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Ukraine daily update March 20, 2025

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One must not confuse wanting an end to the war with giving Putin what he wants because then the war will not end, on the contrary.

I still have hope that this will play out as we hope – Russia gets a beating in a fair war and China backs off as Western arms factories gear up – voila, our era’s global conflict is over and we get our 80 years of peace.

If not, unfortunately, it will be China’s turn in 3-4 years as well, I will come back to that below.

If you look at Project Owl and the brigades they cannot place, Russia is missing over 30 brigades and 4 divisions.

In Ukraine, there may be around 20 battalions missing.

Many things have a natural explanation, but there is quite a large number of Russian units with unknown whereabouts.

And as one can guess, it is a strategic offensive reserve.

According to Ukraine, Russia has an offensive reserve of 150,000 in training against the Baltics.

It is true that Zelensky is currently engaging in psyops at level 9/10 along with Trump and Putin, so it is EXTREMELY difficult to sift through the information, but much indicates that Russia has several divisions they can throw at the Baltics if the war is manageable in Ukraine.

Which it is not right now, it should be added because there was no ceasefire.

You know that many countries are now delivering equipment to Ukraine in secret, I will try to come back with a post about that when I have time.

Now, when the comment section on johanno1.se… Sweden’s best comment section with world-leading analyses, indisputably. If you are not there reading yet, you are missing out is all I have to say, except that IT is trying to make my comments snake-green now…

…starting to advocate for total war across the board until it becomes too much for Russia, I must remind of two things –

-Ukraine can now take the war outside the country legally, Zelensky has signed that law now. They have indeed been doing it for three years already, but now it is legal. What the comment section wishes for is already happening – for example, all Russian ships with unexplained engine room explosions.

-For the West to start doing this, Europe needs to take that step and escalate. So far, we have not seen it, but it is probably enough to go back to WW2 to see what happened WHEN those decisions were finally made. It culminated in mass deaths of Japanese and firestorms in German cities.

We will reach a point when Europe has had enough of this, and if Putin is not completely devoid of history, he should also start sweating at the thought of Germany proudly roaring “we are back, baby, the Germans” with the thickest of all secretive army accents, against a backdrop of bratwurst and lederhosen – and waitresses who can balance 15 beer steins.

It is a lie that the USA has the production capacity we need – France, UK, Germany, and Italy are not small players, and Sweden was long at the top of the world in arms production.

When it comes to the quality of weapons, Europe is also very high up. Read about our submarine that outplayed a CAG group in the Pacific and sank the aircraft carrier in an exercise.

I have to stop writing EU because everyone interprets it as the EU framework, but this will be Europe in various constellations driving this forward now.

We in Sweden have already taken responsibility for the Baltic Sea region, for example.

And I, more than anyone, have been advocating since 2022 that JEF is the new black for/with Ukraine.

World War II is good insofar as it gives us a time period of how long the world can endure fighting.

The production was absolutely ENORMOUS, with numbers that are hard to grasp, and the same goes for the number of combatants. The British had fewer but more colonial troops – 3.5 million Indians, for example, and many ANZACs.

Don’t exclude China here – electric cars were supposed to be the future according to everyone, and look at who produces the electric cars…

I made a mistake with China when I tried to say that they are landlocked. If they have free movement in Russia, they can attack straight into the EU.

As is well known, I have been working with Chinese since 2006 and have some experience to share –

-never work under a Chinese boss, we always sat on top of them, but those who worked under them did not last long.

-lying is part of the business strategy.

-they are quite nationalistic and proud and do not like to mix with others and only engage in relationships with their own ethnic group – with us, it’s called racism if you act like that, but I have noticed that very few anti-racist movements are interested in China.

-they have learned a lot between 2006 – 2025.

-they look for the loose bricks in your organization always.

-they prefer to do it with business rather than weapons.

-half of the construction site speaks different languages and do not understand each other.

China probably wants lebensraum but not at any cost, they have a complex population mosaic called China that they need to balance, and they are still on the rise as an industrial nation.

Look at the size of their science parks (like their Silicon Valley) and their “Giga-factories,” they are huge and more are planned. Chinese industry is no longer lagging behind, and BYD as an electric car is not bad at all.

The cities they invest in are high-tech, and they are starting to come up with cool new technology themselves.

