrated to a defense force today that would not be able to help our neighbors in the event of an invasion war.
Why do we know this – well, we had the right idea as we now see in hindsight with the war in Ukraine.
A similar journey to what the police have gone through but with gang criminals.
Considering the amount of Russian sabotage around Europe, do you think our security services have received the same treatment as the police and defense forces and do not have the right competence 🧐
How best to cripple an organization?
-You try to bring in a leadership that is incompetent or has completely different goals for the organization than the core mission – what have we introduced in all our organizations in the last 20 years?
We know the police, we also know the defense forces, the security services?
-You drain them of budget – it’s probably easiest because politicians decide and they prefer to spend the money on areas that give them the most votes, so stealing from the defense forces and putting it on something else fun has been a breeze.
-Put the money into an expensive prestige project – a classic, in the Baltics they have been arguing for three years about the thickness of bunker walls instead of building them, and Spain is considering increasing its defense budget, but building an aircraft carrier with the money.
Malfunctioning IT systems that never start up would be good too, but maybe they will fix themselves 😀
-Scrap stored weapons for environmental reasons – tank 121 would have worked well today but we got rid of them, I actually discovered to my great surprise.
-Influence morale and motivation – do today’s conscripts and contract employees understand that they are expected to kill other people and that the better they get at taking the lives of others, the happier their bosses become?
The old veterans who are honored from the Finnish Winter War or the veterans you see at various events with a front covered in medals – they have received that pedestal and those medals because they have been the best at killing other people in the most efficient ways.
You became an “Ace” in World War II as a pilot or tank commander depending on how many planes or tanks you shot down/destroyed.
Now maybe our Swedish battalion is not in the way of a Russian invasion of the Baltics during Zapad 25 since they were just rotated out after 6 months, but if they had been, it would have been these skills that were most important for them to possess.
And then there’s what made the Finnish and Ukrainian soldiers so difficult to kill – they solved the task at any cost.
In a war and when in combat, it’s a pretty narrow tube of skills needed and then a large portion of “courage” it used to be called, right?
Previously, it was precisely these skills and this courage that one tried to develop, and now I can’t speak for today’s soldier training, but in the 90s, there was no doubt that it was the damn Russians who were the enemy even if perhaps a little too much focus was placed on the Geneva Conventions. There was probably a looming risk of hesitating to shoot and being shot if one overthought the laws of war.
Read below and be rightly concerned because it is 2025 and Russia has both the drones and the work experience that the USA now proudly tested for the first time (if I haven’t fallen for psyops, but I think I checked it) 😶
I have advocated that we should have all of Europe’s standing brigades in the Baltics by now to be on the safe side.
Since that doesn’t seem to be happening, the question then becomes whether Europe will set up a joint force to regain lost territory in the Baltics or not if we come to that?
Is it necessary?
NATO will collapse if we don’t do it according to everyone – or is that no longer true.
As is well known, I believe there will be a black swan triggering capital flight from Europe if we don’t show that we are in control of the situation.
Can we bomb Russia instead with robots and aircraft – no, not today because the Russian drone weapon and robots pose too great a threat that matches our capabilities.
Will the USA help – I’m not sure anymore with Trump at the helm, even though he recently deployed nuclear weapons to the UK and threatened to roll over Kaliningrad if anything happens.
Can we carry out a mechanized offensive against two dug-in divisions in eastern Baltics when reinforcements have to go through Suwalki or by sea?
No, the answer will probably be no, what is not in the Baltics will not enter the Baltics after the bell has rung. And what is in the Baltics will quickly learn drone warfare by 2025.
Has Russia managed to make a chess move?
What could be a preemptive countermove – to mine the border again Surovikin-style and to deploy enough brigades in the area so that Russia cannot advance, drones or not, a brigade in defense is hard to smoke out.
Why haven’t we done that – that’s what worries me because I can’t actually find any good reasons for it especially since Finland has done just that – mined its border again and has troops in the area.
Regardless of everything – do our forces in Europe have training that prepares them well for the warfare of 2025?
Because that should be the main task of every defense force – to prepare their soldiers to be as good as possible in the war they are expected to participate in.
We have known for three years what 2025 warfare looks like, or will look like, so we have had three years to adjust the training.
Are we still sleeping in 20-tents because there is hardly a better goal?
So, I didn’t get to the main post about Russian subversive activities, I’ll try again tomorrow.
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Russian losses in Ukraine
SLAVA UKRAINI
“💥 Russia: Ukrainian drones struck a railway hub in Novocherkassk, Rostov Region.”
https://bsky.app/profile/igorsushko.bsky.social/post/3lum4gxowv225
“The State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia’s parliament, on July 22 submitted a bill that, if passed, will expand Russia’s seasonal mobilization into a year-round draft.”
