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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nOn the battlefield, UA manages to hold off with its offensive strategic reserve even though the army overall is in varying condition – presumably they can keep this up for a considerable time as this reserve fights to the last throwing knife without complaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few months ago, this tactical adaptation was initiated – Ukraine used its strategic offensive reserves northeast of Pokrovsk, and the modus operandi is to sweep over an area with a “hit-and-run”, full pursuit. The first training match above Pokrovsk didn’t go brilliantly, but they seem to have had a quick learning curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now this is starting to show on the maps, and one must then match it with which units were fighting in the area at the time, SOF, Ranger, 3rd AC, GUR, or similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have guessed that the weakness in China’s digital battlefield is movement, and it looks like Ukraine is exploiting that – assigned units move in and out over a relatively short period, preferably at night, and clear an area of sluggish Russian bastards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Presumably, the existing brigade then moves back to their previous firing positions and the cycle restarts with FAB bombings and RU infiltrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems they have managed to stabilize Northern Luhansk, and the question is why \ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, you guessed right, there are future plans for that area, otherwise they would have let it go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without knowing the losses UA incurs after this tactical adjustment, I have to rely on the previous ratio of 1:3 against RU, and in KIA it’s 1:30 – if this is accurate, they can keep this up over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The offensive strategic reserve is not sensitive to mood swings – as Johan No.1 has previously written, they are the group among the world’s best infantry that is even better – the solar system’s best infantry, Starship Troopers but the Ukrainian version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They also do not use expensive capabilities that will run out – from company to battalion, they move forward to a protected UFA and then, in splinter protection with a tank as a 4km sniper, they attack an area with the aim of combating the defending force and then withdraw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The purpose of the battle is to carry out the most difficult task for a unit without trying to make it easier through weeks of indirect fire, taking undefended terrain, or in any other way making their lives easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They attack at a numerical disadvantage, preferably at night, to defeat an enemy entrenched in a built-up area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It doesn’t get any harder than this, and it is an extension of what we saw in 2023 when Azov was clearing defenses in Bakhmut, where a group attacked a platoon and got someone wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you remember all those who said it would end in “static trench warfare” – what a bunch of clowns \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the Marine Corps was supposed to punish the militias in Fallujah during the Iraq War, it first went to hell and then it was “the wildest battle since the Vietnam War” – Ukraine is simply on another level because they now have a Fallujah offensive almost weekly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The strategic robot\/drone war has also not broken Ukraine’s back, and they retaliate very elegantly – hats off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But most recently, GRU has used a not entirely unwilling Trump to try to politically bring down Ukraine, and that operation seems to have quite a few ramifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Part of it is the anti-corruption agency that has released a couple of bombs very conveniently and probably has more ammunition in that chamber – we’ll probably hear something about Zelensky soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And if one were to guess, they also have a hand in the semi-revolt in parliament,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-ato\/4065220-parliament-rostrum-blocked-by-european-solidarity-opposition-demands-government-resignation-session-closed-early.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, Europe can make Zelensky immortal by doing the right things in the coming months, but if Zelensky falls and a semi-pro-Russian or less competent figure takes his place, then the whole house of cards collapses in an instant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since Ukraine is a democracy, Zelensky will disappear if he is voted out, and the entire government they are trying to remove – who will Europe negotiate with during that intermission?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have discussed this worst-case scenario several times, and I honestly believe that Europe is now one step ahead – it seems like we have finally gotten our act together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But if they hadn’t foreseen this and the operation succeeds where GRU gets their champagne and caviar, we are in big trouble for a very simple reason that I think everyone now understands after reading the posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is no country in Europe today willing to endure the same abuses as Ukraine, and we need this buffer for a while longer to get organized, even though we are getting closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only has the USA stopped talking directly to Kaja Kallas, they have also frozen out the Germans, and Germany was Putin’s best buddy for a long time, so the USA used to be furious with Germany – things change quickly in hockey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, the USA has pressured Belgium not to agree to give the frozen Russian funds to Ukraine – the rumor is that Putin has promised Trump 30% of the money if they get the rest back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a deluge of statements all against Europe and Ukraine right now, this is exciting – Putin has already started testing NATO’s land borders, but the USA will not help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump is also recycling long-debunked talking points such as “we have sent $350 billion to Ukraine” and “Europe doesn’t pay a penny.