Saturday and alternative post.
I receive an incredible amount of fan mail, bags of them, and the inbox is overflowing with tributes from giants like Nelson Mandela and Crown Princess Victoria.
Then there have been complaints about the advertising campaign on johanno1.se as well, difficult to read them because the ads effectively cover the entire page now.
First, I must address the female admirers and Janne who send perfumed underwear – I have now received a response from RFSL and it is unfair and must, if so, come together with two-day boxer shorts so I ask you to stop it, for me equality is very important (and I’m not keen on two-day boxer shorts) ๐ก
A question was asked about what I intellectually gain from doing this, a good question.
We pay for a page ourselves and spend an extremely large amount of time putting posts together, and if you like the post, maybe you click the like button if you feel like it, if you don’t like it, you write a long reply about why everything is crap, or it turns into an alternative theory.
The highlight was probably when Omfall A was posted – you can probably guess the time that went into that post ๐
But it’s definitely a thousand times better than the crap on that other blog where individuals were allowed to destroy, insult, belittle, and harass for over two years just because it brought traffic to the site – cynical and inhumane.
Then we have the pro-Russian group that has now found its way to the pleasant little reserve of Substack where they sneak in with a comment and then start to disrupt.
It feels like I would have more in my wallet and a more enjoyable life if I stopped writing – probably, and a happier wife who thinks this takes way too much time but is happy if I am happy.
In February 2022, I immediately identified this as the prelude to our current global conflict, you know, one of those global conflicts that hit extremely unfairly, where if you were, for example, 19 years old and (the inequality ๐ก) in Germany in 1938, the likelihood of experiencing 1945 was quite small.
Or not to mention if you happened to have Jewish ethnicity and misjudged how diabolical people can become in a short time just because they are given free rein, so you stayed with your family in Europe. Convincing the family as a father that everything would work out for the better has rarely gone more wrong in world history.
I was also struck by how wrong the media ended up in their reporting and how often I was right in my assumptions, which I was not infrequently alone in – I remember being satisfied with Lysychansk.
Then all the pushback when suspicions were aired about what was happening in the shadows from the West and always got a “they are the professionals and you are nothing” or “absolutely not, you will see.”
The feeling when the interviews or articles on-record, or Zelensky’s statements later confirmed what one suspected has been very rewarding, you probably sensed the euphoria when you read those triumphant posts ๐
In 2025, I no longer have my ear so close to the ground and am boiling the soup on fewer nails, so the bull’s-eye frequency is lower, but I have to live with that.
As long as one praised Ukraine in everything, everyone except the pro-Russians were happy, but at some point about a year or longer ago, I decided to try to report the actual situation and extrapolate (a bit more…) realistically. Can’t remember exactly when.
There has been a bit more headwind ๐
I also initially thought that I would probably write for a maximum of two years and then it would end happily, but Europe has shown to have an infinite supply of misconceptions in stock.
I don’t have the time, I don’t get paid, there is more criticism and pushback than positive feedback, the overall situation is completely heading in the wrong direction – it’s hard to see the upside of the effort actually.
I believe that one motivator is to challenge established truths and number two is to try to have an honest argumentation.
Sweden is very good at established truths and there are many established “no-go zones” that are completely wrong and defended by a dishonest shady bunch who have an interest in it, often money behind it.
Honest argumentation is something few engage in, fewer than I thought when I started with this.
Is this easy – if you start sniffing around established truths, you get a collective ton of bricks over you, and it’s extremely easy to get stuck in being forgiving towards the side you identify with and vice versa.
When I have time, I like to take a topic or established truth, break it down, find other angles, and then it turns into a discussion that goes off in unexpected directions – it’s rewarding. Unfortunately, there isn’t time for all topics, so the distribution is automatically not fair at all.
To conclude this enormous tribute to myself with extra bรฉarnaise sauce, it also gives something to try to enlighten about the journey we have made since February 2022 to almost reaching a full-fledged global conflict by doing nothing.
Now we also have the whole history since 2022 and can immediately expose bluffs and out dishonest debaters trying to set the agenda without knowing their stuff.
If one is to be picky, employees are guided by their tasks and also come and go to new workplaces where they cannot spend 90% of the paid working time on something else like I have managed to do for over three years – having had continuity since February 2022 and followed every event, every inch of land, and argued about everything far too much is probably good knowledge so we’ll continue for a while.
