{"id":2209,"date":"2025-07-23T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/russian-subversive-activity-july-23-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:16:53","slug":"russian-subversive-activity-july-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/russian-subversive-activity-july-23-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian subversive activity July 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we want to educate you on how Russia has tried to dismantle our will to defend ourselves but also our actual ability to resist Russian aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have already learned that Soviet\/Russian subversive activities win wars if you have followed the posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the days when we didn’t hesitate to ethnically cleanse German provinces, the Caroleans were Europe’s most feared troops. Indeed, it was a time when war meant launching an army that swept through enemy territory like a locust swarm, killing everything that lived and couldn’t be eaten, and then burning down the rest just because they could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We simply followed what was trendy at the time, fashion-conscious as we were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Carolean attack was not what you might think if you’ve seen Gladiator – the Carolean soldier, if he was +170cm tall, was considered tall, sturdy, tough, and dressed in a uniform apparently in Pantone 2955 C color with hints of yellow here and there – yes, that’s a bit mismatched \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probably the uniforms were worn out, patched up, and some probably had turned gray, so they didn’t exactly fight like colorful peacocks to scare the life out of the enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since they often fought at a numerical disadvantage, a tactic was formed that required determination, aggression, offense, edged weapons, and strict discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the tactic working excellently, the rumor spread like wildfire about how short one’s life would be if they tried to face a Carolean attack head-on, which also contributed to the spectacular victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artillery was probably fully integrated and provided effective fire support against enemy shooters – this was a time when both sides lined up and the one left standing when it was over won with a high probability, so they had likely figured out how to get the most out of the pre-battle phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Carolean shooter line advanced from its starting position in formation and presumed pace until it broke up, all under total silence, and if I may guess, drums were used to keep the rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trumpets were probably used to signal the start?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At around 30m distance from the enemy line, all weapons were fired at once – probably the front line had to kneel down, so it probably took a bit too long, and if the enemy team had figured out to hold their fire until just when the Caroleans were trying to get organized, it might have been lively, but they never did, luckily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the weapons were fired in a point-blank broadside right into the enemy’s neatly lined colorful shooters, they “went on the attack with edged weapons.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bayonets were of course already fixed, officers had swords, and apparently there were pikes. If I were to guess, they tried to cover the remaining 30m as quickly as possible and with the highest possible noise level. The world will never know what a Carolean battle cry sounded like, even if they figured out the “rebel-yell” before the last Confederate soldier died, and it was brilliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It consisted of three “barks\/howls” in different keys that, when performed by thousands of soldiers, were totally paralyzing. Some museum apparently took those that were recorded, multiplied them into a brigade, then tested it at reenactments to know how it sounded. There were many descriptions of how the defense froze or fled in panic when they heard the rebel-yell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probably, as history tells us, the Caroleans didn’t have a battle cry like “God is with us” or “for the king and the fatherland,” but rather some version of the rebel-yell where they could achieve the highest possible intimidation effect without completely losing their breath and collapsing in a heap two meters in front of the surprised opponent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This apparently worked surprisingly well – the combination of facing a huge line of completely silent shooters who didn’t care at all about their own losses advancing towards you, a devastating broadside into their own ranks where soldiers fell like skittles on both sides, and finally a loud storming of a forest of shiny sharp bayonets often led to the loss of the will to fight and the desire to live taking over – they fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Carolean cavalry had a similar tactic, they had managed to learn to ride “knee to knee” in an extremely tight formation that became like a battering ram pushed in where it was deemed appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Caroleans could attack at a numerical disadvantage of 1:3, and they tried to use terrain and weather to their advantage. In military training, the armored infantry should have a numerical advantage of 3:1 to attack, which was better than the Russians who needed 10:1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total discipline and obedience were expected, and the officer corps was presumably also highly competent as they didn’t waste the shooters too many times – the list of spectacular victories was much longer than that of embarrassing defeats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These soldier skills are probably called toxic masculinity today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I caught a glimpse of our police force in the 90s when I worked as a security guard during university, and encountered the old mean cops if you were out on a pub crawl in Stockholm and got too drunk, which I managed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even as a partying young man, I quickly learned to behave if a police patrol showed up, and our criminals knew that if they tried to escalate things with law-abiding citizens, their lives would become a never-ending hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And to somehow use violence against the police – no criminal with any survival instinct did that at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police force has gone through a long process of reflecting on how the country looks overall, and the concept of “dialogue police” was used for a long time. During a period, the old mean cops stopped