Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Yeah, it's a kind of latent thuggery or living vicariously through someone else's brutality toward those they see as weaker.

3. Getting hardware back towards Moscow to protect Putin's regime from mutiny.

Citing national security China imposes sanctions of 28 US companies mainly from the military suppliers. Ten of these will totally be blocked from exporting or importing from China.

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I wouldn't say this is quite the same, seeing as the more experienced commander was obviously aware of the fact that the "UFO" could have been something other than a drone, and went so far as to confirm it.

A reply to that original thread provides an additional perspective:

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For EW experts, Ukraine war has proven one deniable fact. As the world grows more and more reliant on wireless systems, the spectrum is becoming unusable in war, and those around it. Take note... last week, a Ryan Air flight from Latvia to Vienna diverted to Czechia as it's navigation systems were being jammed... likely spillover from the Ukraine war. Folks on that plane were far luckier than those on the Azeri Air flight.

It means China has basically decoupled from US military suppliers. Chinese firms cannot export to them. It is like a boomerang for what the Us has done to them. Sort of like a tit for tat type thing.

Orcistan - the world's largest cargo-cult.

We are getting a reasonable amount of information, if you can find it down the right rabbit hole. For the most part, some repairs are carried out on some facilities, if it involves little more than a lad with a welder and easy access to a pile of scrap metal. But in that scenario, the hard part is getting the lad because he's currently lying dead in a ditch in Ukraine. There is an effort to get the more critical facilities back online/up to full capacity, but it's challenging, especially when it involves the more modern ones, as they're the sites that were upgraded with a lot of western technology.

There was a not-widely-commented-upon post some time last year referencing an upsurge in the number of refineries within Ukraine's target area being put up for sale by their oligarch owners, entirely driven by the risk of them being bombed or the cost of repairing them because they'd already been bombed. I haven't seen any recent follow-up, but I would imagine the re-sale value of a refinery within 200km of the Ukrainian border is … poor.

As for leaving them damaged and hoping to get them back online in the future, that's not really a viable option. Wherever there are breaches in tanks and pipelines, you'll get infiltrations of water and all the problems that that causes. By the time anyone is of a mind to re-start production, whole sections of the plant would have to be replaced; if they're not, it'd just result in a series of failures as hidden damage came to light.

Unless the situation has improved, there is a ban on all exports of refined petroleum products from the Russian Federation at the moment - they barely meet their own needs, never mind sending barrels of it off to Africa or India. On the flip side, they can't send enough crude to third countries, because they no longer have the refining or storage capacity for what they suck out of the ground. If they stop that, then they're rightly fecked.

"A Russian commander behind the October 2023 missile attack on Hroza, which killed 59 people, including an eight-year-old, was critically injured in an explosion in Russia. Ukraine's Defense Intelligence reports he was hospitalized in critical condition."

I don’t know about what is happening in Denmark, but after the embarrassment for humanity that happened in New Jersey I just zone out when I hear about drones.

Wonder who's picking up the tab for this little jaunt?

Yep. Big booms by all accounts.

Be interesting to find out what the Ukrainians found worthy of striking