That being said – you will receive a reminder at the end of each month to donate a sum on the site because costs need to be reduced for us, and it is quite clear that the ads must disappear when the evaluation period is over in 10 days – the idea was that it would solve the problem, but now we don’t see the problem because everything is covered in a thick blanket of ads ๐
Back to the world after giving myself an A+ in everything.
The Gaza conflict is the most infected and extremely polarizing on Earth, and Russia is behind it in the shadows.
I am occasionally accused of being too forgiving towards Israel, which I am not – they have been too harsh, and I write about that in between, and on October 7th, I analyzed this completely correctly – Israel would have an absolute hell with fighting in the city and it would take time. What I don’t do, however, is participate in the chorus of complaints in the way one must but try to write completely soberly on the subject – and then you get crap.
But shame on those who give up – now we have reached the point where this will soon be permanently resolved, and it is the first time since 1948.
The UK handled it poorly at the time and Russia got involved in the conflict immediately, and there are hardliners on all sides.
Yes, those who have suffered the most are the Palestinian civilians without a doubt, yes one can refer to the laws of war but for how long then โ how many residential areas can be bulldozed, how many civilians can be displaced, and how many can be allowed to die?
My own view on this is that it has gone too far now, or the line was crossed quite some time ago when Israel lost control amidst the maze of small streets and alleys.
UNRWA and the UN have completely lost their way โ Hamas has in recent years actually built its infrastructure and weapons stockpiles, which they bought with contributions from our countries, inside or beneath UNRWA’s own facilities.
Hezbollah tunnels were located right next to UN military posts in Lebanon โ does anyone really believe that the soldiers wouldn’t see or hear a tunnel being dug?
UNRWA chose to coexist with Hamas can only be the conclusion, or worse than that because more than once UNRWA employees have been exposed for โ fighting for Hamas, having hostages at home, being couriers, or having weapons stockpiles at home.
But now it finally happened โ the Arab League has demanded that Hamas be completely dismantled (disappear) and that they should take over Gaza, the heavyweights in the Arab League have had enough.
The EU supports this, and so does the Palestinian Authority, which means that it is now supported by all those who have clean hands.
It seems like the MENA countries will pay for the reconstruction โ surprisingly decent of them.
They will also take care of security in Gaza and Israel must stay completely out of it โ and by that they mean completely out, not a bunch of Shin Bet agents lurking in the shadows.
MENA recognizes Israel as a country as a quid pro quo and they will probably try to seek Israel’s help in stabilizing Syria and making the MENA region a better place because Israel has a lot of civilian know-how that they could use for good.
You won’t find a better solution โ the MENA countries themselves will solve the problem.
I stand 100% behind this and we can now put this behind us, soon โ I almost let out one of those sighs of relief when I read the proposal and felt that all the pieces had fallen into place.
Like when you come home from work and discover that apparently there was another beer in the fridge since yesterday โ that feeling if you understand ๐
Also keep an eye on those who have participated in the debate and oppose this proposal โ then they either haven’t had clean hands or have been serving Russia’s interests ๐ง
Don't forget to donate, Ukraine's cause is ours! Support Ukraine!
I give you two thumbs up (I don’t have more :)).
There you go, some positive feedback!
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Thumbs up
Thank you for the yellow thumbs up ๐
Russian losses
https://bsky.app/profile/matsextrude.bsky.social/post/3lvfj5jznp222
Glory to Ukraine!
“Samara, Russia. Novokuybyshevsk Oil Refinery. What a torch! ๐ฅ๐๐ฅ”
“Ryazan Oil Refinery, Russia. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ”
“๐ฆ Drones attack oil refinery in Ryazan!
๐ฅAnd more BAVOVNA in Feodosiya!”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lveuuax65s2p
Now that India is no longer buying Russian oil, they can let it burn up ๐
Ah, you mean they themselves set fire to it to avoid the hassle with the surplus? ๐
“A short time ago I reported on Russian regions being attacked by Ukrainian drones.
Explosions are happening in Lipetsk now, locals say the airfield is under attack.”
Yes, good about the Arab League’s proposal. They have been too passive for too long. It’s not just the EU sitting on their hands and letting extremists set the agenda.
