Is Russia done pretending?
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The Indians don't all seem to be on the same page.
'India won't be buying Russian oil': Trump doubles down on claim, despite MEA's fact-check - The Times of India
India Business News: US President Donald Trump asserted India would cease buying Russian oil, a claim swiftly refuted by New Delhi. The Ministry of External Affairs clariftimesofindia.indiatimes.com
They’ll come around
Money goes to Ukraine. Ukraine deposits into a shitbag company like FTX. FTX donates to libtard campaigns.
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I haven't chased anything, only heard/read, but what I've seen/heard is that it's bipartisan where political parties/angles are considered.
In the same post-industrial USA timeframe (mid-late 70s to present) RUS maintained its R&D and mfre capacities and expanded them. While the USA was throwing them offshore. And in the same timeframe, last 25 yrs especially, companies engaged in industrial business in the USA, they have become bloated with excess middle management and their R&D areas, limited by the prospect of profitability -- which is first not second or third, in priority.
There is a whole other consideration on the subject of educational rigor/quality in either country, same time frame 70s to present.
In both comparisons, our country comes up short. But nobody likes talking about either one. The nearest we get is occasional circus acts regarding college curriculum items. Nobody's got the cojones to say, "education is not about feelings and especially not feelings of victimhood."
The modern western world is rapidly becoming illiterate, it's actually sort of scary to think about.
And very dependent upon others in fragile supply chains. I would not be surprised to learn only 2-3 out of 10K people could feed, water, and know basic first aid, where w/o the modern world they could live longer than their mid 1850's-1900ad kin. And that reality could be but one flick of a switch away.
yea,the coming collapse that many of us anticipate for any # of reasons is not survivable for most. my guess is that anyone > 50 is done unless they have an established,dedicated,well equipped support structure. that is not a long list. depends on the type of collapse. my bet is after 1 year there will be at most 100 mil people alive. "mad Max" and a "a boy and his dog" will look like luxury vacations.
Wondering how that z boy winning is working out? Are tickets to V/U festivities on sale yet? Seems the ukes are getting butt fucked harder after the tomahawk propaganda B/S vanished into thin air, when Russia said go ahead FAFO.
yea,bet that put more pressure on Putin to get busy. he is no more interested in a nuc war than i am. problem is many of our neocons think one would be winnable and profitable.
That's not the correct way to clear a building. Using the correct method, you never have to enter same.
Disagree, he let it be known behind closed doors what would happen, should those things started flying over Russian dirt. He holds the upper hand with a few aces held back, but the media would have you believe otherwise.
what sites do you guys follow for,hopefully,accurate info? i have been following the military summary. pro Russian but not ass kissing. they do report + Uke moves and successes and seem careful about reporting and confirming Russ wins. they comment on US/Euro stuff but keep that pretty neutral.
To keep it balanced, I watch pro Russian Military summary and pro Ukrainian Willy OAM.
Though, Willy is probably a lot more objective, but is undergoing treatment for brain cancer, so takes the occasional week off.
None I get my info from boots on both sides of this.
I just wait for SNB and crew to give 1st person updates. #USAid
Military Times, AirForce Times, etc. are all pretty reliable. They're not always "FIRST" but that's because much of what's FIRST is fiction.
News Nation is pretty reliable, a tad to the right.
Sadly, many places that are relatively reliable are also left leaning but I think most of the left leaning stuff is the "personality/talent" shows. If you are capable of separating real news from opinion pieces then places like AP, BBC, Forbes, WSJ (right leaning), US News and even CNBC and ABC.
But, like I mentioned, you have to be capable of separating news from opinion.
A lot of what gets posted here has "opinion piece" origins and come from sensationalism factories like The Heritage Foundation, OAN, NewsMax, BreitBart, Gateway Pundit or [shudder] Alex Jones. Some of these sites are like 10% news and. 90% speculation and/or opinion.
YouToobers just plain fucking suck. Why would I want to watch 30 or 45 minutes of ba-ba-ba-buh-buh-do-dah for something I can read in 5 minutes or less somewhere else without all the me-me-me-me-me-me-me-subscribe-me-me-subscribe-me-me-subscribe bullshi?
I can form my own opinions and fabricate my own speculations. I have not desire for the likes of Alex Jones or Michael Moore to spoon feed me what my opinion ought to be.
USA Facts is a fun place to dig for data like 2024 government revenue and spending
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I'm not sure if all these are basically the same with different landing pages.
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There's a reason many people rely on this over so many other popular "news" sources. I mean, I wouldn't be placing any stock bets based on what Alex Jones thinks.
Laughing, what a clusterfuck,...
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Trump told Zelensky to take Putin's terms or risk 'destroying' Ukraine
The meeting between the two leaders reportedly turned into a 'shouting match', according to the Financial Times, who cited sources close to the matter.
One question: sources?Laughing, what a clusterfuck,...
