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Rumors are flying that another offensive might be in the making:
Seems terribly ambitious given the failure in Kherson.
But then again at one point Zelenskyy mentioned a plan to end the war by Christmas and I doubt he had surrender in mind.
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4 hours ago, BruceVC said:
The most important question is how much aid will come to Ukraine once Putins War is over
What makes you think that the war will be over?
Ukraine cannot accept loss of territory and Russia has no reason to stop fighting.Wouldn't be the first half-frozen forever-war in the world.
And no one will seriously invest in rebuilding when cruise missiles can strike their construction site at any moment.-
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Ah I see the problem.
*insert obligatory world-doesn't-revolve-around-US jokeUs poor continentals trade our gas in the Netherlands:
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7 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:
Russia has been playing with the price of gas for 3 years, if not 12, and thus a year ago the price of gas was only 40% lower.
I assume they mean the end-user price?
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20 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
Its common Russian and ZH propaganda that the energy crisis is going to lead to mass starvation and Europeans freezing to death
@pmp10is just repeating what suits a particular Russian narrative but its not what the EU or individual EU governments are saying. So the EU is concerned with prices and obvious economic impact, the Russian propaganda translates that to " People in Germany are going to freeze and starve to death "
It will also be on the lips of protesters angling for benefits or trying to overthrow their governments.
The real affected poor are very unlikely to be noticed.-
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1 hour ago, Lexx said:
Who are those 32% of western europeans? Prices might hike in germany, but I'm pretty sure nobody will suffer hunger through this.
Whoever the open society foundation polled.
Although I admit they are not very open about methodology.-
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17 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:
A small price to pay to get rid of the blackmail by Russian mobsters. EU will recover in 5-10 years, Russia in 30-50…
Let's first see if people of EU are at all willing to sacrifice.
Some 32% of western Europeans are now afraid their families will go hungry.Quite the self-pitying nonsense for a region with 20% obesity rate.
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2 hours ago, Lexx said:
Well, I only know that men couldn't leave. I haven't heard reports of men being send back from outside Ukraine.
He means at the border.
Ukraine can't force anyone to come back once they left the country.Funnily enough at one point they considered criminalizing not-returning when subject to conscription.
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Predictably energy prices protests are starting in Europe with the Czech one being surprisingly big.
I guess local politics also played a part.
I doubt Czechs have any extra Russian sympathy not found in Hungary.1 hour ago, Malcador said:Not sure they need much redemption in the first place.
By which you mean that there is nothing left to redeem?
It's pretty clear for some time that this German government will stall and sabotage weapon transfers as far as it's practical to do so. -
To the surprise of few the Nord Stream 1 emergency maintenance won't be completed to schedule.
No restart date is available ATM.Energy war is kicking into high gear.
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G7 plans to cap Russian oil prices.
I wonder how do they hope to enforce it.
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2 hours ago, xzar_monty said:
Another one died of some kind of toad poison in May (if memory serves).
That one was almost certainly a real accident.
A shaman injecting toad venom as a cure for alcoholism seems too absurd for an FSB excuse. -
And on the economic front:
EU plans intervention in energy markets.
Unsurprising given the massive price jumps recently.We will see how quickly EC can act when well-motivated.
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An interesting thing happened recently:
Zaporizhzhia NPP has been reconnected to Ukrainian power grid.
Had to be done by the Russians even though they seemed adamant to shut the place down if it couldn't power Crimea.This along with constant delays to referendums and Azov trails might point to an active effort to freeze the conflict.
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1 hour ago, Malcador said:
Wonder if they confused the term/slang 200 for the number of dead.
Both sides have made claims of 200+ kills in various strikes.
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There are maybe two months worth of decent weather left in the year.
Even if divisions worth of hardware arrived today, there is no way they would be ready in time. -
8 hours ago, Malcador said:Quote
Ukraine’s conventional forces lack the weapons and ammunition needed to launch a full-scale ground offensive to retake territory from the Russians, Oleksii Reznikov said in an interview. He said he expects that sufficient quantities will eventually be delivered in line with commitments already made by Ukraine’s Western partners.
I'm surprised a message this important is communicated in a one paragraph lifted from an obscure interview.
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4 hours ago, Malcador said:
Sooner than HL3 at least.
That's actually pretty interesting.
I doubt that anyone would waste a long range missile on just a transformer.
This gives credence to the rumors that attacks in Crimea were launched by saboteur units infiltrated there.-
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Seems Ukrainians are slowing backing down from taking any offensive actions.
Kherson is both an example that Russia can referendum-away any territory and a springboard for a future push on Odessa.
They wouldn't give-up on it if there were any chances of success.A bad indication for future of Ukraine.
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Referendum in Zaporizhzhia officially announced.
Russia doesn't control the whole region so that could well be a de facto claim on the remainder.Also September keeps getting mentioned as a date, likely to be coordinated with the one in Kherson.
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7 hours ago, Malcador said:
The reactions to Amnesty International's report is something I don't get, AI always gets dismissed when they say anything negative about the Blue Team though, so isn't a total shock. But was expecting something more from AI to warrant that, the report seemed tame and I'm not seeing this supposed "false equivalence" being drawn here.
The report was so neutral it's being used as a card blanche to justifying hitting hospitals.
Between this and the '30% of aid makes it to front' quote it's clearly a serious attempt to reverse narrative around Ukraine.Most likely too early for that just yet, but 'had it coming' is only a matter of time.
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Russia labels Azov a terrorist organization.
Changes of them being exchanged or released are now next to nil.That's also a 3rd POW related stunt within a week.
They can clearly feel the west's interest waning.-
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9 hours ago, Zoraptor said:
That only means it wasn't grads, which was pretty obvious to anyone since they're an inaccurate saturation weapon. Anything precision can hit with that accuracy, by definition, which includes HiMARS and some Russian stuff like Krasnopol.
Parts of the roof are still standing so we can safely discount anything heavier than an artillery shell.
100kg of TNT from HIMARS would sent the whole thing sky-high.If Russians are really innocent in this they shouldn't mind returning corpses in condition fit for autopsy.
I'm not holding my breath.-
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18 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:
Yesterday also Russia put all imprisoned Ukrainian POWs from Maripoľ in a single building in occupied Olenivka, and launched MLRS Grad into it. Resulting in 50 dead POW and 130 wounded.
I don't know about 'all prisoners' but it's unlikely to be a work of any artillery.
Just a single building hit and no near misses to be seen.
Most likely a cover-up over deaths and mistreatment of POWs that were already registered with the red-cross.
Ukraine Conflict - "There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare"
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We will have to agree to disagree on that one.
Two salients created when their breakthrough attempts were contained are well visible on the map even today.
Maybe they can eventually grind-out a win of sorts but this was clearly not the plan.
Especially given the costs.