The movement of nuclear submarines by the USA is being done as a security measure, said President Donald Trump when he was questioned by reporters late on Friday evening. “We just have to be cautious. A threat was made and we didn’t think it was appropriate, so I have to be very careful.” Trump was referring to “stupid and provocative statements” from Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev. This is the first time that Trump has spoken or hinted at the USA’s nuclear capabilities in connection with Russia and Ukraine.
Medvedev and Trump are a bit like mixing oxygen and hydrogen.
Or diesel and ammonium nitrate.
About the advertisement. The damn Tipp-Micke took up the whole page and could only be closed by clicking the back arrow at the bottom.
The idea is that you shouldn’t be able to click away the advertisement ๐
Here are also a couple of thumbs up for you and MXT, but also for all of you who are active here.
PS The ads haven’t bothered me, you know that the revenue goes to something good. If Ukrainians can endure bombings, I can endure a little advertising.
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I agree. Advertising may be worth it.
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Nice with more thumbs up ๐
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I really hope that it will work out with Gaza, but I don’t think it will be quite that simple.
Yes, the devil is in the details, as they say. There are certainly economic interests linked to Hamas that do not disappear at the drop of a hat.
Front report last 24 hours, upwards in Kupyansk, highest in almost a month. Also higher in Pokrovsk, where it fluctuates, but remains constant at a high level (40+ attacks per day).
N Slobozhansky-Kursk 8โ๏ธ
S Slobozhansky 4โ๏ธ
Kupyansk 10๐ฅโ๏ธ
Lyman 20๐ฅโ๏ธ
Siverskyi 6
Kramatorsk 2โ๏ธ
Toretsk 6โ๏ธ
Pokrovsk 66๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅโ๏ธ
Novopavlivka 23๐ฅ
Huliaypillia 0
Orikhivsk 1
Dnipro/Prydniprovsky 7โ๏ธ
Attacks in all sectors:
Accumulated:
Frontline impacts:
Kupyansk 10๐ฅโ๏ธ
Ten attacks by the ๐ท๐บAFRF were recorded in the Kupiansk direction. The ๐บ๐ฆAFU repelled ๐ท๐บenemy assaults in the areas of the settlements of Golubivka, Zagryzove, Lozova and Kindrashivka.
Lyman 20๐ฅโ๏ธ
In the Lyman direction, the enemy๐ท๐บ attacked 20 times, trying to advance near the settlements of Karpivka, Yampilivka, Kolodyazi, Zelenaya Dolina, Torske, and Dibrova.
Pokrovsk 66๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅโ๏ธ
In the Pokrovsk direction, our defenders๐บ๐ฆ stopped 66 attacks by the aggressor๐ท๐บ in the areas of the settlements of Popiv Yar, Mayak, Razine, Novoekonomichne, Zatyshok, Lysivka, Promin, Zvirove, Udachne, Dachne and Zelenyi Kut.
Novopavlivka 23๐ฅ
In the Novopavlivka direction, the Defence Forces repelled 23 offensive actions by the aggressor in the areas of Oleksandrograd, Piddubne, Tovste, Maliivka, Voskresenka and Novopil.
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Thank you Johan for the time you put in! Brilliant posts every time.
Nemiroff!
Keep writing, the wife can manage on her own sometimes.
Free bar for a day promised to Johan No.1 after their inevitable victory is secured. ๐ป
Glory to Ukraine!
Thank you for the kind words 205 and very tempting offer there FIM ๐
…the dog ๐ is of course welcome to join as well. ๐
USA
Soon we may trust the information from the USA as little as from Russia, when no one will dare to release anything without first grooming it to satisfy Trump.
“The US Department of Labor presented very weak job numbers. A few hours later, Donald Trump fired the chief statistician Erika McEntarfer and promised to replace her with someone “much more competent.” The decision has sparked strong criticism from several quarters.”
https://omni.se/a/MnVym5
The media is gaining more and more impact. In the end, there is not a single media task that can be trusted. Only those who are well-informed and make the effort to go to the sources may possibly get a true picture of reality. The vast majority of media consumers are constantly kept in the dark by propagandists, activists, and headline writers.
Maybe not such a bad idea with Public Service after all
Not if it is objective and dares to ask tough follow-up questions, but it is a long way to go.
The idea behind public service is probably good!