Trump told Zelensky to take Putin's terms or risk 'destroying' Ukraine
The meeting between the two leaders reportedly turned into a 'shouting match', according to the Financial Times, who cited sources close to the matter.
Bet you they are not named.
Don't know on this one but it's not the first time z boy has been told that. After the live blow up at 1600 a while back, he was told the same thing as relayed by perky tits in a PC a few days later.
It was a Shawn Ryan interview I listened to, months ago. So I can't remember exact which guest. The guest told of a study performed about the electricity being shut off for an extended period of time. 90% of the U.S. population would die.
That number originated in congress I think, after they commissioned a study shortly after the book "One Second After" came out. Many think that number is low and getting higher as older brain trust dies off. Most do not have hard copy backup of the old ways, and when it all goes to shit, they will not be able to adapt or learn before they die, believing someone is coming to save them. Spotting those who will make it, is not that hard if you know what to look for.
Too much of the population does not know how to make fire and shelter. They do not know that you can get water out of the creek or the pond and clean it to drink. They do not know how to hunt and forage. They have no hand tools, they have no skills to use those tools. The basics of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
I've been saying for many years, people don't get rid of your books.
What kind of scenario are you talking about that completely “shuts off” electricity in the United States for a long period of time?
A few things to consider.
-Our grid is broken up into section.
-People have fossil fuel powered generators, Solar and other means or electricity generation.
- I like Ryans podcast, but that doesn’t mean everything that comes out of it is 100% factual.
1. What sort of calamity would knock all of this out? My solar panels, batteries and inverter included.
2. Look at whats going on in Ukraine, they have been fighting since 2014 and full blown war since 2022, with targeted attacks on energy infrastructure occurring on both sides. Ukraine, while severely limited and damaged, still gets power/energy to most areas of the country as does Russia.
I am just curious what scenario are people playing out in their heads that power/energy nation wide is completely destroyed and not repaired?
My point being, if something like (enter your doomsday scenario here) did occur, what ever caused it, would likely be a hell of a lot bigger problem.
Russia had limited attacks on Ukraine energy earlier in the war.. the US was sending all the equipment to repair it and there was an agreement to stop attacking infrastructure because it was too harsh on the civilians. Several months ago, Z decided to start attacking energy again and now Russia is laying waste to Eastern Ukraine's energy systems. Ukraine is attacking storage facilities.
Shits ramping up.. hopefully Ukraine surrenders soon. Muhammad will be the most popular birthname in Ukraine in the very near future.
Shits ramping up.. hopefully Ukraine surrenders soon. Muhammad will be the most popular birthname in Ukraine in the very near future.
Intentional shut down by a rival nation (Chyna, N.K.) and/or from the ones we've been fighting for hundreds of years. EMPs would get it done. As well as surgical attacks on transfer stations and power generating plants.
My house has a generator that powers all things when the line power goes out. It would eventually run out of fuel. Everyone else would eventually run out of fuel as well. Americans would be forced to live like they did prior to about 1910, and most do not know how to do that.
A high altitude nuke. But once rockets start flying, my guess is that an EMP is the least of our problems.
Nobody is naming the sources who claim there was shouting and cursing but it seems plausible for Trump.
Zelensky ready to join Trump-Putin talks after 'frank' White House meeting
The US and Russian presidents announced on Thursday that they planned to meet in Budapest.
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I have enough solar and battery I could run mostly indefinitely with just one A/C system. Would probably have to skip A/C on very cloudy days. Better than nothing.
You're probably in better electrical shape than 99.99% of the population.
But farms, ranches, trucks, and grocery stores with no fuel and no electricity means all of us are going to have to figure out our food supply. There also won't be any tap water to get out of the faucet. Water departments need electricity to function.
Not all would, unless all wood was totally gone. A Wood gasifer will produce syngas that can be used in anything that is now fueled via Natural gas. I've built a few different designs, and they will power any engine I have from 3.5hp to my F350 w/a SBC, (Albeit at 70-75% the HP of the gasoline rating) w/a simple hearth change. The gas can also be compressed & stored. Gas bags on top of cars truck were common during WW II, as well as mounted gasifiers, on same to include tractors, ect. I have a ton of tractor tire inter tubes just for this, just add weight to keep the pressure up, simple.
If you have ever seen a flame appear above a forest fire, leaf fire, or camp fire, out of the blue then quickly disappear, what you seen was the wood gas burning. A perfect mix will produced a perfect Blue flame at night, & during the day is invisible except for the heat waves rising.
Yes, but you'll lose about 10% of the propane HP rating. Any device burns Propane will also run on Woodgas.
Search wood gas, the amount info out there is staggering. Be careful w/YouTube videos, as some on there are just plain B/S, and others are just bombs in waiting.
Kinda the point.
Curious if an EMP can magically kill all electronics nationwide, why hasn’t Russia done it to Ukraine or vise versa.