They no longer just steal everything and copy, they steal everything and improve it.

Chinese researchers are starting to move back to China for the salaries and extra perks in contracts, and even Western researchers are starting to move there and work for Chinese companies.

In China, they take education, child development, and research very seriously. Not like in Sweden where industrial researchers did not get funding because they forgot words like equality and gender in the application – keywords that were missing. Apparently, it was enough to insert them in the right place, but they must be included if I understand this correctly, or has that disappeared now?

The industrial capacity China has today for the civilian market, they can have tomorrow for the military, and what turned out to be significant in the Ukraine war – drones, China is already far ahead in that and manufactures many of the components, AI, and drones for the military.

The other important aspect in the Ukraine war is the infantry and the quantity – which China also has.

And the last thing is the production capacity, which China also has.

So, what does the country China want?

They probably need to have outlets for their products, they want to be a major player in the G7, and they want to be on an upward curve in living standards so that citizens remain calm. An American dream but a “Chinese dream” with their own apartment and Beijing duck (one of the more expensive items on the menu) two days a week.

If they can peacefully gain more influence in African countries – colonization with dollars, they are probably satisfied with that.

If the sea lanes are open, and the EU and USA engage in fair trade, they are probably also satisfied.

And finally – if they can take over areas in Russia economically and then move in and increase influence demographically, that’s good as well. And maybe buy off some areas?

The USA has already started a trade war with China and tensions are high between China and the USA right now.

The EU has also been hovering around a trade war but right now it was about electric cars and previously solar panels, right?

I don’t know where China’s limit is, but when it’s reached, they start shifting to the arms industry, and then the path to actual warfare begins.

Perhaps the West should be careful not to try to replicate what happened with Japan in 1990 with China, as I believe they would see it as an act of war.

Will China take over Russia – quite unlikely, right?

Will they try to turn Russia into a resource colony – not unlikely?

The million-dollar question then is – is war inevitable, and do we need to rip off the band-aid now, or can we de-escalate after the Russian punitive expedition and calm prevails for the next 80 years.

China hasn’t really started major wars, but when it’s been geopolitically interesting, they have chosen sides.

Then they probably tried to punish Vietnam after the US left, something they don’t like to be reminded of as the generals are still ashamed.

It’s impossible to figure out what China wants based on history.

China is currently ramping up, but not at a pace suggesting an imminent war, nothing eyebrow-raising directly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_People%27s_Liberation_Army_Ground_Force

China is not on good terms with Russia, India, Pakistan, Japan, South Korea, or Australia.

They have also not managed to take down Taiwan, despite trying everything.

The choice the West has to make here is either to let China stay out while Russia is dealt with, and whatever the outcome, China will increase its influence in Russia – unquestionably. And then we hope that the combination of Russian natural resources + Chinese industry doesn’t spell kryptonite in Mandarin.

Or we provoke a war with China, which would be highly intense with conscript armies, mass production, and a global economy shifting to wartime production.

If it becomes a world war, we will all have about 5 years of a COVID-like feeling again, where everything changes, and then after 5-6 years, it will start returning to normal.

Asia will become a battlefield, proxy wars in Africa as well, Israel will probably be wiped out, the USA will survive without invasion, and the EU will have to fight at the front lines.

The likelihood of coming out on top is probably high enough for this option to be attractive – there are other benefits for those who are fond of trading in children’s blood as well.

Turkey is trying to maneuver under our protection now before the storm comes, have you noticed? 😂

I don’t think China will escalate efforts in the Ukraine war or initiate hostilities against the West in any other way. They are probably content if Russia implodes, and all other scenarios are also okay for them – time is on their side.

The central power in Moscow has poor control over the border regions with China as it is.

Therefore, this will escalate from the West, the question is whether we will see a very different behavior from the USA now that we have become accustomed to the “non-escalation strategy” in the case of Russia.

If there is a war with China, it will also be a global resource war where China will likely come out on top as they now have a backdoor to Russia’s natural resources that no one can cut off.

The EU must secure Ukraine and we must start gaining strategic partners in Africa. Something that China and Russia have done in the last 10 years, as the EU has been drowned in colonial guilt, keeping us away – I know what I think about BLM that emerged at the same time as Russia re-colonized 60% of African countries in the worst possible way, but was never mentioned as the perpetrator, nor China for that matter – dead silent. Personally, I think that today, with re-colonization happening, it would be more important to highlight than looking back 300 years, but apparently it wasn’t.