Haha, yeah talk about shooting the messenger ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
“Indian Oil Corporation, India’s largest state-owned oil refinery, has purchased at least five million barrels of crude oil from the USA and two million from the United Arab Emirates. Sources with insight to Bloomberg report. According to the sources, the purchase is unusually large, and the delivery unusually fast, by the company’s standards.”
Unfortunately, yet another example of when people do exactly as Trump wants regardless of the issue.
Although I guess some of you instead exclaim “finally” and hope that the rest of the world will do the same.
“The US Environmental Protection Agency EPA no longer wants greenhouse gases to be classified as a threat to public health and welfare. The proposal – presented on the orders of Donald Trump – risks leading to scrapped emission restrictions for vehicles, industries, and power plants, writes DN. Mattias Goldmann, CEO of the climate organization 2030-secretariat working to help Sweden achieve its 2030 climate goals, calls the proposal “crazy”.”
When it comes to CO2 emissions per capita, Russia ranks 14th, the USA ranks 16th, China ranks 25th, and Sweden ranks 93rd out of a total of 208 countries.
(Those who don’t care about the climate, of course, compare the emissions total from each country, as if it were a sensible comparison, and then think that the natural conclusion is that we don’t need to do anything because “look how much China emits”!)
The USA is already today one of the highest emitters per person (and overall), and it is likely to get even worse under Trump.
Sweden is therefore one of the world’s low-emission countries, emitting the least.
Good, right?
Yes, absolutely. There is a lot of complaining about how bad things are in Sweden and how bad we are, nice to see that there are certain areas where we are really good.
It is probably better that the other countries that are behind us, regardless of how you count, start sorting waste, achieve good waste incineration with efficient flue gas cleaning, etc. etc. All the low-hanging fruits we have already picked.
We have the technology and references, so what is Sweden waiting for?
Selling our solutions is the lowest-hanging fruit today, without costing us or our industries anything, we help other countries to improve, which is important for everyone who thinks the image of Sweden is important. In addition, we can surely include this in our own excellence calculation when we show how skilled we are.
Agree, but the challenge is to get the others on board. When Trump now scraps all environmental work, there is a great risk that more countries will reason the same way.
India and China in a growth phase and a USA that is essentially the worst (despite having previously started trying) will be an immense uphill battle.
(China has pledged net zero by 2060, which is probably too late, but at least they have the ambition to try to solve their own problems.)
Environmental interests in the West have been allowed to spread and become mainstream. All industrial activities are viewed with suspicion and must be environmentally certified. Like Heidelberg Cement’s large limestone quarry in Slite, which is crucial for the construction industry in Sweden. It was saved from closure by the government at the last minute. The green transition hampers economic development in the West. I believe Trump is right.
I agree. The EU’s extensive climate policy laws and fees lay a heavy wet blanket over industrial companies and hinder economic growth. The EU’s climate policy must be dismantled if companies in the EU are to have any chance of competing with the USA and China.
No wonder that more and more European companies are moving to the USA – there they can avoid all the hassle around climate policy and DEI.
Yes, if one does not believe that the constant increase in CO2 emissions is something to worry about, then it is of course a natural standpoint that economic growth is more important.
In reality, the costs of the changing climate will be gigantic in the future, and the longer we wait, the worse it will get.
CO2 emissions continue every year without any signs of slowing down, but instead keep increasing all the time.
It will probably not be us, but today’s children and grandchildren who will have to pay the price.
Why black or white? Can’t one have reasonable demands with carrots instead of unreasonable demands with whips?
Sure, indeed. Something that would have been good would be if the world could truly unite on emissions trading, how it should be calculated, etc. It would work for both parties.
Developing countries would be encouraged to do the right thing from the start. Industrialized countries with high emissions would have incentives to do more and to develop technology.
Yes, more food and less starvation is definitely not a positive thing ๐
“During the night, Russian forces fired 53 drones at Ukraine from multiple directions. Air defense units shot down or knocked out 45 targets.”
“Another perspective on this morning’s attack on the Russian oil refinery in Novokuibyshevsk”
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1951546999225946277?t=RRjFBG03oi7IUzHMCKl-wQ&s=19
“โ๏ธAlso at night, the ๐บ๐ฆUkrainian Armed Forces attacked a ๐ท๐บRussian radar station tracking space objects in the temporarily occupied Crimea.”