Even if they could shut it down. Which I personally don’t believe they could shut the whole thing down. Its not like people would just give up, it would get fixed. The infrastructure is so massive destroying all of it. It’s basically impossible, they don’t have enough conventional munitions to get it done. I just don’t see it happening. Again look at modern conflicts, power gets knocked out and it gets repaired and/or people move until the area can be repaired.
I am personally more worried about some massive object or unknown energy pulse coming from outer space, than anything man-made.
3 properly laid out EMPs would do it. generators would need fuel at some point. not gonna go to the station and get more. no electric means no production,transport or ability to pump. most groc stores have maybe 2 weeks stuff on shelf. no elect + no refrig/freezer. everything breaks or wares out needing parts.
the cities are out of control now with rioting and looting. what happens when the power goes out?
don't know if you like Tucker's stuff but this one seems well studied and v. believable.
Ukraine is a point. but Putin is not trying to shut down the whole country,at least not initially. not using nucs. that makes a whole diff game.
It hasn’t happened in Ukraine because that whole situation is bullshit playing for $$$ on many levels. Its a fake war killing lots of people for $$$ and power and no one else cares about the dead enough to change anything. You are thinking like a child. One solar or generator powered house, hundreds of others cold and dark filled with hungry psychos=death to all. The only people who will control same as before are already dirt floor poor without power or gas utilities. When I was a kid the modern world could have ended and we would not have been affected at all for weeks. Comfortable western life blinds most people here. Coulda/woulda/shoulda, only the human cockroaches will continue unscathed.
Might take more than one and it depends on size of the nuke plus your definition and limitation of "electronics".
The pro-RUS opinion and POV sites I've read, they are all over the map and some of them, not what they seem on the surface. You can follow their 3 primary diplomatic faces, Lavrov Medvedev and Zakharova, for public statements. You can read official RUS press releases and analysis statements at their official govt website.
One guy I read regularly even if I often disagree with his takes/spins is Andrei Martyanov. He is a funny guy on youtube. If you read the comments at his blog you can see the small corners of the internet get plenty of psywar attention. I think he offers good info on industrial matters relative to military readiness, it's how I found his blog over 15 yrs ago, when I was looking for commenters on the industrial gap we have since going to a "finance-based" economy.
His blog is called Reminiscence of the Future.
I used to follow a guy called Dmitry Orlov, yes he is from the historical RUS nobility family and it seems his comfortable youth was spent educating himself, a rarity in generations-old families of wealth & influence. He used to comment on the industrial gap back in the 1990s. These days you can't read him without money and I don't do that for political/diplomatic nonsense.
Protecting the Grid from the Bomb
One thing I have noticed from following RUS diplomats for the past 5 yrs or so.
Lavrov is the top diplomat alive today. He is wise, relaxed, poised, knowledgeable about many things, speaks many languages. He does not speak falsely or with any spin/exaggeration. Our country has not had a man like him in parallel position/authority for a long, long time.
Medvedev is the guard dog, public facing RUS diplomacy wise. He barks angrily at things that seem a live threat. He uses dry wit to make sharp points.
Zakharova is the sort of woman I would say any young woman aspiring to diplomacy should emulate. From a family of diplomatically minded people, she swims in that world like a fish in water. She is a younger, female version of Lavrov. But she sometimes shows mild emotion.
Synthesize the 3 of them and you get a good POV on the RUS national POV.
Putin is a lawyer, a bureaucrat, a spy/intel guy, and from all appearances a true nationalist. As a national leader facing the world he behaves as a top litigator in a serious matter, so I get his persona/presentation pretty well. It is a stark contrast to his opposite.
Lavrov is the top diplomat alive today. He is wise, relaxed, poised, knowledgeable about many things, speaks many languages. He does not speak falsely or with any spin/exaggeration. Our country has not had a man like him in parallel position/authority for a long, long time.
Medvedev is the guard dog, public facing RUS diplomacy wise. He barks angrily at things that seem a live threat. He uses dry wit to make sharp points.
Zakharova is the sort of woman I would say any young woman aspiring to diplomacy should emulate. From a family of diplomatically minded people, she swims in that world like a fish in water. She is a younger, female version of Lavrov. But she sometimes shows mild emotion.
Synthesize the 3 of them and you get a good POV on the RUS national POV.
Putin is a lawyer, a bureaucrat, a spy/intel guy, and from all appearances a true nationalist. As a national leader facing the world he behaves as a top litigator in a serious matter, so I get his persona/presentation pretty well. It is a stark contrast to his opposite.
Anyone who live in SoCal knows about the fragile SoCal Edison infrastructure. It touched off a pretty serious wildfire back in 2018-20 timeframe. Investigation into the causes of the fire showed system-wide maintenance failures.
I was in Ventura County CA working on my aunt's estate when the investigation results came out. Tamped down fast in SoCal media, but since I used to work on that kind of liability, I looked into it. Their system is on stilts in a strong wind.
