In addition to my above post, you can see two BE-200 Amphibious jers parked on the sea-ramp
Moving to the airport to the North, it is predominantly an Air Transport wing, with lots of An-124's and Il-76 parked up.
Two points of interest here are the many AN-2's still in use. These are biplanes built in 1947 and incredibly are still in regular use..
Finally, as with most Russian airbases, you can spot the shadow of an airdefence radar, together with a cluster of launchers, just off the runway.
Again, both airports are worth monitoring and would make excellent targets. Watch that space, I suppose..
It's not that simple. Russia doesn't have the infrastructure to simply switch oil and gas supplies to customers in the east. Interesting article from Forbes on the subject here:
For oil this is their summary:
"There’s little room for immediate expansion, given constraints in both pipeline capacity and marine terminals. In fact, sending oil by tanker could prove difficult, as traders and shippers shy away from Russian oil. If anything, Russian oil exports to China might even decline over the next year."
For gas:
"Adding everything up, Gazprom could probably supply an additional 28 billion cubic meters of gas to China by 2025—only a fraction of the 155 billion cubic meters Russia supplied to Europe in 2021."
In short, Russia is at least as dependent on the European market as Europe is on Russia.
Reading the many posts and news articles on the effect of the invasion on energy prices, I can see that some in positions of power are contemplating the economic viability of going to war with Russia. There will come a point where it will be "cheaper" to go full-on against Russia. In some eyes anyway.
If someone is causing you a problem eg throwing his rubbish over the boundary fence and onto your property you can report him to the relevant authorities to get it stopped. That’s the recommended procedure in some countries. You could try returning the rubbish, have a chat with the dumper, beat the dumper up/ teach him a lesson when he trespasses onto your property, etc, but all these could end up you having taken the law into your own hands.
SO why is Ukraine doing nothing about missiles, etc, being launched from outside Ukraine. Would the ‘Law of war’ - whatever that is- entitle UK to retaliate and attack their launch pads. Ukraine could officially declare that such pads are as from today ligitimate targets and name them. Such a statement will at least force RU and Belaruse to increase protection and therefor there would be less resources available for the frontline
Youd of thought that with all this reliance on fuels from all these rogue countries that somebody would of come up with an alternative fuel source by now. You think of the advances in technology and medicine the last 50 years and yet we are still being held hostage to OPEC and now Russia. Part of the issue has probably been the usual thing with humanity where we put off dealing or fixing hard things until the future (like pensions).
Our best hope might be something like the American military , aren’t they always inventing stuff (like mobile device) that ends up mainstream down the line?
Yeah the poor petrodollar will be crushed I'm sure by an economy(Russia) smaller than the state of Texas and about 1/15th the us economy.
They don't have the means to do anything about the missiles, otherwise I am sure they would. If Ukraine had of had 1000 cruise missiles at the start, Putin might not have invaded, just as surely as he never would have if they'd still had the nukes.
Get back in the bread queue Comrade
Strangely compelling viewing……
We should send weapons, they want their country back and want the tools to do the job. They do not want to be homeless refugees. Look here:
The more weapons sent the less Ukrainians raped, murdered........
Yoda, correct is.
It's like watching a parallel universe.
Your wan is obviously part of the Russian elite, where her social status depends on treating ordinary Russians like 'grib'.
Yes why would neutral countries like Sweden and Finland send weapons to Ukraine i wonder
These people are truly evil.
I was thinking of something that has less potential to cause a catastrophic environmental disaster if something should go wrong and leave such toxic waste (even if minimal). Settling on a fuel that could leave an area uninhabitable for generations is a low bar.
Nothing beats russian tanks when it comes to turret tossing,t72 is in the lead followed closely by t80 and t90.
t72 still holds the world record
I don't agree with nuclear of any kind. Once you open a uranium mine that stuff is getting into the atmosphere, the sea...and it is there forever. They you start digging out the rock and more of the stuff is coming out. And they would have to open hundreds of these mines and dig the ore out. You don't need a nuclear accident at that rate. That stuff should be left in the ground.
Sure thing..
If only one country had weapons and those pesky neighbouring countries simply agreed to be invaded and taken over there would be no need for war.
Similarly there would be no rape if their women and children just agreed to whatever the invading army 'special military operators' wanted to do with them.
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Scary but 'optimistic'.
One candidate would be hydrogen, and there are already some efforts being made to replace some existing fuels with hydrogen made from renewable energy. Costs aren't there yet, and may never be.
Bad faith point there, as if there’s nothing else possible ever but oil or nuclear power. Issue with humanity is usually the will to do something. If something is hard humanity will usually find the easiest way out of avoiding pain now so it can put off the pain for later. Nuclear power seems like one of humanity’s many lazy solutions.
You are being completely ridiculous. Uranium is mined in Australia. No one has died from the radiological aspects and mining it does not spread radioative dust into the air which then encircles and polutes the entire planet. Absolute mindlessly stupid nonsense.. You get no radiation exposure from global uranium mining while you do get a dose of radiation from flying in a plane.
Nuclear energy has produced more CO2 free energy than all the worlds renewables combined. The only energy source that has done more to decarbonise energy is hydro.
Early days, but t does seem the eastern Russian offensive is underway. I post a pro-Ukrainian view for this.
Early gains by the Russians. Kreminna is about 25km north of Sieverodonetsk ( Siverodenestk capture important) Heard reports the Russians are now attacking multiple Ukrainian defensive areas but it's too early to tell the success.
The Chernobyl exclusion zone has one of the most thriving ecologies in Europe. The environment is doing better now than it ever did with humans in it.
Is one of the biggest problems with solar not storing it?
Graphic stuff, Russians being ambushed
Couple of things with this (as I had heard it). Firstly that doesn’t say much for humanity as a species in general, that an area that had a radioactive disaster is doing ecologically better now then before the disaster because there’s less human interference.
secondly , there have been reports of Russian soldiers suffering from some sort of radioactive poisoning for digging around Chernobyl. Is this true or lies? Or is it that some areas of Chernobyl are ok and others are not?
Thirdly, the generational damage caused to families by Chernobyl is not to be sniffed at. The potential of killing millions across Europe was a reality back at the crisis. Many people died of cancer and have suffered health wise as a result.
Not specifically a reason to completely rule out nuclear power but you can’t ignore its risks because it’s cheap and doesn’t add to CO2 levels as much as oil.
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