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3lvfnhlgsfs2p
“โ๏ธ Dessutom blev fรถrmodligen den ryska militรคra flygplatsen i Primorsky-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar kraj, attackerad pรฅ natten – NASA FIRMS brandkarta visar ett antal termiska anomalier pรฅ dess territorium.
Ryssarna skjuter upp sina Shahed- och Gerbera-droฬnare frรฅn denna flygplats.”
Very good. If UA stops the Shaheds, it will be a game changer.
Something has changed – refineries are five months ago.
Good morning no1! Big thanks for the awesome and highly informative = A grade post! Very interesting info today, which I’ve always wondered about since you started with world-leading analyses after Feb 2022, now served without me having to ask!
What drives him? – Challenging truths and honest arguments
How does he find the time? – The job pays 90% ๐
How does the wife put up with all of this? – she wants Johan to be happy..
…and a few more clarifications!
Also very interesting when you, in addition to reading the coffee grounds, also clearly state your own opinions, big and small, for example on the Israel issue.
Hats off to you no1! You are the best writer in Sweden! The world(?)
#keep up the posts! Will you promise? ..and I promise to Venmo you for a coffee now and then. Together we make a difference for more understanding, for better average behaviors from all the world’s identities/homo sapiens, for a better world.
Thank you for your kind words David, there have been some who have asked so I thought I’d clarify the concepts ๐
Gaza
“Many of the children who are killed in Gaza have been shot in the chest or head, reports the BBC. The newspaper has reviewed 160 cases where children have been killed, and found gunshot wounds in the head or upper body in 95 of the cases. In 57 of these cases, the BBC has received witness accounts that the children were shot by the Israeli military. Saneed Taboura, whose daughter Mira was killed on a road marked as safe by the IDF, claims to know that it was Israeli soldiers who killed her, completely unprovoked. – I am sure it was a sniper, because she was killed with a single shot to the heart, he says.”
https://omni.se/a/qPq9rg
Good that this is not forgotten ๐
Big Thanks for what you’re doing! All the time you spend on analyzing, interpreting, and informing!
One alternative to advertising could perhaps be sponsorship?
Especially from places that may be relevant in relation to the subject of the blog:
Ureka, Red Star, TacticalStore, General Prepper… you get it.
Possibly also Saint Javelin and others (U-shirt, M-tec…)
Thoughts?
Thank you for kind words and suggestions ๐๐
we will check sponsorship MXT I think
The advertisement is completely fine.
I see no downside to it.
No downside is perhaps to exaggerate. But if it is necessary for the site to endure in the long run, one can easily put up with it every day of the week.
Great then we have increased, there is one we have not introduced that is like a book with 30 advertising pages you have to get past before reaching the main page ๐๐
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Hard as skinning an orc…
I agree, advertising is cool just like paying taxes ๐ joking aside I see no problem with continuing with advertising
Rosneft’s raid was exciting – new regulations?
wild guess – did the US need the agreement with Europe first?
Steve Witkoff is soon going to the Russian so Trump probably wants a leverage
Suddenly, UA could no longer strike the refineries. Someone spoke up. Was it six months ago? Now UA is after them again. Absolutely right. Even if Putin doesn’t care if the country sells oil or not. For him, it’s only about honor and glory on the battlefield. Yes, it’s a medieval approach.
All praise to No 1 and mxt who deliver interesting analyses.
As a thinking person, it is interesting with new perspectives, and I think that’s what you get with Johan No1.
Then I hope that the darkest scenarios do not come true, but agree that it is wisest to always “moor for the storm.”
Thank you! ๐
Thank you for kind words – brace for the storm was a good expression
๐ฅTragedy in Russia: a warehouse with alcohol caught fire in Chelyabinsk.
2300 square meters of vodka dreams – gone.
“For Russians, this is not just a fire. It is a national disaster. The real “loss of traditional values”. Somewhere a babushka is crying into an empty shot glass.” source
At the same time, the dollar has strengthened and the stock markets are in the positive. I think it seems too early to talk about a slowdown even though he should, of course, have significantly better insight than me.
“The US economy is slowing down – Trump’s policies are being pointed out
The American economy is losing momentum rapidly. Growth and consumption have slowed down significantly, and in July only 73,000 new jobs were created – the worst figure since the pandemic. President Trump’s policies are being pointed out as a cause. – The labor market has just sounded the alarm, says Fitch’s chief analyst Olu Sonola to the Wall Street Journal.”
https://omni.se/a/KMVVp4
I have read somewhere and of course it could be a total lie that if you break it down into the groups that have lost their jobs in ICE raids and the citizens in the USA who have gotten jobs, it looked good for the citizens of the USA?
