/10/janoberg.jpg”>[/caption]

Två dagar efter detta skrevs stoppades sökningen – som förutsagt i konklusionen nedan.

Ni har hört att Sverige jagar en “ubåt” och att den “antas vara rysk”. Exempelvis skriver Financial Times om detta den 21 oktober – och meddelar också att den svenska statsministern lovar att öka försvarsutgifterna. Det finns bara tre problem med detta:

1) Det finns inte det minsta bevis för att där finns något militärt att hitta, inte heller att det är ryskt. 

2) Detta är inget annat än spekulerande skvallerjournalistik. Detta är möjligt på området försvar, säkerhet och fred, därför att det krävs mycket mindre av journalister när de skriver om dessa frågor än när de skriver om, säg, inrikespolitik, ekonomi eller sport. På dessa områden förväntas du ha viss kunskap och mediekonsumenterna kan kontrollera fakta.

3) Det tjänar andra syften än att ge dig information: antingen för att ytterligare öka den negativa bilden av Ryssland, driva Sverige till fullt Nato-medlemskap eller skrämma svenskarna till slutsatsen att det är nödvändigt att betala ännu mer till den svenska militären. 

Praktiskt taget varje aspekt av mediadrevet är baserad på fördomar istället för en analys av intressen och sannolikhet samt på partiska och avlönade experter som följer “partilinjen”. Med ett eller två undantag, har alla medier undvikit frågan: Kan det vara något annat än en ubåt och någon annan än ryssarna – eller ingenting alls? 

Än värre är att den svenska militären redan gjort bort sig – inte självklart med tanke på de ganska stora resurser de har till sitt förfogande. 

De har sålt av helikoptrar de nu innerligt behöver. De har – åtminstone officiellt – förlitat sig på tips från vanliga medborgare och man undrar vad underrättelsetjänsten gör. 

En misstanke om att en (rysk) elitsoldat hade gått i land visade sig vara en svensk pensionär på fisketur. De har publicerat en suddig bild av ett “objekt” som syns långt ut på vattnet och de uppgav felaktigt var denna bild togs. 

Man undrar verkligen om denna farsartade uppvisning bara har som syfte att visa att försvaret är så hjälplöst att de måste ha större resurser? 

En relevant fråga skulle vara: Hur i hela friden kan en sådan amatörism så lätt accepteras av regeringen, media och folket? 
Sverige med en befolkning på cirka 9 miljoner är nummer 33 på världslistan för militärutgifter, med 6,2 miljarder dollar per år. Det är 657 dollar per capita, vilket är på plats 17 i världen. Ryssland spenderar 403 dollar per capita och deras övergripande militära utgifter är 8 procent av Natos. Om Sveriges militär inte kan göra bättre i från sig när det verkligen behövs, så bör någon göras ansvarig. 

Om det finns något där ute, är det sannolikt att det är Ryssland?

Moskva vet mycket väl att om en rysk ubåt hittades, skulle det innebära ett enormt lyft för dem i Sverige och andra länder som vill se Sverige som fullvärdig Natomedlem. Det ligger inte i Rysslands intresse. Men naturligtvis kunde ryssarna spela ett högriskspel, eller bara vara dumma. Det kan inte uteslutas – men det är inte troligt att objektet är ryskt. 

Om den är rysk, kan Sverige ändå ha ett intresse av att officiellt inte hitta den – för att hålla ryssarna ovetande om hur mycket Sverige vet (hur bra de är på det här) och huruvida det redan finns assistans från Nato i det här fallet.  
I båda fallen kommer vi sannolikt aldrig få veta vad det handlade om.

Kan det vara ett Natoland?

Om så är fallet kommer vi heller aldrig att få veta det. 

Den svenska stabschefen har sagt att om något hittas skulle det beskjutas. Men det är otänkbart att Sverige – om de visste att ett objekt var från ett Natoland – skulle a) skjuta på det och b) berätta för världen att de kände till det. 

