The war in Ukraine 2025-07-29

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Russian losses:

  • 1050 KIA
  • 4 Tanks
  • 39 Artillery systems
  • 1 MLRS
  • 1 Anti-aircraft systems
  • 192 UAVs
  • 2 Cruise missiles
  • 91 Vehicles & Fuel tanks

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  1. 205

    N Slobozhansky-Kursk 10💥
    S Slobozhansky 7
    Kupyansk 6
    Lyman 32💥💥↗️
    Siverskyi 4↘️
    Kramatorsk 1
    Toretsk 10💥
    Pokrovsk 57💥💥💥
    Novopavlivka 17💥↗️
    Huliaypillia 0
    Orikhivsk 1
    Dnipro/Prydniprovsky 5

     

    1. 205

      Lyman 32💥💥↗️
      In the #Lyman direction, the 🇷🇺AFRF attacked 32 times, trying to break through the defenses of the 🇺🇦AFU in the areas of the settlements of Novogorivka, Karpivka, Zelenaya Dolina, Yampilivka, and in the direction of Dronivka and Serebryanka.

      Lyman. Last seven days, DeepState. 166 attacks.

      7 days accumulated attacks per day last weeks.

  6. 205

    Artillery up again ↗️. Two days ten or less, record low. At the same time, no hint that the artillery attacks have ceased. That is, no withdrawal of artillery from the front. Temporary rationing of FPV or artillery shells? Or what? The levels have not been as low as yesterday and the day before yesterday in three years. Whatever the reason, the levels are back in today’s loss report.

  7. MXT
    AFU:
    “A total of 172 clashes were recorded during the past day.
    Yesterday, the opponent made 90 airstrikes, dropped 149 controlled aviation bombs. In addition, carried out 5,922 shells, including 61 – from jet fire systems, and deployed 3,859 kamikaze drones to impress.”
  8. Jan W

    Excerpt from an article in today’s SvD:

    “Criticism is growing against Daniel Ek after his investment in a drone company. Now several artists are leaving the streaming service. ‘Can we put pressure on these evil tech bros?’, writes Australian King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.” (my bold)

    The company is called Helsing, apparently working with drones among other things. Seems to be just what Europe desperately needs.

    So, according to the rock band, one should not have the right to invest in defense against murderers and rapists. Who are the truly evil ones? In any case, they are serving the purposes of evil. At best out of stupidity. However, it is so obvious that one almost has to wonder if there is an unconscious intention.

    There may be other reasons to criticize Ek, but what is stated above has crossed the line into the bizarre.

    https://www.svd.se/a/gwqRO5/raseri-mot-daniel-eks-vapeninvesteringar-fuck-spotify

    1. MXT

      Ill-considered ideology, where one is for peace and against weapons, but unfortunately it only works in an invented ideal utopia where all people are kind to each other.

      They overlook the fact that reality unfortunately does not look like that.

      It could very well be a way to attract attention. 

      They are still available on Spotify, should not be more than a few mouse clicks away to close down their own account if they were serious.

       

  10. MXT

    “🫡🇺🇦 Two Ukrainian stormtroopers from the 63rd Motorized Rifle Brigade attacked an enemy dugout in the Torske area and, after throwing grenades at it, captured two Russians!”

  11. MXT

    An investigation regarding incitement against an ethnic group in Umeå has been closed.

    Three individuals were suspected of the crime after two dolls in blue and white striped costumes with the Star of David were mock-hanged at a demonstration in Umeå in mid-July.

    The investigation is closed as it “is not deemed to express a threat or contempt towards the ethnic group Jews,” the Prosecution Authority writes in a press release.

    “I interpret the message that the creators mean that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide just as the Holocaust was.”

      1. Jan W

        Yes, in principle, almost everyone convicted of “incitement to hatred” is convicted for expressing contempt.

        Legal text: “Anyone who, in a statement or in another message that is disseminated, incites violence against, threatens, or expresses contempt for a group of people,…”

        It is easy to agree that it should be punishable to incite violence or threaten. But what should be considered as contempt in the legal sense appears to be extremely vague or subjective, if you will. In this particular case, however, I do not think it would be entirely far-fetched to argue that one is inciting violence.

  12. MXT

    “The deadly attacks of the night prove that Russia deserves ‘very harsh, truly painful, and therefore just and effective sanctions measures.’ This is written by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on X.

    At least 20 people have been killed in the past day. The deadliest attack occurred at a prison in Zaporizhzhia, where at least 17 people were killed by a Russian bomb.

