Iran, Russia, China To Run War Drills in Latin America

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.

Russia’s squeeze on gas undermines Germany’s economic model

German authorities plan to supply LNG could be thwarted due to lack of tankers

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

Don't be silly, the limit on transfers from Russia is now one million dollars per day.

ps An interesting article about how the Ukrainians sold two French Caesar howitzers to the Russians.  

It's really hot on the eastern front.

And Germany is already close to hysteria, a week later the Nord Stream is closed for scheduled repairs, and the Siemens turbine has not been returned. Scholz hit Lithuania in the nose for the blockade of Kaliningrad and transit will have to be resumed. Lithuania is offended.

I have disabled recommendation systems wherever possible. The good news is that this is possible everywhere, although recommendation systems are usually enabled by default. The bad news is that your news feed will become less interesting after this, and the ads will become less attractive. The good news is you'll waste less time and buy less junk you don't need. You have no chance of defeating self-learning artificial intelligence while sitting at home in a comfortable chair in a bathrobe and house slippers. But you can prevent it from learning from your behavior on the network, and this is not even too difficult.

It’s strange for me to talk about this on the Bitcointalk forum, but it seems that a new generation of cryptocurrency users has grown up who don’t know about cypherpunks.

In the meantime, after the capture of Lisichansk and the complete liberation of the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic, Putin sent the Center group for rest and planned rotation. Groupings West and East continue to conduct a special operation in Ukraine.

The increase in the price of fuel in dollars and euros is due to the fall in the value of the dollar and euro against the ruble. If you scroll down a little on your link, there is a graph of the price of fuel in rubles and it has not changed much over the year (AI-95 + 1.27%, Diesel + 9.3%, LPG -19.11%).

Do you want a fresh Russian joke?

This is not true, and in the link I provided above there is a price chart for Russian Ural oil. Your unsubstantiated statements are groundless, take the trouble to provide a prooflink or stop spreading deliberately false information on the forum.

You are lying.

I think Europe will only need one cold enough winter to get all the renewable energy shit out of its head.

In essence, that is, what to say, except for attempts to insult? Zelensky lied that 1,000 civilians died in the mall. The director of the shopping center showed criminal negligence by clearly instructing employees to ignore the air raid signals. But only the Russians are to blame for everything, who would doubt it.

I have not studied this episode in detail, I will say a few words from what I know. The missile attack on Kremenchuk is atypical for this operation, for several reasons. Usually such strikes are carried out at night to minimize the risks to the civilian population, this strike was carried out during the day. The probable reason for this is the wrong status of the shopping center in Google, there was a note that the shopping center is not working. The second curious moment - the blow was delivered by old x22 cruise missiles, which are not very high-precision (according to the passport, the spread can reach 500 meters, if you are not lucky to get in different directions of the normal distribution - which apparently happened in practice). Well, the director of the shopping center, of course, is also to blame for the fact that there was no evacuation of people during an air raid signal. It is apparently pointless to talk about the zero effectiveness of the missile defense system against old missiles suitable only for disposal. I think both sides of the conflict should take some lessons from this episode for the future. I'm sorry that civilians suffered, it was not planned.