“India has no plans to stop buying oil from Russia despite Donald Trump’s threat of higher tariffs. This is stated by two senior Indian officials to the New York Times.”
How to commit suicide like Canada
“When Donald Trump yesterday suddenly announced that he is positioning two nuclear submarines closer to Russia, it received great international attention – but not in Russia, writes BBC’s Russia correspondent Steve Rosenberg. In Kremlin loyal media, Russian military experts dismiss the statement. – Nonsense chatter. That’s how he gets his kicks, says a retired general to the newspaper Kommersant. Another expert calls it a “fit of rage” and a third questions if Trump has given the order at all.”
https://omni.se/a/dRVV4w
“๐บ๐ฆโผ๏ธ NABU and SAPO revealed large-scale corruption in the procurement of drones and electric vehicle equipment.
Among those caught taking bribes are Ukraine’s current people’s deputies, heads of district and city military civil administrations; soldiers of the National Guard.
4 people have been arrested.”
There is corruption everywhere.
How could our pension funds invest in Northvolt when they were not allowed to?
How could Nuon be acquired despite all the officials’ warnings, or the coal power and nuclear power in Germany.
The sell-offs in Stockholm in the early 2000s.
The green fraud in recent years.
Shut down nuclear power.
Upcoming new nuclear power.
“Ukrainian aircraft carried out a double attack on a checkpoint on the border with Russia’s Belgorod region, targeting Russian positions.”
Beautiful wars?
“Trump: “We’re settled — a lot of very beautiful wars have been settled.”
Beautiful wars – ๐คฃ๐คฃ
That man has zero clue about how to express himself.
“En explosion har drabbat en bro i den ryska regionen Bryansk, enligt medieuppgifter. Bron erbjรถd en direkt vรคg till den ukrainska grรคnsen. Den lokala guvernรถren hรคvdar att en “explosiv anordning slรคpptes.”
https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3lvgeb6uc6c2f
Boom!!!
๐ฅ A bridge near the village of Rudnya-Tsata, in the Bryansk region, was blown up by a strike from an FPV drone of the 1st Brigade of the Anti-Aircraft Brigade with 15 pre-installed TM-62 mines
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lvgsyodifc2a
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“โ๏ธ26.07: Russians declare capture of settlement “Zelenyi Gay”
27.07: Special unit of intelligence service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “Bratstvo” liberated settlement “Zelenyi Gay”
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3lvgdr5opws27“
Has the counterattack started?
Haven’t seen any signs of it.
I guess the Russians sneaked up, took some propaganda pictures, and then hurried away. ๐
85 comments when today’s post was me praising myself ๐ถ
Yes, but you did it in a fun way. It reconciles.
This will be the 107th comment.
Now, don’t take this as an excuse to only write posts where you praise yourself! ๐
Zelenskyy:
“We see and support President Trumpโs @POTUS efforts to end Russiaโs war, to stop the killing, and to achieve a dignified and lasting peace. We are grateful to everyone around the world who supports peace efforts and helps us protect lives.
We have heard the statements coming out of Russia. If these are signals of a genuine willingness to end the war with dignity and establish a truly lasting peace โ and not merely an attempt to buy more time for war or delay sanctions โ then Ukraine once again reaffirms its readiness to meet at the level of leaders at any time.
We understand who makes the decisions in Russia and who must end this war. The whole world understands this too. Ukraine calls for moving beyond the exchange of statements and technical-level meetings to talks between leaders. The United States has proposed this. Ukraine has supported it. What is needed is Russiaโs readiness.”
https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1951256842966896707?t=QC2HcWw68mxBkNH7HNK5ig&s=19
20 times they have tried to murder Budanov ๐ถ
Damn petty of him to still be sour at me for that one time I almost caused an attempt ๐
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4021521-budanov-survived-nearly-20-assassination-attempts-since-start-of-fullscale-war.html
“Voronezh, under Ukrainian drone attacks.”
“The AFU advanced north of Kamianske, Zaporizhzhia direction”
Johan writes:
“But it is absolutely a thousand times better than the crap on that other blog where people were allowed to destroy, insult, belittle, and harass for over two years just because it brought traffic to the site – cynical and inhumane.”
