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PM: Deliveries of #Gripen E to Ukraine could begin in just about 3 years time. PM also said donation of C/D still a possibility, but again, now it's full focus on F-16 and Mirage.

🇸🇪🤝🇺🇦 Sweden and Ukraine have just taken a major step, signing a Letter of Intent for the purchase of up to 150 Gripen fighter jets. It’s a long-term defense partnership designed to build a powerful, independent Ukrainian Air Force over the next 10–15 years.

🇺🇦🇸🇪 President Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Kristersson signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) on future air defence of #Ukraine 100-150 #Gripen E Long term plan to rebuild Ukraine's Air Force Industrial cooperation regeringen.se

Dear EU @katjabego.bsky.social and I have a great solution for the frozen Russian assets question: Use them to pay for Ukraine’s 150 JAS Gripen fighter jets from Sweden

The Ukrainian and Swedish teams must do everything to ensure that next year becomes the time for the start of the use of Gripen fighters, — Zelensky.

The Swedish PM, — the agreement is not intended for immediate deliveries. It concerns around 120–150 Gripen E-series fighter jets, which are now entering production. This will enable the creation of a powerful Ukrainian Air Force and marks the beginning of a long journey that could last 10–15 years.

⚡️ Update: Ukraine, Sweden sign letter of intent on possible deal for up to 150 Gripen jets. The long-term memorandum is not aimed at immediate new donations, but includes a possibility for a major deal involving 100-150 Gripen E jets, Sweden says.

”Ukraine single-handedly saves Sweden’s JAS Gripen fighter jet programme for the next generation”

🇸🇪🇺🇦Ukraine wants to buy 100 to 150 Jas Gripen E. A declaration of intent between the countries has been signed, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson stated at a joint press conference with Volodymyr Zelenskyj on Wednesday. www.tv4.se/artikel/4WSm...

Letter of intent between Ukraine and Sweden on air defense. Hinting of 100-150 Gripen E within a not to far distant future!

Someday you might have to leave your home base. Spread out. Survive. Fight on. Dispersed operations. Photo: Jonas Holmberg/Försvarsmakten F 17 Snap Drill Nov-2024 #military #aviation #avgeek

Big news from Sweden: A memorandum of understanding has been signed with Ukraine for the sale of up to 150 Gripen fighter jets

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans" Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025 "In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness." snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

In 1935 German leadership called a surprise meeting and informed their previous oath to uphold the Weimar constitution was now void and they instead must swear a personal oath to the Führer. Many claimed they didn’t like the order, but they did it anyway. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

My latest on Russia’s weakness.

Elon Musk called for the “dissolution of parliament” and change of government in the U.K. during a far-right rally in London yesterday, speaking via video link.

Swedish MoD Pål Jonson: the new aid package for Ukraine includes additional classified systems and projects whose details will only be revealed on the battlefield. He said Russia should expect Swedish-Ukrainian surprises and stressed Sweden will keep pressure on Moscow until the war ends.

❗️🇵🇱Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski responds to 🇭🇺Hungarian Prime Minister Orban:

Here we go ... what? Here we go US military rolling out the red carpet for Putin the war criminal again?

Europe’s three year “strategy” of too little, too late directly enabled today’s attack. Our weakness drives Russian escalation.

Thoughts from Europe: 1) A nation on its path to totalitarianism does not need to fight an information war with other totalitarian states. The value systems align. 2) Instead, the information war will be redirected inwards. To suppress domestic dissent.

Here’s an update for Svenska Battalion: Biolab Edition! 🇸🇪 🇺🇦 We’re currently at 161,688.56 kr / 229,500 kr which is 70% to goal! 🔥 This campaign aims to provide Ukrainian defenders with a #NAFO Truck 2.0, so let’s get this boosted, Fellas! 🚀 🔗 www.help99.co/patches/sven...

Ukraine has currently disrupted 17% of Russia’s oil refining production. If they can get the level to 30%, domestic demand would far exceed supply. That’s when things start to fall apart. (Data by Rochan Consulting)

🇺🇦 72,6% of Ukrainians believe in Ukraine's victory over Russia, 16,9% do not believe.