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-to-draft-year-round-under-proposed-continuous-mobilization/
“Putin, when starting the “SVO”, did not warn russians that they, in the Moscow region, could be bombed in response. And that they would have to suffer, including from the actions of their own air defense. Just getting started… 😈 😎”
https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3luluakjrjk22
Most of the attacks occur in Pokrovsk, about 50% of the attacks reported in the sectors.
N Slobozhansky-Kursk 11💥↘️
S Slobozhansky 1↘️
Kupyansk 4↘️
Lyman 21💥
Siverskyi 4
Kramatorsk 1↘️
Toretsk 13💥
Pokrovsk 74💥💥💥↗️
Novopavlivka 9💥↘️
Huliaypillia 0
Orikhivsk 0
Dnipro/Prydniprovsky 7↗️
Thank you! 👍
👍 When I had reached halfway and it still was about the Caroleans (which was admittedly interesting), I started to wonder when the Russian subversive activities would come up, but you also managed to include some about that.
As usual, I believe that we make up a lot on our own (the Russians seemed harmless for a long time), then the Russians reinforce it to push us even further in that direction *). Then when we realize that we were naive, we are on par with the colossus on clay feet, the epithet used condescendingly towards the Soviet Union, it takes us years to change direction.
Now Ukraine has managed quite well despite not having much defense initially, hopefully we can do the same if the situation escalates.
*) Or they amplify the polarization between two sides to create mistrust and paralysis.
Have we discovered Russia’s subversive activities?
No, now you misunderstood me. I mean that we probably come up with most things ourselves when it comes to things that can benefit Russia, then they reinforce everything that can benefit them as much as they can.
If it doesn’t matter to them, they reinforce both sides to sow discord.
They probably also plant some ideas and surely pay some to push their agenda, but if not enough people actually think it makes sense, they wouldn’t be heard.
When it comes to Sweden, that is. In other parts of the world, they often take much harsher actions.
Take Russian gas as an example. One of the more environmentally friendly fossil fuels. Not so bad actually, so the environmental movement lobbied for it. Of course, something that benefits Russia and helps to spread and advocate for, then that it turns out it wasn’t so smart, nobody thought of that. Naive again.
(Yet there were probably some members of the Sweden Democrats who suddenly were positive about gas a few years ago, one wonders where those ideas came from, but they quieted down quite quickly).
I don’t think Russia is the reason we shut down nuclear power, but they surely lobbied for that too, benefits them, etc.
The defense cuts are more directly involved. “We are completely harmless,” they said, and everyone bought into it, and no one woke up in 2008 or 2014, etc. Here they have probably paid quite a few to infiltrate and drive it.
The big news yesterday was that Zelenskyy chose to approve the new anti-corruption law that places the two anti-corruption agencies under the Prosecutor General. Demonstrations were held to urge him to veto it. The justification for the new law is that they believe the agencies have been infiltrated and subjected to Russian influence and have also not been sufficiently effective.
The controversy stems from the fact that they can no longer act independently and that the Prosecutor General, who now holds the power, is also a close friend of Zelenskyy. Therefore, it will be difficult to investigate those at the very top.
Zelenskyy is not as celebrated in Ukraine as he is in the rest of the world, and as mentioned, the decision has led to major protests among the population and criticism from newspapers and others. Given today’s topics, one can also speculate that Russian subversive activities are doing their best to fuel the situation, even if they do not appear to be the ones who initiated it.
This is a serious matter and unfortunately can lead to significant internal divisions that could ultimately weaken the defense readiness, if nothing else because people will be fully occupied with internal strife. New demonstrations against the law are planned for today.
Another, perhaps even bigger problem, is that the EU and countries supporting Ukraine see this as a major democratic setback. For anti-corruption agencies to function, they need to be independent. Besides the internal conflicts in Ukraine, this will of course be exploited to the maximum, both through Russian influence operations and by those who already prefer not to support Ukraine, which could ultimately lead to reduced support.
We will now see massive campaigns against Ukraine questioning support for an undemocratic corrupt country, even though the justification for the law is precisely to avoid Russian influence and streamline anti-corruption efforts.
This therefore risks becoming a serious threat to Ukraine and their ability to defend themselves against Russia. It remains to be seen what the effects will be in the end. Perhaps Zelenskyy can defuse the situation.
“The new law giving the Prosecutor General control over Ukraine’s two anti-corruption agencies has effectively shattered their independence, writes Serhij Kostezj for Kyiv Post.
