{"id":1305,"date":"2025-05-02T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/ukraine-and-the-world-daily-update-may-2-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T16:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T14:57:54","slug":"ukraine-and-the-world-daily-update-may-2-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/ukraine-and-the-world-daily-update-may-2-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and the World Daily Update May 2, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems like I will be proven right in my assumption that the USA has decided to attack Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8677ce6c-2032-4367-baf6-e248186b1abb_828x861.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8677ce6c-2032-4367-baf6-e248186b1abb_828x861.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:405px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>China just made one of its rare moves \u2013 Xi Jinping will participate in the May 9th parade as we reported earlier, and if you read johanno1.se you already knew that Chinese troops will also march in the parade \u2013 both in step and singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa Chinese soldiers are already marching in Moscow\u2019s parade rehearsal\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4iFEIEyWj1\">pic.twitter.com\/4iFEIEyWj1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MAKS 25 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\udc40 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maks_NAFO_FELLA\/status\/1917844536308494480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Guess if North Korea will participate in the parade or not \ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quick-witted will immediately realize that there won&#8217;t be any Ukrainian drone swarms over the parade this year, which is unfortunate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin will surely stick close to Xi Jinping as much as he can without looking suspicious, and then there are Chinese scattered everywhere with the risk of a major diplomatic crisis if they happen to get in the way of a drone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps they could clear the assembly areas before the parade, but it may not have the same reassuring effect on the Russian populace maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Precisely targeted individual drones would fly under the parade, but if I were to guess, the USA would say a flat no, and probably also Europe, which is trying to improve relations with China and believes we have time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Ukraine is once again covered in a pile of red cards from the West after three years, and one must give Putin some credit for thinking ahead here. His ceasefire over the parade totally crashed, but he had a Plan B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have also read johanno1.se, you know that Putin will showcase a lot of new equipment, we guessed that a few weeks ago. This year should be an attempt to demonstrate strength, and they will have T90M, the existing Armata (should be around fifteen), tracked self-propelled howitzers, and if they have anything new and interesting in terms of robots or drone weapons?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surely also BTR-90, BMP-terminator and 3, and the latest BRDM vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well-dressed troops marching in step are taken from the larger strategic reserve set up to attack into the Baltics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know that Ukraine could cover the parade in a veritable cloud of angry drones, and we also know that they want to, but the risk of it turning into China&#8217;s own Pearl Harbor when Xi is present with his best-dressed soldiers in the parade, and probably also some twelve-star officers, must be considered absolutely imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(but&#8230; Ukraine has recently taken a tough stance against China, so they might surprise \u2013 hope is always there).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe has been struggling to get organized in recent weeks, as we have discussed on johanno1.se, and now Omni wrote that Europe cannot put together a &#8220;deterrent force&#8221; of 64,000 (why exactly 64,000?) \u2013 posted by MXT in yesterday&#8217;s thread on johanno1.se.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway \u2013 they won&#8217;t even be able to send 25,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/omni.se\/eu-kan-inte-fa-ihop-fler-an-25000-ukrainasoldater\/a\/mPjkVO\">https:\/\/omni.se\/eu-kan-inte-fa-ihop-fler-an-25000-ukrainasoldater\/a\/mPjkVO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then the classic \u2013 &#8220;UK is ready to send 10,000, but then everyone else must also join, and they don&#8217;t, so we can&#8217;t send any soldiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And \u2013 Lithuania is ready to send a company, but it must be approved by parliament first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All over Europe, they must vote on this in parliaments, and the quick-witted realize that this is something Russia has been preparing for for a few years and will do everything to prevent a simple majority on the issue. One must use all the bribe money for something that Europe refuses to freeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I think Europe&#8217;s leaders are more than a bit naive and that they should send these 25,000, or 64,000, on an EXERCISE to eastern Baltics with the unspoken purpose of letting them dig in along the border and stay there &#8211; that would probably eliminate the Russian attempt no later than during Zapad in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But of course, that won&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No country in Europe is willing to take the lead, and all countries are waiting for someone else to go first \u2013 convenient for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland, France, UK, Baltics, Sweden, any country could independently choose to send a brigade to Ukraine and, for example, announce that it will train along the border with Belarus and never go east of the Dnieper?