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Sandy Daze's avatar

In an excerpt from a BBC interview from three days ago:

"Ukraine has become a de facto member of the Nato alliance, the Ukrainian defence minister says, as Western countries, once concerned that military assistance could be seen as an escalation by Russia, change their "thinking approach"...."

More at this link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64255249

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Mark Wauck's avatar

NATO is providing support in all areas--including target acquisition and actually manning HIMARS and M777 and other systems. Russians claim to have killed 400 Poles in Soledar alone.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

And why did the Russians reveal that capability now?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Because they're getting ready for the big push and they need to destroy Ukraine's AD in order to protect their own air support. If they had done this first thing, months before the big push, NATO would have simply rebuilt Ukraine's AD--at least to an extent that would have resulted in losses the Russians don't want to incur when they don't have to.

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Piquet's avatar

Aside from the Air Defense systems, Russia is now taking out the permanent infrastructure (turbines, etc) to inflict semi-permanent destruction on the power generation system. This infrastructure is more protected and more difficult to destroy. Ukraine has admitted that the recent strikes have caused major problems in power generation.

Incidentally, the French link includes the ability to select the English page for those of us who are not polyglots. :-)

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Amanda R's avatar

Good question.

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perle's avatar

Thanks for the French link. There are many interesting articles, and they are very concerned about Davos, even actively pushing against the campaign to 'take over humanity' with lies. This is new to me. The decade I lived there the educated class were all Marxists.

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ML's avatar

Substitute “credentialed” for educated!

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Steghorn21's avatar

Or "Narrative-adhering"

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WayneRH's avatar

Mark, thanks for staying at your 'blog post' throughout your busy week.

Our cabal run 'elected leadership' shuts pipelines down, cuts lease acreage to almost nil, denies permits (while claiming otherwise), discourages oil infrastructure investment (refineries in particular), propagates a stupid law forbidding intra-national NG transfers from Tx to the NE excepting on US Vessels which are quite busy taking our NG to Europe at huge energy price increases for them, *destroying the RU Nordstream pipeline to assure that need, uses extensive regulations to further discourage 'fossil' fuels *that our SCOTUS says is an unlawful act of unelected regulators... this craziness just has no end.

Oh, "EVs for EVeryone!" which in spite of Sweden's recent great RE metals find can not be produced for anywhere near the need to replace gas/diesel powered equipment, even IF there were (presently unavailable) electrical-provision capabilities planned (let alone expected). I said it already, but this craziness just has no end. At least not to the benefit of the US public.

Oh, don't forget while buying Indian Refined 'fossil' fuels and products, Hydrogen powered vehicle technologies are being ignored. I'm a gas/diesel guy; however hydrogen has capacity and capability (if developed and produced) to 'carbon-free' power some of our transportation. My specific 'experience' is Trucking, but includes construction, warehousing (those electric forklifts are marginal-propane always works reliably) and I like my gas car and pickup trucks. All these work when it's zero: EV's not so much; in fact Lith/FE batteries, currently a leading functioning battery, won't charge without being heated above freezing, let alone operate said vehicle much more than 1/2 standard time/distance and requires internal computer controlled heating at that.

Sorry for a long rant: hypocrisy/hypocrites need a replacement word; they just aren't strong enough to describe the insanity our Ruling Class bettors display. I think I need some target practice time to get my mind distracted from all this... (WRH) I know, I left the Idaho tag off, you all are probably tired of it...

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Sandy Daze's avatar

Then there is this:

Russia is working with Iran on a gold-backed stablecoin

https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-01-16/Russia-is-working-with-Iran-on-a-gold-backed-stablecoin.html

As Bob Dylan said, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows:

https://youtu.be/MGxjIBEZvx0

I bet there are some subterranean homesick blues in NATO SCIFs right about now.

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susan mullen's avatar

Someone has got to stop the US war machine which exists only by enslavement of US taxpayers...."The Deep State...considers global conflict as the price to pay for maintaining its largesse from the US taxpayer. Continuous warfare is its only business product."...Philip Giraldi, 11/7/2019

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WayneRH's avatar

Will be a tough lift as the citizenry can't use our *(formerly) best tool - elections - reliably. A funny thing is, while Bitcoin and variants seem the rage, Brass (Ammo in particular) will become a very valuable commodity - serviceable in trade and can be a 'life-saving' value as well...

Hope your New Year is a Blessed one! (WRH, Idaho)

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

I’ve been curious On why the price in California for gas is still relatively low.

In my area it’s in the $4 range. It was $6.

In Tx mid 2’s.

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