China is cutting down very valuable forests in Mozambique and has essentially contributed to the beginning of a civil war in the country – a very safe country to work in before.

So, expect increasing activity in Africa and South America if this escalates to round 2, which includes China.

China simply needs to secure land routes because the West will be able to dominate the seas again – so, there should be a war in the MENA region, right?

-stans, China has already started securing, and Afghanistan is not happy with Pakistan and likely open to a strategic partnership.

For Europe, it’s crucial to end the Ukraine war, untangle Belarus, and turn Kaliningrad into a nice holiday destination before this kicks off so our defense is in order.

The USA cannot be invaded, but expect the best of subversive activities where there might be some kind of liberation from the United States again.

Anyway – this is how the world war, IF IT HAPPENS, will look like.

For Europe’s part – get our eastern border in order as soon as possible and start tying up good countries in Africa promptly.

If you need help establishing yourselves in Angola, you can actually contact me.

Reading about China’s and the USA’s fleets below, one might guess that some in the USA are starting to consider whether it might be smart to weaken China before they become too strong.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/unpacking-chinas-naval-buildup

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86 thoughts on “Ukraine daily update March 20, 2025”

  2. MatsExtrude

    AFU: “In total, 155 combat clashes were recorded during the past day. According to information, yesterday the enemy launched a missile strike at the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements using one rocket and 72 aviation strikes, dropped 123 CAB, engaged 2560 kamikaze drones. Also, the enemy carried out over 6,000 artillery shelling, including 141 from reactive systems of salvo fire.”

  3. MatsExtrude

    “Explosions reportedly occurred on a military air base in Russia’s Engels overnight, according to eyewitness reports.
    Engels air base is home to a significant portion of the Russian Air Force bomber fleet.”

    1. MatsExtrude

      More pictures and videos:

      “The ammunition depots at the Engels-2 airbase in Saratov, Russia, have been hit. The secondary explosion was extremely powerful and caused extensive damage to neighborhoods hundreds of meters away from the base. A large smoke plume is visible over the base.”
      https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3lkrz2yxxlk2u

      “Russia: Ukraine has struck the Engels Military Air Base in the Saratov region.”
      https://bsky.app/profile/igorsushko.bsky.social/post/3lkrtak2bsc2n

  6. MatsExtrude

    “Russian air strikes target Ukrainian civilian infrastructure in Kropyvnytskyi, lacking Patriot, SAMP-T, NASAMS, or IRIS-T defenses due to supply shortages. Despite the Trump-Putin agreement, Russia continues attacks, violating “good faith” and committing war crimes”
    https://bsky.app/profile/meanwhileua.bsky.social/post/3lkrpfoi3fx2a

    “Paths of Russia’s Shahed drones amid last night’s seven hour barrage on Ukraine.
    Yes, the one Russia said didn’t happen.”
    https://bsky.app/profile/meanwhileua.bsky.social/post/3lkrt4m3w4k2j“

    1. MatsExtrude

      “Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
      A city of 300,000 that has seen little of the war since 2022.
      Tonight, Ruissa attacked the city with up to 30 Shahed-136 UAVs”

  7. 205

    Update from 08:00 on 20.03.2025 regarding the Russian invasion

    A total of 155 combat actions were recorded during the past 24 hours.

    #Kharkiv 5
    #Kupyansk 6
    #Lyman 15💥
    #Siverskyi 1
    #Kramatorsk 4
    #Toretsk 21💥💥
    #Pokrovsk 47💥💥💥
    #Novopavlivka 13💥
    #Huliaipil 3💥
    #Orikhivsk 7
    #Kursk 22💥

    During the past day, the AFU🇺🇦’s air force, missile troops, and artillery hit ten areas with a concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment, four command posts, two air defense facilities, 10 missile troops and artillery installations, two electronic warfare stations, and another important target for the AFRF🇷🇺.

  8. Ingaro

    With the current situation in mind, I believe that Sweden should start using cluster bombs and mines again. During the Cold War, Sweden was in the top 10 for mines if I remember correctly. Mines are a cost-effective way to defend oneself.