    “And this was done after the US expressed a very clear position – a position shared by the world – that Russia must end this war and switch to diplomacy,” writes Zelensky on X.”

  13. MXT

    It takes over three years to realize it, then you can’t help but talk about how bad it is, and when it could be fixed at the earliest. 🤦‍♂️

    “Europe’s road network is not equipped for an invasion by Russia, reports the Financial Times.

    The continent’s roads, tunnels, bridges, and railways do not meet the requirements to transport military vehicles. And it would be a major problem if Russia had invaded and NATO quickly needed to send military resources to the east.

    EU’s Transport Chief Apostolos Tzitzikostas warns that tanks would not have been able to pass through tunnels, bridges would have collapsed, and they would have “got stuck in border controls.” Now Brussels wants to spend 17 billion euros from 2028 to 2034 to upgrade the infrastructure in Europe.”
    https://omni.se/eu-stridsvagnar-hade-fastnat-vid-granskontroller/a/8qyWqr

    1. Westley Richard

      Got stuck in a five km queue behind a tractor on E20. Have we completely stopped building roads, railways, power lines, sewage networks for politicians to do something they think is fun with the money instead.

      Convinced that we only use a fraction of our tax money on what is necessary.

       

      1. MXT

        Well, I can agree that a whole lot of money is probably being burned on things that are not directly necessary.

        Now, I am all for culture in various forms and if we look at music for example, it generates export revenue.

        But do we really need, for example, the State’s art council? Not a huge operation, of course, but is it really something we need?

        And should we taxpayers pay for symphony orchestras and opera when such a small percentage are interested?

        Also, I think we should be able to manage without the royal family.

        Although the big money probably disappears in bureaucracy and inefficiency.

        1. Westley Richard

          In the past, we could afford to finance defense, the royal house, and culture even though we were building roads, railways, and laying electricity and water pipelines.

           

          It would be interesting to see how the budget has evolved over the past fifty years and what has been added.

           

           

          1. Lasse W

            I think the transfers have increased. And take an increasingly larger share of the state budget. There are too many people of working age in the country who are not working. And have to be supported by the public. Watch the podcast Gröning and Blomgren when they interview a researcher named Eklund.

          2. MXT

            We had huge advantages of remaining neutral in the Second World War and could quickly develop our industry and export to other countries during their reconstruction. We became leaders in many areas and the export revenues allowed us to invest heavily in welfare, defense, and other areas. Then others caught up, we were hit by high oil prices (which we were dependent on) at the same time as we did not want to sacrifice any of the welfare we had built up, nor the large public apparatus that consumed money, when times got tougher. The latter both had positive and negative effects, as it still counteracted unemployment.

            It feels like we haven’t really gotten out of that.

            Welfare (healthcare, working environment, etc.) is generally positive (if we could stop the fraud that exists) but we would need to cut back on some of the state apparatus, county councils, and municipalities.

            Although perhaps mainly do as China, stimulate industry and development and try to retain what is created in the country.

            1. Westley Richard

              It is the regions that carry out healthcare, not the state.

              In “the good old days,” the regions collected so much tax that healthcare could be provided. That is no longer the case, out of the cost of about 500 billion, around 120 billion comes from the state.

              An increase in the regions’ tax could mean that the state could reduce its revenues, such as VAT or state income tax.

              The same applies to the municipalities, which are often entirely dependent on state revenues to carry out their activities.

              Often, the grants are also targeted, so if the municipality does this, they will receive that much from the state. There is rarely a connection between the municipality’s needs and the money that national politicians want to invest.

              The easiest solution would be for the state to take over the responsibility for some activities, such as schools, and reduce the corresponding municipal grants.

              There must be a strict responsibility between income and expenses that can be managed at the municipal level; otherwise, it will just be a game among politicians.

               

               

              1. Flurrevuppen

                It is precisely this fuzziness in responsibility that is the whole point… gives everyone involved someone else to blame… very convenient

              2. MXT

                Agree.

                I played mostly on the difference back then compared to now. When the country’s overall economy is doing well through exports, it’s also not as difficult to collect taxes, as long as real wages can be maintained. Now that we have fallen behind in some aspects, every tax krona becomes noticeable regardless of where it is collected.

                Exactly how to solve it in the best way today, I have no answer to. Here, for several years, it was the case that the county council was in deficit and taxes were raised at that time.

  14. MXT

    The Trump administration supports an Israeli plan to gradually begin annexing parts of Gaza if Hamas does not agree to a ceasefire, according to information from Haaretz.