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have seen how the USA has reprimanded Japan, backed off from Taiwan, gone after Europe, Canada, Mexico, and basically everyone who considered themselves to be the USA’s best allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Putin has been given special treatment like a Buddhist temple god, they have really gone to great lengths to ensure that Russia does not lose in Ukraine despite managing to do so several times on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2022, this has been going on, and now we are at the end – either Europe stands with Ukraine or we don’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One can speculate on what the USA’s long-term game plan is here, and that is also of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We already know Russia’s plan, and China has a plan A that is currently going very well, and if it doesn’t work, they have a plan B in the Far East instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n USA?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, Trump and his circle are profiting from the blood money right now, and it is absolutely scandalous, but is it that different from how the USA has acted before?<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of World War II, they let the Soviets have half of Europe, and the Cold War became the USA’s heyday, which Europe paid five times the market price for in sheer panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have had a bit of peace and quiet since the early 90s, and Europe started doing really well in all aspects. First came Russian influence, which you can now understand like a newly graduated student from Linnaeus University since you’ve read all the posts (because you have, right \ud83e\uddd0).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then Europe allowed itself to be bribed to send all manufacturing to China, so we ended up where we are today, where China can build robots for 1 million while we still build them for 15 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But what does the USA really want?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have understood that they have planned to torpedo China at the right time and that their “the enemy of your enemy” with Russia since 2022 has been a result of this overall planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It also seems that the world’s experts have believed this because it has been the prevailing opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A world-leading writer, Johan No.1, has sometimes also aired the alternative theory that the USA does what is best for the USA besides having its heyday during the Cold War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right now, Trump is on his way to take all other presidents’ support money and elevate it by five (5). This is about to become the mother of all “helicopter money” so he can buy his way through the midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump is doing what is good for the USA, China is thinking of themselves, and Russia wants to restore the empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So what is Europe doing – firstly, we have tied ourselves in knots completely by all the good we are supposed to do to save the world, which has only resulted in us crashing our own industry, experiencing rampant crime, and eroding our welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Europe doesn’t really have any problems – we are a large group of countries that can very well cooperate on major issues and then have national sovereignty in most matters. Free trade and free movement worked well in the beginning when citizens started moving around to work in different countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But then the EU got too many bureaucrats who needed to invent tasks to justify their salaries, and today they believe they have authority over most things concerning the nation-states – if we could just rewind that tape a bit, we would be back on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right now, the EU is probably the opposite of the original idea; we are afraid to touch on important issues, using scare tactics to force citizens into all sorts of things that always end up with them paying more, and the EU is trying to force countries into things they don’t want because it goes against their historical positions\/traditions\/beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since we have free movement, the issue of everyone having to think alike is actually a minor problem – if you feel discriminated against in Poland, then go to a country that puts you and your beliefs first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s as simple as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Sweden, we did just that during the migration crisis in 2015 – we offered the most humane alternative, and many who fled ethnic cleansing and war sought refuge with us instead of being subjected to ethnic cleansing and war in southern or central Europe. Sweden is living proof that it works that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the 70s and 80s, the USA also did the same; some states were more tolerant than others on various issues, and citizens moved around?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or even earlier, the southern USA was less tolerant of minorities than the northern states, so minorities moved north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Europe is also an absolute giant, and we have something the others don’t have: democracy, a fully peaceful economy, and a very long history of functioning well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the 90s, China has made a space journey that is enviable, but it is not firmly rooted in hundreds of years of a functioning society. Yes, you didn’t hear much about China post-WW2 because they were busy with a variety of insane ideas, all with beautiful names but ending in millions killed – The Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Soviet Union was an ABSOLUTE oppressive state, one big darkness. There was a description of the “lice room” in a book, which was a very small room where you had to stand bent over in darkness that was either cold or hot depending on the season, with thousands of lice in the walls feasting on you until you were released after a few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or that when you were arrested for a fabricated crime, it was you from your prison cell who had to prove your innocence, otherwise you were automatically guilty and executed by firing squad – they introduced this because the burden on the KGB became too great with all those who were arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Hello, now you’ve had your week – please present the evidence that you didn’t murder Anatoly Bushkin” (fictional name and fictional crime).<\/p>\n\n\n\n “But I wasn’t allowed to contact anyone, and my family wasn’t allowed to testify that I was at home at the time of the murder.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Guilty, perfect, just what I thought – tomorrow you’ll be shot in the neck, and the bullet will be charged to your family according to the rules.