Co-Chair European Council on Foreign Relations @ecfr. World Health Organization Special Envoy for ACT-Accelerator @who @ACTAccelerator. På svenska på @cbildt.
It’s early morning, still dark, and I’m off to London 🇬🇧 for @RANDEurope meetings and discussions during the day. Much research of interest has been done since our last meeting.
Here Bradley fighting vehicles are on their way through
to
. Soon there will follow the even more powerful CV90 fighting vehicles from
. These will give entire units radically new capabilities.
It’s very difficult to see why the government is putting itself in a corner so dramatically the way it’s doing on the issue of Leopard tanks to
.
In the 1994 tragedy no less than 854 people lost their life’s when the ferry Estonia sunk during a stormy night on the Baltic Sea. A new authoritative official report out today dismissed all conspiracy theories of the years since then, but says that the ferry wasn’t seaworthy.
Nothing on tanks has been announced yet, but if you add up what’s rumored on Leopard’s and Abraham’s’
with the CV90’s
and Bradley’s
it looks like 2-4
armored brigades. That’s something, although a lot of training is needed to make them effective fighting units.
Leaving London for a day in Copenhagen
- but hope to be home in Stockholm
again before tomorrow morning.
An interception rate of 85% of the incoming
missiles isn’t perfect, but it’s still fairly good. And now it’s old Soviet missies that are being used by
- not the more modern ones we saw earlier in the war.
With desperation in the voice, this most aggressive of media propaganda megaphones is now calling for the use of nuclear weapons in order to avoid a
defeat that he seems to fear. This war will get more dangerous before it comes to an end.
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If they were to watch this in the Kremlin they might start to understand what they are up against
.
Putin has obviously suppressed any memory of this, but these are the numbers for the Yes vote in the 1991 referendum in on independence. Every single region voted clearly for independence.
It’s indisputable that is using indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire against civilian targets in cities in
. These photos from the center of the country’s second largest city shows clearly what is happening.
Incredible. Now Berlusconi defending his friend said that “Putin just wanted to replace the Zelensky government with a government of decent people.” This man is a disgrace.
I don’t know what the ambassador to
really said, but the rebuttal he got was certainly most powerful.
We have no right to ignore what’s said on state TV these days. This unfortunately has all the potential for getting much worse.
Now there is a publicity campaign in Moscow saying that
is a country of Nazis. Are there any limits to these guys? Or are they preparing a ”denazifying” operation against
as well? I think this will further solidify support for
joining @NATO .
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