PUTIN’S NAVAL DREAMS IN TATTERS

Putin's dreams of a powerful Russian navy are a slow-motion fiasco that has quickly become an accelerating disaster.

This is a story of four Russian setbacks and a rusting aircraft carrier. PRELUDE 1
August 2000. Putin was newly elected president & the 🇷🇺 navy held its first major exercise in over a decade. It went pearshaped.The nuclear submarine Kursk disappeared, the rescue op was a disaster & it was foreign divers who got inside the ship. All 118 crew were dead.

WHAT RUSSIANS (REALLY) THINK ABOUT PUTIN & HIS WAR

The Kremlin Leaks have disclosed what the Russian people think about its dictator and his war against 🇺🇦.

Secret documents from the Russian presidential admin have been shared with 🇸🇪 Expressen.

This is what they disclose. - You, citizens of Russia, have confirmed that the country is on the right track, he said.

After the presidential election the other month, Putin thanked the Russian people for the trust and "unwavering support" they had given him with 88.4% of the vote.

Russia systematically engages in espionage and sabotage on European and NATO soil.

WHY DO WE ALLOW THEM IN OUR COUNTRIES? They are already at war with us, get it already!

Here follows a selection of events in (mainly) Scandinavia recently (in reversed chronological order). 👇🏼

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🇷🇺 SPIES OPERATING IN NORWAY 🇳🇴

PST - 🇳🇴 Security Service - reveal that Russian intelligence agents are operating in Western Norway preparing sabotage against critical infrastructure.

Here you find Northern Europe's largest NATO naval base & important oil and gas facilities. According to the Secret Service, 🇷🇺 intelligence activities have escalated on Norwegian soil since Russia's full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦.

- Part of the purpose may be to prepare acts of sabotage. They operate throughout the district & move around, says PST West head Torgils Lutro.

”NATIONALIZE THE 🇷🇺- OWNED ALUMINUM FACTORY IN 🇸🇪”

The 🇸🇪 Center Party demands that the Government nationalize and forcibly administer Sweden's only aluminum factory.

The reason? It is controlled by Putin's "favorite industrialist" - the oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

A thread 👇🏼. 🧵 Deripaska is the founder and majority owner of the 🇷🇺 aluminum giant Rusal and a major owner of the aluminum smeltery Kubal in Sundsvall which is 🇸🇪’s only aluminum factory.

Deripaska is also involved in activities that provide the Russian military with various equipment.

RUSSIAN-OWNED CABINS IN 🇳🇴 MILITARY HEARTLAND

In the northern Norwegian mountain idyll of Målselv Fjellandsby, there are a number of large luxury cottages owned by people in the 🇷🇺 power elite close to Putin.

Here follows a LONG 🧵 on an excellent dig done by Norwegian TV 2. 🧵 Around Målslev there are several important Norwegian military facilities and the cottages in question have a view of Bardufoss air base. The Defense HQ and the Defense National Land Operations Center are also located here.

FROM DEMOCRACY TO DICTATORSHIP IN 20 YEARS

What does it really take for a democracy to be turned into a dictatorship? Bear with me 🙏🏼, this will be a long thread but worth the while to stay and read it to the end. 🧵
Well, we all know the story of Hitler, how his party came to power through democratic elections and him turning it into a one man show with him in absolute power.

Yes, you might argue, but in the 1930s, Germany was still a very young republic (since 1918),

INVESTIGATION OF THE UNHCR IN UKRAINE 🇺🇦

In 2022/23, the 🇸🇪 investigative TV show Kalla Fakta (Cold Facts) investigated the (🇸🇪) UNHCR’s aid to Ukraine. What they found was, diplomatically put, concerning. Here follows a 🧵summarizing their findings. It is well worth the read. 🧵 There are numerous accounts from Ukrainians and others on the ground in Ukraine that the big humanitarian aid organizations are ”invisible” or ”just not there”. They might be just right.

CV90 TO BE MANUFACTURED IN UKRAINE, AND WHAT ABOUT JAS 39 GRIPEN, MR PRIME MINISTER?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj is grateful for Swedish support, especially the CV90 combat vehicle which will now be manufactured in Ukraine. 1/ But at the meeting with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M), he also pleaded for access to the Jas Gripen combat aircraft.

Zelenskyj's surprise trip to Sweden and classic Harpsund in Sörmland was more than a courtesy visit. The president of Ukraine came with the desire to 2/

NEW BIG SWEDISH SUPPORT PACKAGE FOR UKRAINE

The Swedish government proposes a new support package for Ukraine, Minister of Defense Pål Jonson announces. It is worth SEK 3.4 billion.

- The Ukrainians have signaled to us that they are very much in need of new support packages 1/ above all ammunition and spare parts, says Jonson.

The package consists of ammunition for equipment from previous Swedish support packages, especially combat vehicles 90. It also contains spare parts for the same combat vehicles, Leopard tanks and the artillery piece Archer. 2/

Kerch Bridge - A thread 🧵

To putin, the Kerch Bridge is not just about logistics connecting mainland russia to Crimea. It’s a long time coming imperialistic desire deriving all the way back to Tsar Nicholas II.

The Tsar had to abandon the idea due to WWI. 1/ Nazi Germany started to build a bridge over the strait but were eventually pushed back by the Soviets. The Soviets completed a railroad bridge in 1944. 2/