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even the USA is far from the image they have painted and sold through Hollywood – firstly, the country was built on pushing aside the Native Americans, but they expanded their land through a multitude of wars, had an extremely bloody civil war, and long after Europe began treating everyone equally, they still had their segregation laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the way, have you also tried to check the population of Boston or, for example, New Mexico? Boston has 700,000 inhabitants, and the state has just over two million residents. Yet, they are better known than Gdansk or Luxembourg, which I can barely point out on a map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The USA has truly managed to put themselves on the map undeservedly. On our trip to the Caribbean this year, we flew via JFK in New York – my goodness, what an inefficient airport with a long time to get through. We would choose any airport in Europe over JFK if we could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the way there, we didn’t have time to buy anything to eat, but on the way back, I wanted to give the family a culinary experience with authentic American hamburgers – I don’t remember the name of the restaurant, but the Pepsi had so much sugar that it was undrinkable, the hamburger meat was overcooked to inedible charred pieces, the buns were slightly burnt, and it cost a total of 1500 SEK for three people to sit and look at an inedible plate of food and a glass of undrinkable Pepsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since we landed in Amsterdam for the connecting flight back to Viking-land, we also ate there, and it cost us five hundred for everyone to eat a meal they were very satisfied with + accompanying drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The USA was also heavily militarized and spent the Cold War crashing countries and stealing their wealth. South America has good reasons to despise them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is probably no one today who doubts that the “Gulf Wars” were a “smash-and-grab” operation to enrich a group of individuals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my capacity as Sweden’s largest independent free thinker, I have previously asked who we want to live under: Russia, China, or the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even a Nordic free-thinking giant can sometimes go astray, and now the question is – do we want a strong EU or be oppressed under a Russian\/American\/Chinese boot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m not exactly sure which parts of the boot the different players own – if the shoelaces are Chinese or American, but that’s not important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s important is if we want the EU, then we have to fight for it because there are three other players who clearly show that they don’t want anything good for us at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One could speculate that it’s because they all, with some pain, still remember when Europe was supposed to export goodness during colonial times through Leopold apples, but I think it’s simpler than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyone except Europe is trying to do what is best for themselves and enough time has passed for people to start thinking “how bad can a global conflict really be”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Memory is short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The USA is just like the bank, not your friend – never forget that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We need to start by preserving Ukraine as Ukrainian – that is the crucial point we can no longer delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If we catch a little wind in our sails, then we should definitely continue with demilitarizing Kaliningrad, allowing Belarusian citizens to have their legal freedom, and also granting oppressed colonized minorities in Russia their international right to freedom and joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s how we can pitch it to align with the popular movements we’ve had in the last 25 years, I think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are building a front line towards the border of Russia from northern Finland to southeastern Ukraine, and then they can deal with themselves behind it, that’s what we are aiming for, but if we describe it like that, maybe we won’t get the support of Amnesty, Swedish Peace, the Green Party, and the Palestinian movements, all fighting for the colonized and oppressed minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But this must also end for us to achieve Nirvana in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then we have a whole range of negatives down to Russia standing in half of Europe again and just causing havoc for us as a state-prioritized activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is also a “solution of exhaustion” that can unfortunately be attractive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All major players agree not to step on each other’s core issues and then they mark out a large area on the map to fight over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It could be Africa, South America, or areas in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right now, it seems like the USA, Russia, and China are trying to do that with Europe…<\/p>\n\n\n\n The USA has just backed off a bit from Taiwan – early signs indeed, but Johan No.1 likes to predict based on day-old coffee grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If Europe decides to participate in this diabolical game, then we might have some kind of new cold war where it plays out in South America, Africa, and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We sincerely hope that Europe has more elan than that, even if it is tempting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am starting to wonder if the USA will eventually conclude that the easiest way to deal with China is to agree on proxy areas where they can “war” and then we have a new slightly warmer cold war to deal with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ll see, everything has its time, but there are many good reasons for Europe to try to solve the issue of Ukraine-Russia in a way that benefits us, and it seems that most people have realized that now, even the bellicose Germans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once our defensive shield is established, we have the choice to actually make our move of the time and approach Africa (again), but not with the indescribable benevolence we had during colonial times, but a win-win situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Ukraine war is just the beginning of a new long timeline, perhaps 70-80 years, where Europe absolutely has the chance to become the next big winner along with Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If someone asks “how”, this someone has not read the posts and will be fined by the hyenas of Husby within a week because I have explained it many times – a separate post will follow on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn’t manage to include it anywhere, but I discovered that the USA, China, and Russia are now discussing the fate of Ukraine and Europe in Russia – do we really need more confirmation than that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n