“As soon as a representative of an agency gets too close to an anti-corruption investigation, the Prosecutor General can now transfer it to any other prosecutor, with unknown consequences for the case.”
Pressure from the West and the risk of EU ambitions being derailed could ultimately lead to the formation of a new – perhaps more effective – structure for anti-corruption work, Kostezj continues.
The new law is a setback for democracy in Ukraine, says Danish TV2’s Ukraine correspondent Claus Borg Reinholdt.”
https://omni.se/analyser-ett-bakslag-for-ukrainas-demokrati/a/1MLBzq
“Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Rollback: Undoing Maidan’s Legacy?
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has de facto destroyed the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption structures – but for how long?”
https://omni.se/analyser-ett-bakslag-for-ukrainas-demokrati/a/1MLBzq
A slightly longer thread summarizing the background and what has happened:
“To understand what triggered the protests and the unexpected reaction in Ukraine, it’s essential to know the context – especially for those who don’t follow Ukraine’s internal politics. 🧵Thread: 1/ First, the protest isn’t aimed at the President personally, but at a specific law passed yesterday.”
https://bsky.app/profile/tatarigami.bsky.social/post/3lumj4dpgn22d
Social media is now unfortunately filled with pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian messages, claiming that Zelensky is a corrupt dictator who must be overthrown and that support for Ukraine must cease, etc.
Who usually writes that Ukraine is a mosaic of power struggles and that the longer the West allows this to continue, the higher the risk 🧐
Now when the Russians and Jonas Sjöstedt think it was bad, it is proof that it is a good decision.
Trump Approval Ratings
Trump falls another percentage point and is now at -15%.
That is one percentage point lower than in the previous period.
40% are in favor, 55% are against, and 4% are unsure.
(Note that the number of undecided has decreased once again from the previous 5%, and 6% before that.)
Here you can see in which areas people are in favor and against.
The demographic chart is also a bit interesting if you have been following it.
Men have previously been above the line, as well as those aged 65 and older, but now even they seem to be on average more dissatisfied than satisfied.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
So do we have some hard numbers showing that he has not managed to keep the citizens satisfied?
We’ll see how it goes in the long run. It fluctuates and the effects probably haven’t fully materialized yet. I think it’s not until later in the autumn that we can start drawing any conclusions.
Found a poll from Fox News, but they hadn’t updated in a while, better numbers there but still negative. Will see if they update. Will try to remember to check it out and report if they (dare to) come up with new numbers.
It was a bit funny when they had an article about Trump praising himself and claiming to have the highest approval rating ever while Fox dryly stated that it looked really bad in all the country’s surveys.
USA – Trump
“🇺🇸👀 Trump: We’re going to cut drug prices by 1,000%. Not 30% or 40% or 50%, but numbers you’ve never even dreamed of before. And if countries don’t do it, like, if it’s Europe, I’ll say that’s fine. You’re not allowed to sell cars in America anymore. And they’ll say, oh, I like the idea…”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lumjyie7bs2y“
“❗️Russia has deployed over 150 ships, 120 aircraft, 10 coastal missile systems and 15,000 troops — large-scale naval exercises of the 🇷🇺Russian Armed Forces have begun, taking place in the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, as well as in the Baltic and Caspian Seas”
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3lumjibsq322y
🧐
Zapad 2025! ✊️ 😄
Most likely not these exaggerated numbers! As mentioned, the Z guys are good at deceiving!
“🇺🇦🇹🇷 The third round of talks between Ukraine and Russia will take place today at 19:00, — Erdogan’s administration”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lumjehricc2y
Gaza
“WHO has seen a sharp increase in the number of people suffering from malnutrition in Gaza recently, says the organization’s spokesperson Rik Peeperkorn to BBC.
– Just in 2025, we are talking about nearly 30,000 children affected, he explains.
Over 12 people are reported to have died of starvation in the last 24 hours, and there are reports that the lack of food has caused widespread weakness among the civilian population.”
https://omni.se/kraftig-okning-av-undernaring-i-gaza/a/lwqzRk
Israel released a film about a huge UN food council right in the middle of Gaza, untouched.
why was not clear but someone has blocked
Fake News like…
The site was a United Nations World Food Programme warehouse, not a Hamas one.
The video shows hungry civilians breaking into a newly-stocked aid warehouse, not Hamas soldiers defending illicit hoarding.
Thus, the Israeli government’s labeling of it as a “Hamas warehouse” is demonstrably false.