Faktum är att de flesta kränkningar av det svenska luftrummet sedan 1980-talet har skett av Natoflyg, men det är i princip bara när ryskt stridsflyg kommer nära eller över gränsen som det svenska försvarsetablissemanget läcker om det eller media är intresserade av det. Sverige är inte ett neutralt land i dag, om det någonsin har varit det. 

Skulle Nato ha ett intresse i dessa vatten? I kölvattnet av Ukrainakrisen är vi tillbaka till ett slags kalla-krigetsituation och Nato har flyttat fram sina militära positioner på olika sätt och har hållit ett vakande öga på Baltikum. 

Så, ja, Nato kan vara i svenska vatten med eller utan vetskap eller samtycke av svenskarna; kanske för att kolla på ryssarna helt enkelt. De skulle kunna placera ekolod, eller vilka anordningar det nu kan vara, för framtida nödsituationer – medan de inte vill att Sverige ska veta att de anser att Sverige är så nära Nato att de lika gärna kan utnyttja det. Och är det så vill Sverige helst inte få veta det. Klart är att Sverige inte officiellt kan godkänna närvaron av en Natoubåt på sitt territorium. Båda parter vet detta.

Slutsats och förutsägelse

Min slutsats är alltså ganska enkel: av ovanstående skäl kommer den svenska militären snart att avblåsa det hela och affären kommer att ha tjänat sitt syfte – just genom att inte ange vad det var, vem det var eller varför. Eller överhuvudtaget om det var. 
Vad syftet med händelsen kan vara återstår att avslöja någon gång i framtiden. Eller kanske aldrig – om syftet var att skapa rädsla för att gynna en ökad militarisering.
 
Några personer någonstans vet vad som händer. Och de riskerar medborgarnas säkerhet för ändamål som de aldrig skulle berätta.

Kortad version av TFF Pressinfo 285

Peace & future researcher + ‌Art Photographer

Related Posts

Jan ObergPhD, director, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFFLund, Sweden October 2, 2026 This is my full original manuscript. The Chinese Academy of Social Science, CASS, makes two publications out if it. 1. China’s Five-year plan emphasized the capabilities of basic research and original innovation. It is regarded as the goal of the future social development, which, as required, should be significantly enhanced. Can you comment on the importance of original innovation in research and academic study? I believe it is easier to define “original innovation” in the natural sciences than in social sciences. The breaking points of what constitutes something new, or innovative, are not quite as sharp in the latter. But in both fields it is about opening up something that was closed, unseen, unexplored before – making manifest what was earlier latent. Innovations come in many forms and shapes – naming something that was not...
The agreement is catastrophic both because of what it says and what it doesn’t mention. It reduces further the major asset of security policies: Freedom of action. Jan Oberg TFF director September 25, 2026 A couple of hours before the agreement was signed on September 22, 2026, I published the following 13 hypotheses about what it would most likely contain on TFF Substack (in English). I was wrong on only the first point. Contrary to what Trump had written on his Truth Social platform, it does not appear to come into force immediately. In fact, it turned out to be worse than even I had anticipated. After these hypotheses now come a number of reflections in light of what the agreement actually contains, and does not contain, as well as the way in which it has generally been presented by major media outlets and by the public-service broadcaster DR. My...
Photos © TFF 2000 Read PressInfo 90 “Lift the Sanctions and Bring More Aid to Yugoslavia” See Pictures from Belgrade © TFF 2000 Please reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the source.