because their skill set was no longer appreciated – instead of beating up troublemakers behind the train station, they would reason with them, and Sweden would become much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 2025, we have much more serious crime that has seeped into civil society than we had in 1993 – and the increase is mainly in criminals targeting the majority society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, they used to take each other’s lives, which was a societal benefit in a way, but it was still reported and investigated responsibly because we have laws, regulations, and empathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, there are entire areas where 700,000 citizens, mostly immigrants, live under the rule of criminal gangs and\/or a criminal clan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept of vulnerable areas didn’t even exist in the 90s, even though there were some back then too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Threatening, killing police officers, or in any way defying the rule of law wasn’t a thing in the early 90s either – back then, you were arrested on your way home from the store, thrown into the police van, given a proper beating, and reminded that you were now on the watchlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our defense forces have gone through the same process in the name of “eternal peace,” and where Reinfeldt took it to a new level by calling the defense a “special interest.”<\/p>\n\n\n

Not only do we lack emergency stockpiles, mob depots for a million soldiers, a civil defense worth mentioning, or a total defense that engaged 10% of the citizens – 800,000 people, but instead we have a defense force of only 25,000 today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defense force has also gone through the same process as the police, where the old mean soldiers were not the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I did my military service, toxic masculinity was still considered a good addition to the CV, even though the attitude towards women was completely wrong. Especially, they behaved terribly towards the women who voluntarily tried to do their military service and often quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women are also excellent soldiers, as the Peshmerga and Israel have shown us, haven’t they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That probably had to do with the fact that we hadn’t progressed enough in gender equality thinking yet and didn’t believe that women could kill as effectively as men, but today we know better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, by doubling the personnel pool, in the event of a war of extermination like in Ukraine, we would have more to draw from when losses escalate, so we should definitely introduce conscription for all gender identities, in all units and in all roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you think our last line of defense against internal and external threats has been managed since the 90s?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m thinking of S\u00c4PO, MUST, and those that Jallai usually writes about, whether they existed\/exist or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Cold War, we had a policy and we had a “dark blue deep state” that considered itself the last bastion against the Soviet threat. Too much was done under the pretext of necessity, and personally, I have zero interest in going back there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you take a group that at the time mostly consisted of men, give them a free pass and the most violence capital in the country, no one should really be surprised that not everyone did what was best for the country. Some realized that they had taken the hill and could now work on significantly improving their own lives at the expense of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as our police force should be shaped to face external threats and not reflect a society at large that cannot handle organized crime, the same applies to our defense forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be sized to defend the country, or the group we want to be part of, and not reflect society at large because society at large does not take other people’s lives and they do not excel in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the external enemy unleashes drones over you, and if they capture you, you will be raped, castrated, and maybe amputated if they don’t shoot you on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the above was not the point I wanted to make, it’s coming below, I apparently have a tendency to digress \ud83d\ude36<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First and foremost, there are many examples of transitioning from the current Swedish situation to mobilizing broad popular layers that become excellent soldiers – Finland, Ukraine, and Israel are not bad examples at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, right now, after three years of intense warfare in Europe, we are doing the opposite and trying to make it harder for sports shooting, hunting, and gun ownership. Also, it’s not a big plus on Tinder if you are “very interested in weapons and like uniforms.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, there are also many examples where the rather small defense forces were overrun before they could mobilize broad popular layers that became excellent soldiers, and the country surrendered instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there are examples of large defense forces that couldn’t handle the warfare they faced and collapsed completely – in 1939, Poland had more tanks than Germany, and France had more, or at least more modern tanks and aircraft than Germany (with the risk of some memory gaps here…).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole of Europe during WW2 falls within the two examples above except for Finland and Germany – but they can’t really be counted in \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there are plenty of examples where countries with a small defense force feel they cannot spare it to help neighbors in need, and today most countries in Europe are in that situation, aren’t they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia is somewhat of a world leader in balancing the slack line so that neighbors do not come to the rescue, just as Hitler took over all of Europe in the same way, one small country at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all of Europe had attacked Germany in 1938, World War II would never have happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all of Europe had attacked Russia earlier, children wouldn’t have been tortured to death in front of their parents in Ukraine by laughing Kadyrovites, and we wouldn’t have taken several steps towards global escalation, for example, on October 7, 2023, which is now devastating Gaza entirely unnecessarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you have a great opportunity that exposes Russian subversive activities