    1. Westley Richard

      I remember the images of children with injuries from landmines that more or less circulated in the media every day. Citizens are affected by these images and I am afraid that this could give the so-called peace movement a boost. This, in turn, could be a setback for all the other rearmament that we need. Some countries bordering Russia/Belarus want to use these images to build a barrier at their border. They can surely do this in a controlled manner with fenced areas.

      Where would Sweden mine?

      Sweden should continue on the path of not allowing the Russians to cross the Baltic Sea and gain a foothold.

      1. DJ

        One can also take the fight – before the mines are really needed. So that as many as possible are informed about the pros and cons, as well as the possibilities of having an expiration date on mines nowadays so that they do not explode on a child in seventy years.

        1. Westley Richard

          One should choose their battles wisely, the tailwind we currently have should be utilized and not risk getting headwinds due to personal conflicts.

    3. Lynx

      We have probably partially fulfilled the Ottawa Convention through bureaucratic measures so I guess we can regain the capability quite quickly if we want to.

      …The anti-personnel mine 12 was renamed to Vehicle Mine 12 and then to Defense Charge 21. I remember the last name change because automatic triggers were considered prohibited for this type of ammunition.

      Of course, it is just as easy as before to set up automatic triggering through tripwire and the mine’s function remains unchanged. But the peacekeepers were satisfied 😂.

      This side against EN 💥.

  9. 205

    Thank you for an interesting picture of a world war scenario. In India, we have a player of stature (economically, militarily, and not least in terms of population) in a world war scenario. Not on anyone’s side right now, even though they are taking advantage of the situation and buying cheap Russian oil.

  10. MatsExtrude

    “Canada in talks to join 🇪🇺Europe’s defense initiative aimed at boosting EU military production and reducing dependence on the 🇺🇸US, — NYT”

  13. DJ

    Wondering about something. I imagine that somewhere in a gentleman’s club-like venue in the USA, there are a few bone-dry uncles deciding on the USA’s secret geopolitical strategy? And these uncles are sitting with a world map, evaluating the situation with the same mindset as us ordinary mortals when we play Risk? Remember that when we play Risk, we don’t think much about democracy, old friendships, and such, right? We look at – who is the strongest; who has the potential to become the strongest?

    One thing has struck me. Seeing it as above, these bone-dry old men probably think that Europe is the strongest? And China has the potential to become the strongest. But keeping Europe down is number one on the agenda. Then there are several layers of rhetoric and various political considerations, so that the optics are right but the mask has been thrown off a bit with Trump.

    This decade has a bit of a theme of actually throwing off the mask. All free democratic countries threw off the mask during the Corona and showed how they value personal freedom – only Sweden proved to be reasonable. Then Putin threw off the mask (okay, it loosened a bit in 2014 too) with full-scale war. The USA has thrown off the mask and stated their intentions with Greenland, Canada, and Panama. Xi Jinping’s mask is glued on with super glue, but he is struggling to tear it off.

    2. Analytikern

      There is a podcast called Geopodden. They discuss a lot of things that can provide perspectives on, among other things, “bone-dry uncles” in the US and their goals.

  14. Robert Calvert

    Hello,
    I just want to inform you that during the night I have peeked into Donald Trump’s head:

    Trump is indeed a very successful businessman. (according to himself) One of the most significant the world has seen.
    To govern a country is no stranger than running a company. (according to himself) So it’s not wrong for the world’s most powerful country to be governed like a company by the world’s most powerful business leader. (according to himself)

    But what Trump misses is what has made the USA the world’s most powerful country. Which is trade with friendly-minded friends who want to trade with the world’s most powerful country. What the businessman Trump has done is to look at the trade balance with every country the USA trades with, and noted that many countries sell more stuff to the USA than what the USA gets to sell to them. So, they are basically pulling the wool over the USA’s eyes (according to himself, because that’s what he would have done if the roles were reversed; oh, the level of offense at Mar-a-Lago rises one, two, three notches for every new realization of being deceived!)

    So the solution must be to correct the trade balance, and it must be done with one of the most beautiful words that exist: T.A.R.I.F.F.S! But it’s difficult to find the right level right away when you’re pulling something out of your pocket, so the whole trading system to and from the USA has started to swing on its own; there are new tariffs, there are high tariffs, there are no tariffs, there are low tariffs, there are counter-tariffs, there is… everything alternately.

