Showing posts with label Geopolitics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geopolitics. Show all posts

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Down and out at Kaliningrad

 


Noterar att Aftonbladets artiklar om de jättehemska, ultra-konkreta (kärnvapen)hoten från Ryssland mot Sverige är låsta. Av vilket jag drar slutsatsen att ryssen inte kommer att attackera oss. Åtminstone inte denna vecka...

Friday, September 25, 2026

Something´s up

 


Why do the tech oligarchs themselves all of a sudden call for stricter government regulations of the AI sector? That makes no sense. A bit like an arsonist demanding stiffer sentences for arson.

Unless they know that the (American) AI industry can´t survive without government intervention. Are the private sector investments drying up? Something about the interest rates? AI bubble bursting, that kind of thing? 

Or is it an attempt to create a formalized tech cartel with Big Gov as a necessary partner or partner-in-crime...so *the technology can continue to be developed* even during the next depression? 

It does seem to have, shall we say, interesting military applications. Does anyone really believe that China will stop developing it? Therefore, America "must" follow suit. But of course something has to be done to defuse potential popular anger. Hence, the current op. 

That´s the most rational explanation. But since we live in interesting times, who the heck really knows!

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Eternally yours

 


So Trump´s "eternal" deal with Denmark about Greenland doesn´t contain anything that couldn´t have been accomplished through NATO or through normal diplomatic channels c/o Copenhagen? Tells you a lot about this guy´s public relations approach...

What will happen when some heavy lifter calls his game? Maybe they already have. That too would explain a lot of things, wouldn´t it?

Monday, September 14, 2026

Rysk diesel

 


Trump anser att Ukraina inte bör attackera den ryska dieseln. Alltså bör Ukraina väldigt specifikt attackera just den ryska dieseln. 

Jag har talat. 

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Den leende terroristen

 


Moderaterna säger sig vara oroliga för Vänsterpartiet i en eventuell regering. De vill även säkerhetspröva ministrar.

För regeringens tjänstemän säkerhetsprövas ju redan. Eller hur? Det här blir bara dummare och dummare. You can take it from me, jag är inte världens största fan av Vänsterpartiets utrikespolitiska odyséer...

Varnar för V - dras med SD 

Saturday, September 5, 2026

Projecting Greenland


 

The UN just voted to replace the Mercator projection with some more modern stuff (at least on UN maps). Only the United States voted against, calling it a ridiculous pseudo-issue. Sure, maybe. But this is of course the same Trump administration which renamed the Gulf of Mexico "Gulf of America" and (apparently) also rebaptized Lake Ontario. The pot is calling the kettle black, methinks. 

But then it struck me. Greenland is enormously effing large at Mercator world maps. Larger than Africa, in fact. Maybe *that´s* why the POTUS likes this particular projection?

Hmmm... 

Friday, September 4, 2026

Sista försöket?


Aftonbladet just nu: "En fyra dagar lång vapenvila har utlysts i Ukraina, uppger källor för Channel 24. Beskedet kommer samtidigt som Donald Trumps sändebud Steve Witkoff och Jared Kushner är på väg till Kiev för att förhandla fram ett avslut på kriget."

Översättning: Witkoff och Kushner kommer att kräva att Ukraina lämnar Donbass. Igen. Antagligen sista försöket innan mellanårsvalet i november...

Alltså bör Ukraina säga nej. Och så var det med det.

Glada dagar

 


Anar man en viss skadeglädje här från TH:s sida?

Det blåser upp till prestigefylld strid

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Naftogaz

 

Credit: Naftogaz Ukraini (?)

Varför är inte detta en större nyhet? Det verkar som att beslaget gjordes i Barentsburg (detta nämns dock inte i Yles artikel), som ryssarna med stor sannolikhet betraktar som sitt territorium. Och som de facto nog är det också.

Tänk om Svalbard blir Rysslands nästa måltavla...? 

Norska myndigheter beslagtog ryskt fartyg vid Svalbard

Thursday, August 27, 2026

En sista varning?

 


Det mest skrämmande är väl att det kommer "dubbla budskap" från Washington DC. Är Trump för eller mot Ryssland? Vad anser han om Ukraina, egentligen? Vem representerar CIA-chefen? Och så vidare.

Och varför lämnade Trump sin egen utrikesminister (Rubio) på det mångomtalade "decoy plane"? Rubio är Trumps nykonservativa / interventionistiska förkläde...

Det börjar kanske dra ihop sig till något slags slutkläm på den här historien. October surprise! 

CIA-chefens Moskvaresa är en skrämmande signal

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Tomma lager

 


Har Trump någon lösning på detta? Han kanske vill byta namn på Sydkinesiska sjön till Lake America eller något sådant. Eller så tänker han stämma tidningarna som avslöjade detta...