today, just like during the Soviet era – Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1990s, Russia managed to disarm Ukraine of all its nuclear weapons, which had been an effective deterrent for future wars of extermination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, until 2014, Russia, through its defectors in Ukraine, managed to essentially dismantle the entire military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the war started in 2014, brigades had at best a company armed with terrible weapons and short on ammunition, and none of the soldiers were particularly eager for war, while the officers had lived a life of luxury and thought it was lifelong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had demoralized the military, corrupted it, ensured that soldiers were not trained, and that there were no weapons or ammunition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do you think that is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, to make it easier to conquer the country, of course – everything was part of a long-term plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have effectively managed, just like the Soviet Union did, to persuade other countries not to help – the goal is not to prevent support but to delay it as long as possible and stop certain weapons that would make a difference. They understand that zero support would never fly, but if they can make Europe’s leaders feel they have done their part when they send helmets and weapon straps, they have come a long way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Cold War, we had wild peace and environmental movements, and you can see Swedish peace inaction today, where their latest suggestion was not to defend against invasion but once invaded, to turn the traffic signs instead of confusing the aggressor – look it up if you don’t believe me \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Cold War, environmental movements amused themselves by establishing nature reserves, and then the areas were not allowed to be fortified – a constant fight with the military about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eastern Baltic countries seem to be dotted with nature reserves that have received EU funding, and where one can guess that environmental movements are keeping a close eye to ensure no mines are laid or bunkers are built that harm nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, with the help of political parties, peace movements successfully got rid of anti-personnel mines, cluster munitions, thermobaric weapons, and other effective weapons that we ourselves agreed to get rid of and scrap just for us so that there would be peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia never complained about anything, so they kept all those weapons and have now gained enormous advantages over Ukraine because of them.<\/p>\n\n\n

Guess if peace movements and certain political parties in Europe now want to ban the inhumane and terrible drone weapon \u2013 yes, they do and preferably immediately if you google around a bit \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Europe, we have negotiated away our best defenses against Russian aggression over the years, but Russia has never been subject to the bans and has never negotiated away anything, but they managed to crash themselves completely without our help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like when we were going to set up a forest of wind turbines between us and Kaliningrad that made it impossible for us to see landing operations from Kaliningrad on the radar, and also unable to combat them with anti-ship missiles \u2013 luckily the defense forces won that battle, but they were branded as climate deniers for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think Russia has taken over the baton from the Soviet Union in trying by all means to persuade us to disarm and at the very least not help neighbors who have been attacked by Russia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You all remember the Russian Easter and that the Supreme Commander came up with a right interpretation of the concept of exercising units so that they basically sent the entire defense forces to Gotland on a really long mission that turned out to be permanent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technically, something like that should go through the parliament, but the defense forces had secretly managed to conceal some competence and loyalty to the country of Sweden, which was revealed at the right time \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rumor has it that Russia intended to take Gotland but we preempted them \u2013 right or wrong, only top-secret archives and the Russians know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, they had excellent help from the port in Slite which was built without explosive charges, which political parties made that decision you can look up yourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also read somewhere that Sweden understood that no one would come to help, or maybe I remember wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia uses a whole range of tools to drive its subversive agenda \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-red storm and nuclear weapons, going to war with Russia is pointless because they will win anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-influence citizens and shape a broad opinion against war, the USA left Vietnam because of this so Russia can definitely win wars this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-take what you want first and ask questions later, it has been shown that especially Europe completely lacks the ability to prevent Russia from doing something, denying everything, and then finally saying, “well, what are you going to do now that this is ours.” One could argue that this was exactly how we acted during WW2 and for example the Yugoslav Wars?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-set completely unreasonable demands so that you get what you want in the end anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-disarm countries as much as possible through environmental movements, peace movements, and political parties, and shaping an opinion against war. I personally believe that the moment we are faced with the choice of sending combat units to the Baltics, this will kick in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-confuse everyone in the stands with a cloud of information\/disinformation, Trump has used this Russian tactic all the time and it works incredibly well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-war is peace, make sure to turn all expressions around so that it never looks like Russia is waging war but that everyone else is warlike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweden went from a total defense in the 80s that the Soviet Union would never have penetrated to a defense force today that would not be able to help our neighbors in the event of an invasion war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do we know this \u2013 well, we had the right idea as we now see in hindsight with the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar journey to what the police have gone through but with gang criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering the amount of Russian sabotage around Europe, do you think our security services have received the same treatment as the police and defense forces and do not have the right competence \ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How best to cripple an organization?