    At the same time, a successful businessman must be able to juggle several balls. “What’s hot on the market today?” “*googles* “Aah! Rare earth metals!” Where are they then? Ukraine. Russia. Oh, are they at war? Damn. Meh! Here I come to the rescue, preferably to secure the metals while they are busy with other things. I’ll fix peace between them. The Nobel Peace Prize, I surely deserve that.

    Russia is a superpower, right..? *googles* Oh damn. So they are Soviet. I’m friends with them. *Calls Putin*
    “I didn’t see you on the list of all the countries we trade with. Are we not doing that anymore? Oh, we’re not? Sanctions? Why is that? Well, don’t you have some rare earth metals? Can’t we trade with that? Still in the ground? I see. But don’t we have the technology and knowledge and ability and economy and manpower to extract them? Oh, some are in a disputed area? Well, I’ll solve that… We absolutely should be able to make a beautiful deal here, I feel it!”

    —————————————
    I may have taken some liberties in some passages above, but you get the idea.

    What Donald Trump has managed to do in record time is to combine the phenomenon of “suddenly no one wants to trade with the USA in Trump’s tariff drama” with “suddenly no one trusts the USA’s intentions; are they friendly, are they misunderstood as introverted (America First!), or are they aligning with our enemy?”

    Add to this the concern over the enormous amount of weapon systems that the USA has sold, and is about to sell, to its allies around the world, what has been purchased to gain the goodwill and protection of the USA – and which now risks ceasing to function if the USA were suddenly to show itself to be Russia’s friend – since they have also simultaneously bought American maintenance and American intelligence and American communication for the systems.

    The question now is what will bring down Trump and his administration?
    Will the damn weapon industry force him out?
    Will the legal system somehow wake up and find him unconstitutional?
    Will the military find a way to disarm him?
    Will the people protest so much that it becomes unsustainable to stay in power?
    Which forces will collaborate?
    (Note that no Democrat activity is yet on my bingo card.)

    1. Lynx

      Well caught in my opinion. Trump is probably convinced that he is right when he tries to recreate mercantilism, of course with the goal for the USA to dominate all others who have to pay tariffs to Trump (i.e., the USA).

      Since mercantilism no longer works, this leads the USA into a dead end, and reality in the form of falling stock markets and decreased growth will come knocking.

      Trump is also enthusiastically participating in a culture war that seems to aim at shifting democracy from a system with checks and balances (i.e., a clear distribution of power between executive power and legal power) to a system where political power always takes precedence over legal power. In other words, autocracy exercised by a parliament whose decisions can never be questioned.

      Since the constitution was intentionally designed to prevent autocracy from arising, my guess is that Trump will eventually act in conflict with the constitution. And then this pseudo-Maoist revolution will end.

      Or the constitution will fall, and then we may have a period of political chaos, I guess. If one wants to try to imagine how it might look, think of the Swedish Age of Liberty with the Hats and Caps, who essentially ruled autocratically when their respective party was in power. A kind of parliamentary dictatorship where they, of course, maximally exploited their (almost) absolute power to crush their opponents.

      However, Sweden in the 18th century was very homogeneous, with a strong bureaucracy, and the USA is in some respects the opposite, so a USA with this type of governance will probably be… wilder…

  15. Peter Den Större

    Now this is starting to resemble another forum I visited earlier where people obviously had bigger issues with Trump than with Putin. One reason for the peculiarities is of course that Trump acts loudly while Putin sneaks along the baseboard. But shouldn’t we have the energy to illuminate all corners, even those that require a little more work?

    Listening to experts on Russian negotiation techniques, it is said that the Russians play in a way that eventually forces the opponent to come up with their own proposal – which the Russians then reject, often referring to past injustices or imbalances. And so it begins again. They control through feigned passivity.

    How should the West act based on this? Should we discuss at all or should the doctor expose the impostor and immediately prescribe a dose of Megabonk?

    1. MacMelmac

      One basic rule of negotiation is to present your offer and then keep quiet. Silence is incredibly uncomfortable, so the worst negotiator breaks the silence first.
      Another rule is to listen more than you speak, as you can then pick up on small things that you can use to your advantage.
      Along with the first rule, there is a great risk that one of the parties will chatter more than they should, giving the other party an advantage.

