Only if you're measuring the medium term in decades, Joe public now understands that lack of reliable fuel sources equals sky high bills and freezing in winter. You arent going to run western civilisation on promises of wonderous things to come.
Absolute drivel. In the medium term move away from fossil fuels is essential and will happen. That problem will still be there when this awful war is over
I know
This lady is the usual source for that content.
Washington Post published an article that a quarter of Russian respondents did not express support for the war in a recent poll (either against or neutral).
Now, 75 percent in favour of something would usually be considered overwhelming, but because Russia is a country where public dissent is not so well tolerated, I would say the anti-war contingent is considerably bigger than reported, if anything. But, sure, if the war really is popular, I suppose there'll be no worry on Putin's part that full conscription wouldn't be politically ruinous.
Guys calm down, plenty of other places to recapture (and hold) before Crimea, let’s not get ahead of ourselves with theoreticals.
Crimea is part of Ukraine,
When the Ukrainan forces arrive enmass the Russians will be helped to the big bridge to Russia where they can walk home to mother Russia never to bother Ukrainans again
Any comments from that Russian Propaganda TV show, the one with all the experts ( especially the female ) extolling the wonderous victories of the Russian Army? And promising to level all of the west into dust, plus restoring Alaska to Russia?
Good for them, the problem they have now, to paraphrase Geroge Dubya Bush, they're not the "deciders".
The war isnt popular in Russia? Where did you get that from?
And even earlier on, not long after Kadyrov and his men arrived on the scene, and discovered what it was like in a real war, and started voicing their concerns, with some wanting to return to Chechnya, Kadyrov himself personally shot the ringleaders, End of Protests.
If Ukraine is to push on into Crimea, a few assessments will have to be made, like what the locals' attitude would be to an oncoming Ukrainian force. Maybe it's all propaganda to say that Crimea is full of ethnic Russians who prefer to be united with their motherland, but it's something Ukraine would have to make a clear assessment of if they're to come as liberators or as occupiers, which has a bearing on the ease with which they can actually hold territory. The other one is Western nations' attitude to Ukraine advancing in this way - did they sign up to help Ukraine take back all of its national territory or did they sign up to help push Russian forces back to pre 2022 lines?
And then there's how Russia would respond if Ukraine were to push into Crimea. As things stand, the war in Ukraine doesn't appear to be especially popular with the Russian public, so the risk would have to be considered of whether a move into Crimea would galvanise Russian public support of the war and give Putin more political capital to go with something like full mobilisation.
It does sound like it's all going a bit pear-shaped.
Lack of munitions??? Or artillery to fire them? As a result of Ukrainian long range weapons playing havoc with them?
We can't afford to continue consuming fossil fuels at pace, but at the same time people won't voluntarily sacrifice their standard of living, even temporarily, to facilitate a changeover. The change would have to be seamless, and as a bonus, offer to slash your energy bills down to a fraction. I worry that it'll never really happen fast enough if the change is led by corporations. The move to subscription streaming services was greatly hastened, I believe, by the advent of digital piracy, forcing companies to offer an attractive alternative. You'd need the energy equivalent of that - something that allows individual households to produce a good deal of their own power at low cost or no cost. We'll be waiting too long on companies and governments.
Might be the "sensible" option, but personally, I can't see Ukraine agreeing to it. When they said "Ruzzians Out" they meant all of them, out of all the territory of Ukraine.
Whatever about white flag waving unarmed military on the roads, anything resembling weapons needs to be hit and hit hard.
Certainly for a while anyway, but neither can we allow climate change to proceed at the rate it's at. I don't have the answer to it, but somewhere along the line, an answer will have to be found, and implemented, unless we want multiple wars happening around the world. 4 years of bad harvests in Syria, which triggered mass migration to the cities, was one of the factors which led to civil unrest, and war.
Troops reach border
Kharkiv oblast liberated
LOL, if this has thought us one thing, it's that we don't have any viable replacement for fossils fuels. Expect governments to now focus on energy security over carbon zero fantasies
Yep everything that Russia didn't buy into because they still believe that they will unleash thousands of artillery systems on a weak enemy and force surrender,
While everyone went to smart and advanced weaponry post desert storm, Russia stuck to the one game plan numbers and not a lot else
Tbh it's a combination of everything and the blood and guile of the Ukrainian military.
Himars, long range artillery, smart munitions, harm missiles have all made a major difference.
NATO supplied real time intel has been invaluable.
The Russians have also "helped" with their military incompetence and their war crimes in the areas they occupied.
Most of all it's the bravery of the Ukrainians themselves.
That infighting has been going on for weeks now ,I previously mentioned that russia had sent senior FSB officers to quell and settle infighting.
In a nutshell. How one man changed the world as we know it. Give it 5 years, and it will not be recognizable from what it is now. Security will be front and forefront of national agenda's. And ironically, and maybe the only good thing to emerge will be a very much reduced dependence on fossil fuels.
The problem here is the smart ammunition. Even the US has almost none and the rate of production is a handful per year. Ukraine could use up the wests entire stockpile of such ammo in a couple weeks, or less. The Caesars theoretical capabilities are very impressive, but questions surround the means necessary to turn theory into practice.
Unconfirmed reports of Russians surrendering in Kherson and some in-fighting between Russian regulars and Chechyn troops..
https://twitter.com/colin_mcclellan/status/1568967850756378627?s=20&t=E0TYleoHMb_gHmMiT6hlUg
People giving praise to Himars and rightly so they have changed the tied of this war. But observing some Ukrainian channels the French Caesars are working just has much they can notably accurately strike targets more than 40 kilometres away using ERFB ammunition with base bleed can hit targets over 55 kilometres away using rocket assisted or smart ammunition I believe France give Ukraine 18 Caesars.
Another su34 Downed just inside of Crimea this time.
15 + su34s lost ? Now.
Didn't see Gandalf Post earlier
It must be a difficult sell for the Russian military commanders. Their troops would be well aware they've invaded a neighbouring state with many shared traditions and family. They must also feel very vulnerable to the big hidden hand in all this - the remote intelligence gathering that NATO and other allies can feed to the Ukrainians, never mind local informants. It'd have to be unnerving to be at risk of attack without even being aware of it. The Russian military must also have similar capacity but not to the same extent. And winter approaches.
cant wait to see how the talking heads spin this, changing from wiping Ukraine off the map.
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