This is just your opinion. To me, your authority on this is zero, because you are making a superficial judgment, consciously or not ignoring the essence of the issue. The destroyed houses will be rebuilt, new people will be born and grow up to replace the dead, and they will speak their native language fluently (it doesn’t matter if it’s Ukrainian or Russian). Ukraine believed in itself too much, having decided to forbid the Russian-speaking residents of Donbass to speak Russian, and Ukraine will be punished for this. It does not matter how many houses will have to be destroyed and how many more people will have to be killed.

There aren't many things Russians don't bargain for. You either pay full price, no matter how much it costs, or you can't afford it. Sovereignty and freedom from Nazism are on the list of such things, and Russia can afford them.

The Russians are saving the Donbass from Nazism, and the entire democratic Western world from the illusion of their exclusivity and superiority. No one has the right to tell Russia what and how it should do.

Glad you're having fun too.

I didn’t pass it off as a fact and generally rarely give forecasts (to remind me for the tenth time about one that didn’t come true, simply because the threat to Kyiv was a tactical ploy at the beginning of the operation), but today is a good day and I will make a different forecast. In January 2023, the traditional March in honor of Bandera will not take place in Kyiv, for two reasons. Firstly, there will be no one to participate in it. Secondly, it would be too risky to participate in the procession, because a Russian rocket could fly into the accumulation of Nazi manpower.

But I do not rule out that this forecast will not come true, because for the sake of PR and a beautiful picture, Ukraine is ready to act recklessly and to its own detriment, which it repeatedly demonstrated during the operation.

You have some kind of painful fixation on this episode. Well, not this year, so it will be next year, are you in a hurry somewhere?

I think that Russia will neither be too hasty nor too slow. The most profitable strategy is to move at your own pace. The closer winter is, the weaker Europe's nerves will be, because now even Greta Thunberg thinks it is clear that Europe will not survive this winter without Russian gas. You can puff out your cheeks as much as you like, but when you have the choice to either kill the industry or freeze the population, it means you have no choice.

The Russians just want to see how Europe will be begging them to turn the gas back on closer to winter. The Russians want to hear an apology from Europe for the stolen money. The Russians want a loud and public apology from Europe for Russophobia and the attempt to abolish Russian culture. The Russians want to see Europe on its knees for supporting Nazism in Ukraine. The Russians want to see Europe in the chaos of riots toppling their own governments. For the sake of such a spectacle, the Russians are ready to remain silent and wait as long as necessary.

The West ran into the wrong guy and will pay dearly for it. Putin said today: "In Ukraine, we have not even started seriously yet."

I don't care what Poland and other European dwarfs like the Baltics believed there, whose value is only in the fact that they have the right to vote in the voting of the European Parliament. Europe has an industrial backbone - Germany, France, northern Italy and maybe Austria - which is dramatically dependent on pipeline gas and raw materials from Russia. And now this industrial backbone is crunching under the onslaught of sanctions that Europe itself has imposed against Russia (under pressure from the United States). I have already said and I will repeat - Europe in this story is a trophy and a victim. I think the United States decided to kill Europe in order to save its economy from the inevitable crisis and get rid of a strong competitor, but Russia, in principle, is not against it, it just has its own interests.

I don’t even really believe in the means of objective control, and I read the official reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine briefly diagonally. The events in Ukraine interest me insofar as, only as an active part of a larger confrontation between Russia and the united West. It's just funny to watch how 160,000 Russian soldiers and 50,000 Donbass militias slowly kick the ass of a million Ukrainians mobilized under arms. Do not take it to heart, Ukraine initially had no chance.

Putin today signed a decree on the release of Boris Johnson from his post, due to the loss of confidence. According to Macron, Boris should have called Putin more often.  

Seriously, this is the usual drama of a populist politician. Boris overinflated his image as a charismatic rebel jester and became too toxic even to his close party comrades.

First, they dropped the flag from a helicopter, and this morning, several people landed on a boat and raised it. The Russian rocket has already taken off at the address.

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The US has nothing to worry about, it's a defensive alliance.

Clowns are sitting in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who threw a yellow-blue rag from a helicopter onto Snake Island and cheerfully reported on raising the flag with an old photo. Of course, both sides exaggerate their achievements and downplay their losses, but Ukraine in this art, with all the desire, is difficult to surpass.

Today, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the destruction of two HIMARS in Malotaranovka. I saw a video of operational control, but the quality of the recording is not very good, Russia can shoot video worse than firing high-precision missiles. But you continue to believe in the power of Western weapons.  

Meanwhile, the European Parliament has recognized nuclear energy and natural gas as clean energy sources. I think coal and fuel oil will also become quite "green" closer to winter lol.

I do not accuse soldiers from the Armed Forces of Ukraine of corruption, on the contrary, I even welcome it. At the beginning of the operation, the West supplied Ukraine with old Soviet military equipment, and then it ended and now the West has to supply the latest weapons, which, of course, are of interest to Russian engineers. Something gets in the form of trophies, something is bought from corrupt Ukrainians - it doesn't matter. The main thing is the ability to disassemble to the screw and see how everything works. The hunt for foreign howitzers began immediately after the announcement of their delivery to Ukraine, and there seems to be success in several directions (I have no confirmation about the German PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzer, but there are rumors that the Russians managed to capture it in working order). NATO howitzers of 155mm caliber can be heard from the characteristic sound of a shot, and they are being hunted along the entire line of contact.

The Yamal gas pipeline was turned off by Russia as part of counter-sanctions against Poland for its aggressive anti-Russian rhetoric. Russia's counter-sanctions are very selective and targeted so as not to damage its own economy.

Europe's problem is energy shortage. A significant part of the gas is used to generate electricity at thermal power plants, so the reduction in pipeline gas supplies directly affects the reduction in electricity generation. Of course, there are other factors (problems with nuclear power plants in France, an embargo on Russian pipeline oil, an embargo on Russian coal, recent fire at an LNG plant in Texas, low electricity generation at wind farms and a general fuckup of renewable energy).

Generally speaking, the repair is really scheduled, it happens every year (the Turkish Stream was also recently stopped for scheduled repairs). But Germany is seriously afraid that Russia will not resume gas supply via Nord Stream after a scheduled repair, and there are quite good reasons for this - Canada did not return the Siemens turbine sent for repair due to sanctions. And suddenly it turned out that the prospect of being left without pipeline gas from Russia for Germany is simply catastrophic. Germany is not ready for this, it has no alternative, no terminals for receiving LNG, no free tankers to bring liquefied gas, and all resource-intensive industries are already on the verge of shutdown and bankruptcy. This is a direct response to the title of the topic - for Germany, the ban of Russian gas is economic and energy suicide.

Meanwhile, Russia not only disposes of surplus artillery shells in Ukraine, but also successfully tests new types of weapons in combat conditions. From fresh, recently Russian attack helicopters lit up new "product 305" missiles with a range of up to 100 km (Alligators now have long arms) and an electromagnetic gun Stupor for hard landing of small reconnaissance drones.

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In Germany, there is already natural hysteria about the imminent shutdown of the Nord Stream for scheduled repairs.