😳
Wondering if it’s the same movie, there’s one that only shows pallets and no people. It’s not clear what they actually contain or where it’s filmed. Some say it’s a UN warehouse outside Gaza that Israel doesn’t allow to be entered, others say it’s a HAMAS warehouse.
We have reached the point where people decide to take sides. Everything shown by the other side is of course fake, while there is no problem spreading fake material from their own side because everything from that side is of course true.
NOTE, this is not criticism against you Johan but just a reflection on how it has become in general.
“😎💥 Hexacopter operator destroys Russian pontoon ferry on the eastern direction with jewelry explosives, – MEMESIS”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lumlv7ad3s2o
“🔥 Destroyed Russian positions in Kherson region!”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lumlojc3yk2o
Border Guard drones hit hard on the Northern-Slobozhansky front: the “Prime” unit of the Ukraine’s 5th Border Guard Detachment destroyed 4 bunkers, a BMP-1, 2 drones on the ground, a mortar position, FPV command post, vehicle, trailer, and a fuel barrel.
“Ukraine has already ordered over 3 billion UAH worth of interceptor drones, Defense Minister Shmyhal announced. Four state contracts have been signed with domestic producers, with a focus on countering Russian Shaheds. Talks are ongoing to secure financing and scale up production.”
If they succeed, it will probably be a gamechanger, but it is likely a period away?
Yes, it should take a while to get it going.
“🇺🇦 Ukrainian air defense shot down 27/71 Russian drones and 18 suppressed by EW.”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lumisdziac2y
No counterattack in Pokrovsk?
Ukraine is fighting against RU, NK, Iran, many countries in Africa, and China.
Keep an eye on one thing – if RU deploys nuclear troops or missile troops from Luga.
Unfortunately, we have Zapd25 which gives reason for it but when it happens in time is interesting
What is the meaning of such grouping?
Russian escalation
The other side of the corruption law was that RU had infiltrated the organizations – what is the truth?
Rumors have it that Russian intelligence is inside Polrovsk – what do we know?
rumor has it
DeepState had a post about this, I think, but can’t find it. It was the same thing when the Russians claimed to have crossed over into the next Oblast from Donetsk in the southern Pokrovsk sector. They had sent individual individuals/groups there to raise a flag in a village just before the border and photographed it. It may have been the general staff who reported this. DeepState also informed that when Kursk would have been retaken by the Russians according to them, there were still ongoing battles there.
https://johanno1.se/sv/kriget-i-ukraina-2025-04-27/#comment-9269
Ukraine denies Russian troop presence in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast amid offensive, describe situation as ’tense.’ Despite Russia’s claims of an intrusion into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Major Andrii Kovalev, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s General Staff denied Russian troop presence in the region.
On May 21, Ukrainian officials rejected [] claims that Russian troops had reached Dnipropetrovsk Oblast’s administrative boundary.
Serhii Lysak, head of the regional military administration, called the reports ”fake,” citing doctored photos allegedly showing Russian soldiers in the area.
The Ukrainian monitoring project DeepState analyzed one such image and determined it had been taken in Troitske, a village in Donetsk Oblast.
As a precaution, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast began mandatory evacuations of children and families from four front-line villages in late April — Kolona Mezhova, Novopidhorodne, Raipole, and Sukhareva Balka — located just 5 to 15 kilometers from Russian positions.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-military-says-tense-situation-as-russia-continues-push-toward-dnipropetrovsk-oblast
PS got one in my feed on X to spread yesterday’s blog with at least 2.8K views as a result. Informed MXT but doesn’t seem to reach..?
205, the date is May 21, is it incorrectly dated?
No, it’s not misdated. It’s the example of similar Russian claims previously in another area.
Then I’m in 👍
What I saw that couldn’t be verified were drones filming Russian reconnaissance patrols inside Pokrovsk but I dare not swear by anything because the source was uncertain – Vladimir from Stalingrad.
Spring 2026…
“Ukraine will not receive Trump-approved Patriot systems until spring 2026, Spiegel reports. The first unit – originally intended for Switzerland – will be available in 8 months, while others are facing longer delays. Berlin and allies are pressuring the US and manufacturer RTX to speed up delivery.”
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lumwyqcq3s2r
Is anyone surprised and well that’s what we said 😀
Wonderful to read yellow walls! No correction but the Caroleans were actually Swedes (Finland was Swedish), but I want to point out (since you later refer to Finns) that these Swedes were mostly Finns! Charles XII especially trusted his Finnish soldiers, sometimes they were even called “the King’s Finns”, especially after their efforts in e.g. the Battle of Narva (1700) and during the campaigns in Poland and Russia.
