Ukraine and the World Daily Update May 17, 2025

Nothing happens in a vacuum, that should be very clear, and the India-Pakistan conflict has probably only just begun. That was the analysis we made right at the start, and I still hold on to that.

Trump doesn’t seem to be quite up to date – he is currently out there suggesting that Apple should not invest heavily in India at all, but rather in the USA, and that he soon will have a “superb trade deal with India.”

It is indisputable that India initiated the war after a terrorist attack, and they came out strong, with Pakistan responding in kind.

But we don’t know what events led up to that, do we?

However, we have seen enough information now to be able to connect the following:

-The USA visited India for a charm offensive.

-India chose the USA over China and imposed 10% tariffs on China.

-Trump has demanded that all manufacturing be moved from China, and India has been ready to receive a lot – for example, Apple, which Trump is now upset with. He seems to have a beef with Tim Cook because when he talked about moving, he meant to the USA.

-China is poking into the open wound of India-Pakistan.

-Now either China or Russia has started looking for divisions in India, and Islamophobia is a clear catalyst.

-We do not see the same subversive activity against Pakistan, other than India somewhat clumsily trying to stir something up.

-Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh seem to have a united front against India?

Old truths apparently went out the window – for example, Pakistan has sold huge amounts of ammunition to Ukraine and had almost empty crates when this started, so obviously they have leaned towards the West?

I saw that Russia immediately sent MANPADS to India – it seems like there are still good relations with them.

I can only conclude that this is a China-driven operation and that Russia simply has to comply.

And that it was initiated when India actively chose the USA over China.

I don’t have much good to say about JD Vance, but here he seems to be innocent.

So, we have reached the point where China has started to do exactly like Russia and incite war – let’s hope the world’s security services are taking notes 🧐

The Istanbul negotiations are going something like this – the Russians sent some middle management who don’t have the mandate, so Rubio left. Then they sit there half-drunk and threaten Ukraine’s delegation, which included the defense minister and the head of the security service, when the president backed out of a forever war if they don’t get a bunch more provinces they don’t control today.

Moscow would damn well be bombed to rubble for this, but has anyone seen Starmer, Macron, or Merz in the past few days?

Have they taken a vacation?

At least Trump seems to want to go to Moscow and meet Putin directly – setting himself up to be humiliated by Putin once again, as he never seems to learn.

Europe is not ready 😡

And we have been holding back Ukraine since the turn of the year, making them retreat and not fight the Russian troop buildup, leaving Putin completely undisturbed 😡

Now all that’s left is for them to try to poison the defense minister as well.

It’s strange that Europe and Trump still, after three years, or maybe Biden, act as enablers for Putin.

I simply can’t understand this – does it all boil down to weak leaders with weak parties backing them now?

We don’t hesitate for a second to throw Ukraine under the bus apparently, so we don’t turn a blind eye to genocide and murdered children, but standing up firmly against Putin simply doesn’t seem to be an option.

What are we afraid of?

My theory is that he can personally threaten the West through gang criminals and hit squads, as well as GRU defamation campaigns + opposition parties.

Western leaders simply seem to have an aversion to Putin, and those who haven’t had it have had to resign due to political or personal scandals.

Except for the center party member on the train because it was on film, the one who got 12 million SEK to expose himself to a minor.

Is it that scary?

Shouldn’t Europe have gotten its act together by now and know how to protect itself against GRU?

And for all of you who say that Europe is quietly preparing to stand up to Putin – does it really look that way?

Thyberg-gate continues, and to me, it’s very confusing.

-A diplomat arrested because the name on the email address that sent the pictures was his, I think it seems to be clarified, or not?

-Another one arrested at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

-One of the diplomats had to go to the hospital for physical and mental injuries in connection with the arrest.

-One of the diplomats is now dead in a suicide (world record in a quick police investigation 🧐).

-Someone with connections to the Kurds was arrested in Gävle, but it now seems to have been in connection with the Medin case in Turkey?

-But other newspapers say that the “Gävle man” is linked to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and absolutely not the Medin case.

-And other newspapers write that it is independent – the “Gävle man” and the other arrest at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs are, however, linked but have nothing to do with either Thyberg, the first arrest at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, or the Medin case.

Someone is leaking a lot to the media right now, and all sorts of smokescreens are being put up.

SÄPO (Swedish Security Service) seems to have been taken by surprise at first.

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