Just a reminder that this is exactly what Milosevic did in Yugoslavia. Turn the rural areas against the cities. Led to civil war and horrible death. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

1/ A Russian forensic specialist was sent to Ukraine and made a tank platoon commander with no previous experience and little training. After being seriously injured and seeing many abuses perpetrated by officers, he deserted and has since told his story. ⬇️

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

Note to world media: Just because something is said by the President of the United States it doesn't mean it's relevant, true, sane or even worth reporting about. Second note: Critical thinking is a good thing.

Führer “Very Ready” Any peace agreement with Putin is worth as much as a peace agreement with Hitler. The ceasefire will never be respected, Ukraine will continue to be accused by Russia of violating the ceasefire, as it has been since 2014. Another war is only a matter of time.

Hitler tells Neville Chamberlain he'll halt war in exchange for the Sudetenland. And the rest of Czechoslovakia. And Danzig. And the rest of Poland. And Denmark. And the Low Countries. And Northern France. And...

Missed this happy news last month: Europe already managed to largely fill the gap left by missing US aid to Ukraine by April this year. The effort was mainly led by the Nordics & UK. Given that the Nordics are all small countries, this is yet another reminder never to underestimate the small ones !

Facts: 1. In September, Belarus will host joint exercises with Russia "West-2025", as well as directly related exercises "Interaction-2025", "Search-2025" and "Echelon-2025". In May 2025, the Baltic Fleet already held major exercises, and now new exercises called "July Storm" have begun.

General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces estimates that Russia has lost 1,044,250 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022 (casualties usually include killed and wounded) kyivindependent.com/general-staf...

“‘And no disrespect to any other fighters, including Norwegian pilots because they’re just as well trained, but during a combat exercise with the Royal Norwegain Air Force, 3 Swedish Gripens went up against 5 RNAF F-16’s. The Result was 5-0, 5-0, 5-1 after having flown 3 rounds.” 🇸🇪🇪🇺🛩️

For the 37,000th time: The Russians will not stop until they are stopped. Until we stop them. Continued European under-action guarantees Russia will escalate sabotage and hybrid attacks against NATO and ultimately bring the war to us.

Appeasement leads to this. The aggressor feels he has impunity. Weakness and cowardice feeds the terror. Shame on those who talk empty about the values they believe in while letting Ukrainian children die at the hands of the aggressor.

Willingness to defend requires a combination of two factors: a clear threat perception, on the negative side, and a positive narrative about what is worth defending. In the Europe Dispatch with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, I wrote about why willingness to defend the country is so high in Finland.

“Politicians and experts are arguing for a real European technology alternative. “You can feel that you are one executive order away from losing access to critical technology and critical infrastructures,” said Francesca Bria, an innovation professor at University College London.”

Five things to remember about war:

Press-release in English is out: www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/n...

❗️🇸🇪Swedish Parliament Votes to Borrow $31 Billion to Increase Defense Spending The reason for this is to increase NATO's defense spending target to 3.5% of GDP.

Sweden to spend 3.5% GDP on military defence and 1.5% on civil defence and support to Ukraine by 2030 or 2032. This would meet NATO's possible 5% defence spending goal. "Our children and grandchildren shouldn't have to learn Russian," said the Finance Minister. www.regeringen.se/pressmeddela...

Utter barbarism: Cluster munitions released by a Russian missile tear through a residential area in Kyiv early on June 17 during a massive air attack by fascist Russia on the capital of democratic Ukraine. At least 15 dead and 114 injured by combined drone and missile air raid.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb said today in a speech that Finland and the US do not share the same values basis anymore, and despite fairly good bilateral relations and close contact with Trump, the future is very uncertain. Stubb ended his speech by saying ”the world is not Sweden” lol

World history is largely a long list of military solutions. Politicians who say there is "no military solution" to an active conflict are in most cases trying to excuse their inaction.

💔🇺🇦 Our soldier before captivity and after the recent exchange… Terrible, and the worst thing is that the world has switched to Iran/Israel again, there are fewer and fewer words about Ukraine, which suffers every day. And how is peacemaker Trump doing? 24 hours? Two weeks?