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-You try to bring in a leadership that is incompetent or has completely different goals for the organization than the core mission \u2013 what have we introduced in all our organizations in the last 20 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know the police, we also know the defense forces, the security services?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-You drain them of budget \u2013 it’s probably easiest because politicians decide and they prefer to spend the money on areas that give them the most votes, so stealing from the defense forces and putting it on something else fun has been a breeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Put the money into an expensive prestige project \u2013 a classic, in the Baltics they have been arguing for three years about the thickness of bunker walls instead of building them, and Spain is considering increasing its defense budget, but building an aircraft carrier with the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malfunctioning IT systems that never start up would be good too, but maybe they will fix themselves \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Scrap stored weapons for environmental reasons \u2013 tank 121 would have worked well today but we got rid of them, I actually discovered to my great surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Influence morale and motivation \u2013 do today’s conscripts and contract employees understand that they are expected to kill other people and that the better they get at taking the lives of others, the happier their bosses become?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old veterans who are honored from the Finnish Winter War or the veterans you see at various events with a front covered in medals \u2013 they have received that pedestal and those medals because they have been the best at killing other people in the most efficient ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You became an “Ace” in World War II as a pilot or tank commander depending on how many planes or tanks you shot down\/destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now maybe our Swedish battalion is not in the way of a Russian invasion of the Baltics during Zapad 25 since they were just rotated out after 6 months, but if they had been, it would have been these skills that were most important for them to possess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there’s what made the Finnish and Ukrainian soldiers so difficult to kill \u2013 they solved the task at any cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a war and when in combat, it’s a pretty narrow tube of skills needed and then a large portion of “courage” it used to be called, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, it was precisely these skills and this courage that one tried to develop, and now I can’t speak for today’s soldier training, but in the 90s, there was no doubt that it was the damn Russians who were the enemy even if perhaps a little too much focus was placed on the Geneva Conventions. There was probably a looming risk of hesitating to shoot and being shot if one overthought the laws of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read below and be rightly concerned because it is 2025 and Russia has both the drones and the work experience that the USA now proudly tested for the first time (if I haven’t fallen for psyops, but I think I checked it) \ud83d\ude36<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have advocated that we should have all of Europe’s standing brigades in the Baltics by now to be on the safe side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since that doesn’t seem to be happening, the question then becomes whether Europe will set up a joint force to regain lost territory in the Baltics or not if we come to that?<\/p>\n\n\n

Is it necessary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO will collapse if we don’t do it according to everyone – or is that no longer true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is well known, I believe there will be a black swan triggering capital flight from Europe if we don’t show that we are in control of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can we bomb Russia instead with robots and aircraft – no, not today because the Russian drone weapon and robots pose too great a threat that matches our capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will the USA help – I’m not sure anymore with Trump at the helm, even though he recently deployed nuclear weapons to the UK and threatened to roll over Kaliningrad if anything happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can we carry out a mechanized offensive against two dug-in divisions in eastern Baltics when reinforcements have to go through Suwalki or by sea?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, the answer will probably be no, what is not in the Baltics will not enter the Baltics after the bell has rung. And what is in the Baltics will quickly learn drone warfare by 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has Russia managed to make a chess move?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What could be a preemptive countermove – to mine the border again Surovikin-style and to deploy enough brigades in the area so that Russia cannot advance, drones or not, a brigade in defense is hard to smoke out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why haven’t we done that – that’s what worries me because I can’t actually find any good reasons for it especially since Finland has done just that – mined its border again and has troops in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of everything – do our forces in Europe have training that prepares them well for the warfare of 2025?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because that should be the main task of every defense force – to prepare their soldiers to be as good as possible in the war they are expected to participate in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have known for three years what 2025 warfare looks like, or will look like, so we have had three years to adjust the training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are we still sleeping in 20-tents because there is hardly a better goal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I didn’t get to the main post about Russian subversive activities, I’ll try again tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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