I don’t understand this description of reality at all. I have been reading the comments section at Cornu daily since the war started. And in that field, no one has been praised as much as you have been, and I have hardly seen anything negative said about you. But above all, I have not seen anyone else receive as much praise as you. To a large extent, it was of course well-deserved, because you certainly wrote very well there.
I think you should seriously consider why you feel harassed and belittled. If *you* were harassed on that site, then all people who exist must be harassed, because I have seen few people praised as much as you were in that comments section. It is an incredibly strange description of reality that you are performing here.
Thought-free?
He urged others at the end to commit suicide, which was the chance to get rid of him.
Ben Dover?
Unpleasant character there who saw himself as a knight against all who thought wrong.
Does the blogger himself over there seem quick on the block button, thought for a while that the ones he liked disappeared. Since I had Bluesky, they used to write there and they felt bad when they were kicked out.
No one has been blocked here since we started.
Here we hardly have any personal attacks either?
Maybe it’s when you write that you feel the attacks, but there were many who felt bad about Tankfri, I remember, and it was almost a party after the Ben Dover rumor.
Otherwise worthless blog but maybe it wasn’t on-topic ๐
I think one problem for LW is that he probably doesn’t have time to keep up. I guess there are probably many days when he doesn’t even read the comments and misses a lot. Probably requires emailing him to bring immediate attention to any transgressions.
Tankfri didn’t get to be around for very long, and right after the death threat, he left immediately.
BenDover, on the other hand, got to wreak havoc for a long time, he was often sharp-witted and even a bit funny but couldn’t help being really unpleasant. I agree that he should have been removed much earlier.
It’s a bit strange when some get banned right away and others stay for a long time.
I think he has an almost rigid attitude towards the issue of power tactics. People get blocked without even understanding why. For example:
“Johan, I think your analyses are often of high quality, but when it comes to xx, I think you are wrong”
It MAY be a power tactic, but for most people, it’s just that they want to soften the criticism by also expressing appreciation for almost everything else, except for what they intended to criticize.
Ok, thank you for your response. It was a rather small minority that behaved that way, but I still understand that it feels disappointing when you invest so much time as you did.
Äh, Johan är bara långsint!
He wrote a long domestic political post which, among other things, was about the need to invest in families with children and ensure an increase in childbirth. Families with children were hailed as heroes and our only way to save Sweden in the future. He also described childless cat owners as burdens on society.
Depending on how one chose to interpret what he wrote, it could have been seen as pure SD rhetoric, someone got angry and accused him of racism.
Otherwise, this was probably what he was trying to convey:
https://johanno1.se/sv/de-fallande-fodslotalen-11-maj-2025/
The post also touched to some extent on conscription, etc., so it was somewhat about Sweden’s defense capability as well, but otherwise not directly relevant in the Ukraine threads.
Moreover, considering that LW is both childless (as far as I know) and a cat owner, it might not have been surprising that he chose to delete Johan’s post. I don’t think he sees himself as a burden on Sweden.
Anyway, after that, Johan pretty much left Cornu and is still sulking! ๐
LW actually has children from his previous marriage. However, he rarely writes about it nowadays, I think the children are quite grown up.
(This is a Someone-was-wrong-on-the-internet comment.)
Ah, thanks for the info!
Didn’t know about that, I wasn’t completely sure either, that’s why I wrote, “as far as I know.” Maybe he was just bothered by the family policy.
LW often rants about conservatives who he thinks are just dreaming of the past when things were better. Even though things weren’t actually better back then.
You can see LW as principled with integrity when he removes things he doesn’t stand for on his own blog, but it can also be interpreted as him being against free speech and blocking different opinions.
We can establish that LW is not so interested in being nice online. He doesn’t want to be our friend. And he doesn’t care if things go wrong sometimes. I think that’s okay. But it is undeniably a choice.
LW is of course not obligated to let the word be free in his comment field, but I think it’s a shame that he strikes down hard on everyone who thinks differently. The comment field becomes completely meaningless and consists mostly of a lot of backslapping and “first!”
I believe Ukraine has offensive capacity and that it is politics holding them back.
The refineries signal a shift.
Unfortunately, it will be Trump who decides.
There have been incidents in Sochi tonight, some oil depot where someone smoked weed