    According to the plan, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to present to the security cabinet, Israel will give Hamas a few days to agree to a ceasefire, and if not, they will begin annexing areas in the Gaza Strip.
    The newspaper writes that this is seen as an attempt to keep the far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich in the government after Netanyahu’s decision to increase the world’s ability to increase aid to Gaza.

  15. MXT

    “Analysis: Means something when the word genocide comes from Israel

    Two leading Israeli human rights organizations assert that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. DN’s Emma Bouvin notes that the comments section of one of the organizations, B’Tselem, is not forgiving but she calls it expected.

    She writes that the clear criticism in a report from within Israel means something even if it is from two left-wing organizations.

    “That right now, when the images coming out of Gaza of emaciated babies are so horrifying that I can barely look at them, there is a loosening in Israeli society.”

    Nir Hasson highlights Israel’s attempts to deflect responsibility for the famine crisis in Gaza in an analysis in Haaretz. He writes that the American aid organization GHF can be seen as an Israeli proxy and the organization, together with the IDF, has intensified its smearing of the UN.

    “Over the weekend, GHF released at least 10 different statements attacking the UN in what looked like a PR coup.”
    https://omni.se/analys-betyder-nagot-nar-ordet-folkmord-kommer-inifran-israel/a/PpVqXb“

  16. MXT

    “Despite statements from Trump, Russia will continue its special military operation to defend its interests, according to Kremlin spokesman Peskov.”

  21. ANDERS RYDEN

    The post below is purely hypothetical.
    But in my opinion, quite an interesting thought experiment.

    I believe the most effective thing the USA can do now is to bomb North Korean military targets.
    About half of Russia’s military equipment comes from NK and it is sent, more or less, directly to the front.
    Technically, North Korea is still at war with South Korea so the UN probably won’t complain too much.
    From experience, we also know that Russia is most likely not going to do much more than be upset and, once again, threaten with nuclear weapons via Medvedev’s drunken tweets.

    3. CB500four

      Sounds like a plan, but it could also mean that Russia feels they have the right to indiscriminately bomb a country that supplies weapons to Ukraine. In that case, the Russian attacks would likely target civilians, as is their usual practice.

  22. Merle

    EL – Off topic, but I never got around to responding in the discussion in yesterday’s thread about electricity and wind power (some of us have both full-time jobs and a number of children…).
    https://www.affarsvarlden.se/artikel/avgrundsdjup-kris-for-vindkraften-i-norr-ingen-tjanar-pengar

    I HOPE that MXT, who claimed that we do not have a shortage of electricity in Sweden (since we export some), had a bad day or just thought a little wrong. THAT is not particularly relevant.
    Our problem is CAPACITY SHORTAGE, meaning we do not have electricity when we need it (for example when there is no wind, because we have built in too much wind power in the system at times). We are not at all happy to export wind power electricity when there is a temporary surplus, we get almost no payment because the recipient countries also have a surplus of wind power electricity. The only thing we can successfully export is predictable electricity to countries with a chronic shortage OR the same stupid dependence on intermittent power.
    France’s successful transfer of nuclear-based electricity to the self-harming/Putinist Germans can serve as an example.
    (And no, wind power is not predictable, not even the puppet Farmanbar believed that when he said it.)
    (And no, a subsidy-fed and ideologically forced expansion of wind power will not solve a damn thing. See article.)

    I’m sorry, but anyone who doesn’t understand the difference between electricity shortage and capacity shortage needs to… think again.
    If you breathe 100% oxygen for an hour and pure nitrogen (N2) for four hours, you have on AVERAGE received about 20% O2 (like in “normal” air). But you are not at all happier for it. You are actually pretty much dead within about fifteen minutes (out of the four).
    I can also draw the analogy with winter clothes/winter tires and refer to average temperatures, but O2 is quite obvious for a natural scientist.

    And YES, I am convinced of Russian infiltration of the environmental movement. It would be a disservice for them NOT to exploit this cost-effective weapon. Then we should consider China’s economic interests (and possible backdoors ready to sabotage the systems).
    I DO NOT believe the Russians are behind the insane system where subsidy entrepreneurs (capitalist pigs?) like Mix can make huge profits on the emperor’s new batteries, possibly they are extremely grateful that our politicians sabotage the country’s preparedness and economy better than they themselves can do.

    The Russian infiltration of/influence on the media was something Johan himself touched on yesterday.

    1. Westley Richard

      Denmark is also a country that is completely dependent on electricity from Norway and Sweden.

      Despite their massive expansion of wind power, they constantly need to import electricity, among other things to maintain stability in the power grid.

      It is quite easy for the Russians to knock out the Danish power grid. Just bomb the connections to other countries.