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That would free up UA forces to move eastward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But today, as we move towards Operation Baltics, I think you get more bang for your buck by sending the forces to the Baltics instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NATO&#8217;s &#8220;tripwire&#8221; in the Baltics is probably around a thousand soldiers per country, and Germany has at least established the command structure for the international brigade in Lithuania, even though combat battalions are missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, onto the next problem that we have also been discussing for a while now on johanno1.se, which may become more relevant now that the Chinese are participating on May 9th with troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Belarus, we will see Russia send in its training units, and then the Belarusian armed forces will start training their entire army towards the Polish border sometime this summer, but there will also be some Chinese SOF companies\/battalions participating with senior officers for &#8220;anti-terrorist training.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus probably retained some Wagner, between 3,000 \u2013 11,000, it was said \u2013 they are well-versed in war in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To Kaliningrad, China will also send a few companies of SOF very conveniently this summer\/early autumn for &#8220;training and peaceful information exchange for brotherhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose is not to pose a threat at all but to act as a deterrent for Europe from attacking into the areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because you can be completely sure that Europe will be very averse to attacking\/engaging in any area where Chinese troops and officers are present \u2013 especially since China has made it clear through diplomatic channels that it would be seen as an act of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that the Suwalki Corridor is the only passage, and there Russian SOF will mine as best they can before the start of the attack and carry out ambushes with their &#8220;little green men,&#8221; who are of course a Lithuanian resistance movement fed up with the decadent West, carrying Lithuanian passports (which they have with them) and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have described the actual attack into the Baltics in detail, and as it looks today, at least the primary targets of the attack will be achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SOF will infiltrate deeply and delay the movement of rapid reaction forces to the area, and now in the era of drone weapons, every military base in the Baltics populated by Baltic or European forces is high-risk, so everything should be pre-positioned weeks before the start of the attack \u2013 which of course will not happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe will also have to deal with a lot of domestic problems in the months leading up, with dissatisfied citizens, burning transformer stations, and generally major problems with the railway network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess we have already entered the window for a Russian wave of sabotage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine February 24, 2022, but without all the mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway \u2013 since you must prepare for war if you want peace, this is something Europe must prepare for, but we are not doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Europe cannot send 64,000 soldiers to Ukraine for peacekeeping \u2013 how on earth will we be able to unite in action against a Russian attack into the Baltics?<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Not to mention Svalbard if Putin chooses to deploy a brigade there. Norway will be a bit upset and the world will move on.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By the way, did you know that when home guard members try to buy their own personal weapons, the police usually reject it, not just the hunters who are unwanted \ud83d\ude36<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"width\":\"388px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"linkDestination\":\"custom\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68dfbb04-38d2-47a6-b5cf-ba878f4e16b2_828x1418.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68dfbb04-38d2-47a6-b5cf-ba878f4e16b2_828x1418.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:388px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I sincerely hope that Ukraine dares to drone the sh1t parade on May 9th, but now they have just gone from deep-frozen to thawed with the USA &#8211; and ordered a lot of weapons, so the likelihood of that is probably very slim.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Finally, you now have the opportunity to show appreciation to MXT and his work on the website and the daily (well&#8230;) yellow posts &#8211; IT has installed a donation button on johanno1.se, if you look around a bit you will see a QR code.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There is also a donation page for Ukraine on johanno1.se with links to, among others, Swedish Rescuers, drones 2 Ukraine, and other organizations we have learned over time are legitimate and dare to donate to.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On Substack &#8211; there is still a chance to follow and subscribe if it feels more right to go that route, which some have done.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:ohanno1.se\">johanno1.se<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:substack.com\/@johanno1\">substack.com\/@johanno1<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johanno1.bsky.social\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johanno1.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like I will be proven right in my assumption that the USA has decided to attack Iran. 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