      Unfortunately, we can already figure out who is who… Chatterbox and Silence.

    2. DJ

      I think Europe should respond to Russia with very active hybrid warfare. It would be a good way to take advantage of the fact that Europe is so much more resourceful than Russia. Engine room explosions in the Baltic Sea and North Sea, cyber attacks, infrastructure sabotage in Kaliningrad, etc.

    3. Westley Richard

      That Russia is an opponent, there is no doubt. Positioning the USA is much more difficult, are they friends or traitors? Already Dante in the divine comedy knew where traitors belonged, at the bottom of hell, far below the opponent. So maybe not strange if Trump sometimes gets a little crap.

      What leaks out from the negotiations is hardly what we have learned. Trump does not negotiate from a position of strength when his prestige to achieve peace is at stake. Suddenly Russia became the strong party even though they are struggling with the economy.

      I am not a big supporter of a peace deal in the current situation and believe that continued war in the long run strengthens the USA.

    4. Robert Calvert

      Do you advocate that a disclaimer is needed every time Donald Trump is mentioned?
       
      Disclaimer:
      Yes, I am fully aware that the biggest problem for Ukraine right now is the existence of Vladimir Putin. But at the same time, reality struts around like the Botkyrka bus around the oval room, so unfortunately there are currently more things to comment on regarding the Great Orange Man’s actions. And what he gets up to often spreads towards Kiev, for better or for worse.

    5. Analytikern

      Agree with PDS, as usual. – This is not about individuals, it’s not about Trump, don’t fall into that trap! What the Trump administration is doing is current US politics. Not some whim of an individual. – If we get stuck on individuals’ behaviors, personalities, or some (incorrect) idea that “they are stupid,” we miss the whole analysis.

      The issue, the issue, the issue – not the person (to paraphrase myself).

      What is happening in Ukraine has much less to do with the US than one might think (practically nothing). The war in Ukraine is the result of a miscalculation in the Kremlin.

    1. johan No.1

      I have a small thought that “some” are trying not to miss out on a good crisis.
      We don’t need to completely overdo this now – after all, it’s money that taxpayers are supposed to cough up.

      We will buy what is needed but maybe we don’t need to allocate thousands of billions of euros in the first instance.

      1. DJ

        It would be sufficient to have 10,000 units of Taurus/Storm Shadow/Scalp with delivery starting tomorrow morning. Deliveries will continue as long as needed. The price will be approximately 100 billion SEK. In reality, Sweden ALONE could bear that cost. That would be 20,000 SEK per taxpayer (if five million Swedes are working).

    1. johan No.1

      Herregud 😶

      Zapad 2025 or do they have information from Ukraine that they will make life difficult for the Russians in the coming months?

  20. johan No.1

    Almost philosophical in the comment section today, one starts to think about things other than the war so there is a certain risk of philosophical posts in the future.

    I have also received good feedback from the Ukrainian citizen I am interviewing so a post will be coming soon.

    1. MatsExtrude

      Explain what happened to you? Please post a direct link to the image so I can see if it might be a format that is not allowed.
      Some websites generate images in binary without it being a real file, often missing a file extension such as “.jpg”.

      I don’t want to allow just any links. There is a risk that malicious code is embedded, and suddenly you find yourself buying TrumpCoins for a few million when you actually intended to donate the money to Biden!

    1. Robert Calvert

      I couldn’t upload an image locally, but if it was available on the internet, it worked to point out its URL.
      The upper [Enlarge image] button doesn’t seem to work,
      however, the lower one does.
       
      The editor also doesn’t seem to want to show how it intends to display line breaks when the post is finished and published. According to the motto WYSIWYG, it’s so 1990!

      1. MatsExtrude

        No, only external image links that are accessible online work. It’s probably a good thing we can’t access your local hard drive!
        There’s nothing wrong with the top button; it’s showing a broken image because it’s unreachable.
        I’ll see if I can incorporate a link validator as well to remove such links.

        The editor itself has a mind of its own, but I might be able to improve it. One issue might be related to it not adhering to the site’s style rules, so when you save and view it on the page, it may look different.