Recent Articles

Tony Robinson October 4, 2026 Violence is easy to recognise when someone is being beaten, shot or killed. It becomes more difficult when nobody is holding a weapon. Poverty, discrimination, exploitation and repression can restrict a human life just as effectively, although they do so in very different ways and with very different consequences. Simply adding more categories to an ever-growing list of forms of violence does not really solve the problem. The more interesting question is what all these different situations have in common and why it makes sense to describe them using the same word. Human beings do not simply react to what happens around them. They remember the past, imagine things that do not yet exist, make plans and undertake projects. Workers organise because they imagine different working conditions; people migrate because they imagine another life somewhere else; social movements emerge because people refuse to accept the...
It’s a matter of principles, courage, vision and pulling together – while the militarist world is falling apart… Peter Langille October 3, 2026 “Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?”The Bertrand Russell—Albert Einstein Manifesto, July 9, 1955 ⁕ The forecast for what’s ahead is worrisome. The sharp rise in armed conflicts over the past three years is adding to what was already the highest level in over seventy years. Genocides, which should be prevented are supported. A shared climate emergency that jeopardises survival is ignored. Diverse polls now suggest that people are war-weary, worried and interested in a more effective United Nations. And, there are viable policy options for a more secure world! Yet governments are doubling-down, betting on more war and investing heavily. If current trends persist,...
Johan Galtung 1930-2024October 2015 Published here on October 3, 2026 Let us focus on Civilization for conflict analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots. National Evangelism, the US Protestant Christian civilization– more national than evangelical–justifies US warfare as exceptionalism of a people chosen by God, with a manifest destiny to run the world. Orthodox Judaism justifies Israeli warfare to conquer and expand from Nile to Euphrates as a religious right and duty to the Eternal One. The third most belligerent country, the UK, no longer believes it is God-chosen but chosen by the USA; not quite the same but something. But the root cause of global disorder lies in the Occident–with Islam–seeing itself as the single, universal civilization valid for all at all times, all others being...

