Ukrainians fights to be free, Russians fight to be slaves

“The only language which is understood is force,” Claesson said. “We have to be firm … backing off all the time is not the right answer because … it incentivizes them.”

On the leaked and thus not-so-secret US-Russia ”peace plan”: I have read nothing to indicate that it’s any different this time than in February/March, May, and August. The Trump admin is serving the same nothingburger for the fourth time. Media and analysts haven’t learned to see through the noise.

It's critically important for the Nordics, Baltics and Poland to acquire nuclear weapons and Ukraine needs it even more.

“A criminal case was opened against them for violating the right to freedom of conscience and religion.”

Unfortunately the red line strategy was very effective with the Biden administration and Olaf Scholz. If Biden would have used the "lend lease" act and provided what Ukr asked for in 2022 they would likely have defeated Russia already.

Russian medidical students were happy to learn that the state will decide what rural village they will live and work in. No need to worry about wage negotiation either.

What would you feel if bombs started falling in your city? Probably fear and anger, probably not excitement and happiness. Think about that when you watch videos of Russia getting bombed.

Residents of Rostov, Russia get fresh sea food delivered to their homes for free, but they are still not satisfied.

"Ukraine fits so well as a common focus of the NB8 because it is where the idealist aspiration to defend our values and the realist need to survive come together."

Ukrainian strike on Zuevskaya TPP in the occupied Donetsk region

I think Russians are becomming less enthusiastic about Putin's "special operation" and more unhappy about paying for it. Found on TG:

We're still not taking the threat seriously enough.

"We are in a race against time. Both in resources and technology. We need to achieve parity and advantage to make Putin stop the war."

Of great interest euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/15/u...

@larswilderang.cornucopia.se Blockerade du mig för att jag skrev att det är en oproportionerlig inskränkning av yttrandefriheten att lagen om hets mot folkgrupp inkluderar religion? Är det inte okej att tycka det? #svpol

Debatten om “realism” och att “vi måste förstå Rysslands perspektiv” har plötsligt blåst upp i 🇸🇪 "Att på nytt lansera idéer om krigets Ukraina, som prövats och motbevisats i teori liksom på slagfältet, riskerar att öppna dörren för inskränkningar av vår egen frihet." Jag skriver i Svensk Tidskrift

He predicted it “You’ll see, there will be Tomahawks and blackouts will roll across Russia – first Belgorod, then Moscow. And maybe that would even be a good thing, so that in Rublyovka and in the same kind of fat-cat places they would feel the ‘special operation’ too,

Yes, it's the right thing to do. European army should be sent to protect Ukraine - Pussy Riot's Masha youtube.com/shorts/KG-pa...

Let's make a tv show about how easy and fun it is to blow up children, what could possibly go wrong?

Now that's what I call Wunderwaffe

Russia enables automatic payment of taxes. Well, not exactly...

Saratov, something is burning

An 18-year-old Russian singer Diana Loginova and her bandmate Alexander Orlov have been arrested in St. Petersburg after performing anti-war songs in public, their third time being detained in a month.

Försvaret på rätt väg – men kultur från eviga freden hindrar

Evil Swedish dwarf Ulf Kristersson is planning WAR against Russia.

De stela strukturerna i Sverige och Europa betingar ett högt pris. För tjugo år sedan var EU:s och USA:s ekonomier ungefär lika stora. I dag är den amerikanska nästan dubbelt så stor. www.expressen.se/ledare/patri...

⚡️Ukraine will start training pilots for Swedish Gripen fighter jets in 2026 and begin joint jet production with Saab by 2033, President Zelenskyy announced.

"Rasmussen also called for the deployment of a European protection force for Ukraine in advance of a ceasefire agreement. He said the “coalition of the willing” hoping to assemble such a force for when fighting ends had been reduced to a coalition of the waiting." Nailed it

Ett stort steg närmare att Sverige blir självförsörjande på el! via.tt.se/pressmeddela...

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Ukrainare tränar på Stridsbåt 90 i Sverige youtu.be/f-Lr7CCABhU?...

The Gripen deal with Ukraine was announced the same day as US lifted restrictions on Ukraine using missiles with American tech. Coincidence? A few weeks ago Sweden stated Ukraine could not buy Gripen E until after the war.

F.d. stridspilot Max Villman ger sitt perspektiv på Gripen till Ukraina m.youtube.com/watch?v=dHQu...

"All acording to plan and ahead of of schedule"

None of us should put pressure on Zelenskyy when it comes to territorial concessions. We should all put pressure on Russia to stop its aggression. Appeasement never was a road to a just and lasting peace.

I think you might be projecting a little bit there Medvedev.

Trump constantly siding with russia over Ukraine is no excuse for Europe's inaction and insufficient aid to Ukraine. On the contrary, it should have been a wake-up call for us to do much more

Good overview of the capabilities and possibilities of Ukraine's new Flamingo missile by @frhoffmann.bsky.social.

Ever heard of the Kalmar Union ? I wrote for @eurcorrespond.bsky.social how the internet joke became a semi-serious debate in the Nordics: revival of the 15th century kingdom that united all the Nordic countries. And what it says about the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime.

"Putin did not ask for permission to station his troops in eastern part of Ukraine, he has troops and we're asking him. Even if Ukraine is asking us we still have to ask Putin. Well he will never agree. That's not how this works." - Lithuania’s former foreign minister www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtdW...

European nations must stop using Trump’s horrible behavior as an excuse and take greater responsibility by increasing their military support for Ukraine—the war is far from over

It just occurred to me that of all the state leaders meeting in the White House, Zelensky represents the country with the largest army. Sure, the US and others have more expensive equipment, but it's still food for thought.

"It [arms industry] is the industry of the future, it's where the money is. What does a group of rural residents have to offer, other than their bodies?" Is being defenseless a good thing? @wildbaby.bsky.social @andersl.bsky.social www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/0V2...

US official position is that Ukraine should surrender to Russia.

Trump didn't mention the importance of ties when he promised to end the war in 24 hours.

"Trump boasts that the Americans no longer spend a single dollar on arms aid to Ukraine, but instead make money from the war. But when the US still does not want to support Ukraine's military or put pressure on Russia through sanctions, it also ceases to be particularly important what the US thinks.

"We've ended up in a situation where the strongest military powers insist on continuing to use anti-personnel mines, whereas the weaker military powers have agreed not to use them. And that is, of course, an asymmetry that is not sustainable when the stronger power then invades the smaller one..."

New Perun video youtu.be/9xoRpMoDffI

”Det drar ihop sig till något mycket mörkt. Och det redan nu på fredag i och med mötet mellan Donald Trump och Vladimir Putin i Alaska.” www.smp.se/2025-08-12/s...