        If you don’t want WYSIWYG, you can always use the editor in Text mode… 😉

        1. Robert Calvert

          “It’s lucky that we don’t have access to your local hard drive!””That’s definitely for the best!But I was thinking more about another forum I write on, it only accepts images if you ‘upload the image from local disk space’.”

          1. MatsExtrude

            Ah, yes, I understand!

            It can be solved in two ways (or allow both). In this case, only external links to images are allowed, but not uploading files. But just as you write, in the version where files are uploaded, it is almost always the case that they must be uploaded from your own computer.

            *) Of course, it is also possible to build a special feature that fetches an external file and then saves it on the website.

            It may be possible to upload files later, but for now, for security reasons (and space reasons), I want to avoid it.

  24. johan No.1

    Ok – IT

    Having the ability to add images will be a game changer for the thread.

    We had that ability in the Skalman thread (sillar minkar), the page below for example:

    https://forum.skalman.nu/viewtopic.php?t=41075&start=7155

    It works wonders for the comments when you can start adding images, I can tell you – THEN it becomes not only Sweden’s but also the world’s by far best comment section.

    If you look at Skalman, there was a simple upload box for images you wanted to include in the post, but maybe it’s not possible here?

    1. MatsExtrude

      I actually thought about something like that at first, but since the image function is built into the editor and the editor has some other features, I thought it was just as good to go with that. If you have multiple images and a longer text, you can also decide a bit where the image should go (even though it might not always look as nice depending on whether you place the image in the middle of the text or on its own line).

  25. Westley Richard

    Crimea is a Ukrainian peninsula. We did not discuss with Trump that it would be recognized as Russian, — Zelensky ❗️”Sanctions should remain in force until Russia begins to withdraw troops from our land and compensates for the damage caused by its aggression,” Ukraine and the US will also meet on March 24, but separately from Russia,” Zelensky said. 🇳🇴 “Norway is increasing military aid to Ukraine to $8 billion,”  

     
     

    2. MatsExtrude

      You, who are the king, can go into WordPress and Media and upload the image there.
      Once it’s uploaded, you can click on it and get the image information, where almost at the very bottom left there is a button, “Copy URL to clipboard”. Then you go back to the site and when in the editor, click on the image icon and then paste the link there.

  29. Kaitsetahe

    Hm… was planning a post about that thing with China.. but it will drown in all the test edits.. so I’ll do it tomorrow instead…

    2. jahojariaho

      Finally someone who can handle playing the slime gnome’s game!
      That’s exactly how you should deal with ryzZars. Make sure to create strong, smart arguments against ryzZen’s childish word games!

  31. CB500four

    One of the highlights of the day is when you have time to sit down and read the yellow wall, and the high-quality comment section.
    The Chinese probably follow everything that is said and everything that happens with great interest, although I think they are careful not to do anything that might trigger a boycott of Chinese products, which would probably be the case if they were to invade Taiwan.
    Regarding Ukraine, it’s not just Zapad happening in September. Ukrainians in the occupied areas who have not obtained a Russian passport before September are being expelled.
    https://marcusoscarsson.se/just-nu-putin-staller-krav-pa-ukrainare-har-till-september-pa-sig/

    1. johan No.1

      Xi Jinping has asked me to send the link to johanno1.se so yes, he is very interested in what is being said in the West about everything possible.

       

    2. Westley Richard

      A lot of China in today’s yellow wall. I have had a lot of contact with Chinese people for about as long as Johan.
      The Chinese are very focused on making money, and that is probably why they are also skilled businessmen, which I think are relatively good at keeping agreements.
      I have been to China about twenty times and managed to build a personal relationship with a few people, including still having good contact with a girl.
      She was fairly new at her job, and I was her first customer, which she has not forgotten, and we still keep in touch even though she left my supplier and started another company. She usually calls and complains that it was a bit slow to get the company to grow fast enough; it had only reached a turnover of over 1 billion despite being in business for five years. A Swede would surely have received some award if they had succeeded as well. But the Chinese have access to a market that is so vast that we Swedes have a hard time grasping.
      So are the Chinese a big problem? They surely want to expand their territory in their vicinity, but I do not see a scenario where they would attack Europe. There are simply too big cultural differences for them to want to rule Europe. It is better to have us as trading partners. The Russians would not have the same problem controlling European countries; they have experience in this from before.
      It is possible that I am biased in my positive experiences of China.

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