    2. MXT

      Sure, there is a difference between power shortage and (general) electricity shortage, but that doesn’t mean that we actually have any real power shortage.

      Question 1:
      How many times have we had power shortages in Sweden where we’ve had to implement load shedding, forcing companies to shut down operations, or where we’ve had to establish scheduled consumption?
      (The fact that prices have risen and that we’ve had to start up the Karlshamn plant doesn’t mean we have a power shortage).

      I don’t know if you misunderstand me, I’m not saying that I only want us to have wind power, but right now it’s needed. I haven’t claimed that wind power is predictable either, and I hope no one does.
      It definitely can’t be the sole electricity producer (possibly far into the future if we find better methods for energy storage, but then I hope we’ve found even better solutions).

      Today we balance wind power with hydroelectric power (nuclear power is running almost constantly) when there’s no wind. The problem lies mostly with weak grids (+ the fact that hydroelectric power brings in the money when electricity is expensive even though everything is interconnected.)

      Question two:
      How would we meet our electricity needs today if we shut down all wind power?

      I would argue that the reservoirs would be depleted and wouldn’t be sufficient as a replacement (if they were, it would have been completely pointless to build any wind power at all) and that we would actually experience both power shortages and electricity shortages. Feel free to prove me wrong!

      Regarding nuclear power.
      So far, what has been done is to adopt a law enabling state support for investments.
      The goal is to have 2 new reactors operational by 2035 and 10 by 2045.

      The two reactors are planned to have a capacity of 2,500 MW. Wind power currently produces approx. 15,000 MW, not even 10 reactors will be able to fully replace wind power, especially if our needs have increased by then.

      An investigation has also been initiated to facilitate the permitting process, but not much progress has been made so far.

      (I highly doubt that we’ll have any new reactors operational by 2035 unless something happens with SMR.)

      Question 3:
      How do you propose we solve the issues of future electricity shortages/power shortages until we have new nuclear power in place in 10-20 years? We can’t borrow electricity from future nuclear power production, and if we’re not going to expand wind power, what should we do?

      It’s no use complaining that we’ve shut down nuclear power plants that we should have kept, it’s about solving today’s and tomorrow’s needs in the best way possible.

      (And regardless of how we produce electricity, we must ensure that we have sufficiently good and redundant grids).

      1. Rocky

        Good MXT. It seems like they have forgotten why they shut down nuclear power plants. The electricity was too expensive. No one wanted to buy it. Nevertheless, it has never been forbidden to build new nuclear power plants – but no one wants to build a losing business. And now, with state guarantees, it seems like no one is lining up to build. The Karlshamn plant can be replaced with batteries.

        1. MXT

          Well, the fact that no one is willing to invest is quite alarming. Then it can be worth a lot to have stable electricity production.

          I do want a nuclear power plant if it can be reasonably profitable (and without promises of lowest prices that would completely kill off other initiatives that might arise).

          I’m hoping that SMRs will become affordable before we break ground and maybe end up stuck with something unnecessarily large and expensive.

          1. Flurrevuppen

            Korea is good at building nuclear power on time and budget, but it’s not a bold guess that we will avoid using that expertise and instead invest in some shabby Western-based company in combination with massive amounts of red tape to ensure that the expansion gets relevant similarities with Hallandsåsen…

            Rumored that Trump will expedite the type approvals of SMRs. Sweden and the EU… not so much. Instead, the EU is working on putting as many sticks in the wheels of climate as possible.

        2. Jan W

          However, that is not correct. The decision to shut down was a result of political decisions.

          From Vattenfall:

          “This is not scaremongering. Nuclear power is unprofitable, and if the nuclear power tax is not abolished, we cannot continue operating.”

          https://www.di.se/artiklar/2016/3/16/skickar-nya-nodsignaler-till-regeringen/

          And even though, at the time, it may have seemed economically correct from a business perspective, one could of course have hoped that instead of opposing nuclear power, politicians would have found ways to support it. Fossil energy must be replaced in one way or another by energy from fossil-free electricity. Shutting down functioning nuclear power plants under those circumstances was nothing but foolishness.

          This is what a government representative said at the time:

          “I promise what is stated in our election manifesto, that during this term several nuclear reactors will be closed.”

          https://second-opinion.se/omdebatterad-karnkraftsskatt-avskaffades-efter-18-ar/

          Regardless of what profitability calculations can be made today, it is obvious that the business community harbors enormous doubts about investing in nuclear power. One does not need to be Einstein to figure that out.

          1. Flurrevuppen

            Exactly.