So no criticism, just a Finnish correction in the ranks 🫡
Yes, I forgive Finland, I took some of your shine there 🙏🙏🙏
🤭 Totally OK! We were and are a Team! Think about the NATO entry 💪
14th of July + 50 days = 2nd of September. Not that I’m holding my breath, but I hope someone will ask Trump about the secondary tariffs against Russia by then. I won’t forget it, in any case.
40 days left.
We in the electricity underclass are curious about what the electricity prices could be without Russian gas this winter. Regardless of the price, I believe it’s worth it.
Hmmm, it’s also when Zapd25 is supposed to start
A fellow classmate 👏👏
Oh my, it was definitely not a metaphor for a significant decrease, he seems to believe it’s possible.
A 1,000% decrease would mean getting paid 9 times the cost of the item when purchasing it.
Some complained about Kamala Harris’s lack of economic knowledge before the election, but this sets a record in stupidity.
“Trump: We’re going to get the drug prices down by 1000% 600% 500% 1500%. Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable.”
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1947818543669485868?t=R5UdoWn3q9qu4XL-7hKZ0A&s=19
Yes, but his Victory perfume smells like a winner
Yes, where did he steal that scene?
I would gladly buy more pallets of it if I get a discount, don’t need 1000-1500%, would be satisfied with a modest 500%.
“✈️🇺🇦💣 Ukrainian MiG-29 destroys Russian positions and fortifications in Tyotkino, Kursk region, with American GBU bombs!”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lunc6tf6t22e
“Reuters: Russian oil revenues to fall 37% in July 2025 compared to 2024
Russia’s oil and gas revenues fell 37% to 680 billion rubles in July due to continued defense spending for its military operation in Ukraine.”
Does not allow US and EU strikes deep into Russia still 😐
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4017977-cinc-syrskyi-urges-us-eu-to-provide-more-air-defense-and-allow-strikes-deep-into-russia.html
Democracies cannot win with one hand tied behind their back. Restraint has become complicity when terrorists act with total impunity. NATO must stop fearing a weak Russia and start supporting a strong Ukraine. Anything else is concessions disguised as caution.
Exactly so!
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– We will not send any food to Gaza because it benefits HAMAS and they can profit from it by selling it at a high price to the rest of the Palestinians, besides, there is no starvation in Gaza, it’s just fake, we have evidence, we have seen the enormous warehouses they have and there are genuine videos of HAMAS soldiers sitting in a tunnel and gobbling it up.
– But if there is no starvation, how will HAMAS benefit from more food being sent in?
– Didn’t think about that.
“WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounds the alarm about mass starvation in Gaza, reports The Guardian. – A large proportion of Gaza’s population is starving. I don’t know what else to call it other than mass starvation – and it is caused by people, he says. The announcement comes as over 100 humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, and Amnesty, have signed a petition demanding that Israel stop blocking the distribution of life-saving emergency aid.”
https://omni.se/a/JbaQqJ
EU and USA close to a trade agreement that involves tariffs of 15 percent on European goods exported to the USA. Diplomatic sources inform Financial Times, Reuters, and Bloomberg. According to the sources, the agreement would resemble the deal between the USA and Japan that was announced earlier today.
The Christian Democrats’ leader Ebba “Busch” says that the party supports sanctions against extremist settlers and extremist Israeli ministers. Busch has spoken to DN after the newspaper reported that representatives of the party have been in contact with Israeli settlers and far-right politicians.
Off-Topic
“A Swedish billion project in carbon capture and storage, so-called CCS technology, is seen as crucial for the EU’s climate goals, writes Dagens Industri. In an interview with DI, EU’s Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra highlights the district heating company Stockholm Exergis’ facility in Värtahamnen as a role model. – You in Sweden are very good at solving problems together, across borders and between societal sectors, he tells DI. The project is expected to cost 13 billion SEK, plus costs for gas transport and storage. The plan is to ship the carbon dioxide for final storage under the bottom of the North Sea. They have already secured over 20 billion from the Swedish Energy Agency and 2 billion from the EU.”
https://omni.se/a/nyqQPQ
“The Russian company Ushkuyik, located 750 km from the Ukrainian border, claims to be producing tens of thousands of fiber-optic drones every month – up from 500 a year ago. CEO Aleksei Chadayev says the increase would be impossible without official or unofficial support from China, which supplies key components.”
“A group of Ukrainian soldiers spotted an incoming Russian FPV drone just in time and managed to abandon their pickup truck seconds before it was hit.”
Fucking shitty headline on an in-depth article at Omni. 🤬
“Zelensky has betrayed democracy” – this is what the new law means”