USA:s tomma lager en fara för Sverige

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Bad jokes

 

- Yes, Korea is here somewhere! Never heard of Oman...

Marx said that world history always repeats itself twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Somebody has proposed burlesque as the third repetition. I´m not sure what stage Trump´s foreign policy has reached, but it´s certainly beyond farce at this point. 

Trump recently said that he will declare the Strait of Hormuz American territory. A few days later some spokesman of the Trump administration dismissed the statement as a joke?! Then, the erratic president threatened to "bomb the shit" out of Oman.

Another jocular remark, I suppose?

But perhaps Trump can still do something properly tragic, since he decided to scale down US involvement in a joint military exercise with South Korea, citing the ROK´s refusal to back his increasingly quixotic adventure in the Gulf. Instead, he bragged about having good relations with North Korea! The same North Korea which may be in the process of sending tens of thousands of fresh troops to aid the Russians in Ukraine.

It will be interesting to see if Trump´s end will be a tragedy, a farce or even a burlesque. Maybe the Don could at least give us one more performance? For old times sake.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

At your convenience

 


Putin says that the Russian Federation may seize EU-related ships operating under a flag of convenience, in response to EU actions against the Russian "shadow fleet". Well, at least he isn´t threatening to nuke us! Always something.

It would be ironic if the war in Ukraine would lead to the effective collapse of flags of convenience...

Putin says Russia will seize European vessels

Invasion army?

 

Credit: Nicor 

50,000 North Korean soldiers may be deployed in Russia soon, according to Ukrainian president Zelensky. Something tells me they´re not there on vacation! Their end destination may very well be Ukraine itself. 

That Russia needs cannon fodder from *North Korea* does show that Putin´s war isn´t going entirely according to plan. On the other hand, nobody cares where the soldiers come from if the trick turns out to work...

Last time around, Russia and their original ally (then about 15,000 strong) did manage to take back control over the portions of the Kursk region which had been captured by Ukraine during a surprise offensive. However, this obviously wasn´t enough to defeat the Ukrainian military overall.

I assume this is another "trial balloon". And since the Korean People´s Army is supposedly two million men strong, Putin could potentially keep up the pressure for years. Assuming Kim Jong-un is interested, obviously. 

We live in "interesting" times.

Monday, August 3, 2026

Bomba högkvarteret

 

Credit: Artyom Vasiliev

Det är tydligen en russifierad korean som äger Wildberries, Rysslands största e-handelsföretag. Ukraina har under en period bombad företagets lagerlokaler av diverse orsaker. Hübinette har kvittona.

Om de ryska företaget Wildberries´ grundare och ägare

Sunday, July 12, 2026

Bad news

 

Credit: Paul Gear

Senator Lindsey Graham has suddenly passed away. WTF. In Swedish media, Graham is described as a "Trump loyalist", but the truth is that he wasn´t *really* a Trump aficionado but a more regular Republican who supported the erratic POTUS for tactical reasons. 

Graham´s role was to constantly push Trump in a more pro-Ukrainian direction, hence acting as a counterweight to the "isolationist" Vance and similar types. Graham was also extremely pro-Israeli, but on *that* score, the Donald didn´t need much pushing! It´s probably bad news that the senator passed away exactly when Trump is (at least seemingly) making a pro-Ukrainian gyration, for instance by letting them produce Patriot missiles. What if Trump changes his mind...?

It would be very good indeed if somebody on the other side could suddenly drop dead, too. Witkoff, for instance. Or what about Putin himself? One thing is certain: this shit (evidently) isn´t over yet.

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Kalmar-unionen eller mest bara calamares?

 


Aftonbladets Anders Lindberg vill ha en nordisk förbundsstat. LOL! Be careful what you wish for, tror inte att du vill ha en Nordische Bundesstaat dominerad av Danmark. Du vet, deras invandringspolitik...

Planen är kanhända att den ska domineras av Sverige! Eller?

Fast lite roligt är det ju att den gamle sossekoryfén plötsligt låter som en nationalist. Han citerar t.o.m. nationalsången. Det hela blir ännu roligare om man betänker att Lindberg är en rent usel stilist. En stor del av artikeln är skriven på det där infantiliserade kvasi-talspråket som Aftonbladet verkar älska.

Lär dig högsvenska, Anders. Eller danska...

Vi borde börja prata om en nordisk förbundsstat

Still silent

 


Taylor Swift´s silence on the recent fall of Kostiantynivka is not a little damning, and given the extremely serious nature of the present geopolitical situation, entirely disqualifying!