            With the “right” policy instruments, any type of energy can become unprofitable.

            How did we manage during the 80s and 90s if nuclear power was so terribly expensive?

            The answer is that it wasn’t. It’s a fabrication. It’s a scandal that those who manipulated the shutdown of nuclear power cannot be held accountable. It borders on treason.

            Wind power does not bear its total costs if you consider the impact on grid stability and the need for other energy sources to cover when there is no wind. Despite this, they still operate at a loss. It’s simply not a sustainable solution.

             

    3. CB500four

      Here in Finland, we have a power deficit of over 2GW, when there is no wind, we import hydroelectric power from Sweden and Norway. There is some reserve power and gas turbines to use in emergencies, so we probably can handle some disruptions, but it’s probably touch and go.

      Then when the wind blows, almost half of the wind power is shut down due to lack of profitability, so I believe that the market will regulate the number of wind turbines to a sustainable level in about 10 years or so, as the least profitable ones are shut down.

      I don’t understand how anyone thought that profitability could be achieved in this massive wind power expansion, they must have skipped math class.

      1. MXT

        Yes, if you don’t have hydropower (or something else) to regulate against other than imports, it becomes extra challenging.

        In Sweden, I claim that it works quite well right now except for the distribution of incomes. 

        Hydropower is making a profit of 33 billion while wind power is at a loss of 12 billion, and both are needed as the situation stands.

        Then, the fact that maybe something else should have been done 10-20 years ago doesn’t help today.

        1. Jan W

          We cannot, of course, change decisions made 10-20 years ago. Perhaps we can learn from the mistakes. Perhaps there is reason to be skeptical of what is said from the same quarters that drove foolish decisions back then.

          1. MXT

            It’s better to ignore politics and assess the different options available without being influenced by which side wants what and the mistakes that have been made in the past.

            The left is afraid of nuclear power, thinks it’s expensive, and believes it can be solved with just solar and wind power. Then the right is in favor of nuclear power, so just for that reason, one must also be against it.

            It will not work.

            The right says that nuclear power is the only way forward and that wind power must be shut down because it is worthless and the left wants it, so it is almost hated.

            It will not work either.

            It will be at least 20 years until we have nuclear power that can’t even replace current wind power.

            We will never move forward and find a good solution unless both sides dare to let go of the grudge to find something that works and based on that, collectively develop a long-term plan that everyone agrees on and that will be upheld regardless of who wins the next election.

            If the left wins the next election, there will be no nuclear power; if the right wins again in the next election, they will start over.

            1. Jan W

              Of course, we cannot count on any new addition from nuclear power in the next X years. But there is no reason to refrain from starting to build today if it will still be needed in X+1 years. Today, about 70 percent of the energy consumed in the EU is of fossil origin. It must be replaced with something originating from fossil-free electricity. It is a huge transition. It will never be possible overnight. Much of the progress made in terms of GHG emissions has been the low-hanging fruit. (Sweden is in a much better position, to be fair). Can the transition work with just intermittent power (to quote Merle)? Can we afford to take chances? “Better safe than sorry” might be a reasonable approach.

              1. MXT

                We certainly can’t wait too long, agree on that. 

                Why not start with a trial order of one or five SMRs?

                It takes a few years to build them as well. When they are ready and it’s time for more, prices have probably gone down, right?

        2. Flurrevuppen

          It is correct that the sabotage against the energy system is not yet complete.

          The EU and the environmental lobby are working on the next step, which is to re-evaluate and preferably shut down hydropower that has been established since long ago.

          The fifth columnists are not sitting idle.

    1. MXT

      Cloudy, a bit windy, no rain for a few hours (but rained a lot last night, enough to wake up several times), 25 degrees in the shade and humid as hell, but fairly comfortable.

  25. johan No.1

    Hanging on Merle –

    Right now wind power companies are struggling and facing bankruptcies.

    What will happen if we remove some wind power from the “electricity mix” in Sweden?

    2. MXT

      A slight decrease we will manage for a while (depends of course on whether our needs remain or increase) but in the end we will become dependent on rain instead. When the water reservoirs are empty, only importing remains. And just a week of unusually little rain in the north will lead to higher prices even if they never become critical. Prices will be determined by the water level.

        1. johan No.1

          Is it then January with calm winds and -30 and the rest of Europe also doesn’t have a backup – is that what one must take into account?

          The UK has been dangerously close to shutdown and Germany as well?

          Then there is a whole list where industries come first maybe 😀

          2. MXT

            Well, as it is now, we manage with water and nuclear power because we have wind power.