TFF on Substack

Discover and subscribe to more peace materials on TFF Substack

Most Popular

Tony Robinson October 4, 2026 Violence is easy to recognise when someone is being beaten, shot or killed. It becomes more difficult when nobody is holding a weapon. Poverty, discrimination, exploitation and repression can restrict a human life just as effectively, although they do so in very different ways and with very different consequences. Simply adding more categories to an ever-growing list of forms of violence does not really solve the problem. The more interesting question is what all these different situations have in common and why it makes sense to describe them using the same word. Human beings do not simply react to what happens around them. They remember the past, imagine things that do not yet exist, make plans and undertake projects. Workers organise because they imagine different working conditions; people migrate because they imagine another life somewhere else; social movements emerge because people refuse to accept the...
It’s a matter of principles, courage, vision and pulling together – while the militarist world is falling apart… Peter Langille October 3, 2026 “Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?”The Bertrand Russell—Albert Einstein Manifesto, July 9, 1955 ⁕ The forecast for what’s ahead is worrisome. The sharp rise in armed conflicts over the past three years is adding to what was already the highest level in over seventy years. Genocides, which should be prevented are supported. A shared climate emergency that jeopardises survival is ignored. Diverse polls now suggest that people are war-weary, worried and interested in a more effective United Nations. And, there are viable policy options for a more secure world! Yet governments are doubling-down, betting on more war and investing heavily. If current trends persist,...
Johan Galtung 1930-2024October 2015 Published here on October 3, 2026 Let us focus on Civilization for conflict analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots. National Evangelism, the US Protestant Christian civilization– more national than evangelical–justifies US warfare as exceptionalism of a people chosen by God, with a manifest destiny to run the world. Orthodox Judaism justifies Israeli warfare to conquer and expand from Nile to Euphrates as a religious right and duty to the Eternal One. The third most belligerent country, the UK, no longer believes it is God-chosen but chosen by the USA; not quite the same but something. But the root cause of global disorder lies in the Occident–with Islam–seeing itself as the single, universal civilization valid for all at all times, all others being...
Read More
Living-Peace-Sign-Budapest-copy
Tony Robinson October 4, 2026 Violence is easy to recognise when someone is being beaten, shot or killed. It becomes more difficult when nobody is holding a weapon. Poverty, discrimination, exploitation and repression can restrict a human life just as effectively, although they do so in very different ways and with very different consequences. Simply adding more categories to an ever-growing list of forms of violence does not really solve the problem. The more interesting question is what all these different situations have in common and why it makes sense to describe them using the same word. Human beings do not simply react to what happens around them. They remember the past, imagine things that do not yet exist, make plans and undertake projects. Workers organise because they imagine different working conditions; people migrate because they imagine another life somewhere else; social movements emerge because people refuse to accept the...
b54a1f10-8c65-4f0b-9dd5-4abc0a7d04cc_2659x2659
It’s a matter of principles, courage, vision and pulling together – while the militarist world is falling apart… Peter Langille October 3, 2026 “Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?”The Bertrand Russell—Albert Einstein Manifesto, July 9, 1955 ⁕ The forecast for what’s ahead is worrisome. The sharp rise in armed conflicts over the past three years is adding to what was already the highest level in over seventy years. Genocides, which should be prevented are supported. A shared climate emergency that jeopardises survival is ignored. Diverse polls now suggest that people are war-weary, worried and interested in a more effective United Nations. And, there are viable policy options for a more secure world! Yet governments are doubling-down, betting on more war and investing heavily. If current trends persist,...
010
Johan Galtung 1930-2024October 2015 Published here on October 3, 2026 Let us focus on Civilization for conflict analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots. National Evangelism, the US Protestant Christian civilization– more national than evangelical–justifies US warfare as exceptionalism of a people chosen by God, with a manifest destiny to run the world. Orthodox Judaism justifies Israeli warfare to conquer and expand from Nile to Euphrates as a religious right and duty to the Eternal One. The third most belligerent country, the UK, no longer believes it is God-chosen but chosen by the USA; not quite the same but something. But the root cause of global disorder lies in the Occident–with Islam–seeing itself as the single, universal civilization valid for all at all times, all others being...
Screenshot 2026-10-02 011738
Jan ObergPhD, director, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFFLund, Sweden October 2, 2026 This is my full original manuscript. The Chinese Academy of Social Science, CASS, makes two publications out if it. 1. China’s Five-year plan emphasized the capabilities of basic research and original innovation. It is regarded as the goal of the future social development, which, as required, should be significantly enhanced. Can you comment on the importance of original innovation in research and academic study? I believe it is easier to define “original innovation” in the natural sciences than in social sciences. The breaking points of what constitutes something new, or innovative, are not quite as sharp in the latter. But in both fields it is about opening up something that was closed, unseen, unexplored before – making manifest what was earlier latent. Innovations come in many forms and shapes – naming something that was not...
arctic-circle-map
The agreement is catastrophic both because of what it says and what it doesn’t mention. It reduces further the major asset of security policies: Freedom of action. Jan Oberg TFF director September 25, 2026 A couple of hours before the agreement was signed on September 22, 2026, I published the following 13 hypotheses about what it would most likely contain on TFF Substack (in English). I was wrong on only the first point. Contrary to what Trump had written on his Truth Social platform, it does not appear to come into force immediately. In fact, it turned out to be worse than even I had anticipated. After these hypotheses now come a number of reflections in light of what the agreement actually contains, and does not contain, as well as the way in which it has generally been presented by major media outlets and by the public-service broadcaster DR. My...
girl-5894831_1280
Below are TFF-related media mentions, comments, videos and social media posts published elsewhere but not on this homepage. We happen to catch and list only a fraction. Regarding video comments and debates, we recommend that you go to the TFF Video Channel on Substack where many of them are reproduced. Jan Oberg is a contributor to China Daily – 52 million daily clicks – and Global Times, CGTN and CCTV (the national television), China Investment, Xinhua News Agency and several others. Articles and videos on these media very often multiply into countless Chinese (and Western media) that re-post them from these main media. Thanks to The China Academy, his analyses, interviews and comments are frequently posted on YouTube channels such as Thinkers Forum and Wave Media. These videos are often re-posted on Bilibili (China’s YouTube), the China Content Center on TikTok, and on the Chinese edition of TikTok, Douyin.com. This means reaching hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide over a year. While there are too many to catch on all these...