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HIMARS strike on Russian air base in Melitopol
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HIMARS strike on Russian air base in Melitopol
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HIMARS is 227 mm. Smerch is much bigger. Smerch is 300 mm. Guided Smerch round range up to 120 km.
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War has own logics you don’t know when it ends once started. The Syria war started over 10y ago, can you tell when it will end?
When will Russia end the proxy war in Syria?
This war in Ukraine comes on top, the two war front will bleed out Russia. Don’t worry about the US fundings, as long as no US casualty Biden will not have any problem at all to get the money from the Congress.
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What does not kill you makes you stronger. War breeds strong nations. Without war a nation will decay and weaken. War increases a nation's birth rate and reduces a nation's average population age. In places where war is rampant, for example Africa, Afghanistan, Middle East, the population is young and vibrant. In places where there is no war, for example Western Europe, North America, the population is old and weak.
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Russia is not Rome. Putin has no allies. The only thing he gets is cheap anti-western rhetorics from Belarus, China, Cuba. Wars make Russia poorer. They waste the money. Tell me when Russia makes cars, computers, software, washing machines, shoes for the markets. But wait, Putin will invent a bigger flame gun that can burn people faster.
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Russia is a vassal state of China. China backs Russia with whatever Russia needs. China is the oldest continuous civilization, the land of the two rivers, the world's most populous country, the biggest economy and the biggest military in the world.
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What else to say, Russia is a chinese colony.
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Vassal. Sort of like Vichy France was Nazi Germany's vassal.
Very insightfull post.Russia struggles in the ground war, but it’s winning the energy war
Europe’s energy populism was based on plentiful Russian gas. Now Vladimir Putin is exploiting it to the hilt.
Matthew WarrenEnergy expert
Jun 21, 2022 – 3.22pm
It might be summer in Europe but there’s a chill in Kyiv. Russia may not have won a decisive military victory in Ukraine, but it is winning the energy war.
Last week a posse of European political leaders visited Kyiv to duchess Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. The body language was tense. French President Emmanuel Macron in a sharp suit, Zelensky in a military T-shirt. Smiles and rhetoric from the Europeans, a grim-faced Ukrainian president.
Europe’s military support has slowed to a trickle. They need this war to end. They can’t afford it to continue. Europe is facing serious energy shortages this winter in what could be a worsening of a year-long energy crisis.
Europe’s energy crisis has spread into global energy markets. Even energy-rich Australia has not been spared. Any coal and gas not contracted has been hoovered up by white-hot export markets, exacerbating energy shortages at home.
European leaders face a terrible moral dilemma in Ukraine, largely of their own making. The uncomfortable choices that await are the result of avoiding making uncomfortable choices over the past decade.
By taking the populist route on energy policy they have unwittingly ceded enormous strategic advantage to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has been exploiting it, and he’s winning.
The war in Ukraine has always been linked to energy. Putin began to amass troops on the Ukraine border as the European energy shortage deteriorated. It was an act of brinkmanship to stop Ukraine from joining the NATO alliance that became a failed attempt at occupation.
The fragility of Russia’s military capability has been exposed by the failure, at least in part offset by the potency of its use of energy as a strategic weapon.
Europe depends on Russia for 40 per cent of its gas. European gas imports have increased over the past decade to replace declining local production, to firm increased renewables and to help replace capacity from closing coal and nuclear generation.
The European Union was founded on the principle of co-dependency. The Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957 in the aftermath of World War II. The idea was that by making European economies co-dependent on each other, they would never be able to go to war with each other.
European leaders have discovered their relationship with Russia is dependent, not co-dependent. They have become heavily reliant on Russia’s energy exports more than anything heading in the opposite direction.
Economic sanctions imposed on Russia are causing at least as much pain as they were designed to inflict. Europe’s energy shortage has worsened. Prices have increased. So lopsided is the relationship that Russia has still been able to force European utilities to pay for their gas in roubles, undermining the impact the sanctions were supposed to have.
Fig leaf on a peace deal
Last week, Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi were talking up including Ukraine, or at least whatever is left of it, as a possible new member. EU membership is likely to be one of the fig leafs on a Ukrainian peace deal they have been socialising since May. The Italian proposed deal starts with a ceasefire but, critically, ends with the wind down of all economic sanctions against Russia.
Despite the sanctions, Russia has continued to exploit its strategic advantage, cutting off supply to countries that refuse its commercial terms. It is now slowing gas flows to undermine attempts by European utilities to recharge their huge gas storages needed to maintain adequate supply in winter when gas and energy demand peaks.
That’s only six months away. The energy crisis might feel bad now, but it could get a lot worse yet.
The International Energy Agency has warned of energy rationing in Europe this winter, with particular anxiety around gas supply. This would not only push up energy prices but also slow industrial production, exacerbating already acute supply chain shortages.
The US State Department has been warning European governments of the strategic energy risk posed by Russia for the past decade. It wasn’t hard to see. Russia has repeatedly curtailed or halted energy exports, mostly in the middle of winter, to renegotiate terms and flex its influence.
German governments tried to avoid such risks by building direct gas pipelines into Russia. This has failed spectacularly. Russia is now slowing gas flowing along the first Nord Stream pipeline, while the second was suspended following the invasion of Ukraine.
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 the German government accelerated the closure of its nuclear generators when they should have been building more. There are only two scalable sources of zero emissions energy: renewables and nuclear. It is hard to see how Germany, and most of Europe for that matter, can function in the 21st century without more of both of them.
The compromises needed now are uncomfortable. German coal generators are being brought back into service as survival trumps climate ambition. And the resilience of the Ukrainian people is rewarded with a peace deal where they are the only ones who give something up.
Russia struggles in the ground war, but it’s winning the energy war
Europe’s energy populism was based on plentiful Russian gas. Now Vladimir Putin is exploiting their dependence to the hilt.www.afr.com
Several european countries have been sleeping regarding their energy dependance. The germans dropping nuclear was especially idiotic.
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For the first time Kiev regime kills Russians civilians on Russian soil. Oh they gonna pay. They gonna pay and they know it. There's a storm coming in.
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Better to keep the Ukrainians fighting the war in Ukraine than the war coming to Norway. Smart move by the Norweigens.Norway gives one billion euros to Ukraine.
Norwegen sagt Ukraine knapp eine Milliarde Euro weitere Hilfe zu
Norwegen hat der Ukraine umgerechnet fast eine Milliarde Euro an weiteren Hilfsgeldern zugesagt. Die Zahlungen sollen sich über einen Zeitraum von zwei Jahren erstrecken.www.tah.de
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If Norway wants to make enemy with Russia then so be it. Don't forget. Norway has 5 million people. Russia has 150 million people. The Norwegian people will suffer like being dragged through hell if Norway wants a war with Russia.
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That’s the problem if you believe to peaceful rise shit. Look Vietnam we never believe to chinese shit speeches. That’s why we survive not ending up in gas chambers. The west believed they can coexist with Russia. They believed Russia would never commit suicide. Merkel herself said she knew Putin wanted to destroy the west however she fully led Germany and Europe into the hands of a psychopath. Oh well maybe because she grew up in the East, communist pioneer, educated in Russia language.
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Russians getting taste of NATO weapons on Russian soil.
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