            Then it’s like with the municipalities’ sewage pipes. You don’t design for the very worst scenario. The day that 100-year rain appears and everything goes to hell, you just have to deal with it.

            Even though we have nuclear power, a situation may arise where more plants are forced to emergency stop and suddenly we are left without electricity for a couple of days.

            It becomes terribly expensive to have double redundant solutions that should handle the very worst scenario.

            As I said, I have never advocated only wind power, just saying that as the situation is now, we are dependent on it and will be for many years to come.

              1. MXT

                What we have now? It’s not redundancy, they’re running all the time and only cover about ~30%.

                We would need 25-30 reactors, half of which are not used, and for safety reasons, double the grid if we are to rely solely on nuclear power.

                Not even that would be 100% safe.

        2. Jan W

          Yes, the Karlshamn power plant was the reserve capacity.

          Since the Karlshamn plant is some kind of emergency solution, one could say that there is a kind of capacity shortage if it needs to be started. It is probably not started to push down prices. If that were the case, it would obviously be done more often. In addition, there are some EU regulations today that seem to prevent further use of the Karlshamn plant. Must be resolved in some way, but today it is unclear.

          1. T23

            Njao, the Karlshamn plant has started up not due to power demand, but because the spot price has been so high that it has been profitable to run the plant (which in a way helps push down the price)

  26. johan No.1

    Tomorrow, there will be a post about Angola.

    They have recently received their investments from the UK in rare earth metal mining, and the president has been shaking hands with the USA and Europe.

    DPWorld and ADPorts took over the ports, and unfortunately, the IMF is also involved…

    China had priority until recently when they were pushed out, and Russia is not present in the country.

    The country has problems, yes, but it is so wealthy that every citizen should be a millionaire, and the first steps have been taken towards that.

    A few weeks ago –

    – protests quickly turned into riots and looting of supermarkets, banks, and wealthy areas.

    – weapons are now involved, shootings are increasingly seen in the movies.

    – on TikTok, endless lives with “it’s all the whites’ fault” or “the rich have everything, revolution.” This is completely new.

    You don’t even need to ask if it’s a third party destabilizing – if you question it, you are not worthy of continuing to discuss on social media.

    Does Europe or the USA have an interest in washing their investments that have just started?

    Russia or China, or both.

    Mozambique has just gone through this, and when I was in Lagos, I worked with a Portuguese born there who had lived there all his life and now moved. There it was China, not at all in the same way as this.

    If you want to see firsthand how Russia’s subversive activities work – follow this.

    And for heaven’s sake, stop questioning whether they are inside our organizations and destroying – instead, follow how they will send Angola straight into a civil war with “poor-rich,” “white-black,” “the government is corrupt/racist/only for the rich” and demonstrations that quickly spiral out of control, with criminals paid to wreak havoc on the streets.

    The reason it hasn’t happened in Sweden is that the citizens don’t have it bad enough yet, but they are trying to change that by crashing everything they can.

    Do you think Angola has a higher priority than Sweden?

    1. MXT

      Convinced that both Russia and China (and probably in some cases companies as well) are involved and causing trouble all over Africa, mainly to gain control over natural resources.

      What about Angola, is it more stable there? Or are there issues with local chiefs or rebel groups that Russia could support?

      According to Reuters, the protests were sparked by significantly increased diesel prices but of course, that’s something to take advantage of. It’s hard to see it escalating with more deaths otherwise.

      https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/angola-fuel-hike-protests-turn-violent-local-media-report-2025-07-28/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

       

       

      1. johan No.1

        Chiefs, lucky that BLM doesn’t read this thread because then you would have been flayed and dragged through the streets. In terms of a non-politically correct expression, you have probably hit the bullseye on the subject 🤣🤣.

        Local representatives know that it’s called.

        Yes, Wagner is present in 30 countries and China is everywhere too – they have mainly targeted the countries with a lot of natural resources that the West would need in the future and have convinced some countries not to sell to us anymore.

        Yes – it was racist diesel prices that needed a revolution 👍

        Yes, there lies the problem – the civil war ended in the early 2000s, the government is thoroughly corrupt, and the rebels are now a political party that would probably like to take power.

        A mess, but a mess that will get even worse if destabilized.

        They don’t have a direct ethnic conflict, what can be fueled is racism and then class differences, which is what we hear on livestreams.

         

        1. MXT

          So, have they concluded that it’s racist too? (So woke! 😂). Don’t socialize with local representatives in Africa so I have no idea how they perceive it. Personally, I think it hits much harder than “local representatives.”

          Sounds as outdated as the chairman of the municipal council.

