Ukraine struck the Yaroslavl refinery bringing their total to five refineries struck in the last seven days. An OZON warehouse in Adygea was also targeted by drones. Republicans got wiped out in the American midterm elections. MAGA is dead and Trump's power to help Russia has been severely reduced.

all 19 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [S] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Lot's of stuff going on, Ukraine is again going heavy on refineries, and simultaneously they are also taking Ozone warehouses out! Russian grain exports are down 70% compared to last year! Russia has record losses and aren't gaining territory.
Even cheap meat is now prohibitively expensive for the average Russian!
Tough winter ahead for Russia.

Unfortunately Russia is also hammering Ukraine infrastructure especially electricity, and it will be extremely difficult to defend against it. So also a tough winter for Ukraine. War sucks, and Ukraine never deserved this. The Russians however do.

Jake Broe quotes Illia Ponomarenko:

The Russian empire was built to a great extent on the blood and tears of Ukraine, and in our time over 3 centuries later, Ukraine will be the one to bury it, and sing its requiem. And that will be one of the greatest acts of historical justice the world has ever witnessed.

https://youtu.be/r9mJnPSAo4o?t=854

That somehow hit me, Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦

This was a good video, watch it if you have the time. 👍

  • source
  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Now do one with Netanyahu lmao

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] [S] 7 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    Yes USA and Germany are absolutely fucked up with their unconditional support of Israel despite their war crimes.
    Germany is absolutely insane in their incapability to criticize Israel. Completely ignoring that 2 wrongs don't make a right.
    I don't think I've seen any situation where that saying fit better than Regarding Germany and Israel.

    At least in USA there is opposition, that doesn't stem from Nazis.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    My Dad's side of the family is Ukrainian and my grandmother was actually abducted by Russians in '42 and shipped to Berlin to work in a laundromat cleaning Nazi uniforms. Every time the subject of Russia came up when I was a kid she would say "Russians are all cheaters and liars" and we would laugh and say "Oh, Grandma." She died about a year before the war broke out and I always think about that. She loved Berlin though, said it was the cleanest city she'd ever seen.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    I don't get it? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but why would Russians abduct anyone in 1942 just to send them to Berlin, when Germany was the enemy since the invasion of Soviet Union in 1941?

    But no matter how it happened, your grandmother was right, the Russians are indeed cheaters and liars, and it's the main trick of Putin to cheat and leverage misinformation.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    History is complicated. I suspect they were using the cover of war to get rid of undesirables - I would recommend the book "The Last Million" by David Nasaw for a detailed account of displaced persons during the war.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Ukraine is gonna hurt for the next two years.

    Congress/Senate will withhold all of Trumps funding, which Ukraine will be caught up in that and US Government will shutdown, as Trump vetos everything

    The question will be, once the government has shut down for so long, will left over republicans in the Senate finally convict and remove Trump with that 2/3rd vote

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    There is no doubt that if USA wanted, they could double the EU aid Ukraine is receiving, and with that the war would be over much sooner. But with Trump as president, it is very unlikely that much aid will go to Ukraine.
    How long it takes for Russia to finally collapse is hard to say, and Ukraine is definitely hurting too. But the advantage for Ukraine is that their economy is actually OK, because of the aid received from the coalition of the willing.

    I have no hopes Trump will be removed, judging from how the Democrats behaved last time Trump was president. Wringing their hands on even investigating the accusations against Trump. Democrats are better than the Republicans, but that doesn't mean they are much good. Being better than the Republicans is a very low bar.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    I like this dude

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Which is probably why he took control of Japan Tobacco's subsidiaries. Fucking limp dick tantrum bitch.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I do not follow at all?!
    Who is "he" and how is Japanese tobacco relevant?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Putin. He signed some executive order to just seize companies from Japan. Japan and Russia have been butting heads over northern territories and with the loss of US assets, they gotta show someone who's still a big boy. And that someone happens to be Japan.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 days ago

    OK, Putin has been seizing lots of foreign companies, in general they don't do so well afterwards.
    Renault, Tuborg and Danfoss are the first that come to mind, they did that shit already years ago.
    That's the well deserved "reward" for doing business with Russia.

  • source
  • parent