Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Russia's main concern is that it can't batter NATO countries into submission.

The same poster then celebrates (example only on previous page) of Russia “expanding” in a war they started

Yet more proof that the West really has no interest in defeating Russia, at least not if it compromises economic interests:

The “west” is trying but Trump doesn’t want to sanction his buddy as per new York times

Something that would not only help Ukraine but US energy industry who are being wiped out by OPEC+Russia

But hey apparently he ran on a slogan of “America first” and was pro oil

Edit: Your article points out that most of the money attributed to EU came from Hungarian and Slovak purchases

I fully agree that these leeches should be forced out of EU and their position made so uncomfortable they leave

Another day another failed motorcycle attack

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/0YvNKiqfzH

(Don’t worry no invaders were harmed in the video, tis SFW)

turns out the solution is cheap barbed wired, tho I suspect Russian lives are even cheaper

After all the largest country in the world needs to expand to become larger /s

Again. If the nuclear response is used, all bets are off and there is no wiggle room.

In the scenario of NK taking a swing at SK and then using a nuke to devastate the first counter offensive will result in the end of Kim's regime. By simply using a nuke just once indicates the willing to use another nuke again. Therefore the risk to not respond, hoping that another one is not on the way is simply too great a risk to take.

The same for russia's eventual invasion of Europe. Even if putin launches a nuke at an uninhabited part of the world as a warning to not march on moscow means he is willing to use a nuke again. In this case is it better to employ the first strike doctrine and try to drastically cripple russia (difficult because of russia's ballistic missile submarines) because the use of nuclear weapons in any capacity removes any diplomatic playbooks.

(I hope I'm never wrong on this); The point I'm trying to make is bringing up a nuclear response for any invasion scenario is pointless as it's not a tactical advantage, but a tactical disadvantage.

It seems like these new FPV drones that was reported on 6 weeks ago are getting more and more frequent lately. The main supply routes north of Pokrovsk seem to be getting quite a lot of attention the last few days.

I agree to an extent, but it's a delicate balancing act - ultimately people care more about their pockets than the war. Apart from Slovakia and Hungary, as a whole Europe is weaning itself off Russian resources. Yes Russian LNG has increased, however it's important to keep in mind it's only 5% of EU consumption - so hopefully that can be shut down soon. It's also tough(er) with Trump in the WH and far right populists threatening to take power constantly.

So going back over 30 years, when Russia was perceived to be the 2nd most powerful military in the world, and nuclear armed, they had security concerns? What about the security concerns of the rest of the world regarding Russia? Specifically, the countries bordering Russia? Are they not entitled to have security concerns as well? The countries that got independence from Russia, promptly joined NATO. Because they knew well what Putins Russia would be like. Unfortunately, Ukraine didn't join, and even more unfortunately handed over not only their nuclear weapons, but also a lot of conventional weaponry as well. And more recently, Sweeden and Finland joined NATO, with no major fuss or bother from Russia.

The problem began when Putin decided to fix what he considers to be the greatest catastrophe to befall Russia, the breakup of the USSR,and he wants to restore it. Reclaiming Ukraine was the first step in this. All other excuses are just that, excuses and cover-ups. But instead, all he has achieved is the death and disabling of 980'000 approx. Russians, driven the Russian economy to a state of near bankruptcy, and sowed chaos all over the world.

It’s not the EU tho, they keep trying only to get blocked by two members who are doing the importation → Hungary and Slovakia

The Russians and their friends here would love to grow anti EU resentments in various EU countries and blame the EU for everything deflecting from the real turds in Central Europe

If 25 want to push 2 of the members out they can, by simply making their membership pointless, the obstructionist knife can cut both ways.

Right now the other 25 members don’t view what Hungary and Slovakia are doing as directly harmful to them (more of an annoyance), let’s say Russia invades Poland or Baltics tomorrow and hence directly threaten a member, the following day would see both of these counties put into a situation where they either choose EU or continuing suck Putin’s pipe

First you blaming the EU now you blaming individual members confirming what I wrote, so which one is it?

Then you asked what is EU to do undermining your whole argument and ignoring that there have been multiple attempts at eu wide level blocked by 1-2 countries

BTW Where are these EU owned and operated power plants and policies?

Nice try trying to redirect blame to some vague and nebulous EU and working for free for Russian propagandists

You really see what you want to see....

EU imports increased between 23 and 24. Why was that Slovakia and Hungary made Italy import more gas?

Don't throw slurs at me because you don't like the reality of EU energy policy.

They buy it. They bought more between 23 and 24, why was that? Who made them big bad Trump, big bad Slovakia, Hungary or EU countries care more about warm houses at home than dead Ukrainians.

I don't need to show policy.

Europe is screaming for a modern day Churchill with a pair of balls instead we have continuing trade with the nation that invaded Ukraine 11 years ago. Well north of 2 Trillion in that time frame.

Two powerful explosions occurred near Desantnaya Bay in the Russian city of Vladivostok, located in the Far East, on the morning of 30 May. Ukrainska Pravda sources have reported that the blasts were the result of a successful operation by Defence Intelligence of Ukraine.

Details: At least two explosions were reported in the area where the 47th Separate Air Assault Battalion of the 155th Separate Guards Marine Brigade (military unit No. 30926) is stationed. One blast occurred near a checkpoint and the other at a location where personnel and command staff of the unit were present. Military personnel, equipment and special assets were hit.

Local residents stated that at least ten ambulances and a medical evacuation helicopter arrived at the scene. Damaged equipment is being removed from the military site in military Ural trucks.

In contrast, regional authorities claimed the incident was caused by the explosion of two gas cylinders, asserting that "no one was injured".

So the Orc populace likely thinks they are winning the war special operation, with few casualties, but there's a strangely high incidence of exploding gas cylinders, gas mains, petrol cans and people falling out of windows, whether they are the kind that can be opened, or not?

Sounds like a good result.

That's LNG, which is the exception. Pipeline gas, coal and oil are all down.

As mentioned previously, for context, Russia supplies 5% of Europe's LNG need. This is likely to change in the next 2 years (mostly related to infrastructure and long term contracts). Yes on paper we should stop all Russian imports but in reality it's still a massive on-going challenge.

The EU is making an effort in this - a couple of EU countries aren't.