          So I don’t place any such value on the word myself, but I guess I should apologize to those who took offense and out of respect, from now on, only use the word “chief” when it comes to the banned bicycle helmet.

          Racist diesel prices? 🤔

          Were there different prices depending on where you came from? Extra expensive if you come from Sweden? It wasn’t you who started it, was it?

          So they have rebels there too? Then it’s probably not that difficult to fuel the problems.

          1. johan No.1

            What they have above all are citizens under 25 years old who have never experienced a civil war.

            Then they have, just like us, a younger generation who thinks that working to earn a salary is oppression and racism, and that one should be able to have a comfortable life for free with someone else’s money.

            It is this group that is now being incited to take what is actually theirs.

        1. MXT

          😂

          Maybe shouldn’t take the joke too far. 

          You remember what happened at Cornu when some people got seriously upset thinking you had multiple accounts there.

          So, 20 new accounts haven’t appeared!

  28. johan No.1

    Hooking onto Merle above and the discussion about nuclear power shutting down because electricity was too expensive and I didn’t understand the context, so I have to ask?

    I’m missing some basic facts but I googled my way to two reactors shutting down before 2015 and four after 2015.

    In 2015, the average price was 20 öre/kWh according to this report – was that low or high?

    Link to the report

    From 2016, power tax is introduced on nuclear power and thermal tax is removed, but according to the information below, it’s a zero-sum game.

    – The tax on thermal power in nuclear power plants is abolished in three equal steps in the years 2016, 2017, and 2018. – The energy tax on electricity is raised in three steps in the years 2016, 2017, and 2018 to fully compensate for the revenue loss from the tax on thermal power each year.
    In 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, one nuclear reactor is shut down per year.
    Average electricity prices per kWh
    2015 – 20 öre
    2016 SE3 – 27.78
    2017 SE3 – 30.09
    2018 SE3 – 45.78
    2019 SE3 – 40.55
    2020 SE3 – 22.10
    2021 SE3 – 67.17
    In 2022, prices soared to over 137 öre/kWh
    From what I can see in investments, we have been experimenting with different taxes to produce electricity through nuclear power for quite some time – around the turn of the millennium, it was supposed to be completely removed as it was done for hydropower, but it didn’t happen.
    Wind power doesn’t seem to have any direct subsidies today in Sweden, and if I understand everything that is written, it’s not going very well for it?
    Now apparently we are going to build new nuclear power with fixed electricity prices, credit guarantees, and large reactors?
    Today in Sweden, we don’t have the expertise to build such things, so prices will skyrocket.
    Then it’s not economically viable if price regulation is necessary, but considering our political pirouettes, it’s probably an extremely risky investment that will make the risk list explode.
    If we have now moved past the discussion of why we shut down 6 reactors and who voted for it and how prices looked in 2022.
    What should we do?
    Why doesn’t the market get to decide without politicians stepping in to control?
    Or should we nationally do what is often done at the municipal level – we should provide heat or electricity, and it should be in a company that is not allowed to make any profit, a cost price?
    I don’t know how many municipalities have had soaring electricity prices, but an idea would be SMR nuclear reactors for 10 billion SEK that municipalities can borrow, combining 2-3 municipalities?
    Well, that would crash the whole green deception AND soon the nuclear reactor deception, but it would at a reasonable cost solve the problem for us citizens, right?
    And within a reasonable time frame.
    In the end, I don’t think we would need that many if we add them at the worst bottlenecks, do you think 5 would be enough?
    I’ll make it simple – if SE3 doesn’t need to send electricity to SE4, we in SE3 are okay.
    SE2 and SE1 have no problems.
    Living under 3 million in this part of the country.
    5 SMRs would more than suffice and cost 10 billion SEK.
    So for 50 billion SEK, we have solved the whole problem that is unsolvable – what do we spend 56 billion SEK on per year in Sweden, money seems to be available anyway?
    Another option is to cut the transmission from SE3 to SE4 and let them manage as best they can – maybe that’s better?
    The third option is Swedish electricity prices that we have to have for the EU but no one wants to implement 😀
    They have it in many countries in Europe, by the way, but not in the world’s best country Sweden.
    And the last is to continue to be fair to district heating.
    Just so you understand that with the green electricity and new nuclear power, you have been deceived.
    You have been deceived because new nuclear power was supposed to cost 400 billion (before costs skyrocket!!!!!!!) and wind power cost 120 billion since 2020 alone, and solar power maybe 50 billion.
    For 50 billion, you get reactors that will run for many years over a wind power park or solar panel installation, reliable and minimal risk of disasters.
    I think you all can see why we haven’t already invested everything in SMR, right? 😀
    Soon SMR will probably be both climate deniers and green deception when both the wind power lobby and the nuclear power lobby have to lower this proposal 🤣🤣
    Then wind power and solar power can regulate themselves over time and existing reactors can be operated as long as possible?
    If things start to burn, you buy another SMR for 10 billion SEK where there is a risk of shortages?
    1. Umlaut

