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Former President Donald Trump came out against regime change in Iran in a Wednesday podcast interview.

Trump was speaking on the PBD Podcast and was asked by the host, Patrick Bet-David, whether he desires a change in Iran’s form of government and a restoration of the Shah.

“We can’t get totally involved at all, you know. We can’t run ourselves, let’s face it,” Trump said.

In the interview, Trump also indicated that he wants Iran to be successful, but opposes the country’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. Läs artikel

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz indicated his readiness to negotiate a “just peace” in a Wednesday speech to the Bundestag. Scholz and Putin have not spoken since December 2022

Scholz indicated that this includes a willingness to negotiate with Putin. “If the question is whether we will also talk to the President of Russia, we say: yes, we will,” the chancellor stated.

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Under torsdagen fattade regeringen två beslut kopplade till försvarssamarbetsavtalet med USA, DCA. De innebär att Försvarsmakten ges ansvar för processer om amerikanska styrkors in- och utresor, import och export, samt tillträde till svenskt territorium fram till och med 2025.

– I det arbete som nu följer kommer Försvarsmakten att ha en viktig sammanhållande roll, kommenterade försvarsminister Pål Jonson (M) besluten i ett pressmeddelande.

Från Försvarsmaktens sida är reaktionen till de två regeringsbesluten positiv.

– I normalfall behöver vi gå till regeringen för att få beslut om tillträde för att förband ska få resa in i landet. Nu får vi mandat att besluta det själva. Jag ser positivt på att det ger ökad flexibilitet och går snabbare, säger Johan Pekkari vid försvarsstaben. Läs artikel

[…] The plan outlined by Zelensky consists of five key points:

• Inviting Ukraine to join the Nato military alliance
• The strengthening of Ukrainian defence against Russian forces, including getting permission from allies to use their long-range weapons on Russian territory, and the continuation of Ukraine’s military operations on Russian territory to avoid creation of the ”buffer zones” in Ukraine
• Containment of Russia via a non-nuclear strategic deterrent package deployed on Ukrainian soil
• Joint protection by the US and the EU of Ukraine’s critical natural resources and joint use of their economic potential
• For the post-war period only: replacing some US troops stationed across Europe with Ukrainian soldiers

Three ”addendums” remain secret and will only be shared with Ukraine’s partners, Zelensky said. Läs artikel

Andreas Østhagen, affiliated with the High North Center and a senior researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, is one of the researchers who will be present in the Icelandic capital. […]

– In reality, NATO is primarily a tool for its member countries. NATO doesn’t have a specific Arctic policy, just as it doesn’t have a specific Mediterranean policy.[…]

He’ll also discuss the increasing interest of non-Arctic states in the region and the geopolitical significance of areas like the Barents and Bering Seas.

– It’s in these areas that NATO countries, Norway and the US, meet Russia and must balance increased military activity with the need for contact and dialogue around fish stocks, search and rescue, and maritime transport. […]

”In the north – right across the border – we face Russian nuclear weapons. The Russian Northern Fleet sails outside our living room.” Läs artikel

– Norge sender stabsoffiserer til Natos kjernevåpenøvelse Steadfast Noon for å ivareta kunnskap om en viktig del av Nato-samarbeidet, sier statssekretær Eivind Vad Petersson (Ap) i UD i en uttalelse til Nettavisen.

British, U.S. and Swedish electronic gathering flights close to Russia’s border inside the Arctic Circle have become regular in the years after Moscow launched its war on Ukraine.

The flight this week, however, was a first-of-a-kind.

With take-off from Souda Bay in Greece, the plane flew over Bulgaria, the Black Sea, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Norway before conducting a usual sortie outside the Murmansk region, home to Russia’s ballistic missile submarines.

From there, the plane made it back to its home base Waddington military air base in England. […]

Except in Norway’s northeastern corner, the plane approached close the Belarus and Russian border over Poland, the Baltics, Finland and the Barents Sea. Norway has self-imposed restraint on NATO activity near its border with Russia. The UK plane therefor had to circumnavigate to west of Tana and Varanger before flying eastwards again in international airspace over the Barents Sea. Läs artikel

Forsvars- og utenrikskomiteen i Stortinget behandler nå et forslag om å gjennomgå rammene for de politiske, økonomiske og organisatoriske rammene for Etterretningstjenesten.

Etterretningstjenesten er en større samfunnsaktør enn de fleste er klar over. Med sine mellom 2000 og 3000 ansatte og et offentlig budsjettforslag for 2025 på over fire milliarder kroner er virksomheten i samme størrelsesorden som for eksempel NRK. […]

Forsvarsministeren orienterer en gang i året stortingspresidenten om Etterretningstjenesten virksomhet, med fagkomiteens ledelse og Riksrevisjonen til stede. Men parlamentarisk STYRING handler om mer enn å gi selektiv informasjon til tre politikere år imellom. Etterretningstjenesten er en ekstremt viktig del av det norske militærforsvaret som Stortinget – ved fagkomiteen – skal ha innsyn i, ha engasjement for, og ta ansvar for.

Særlig er dette viktig fordi en stor del av finansieringen kommer fra USA, og som også løpende mottar etterretningsdata med stor betydning for amerikansk krigføring, men også for hvordan Russland ser på Norge som en småstat med de positive og negative konsekvensene det gir for norsk sikkerhet. Det er Stortingets ansvar å sikre at Etterretningstjenesten er under nasjonal kontroll. Läs artikel

A heavily guarded helicopter on Saturday the 12th of October flew low across the Kola Peninsula to the Northern Fleet base of Sputnik, only few kilometres from the border to neighbouring NATO countries Norway and Finland.

The delegation that included also Head Commander of the Russian Navy Aleksandr Moiseev and Commander of the Northern Fleet Konstantin Kabantsov first made a stop in Gadzhievo, where they visited the Knyaz Vladimir, Russia’s new strategic nuclear sub of the Borey class. [… ]

The visit to Sputnik came only two days ahead of Belousov’s travel to Beijing, where he highlighted Moscow’s close military cooperation with China.

”We see that we have common views, common assessments and a common understanding about what we need to do together,” the Russian war leader told Zhang Youxia, vice-chairman of China’s top command body the Central Military Commission. Läs artikel

I dag presenteras regeringens försvarspolitik fram till år 2030. Medan försvarsbudgeten ökar med 52 procent ökar krigsförbandens storlek bara 31 procent.

Regeringen satsar mer på uthållighet, logistik och försvarsforskning, men sänker ambitionerna om värnpliktiga och krigsförband jämfört med ett tidigare förslag. Läs artikel

Övningen Lightning Strike 24 som leds av Markstridsskolan ordnas i Rovajärvi och Rovaniemi-området 4.-28. i november 2024. Övningen utgör en del av den USA-ledda helheten Dynamic Front 25 som genomförs i fem länder och som är den största NATO artilleriövningshelheten som genomförts i Europa i historien. […]

I övningen Dynamic Front 25 verkar artilleriförbanden flexibelt och samtidigt på områden i flera länder. I övningen som genomförs i Finland deltar 1250 allierade soldater bl.a. från Förenta staterna, Storbritannien, Sverige, Estland, Frankrike och Tjeckien.  Övningsverksamheten i hemlandet utvecklar ledningen av Arméns eldanvändning och användningen av artillerisystem. Läs artikel