      I find it interesting that the environmental movement always starts talking about how nuclear power is expensive, and my interest does not lie in whether it actually is expensive or not, but in that they suddenly put the economy as a balance to produce emission-free (almost in any case) electricity or not. I thought that environmental benefits were allowed to cost sometimes, that the economy should not always be the top priority.

    2. MXT

      Yes, SMR is probably the way forward, but it is actually still quite expensive in relation to the capacity. But the nice thing is that you can add to it gradually.

      5 units is a good start if we keep the wind power, but more will be needed in the long run.

      The problem is that the municipalities will scream no, we do not want nuclear power here but there the right-wing will have to show that they really want nuclear power. 😄

  29. johan No.1

    Today, the electricity supply was to be discussed 👍

    Tomorrow, you will have to endure Angola because it is on-topic since Russia is behind it, and if you make an effort, you can see an influence operation in full swing.

    I have a post about the fronts in progress, but it’s not uplifting at all.

  30. johan No.1

    The district heating that I never get connected because the County Administrative Board has now taken 3 years to process the case has a cost of 37öre/kWh and then no tax will be added on these kWh because it is not electricity consumption or how 🧐

    Then I have 5000kWh/year left in electricity consumption.

    My municipality can handle this without any problems at all and I have exactly 20m to the connection point, damn soon I’ll dig up the street myself one dark night.

    1. Umlaut

      37 öre?! At my place, it costs over 400 SEK/month just to have it connected, and on top of that 88 öre/kWh including VAT to use it. That doesn’t even include the cost for waste collection, which is the fuel for the power plant.

      1. johan No.1

        Have I read wrong and it wasn’t 37.0 öre but 370 öre 😭

        Joking aside, I think…, they are pushing this from the cooling down of other operations so it’s a residual product/waste product.

        They also run the business completely without profit, that is, only at cost to deliver hot water.

         

  31. Umlaut

    When reading the blog, China’s increasingly unabashed support for Russia is highlighted. And with a USA that is leaving walk over regarding Pax Americana, where the president changes and tears up agreements that he himself has arranged, while blaming everything on the opposition, then it may feel like it’s just time to go and dig a trench, or start sharpening one’s Mandarin (and not the fruit). Nice to read that China may then be on the decline

     

    https://www.dn.se/kultur/den-sega-partibyrakratin-har-fatt-kinas-ekonomi-pa-fall/

     

    Ingress: Decades of economic miracles are over. China’s economy is lagging because local authorities no longer dare to make any decisions. The party’s centralization of power threatens innovation and combat readiness, writes Professor Johan Lagerkvist.

  34. T23

    Drone thefts in the media are conspicuously absent. Saw this post in a drone group the other day. Unfortunately, I can’t get the image function to work here in the blog comments so I’ll just paste the link.

     

    https://flic.kr/p/2rjvDBe

     

     

    Drone

    2. johan No.1

      Even though I really like his Victory perfume, I’m starting to become somewhat disillusioned when it comes to him taking on Russia.

      What everyone sees as constant flip-flopping and blowing hot and cold has worked excellently – everyone is waiting for Trump’s next move and doing nothing, and we have been going on like this for seven months now.

       

  38. johan No.1

    I will probably write again tomorrow, but if the comment field has reached consensus on SMR, then that is probably what Sweden should try.

  40. 205

    Another time this year, a military training facility is hit.

    Today, July 29, the enemy has carried out a rocket attack against one of the training units within the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

    Despite the security measures taken, unfortunately, it has not been possible to completely avoid casualties among the personnel. At 9:30 p.m., three soldiers were dead and 18 were injured. The emergency services are working on site. The injured are immediately receiving all necessary medical assistance.

    We express our sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the deceased.

    To investigate all circumstances and causes of the loss of personnel, a commission has been formed under the leadership of the chief of the military police in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a service investigation has been initiated.

    If it is determined that the soldiers’ deaths and injuries were caused by actions or omissions on the part of officials, those responsible will be held accountable.

    The commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Ground Forces are taking additional security measures to protect the lives and health of soldiers during the attacker’s missile and air strikes on training areas and educational centers.

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