my last mention about the topic, but since it's a new thread, I wanted to get some reply from one of the tankanon.
>>2449724(from last thread)
And do you want to know with who those Knesset MPs have connections in the US? Ofer Cassif with the CPUSA. Yes, participated in videoconferences with them at
32nd CPUSA convention AT FUCKING 2024. Ayman Odeh calls Bernard Sanders "his friend", and condemned Assad. This is what the IDC connections are.
Basically, IDC is purely a western proxy masqueraded as a Stalinist news blog.
>“ German investigators have likely identified all the saboteurs who blew up the "Nord Streams." >They believe that a total of 7 Ukrainians were involved in the attack, writes Die Zeit. While the public was actively speculating, investigators from the Federal Police and the Federal Criminal Police Office carefully monitored the forensic examination. They took DNA samples and fingerprints on the sailing yacht "Andromeda," a 15-meter Bavaria Cruiser 50 vessel that was in the Baltic Sea at the time. They matched traces of the explosive compounds octogen and hexogen found on the Andromeda with remnants of the pipeline discovered on the ocean floor. The samples very likely corresponded to each other. One of the most important pieces of evidence came about by chance: on the night of September 8, a road camera on Rügen caught a vehicle of the explosive squad heading to the sailing yacht. Police located the owner of the white Citroën, questioned him, and showed him photos with highlights. >The driver, who works for a courier company, reported that several Ukrainians were transported from Kyiv to Germany multiple times. Police reconstructed the routes as well as the place and time of border crossings. Polish authorities, who track the identity of every traveler crossing the Polish border, helped them trace who was in the vehicles. The names used by the authorities for this were just covers, such as "Yevhen Khomenets," "Vsevolod Mychko," or "Serhiy Kulinich." The passport photos were genuine, as were the names. Investigators now knew what the suspects looked like and knew part of their identities. What is particularly striking: the Ukrainian passports the command used to identify themselves at the Polish border were originals of Ukrainian documents. >The crew must have had high-ranking helpers in the state apparatus. First, German authorities managed to identify one of the alleged divers. They recognized Volodymyr S., who worked as a diving instructor in Kyiv, in a surveillance camera photo as a passenger. After the attack, S. stayed with his family in Poland. In summer 2024, the Germans asked the Poles to arrest him, but shortly before that, S. disappeared. The car that took him from Warsaw to Kyiv was handed over to the Ukrainian military attaché. >Someone influential in the Ukrainian government clearly helped S. escape. The group also included 53-year-old Ukrainian soldier Vsevolod K., who reportedly died in combat at the end of December 2024 in a small town in eastern Ukraine. Interestingly, the Ukrainian had previously trained in the Bundeswehr. "Kontrast" reporter Georg Heil and a Dutch journalist learned about K.'s training in Germany during their research in Ukraine; verification showed that K. trained at the Bundeswehr training center in Wildflecken. >And: DNA traces on the records and traces K. left on the Andromeda were similar to those recorded. Meanwhile, investigators believe that a total of seven Ukrainians took part in the attack: four divers, one responsible for explosives, a skipper, and the arrested Serhiy K. It is reported that the seventh person, Yevhen U., joined the team only later, between September 19 and 23, 2022. German officials were able to reconstruct his route from the Black Sea to the Baltic. German Justice Minister Stephanie Hubig praised the "truly impressive success of the investigation." >However, the new federal government intends to keep this case as far away from itself as possible. The Chancellor and his team currently prefer to act as if this unprecedented act of vandalism never happened. Given the fragility of negotiations between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and European leaders about Ukraine's future, any additional interference could only cause harm. Nord Stream simply does not fit into the political picture. “https://archive.ph/VHQR1#selection-2575.89-2575.104Original, behind paywall, German media.
https://www.zeit.de/2025/37/anschlag-nord-stream-pipelines-aufklaerung-festnahme-ukraine/komplettansicht >>2449773I am sure the US did it, and now they are throwing these people under the bus:
>>2449775 (me)
I'm not really informed about Belarusian or Russian politics or government, so sorry if this is kind of a stupid question, but is the recent law that was passed regarding Russian and Belarusian citizens to stand for election in each other's countries perhaps a prelude to the supposed "USSR 2.0?" At this point I don't mean the reconstruction of the ussr exactly, but rather creating the conditions for former soviet states to join the Russian Federation as republics via plebiscite or some other popular method, like the donbas republics did.
It seems to me that from where Russia is sitting, it will never be as secure as it wishes as long as there are these smaller republics on its border that nato can potentially flip and antagonize them with. I think the same goes for countries like Belarus, where they're bordering beligerant nato states, allies of enemies seeking constantly to undermine, destabilize, and corrupt them, in order to weaponize them against Russia to the ruin of both. Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan–we see the same thing over and over. These small former republics just don't have the resources to resist on their own and there's no shortage of greedy nationalists willing to sell out their countries for yankeebux.
To me it makes sense that Russia would try and go this route, but I'll admit there's a lot about Russian and its neighbors' politics that I don't really know much about.
>>2449793i think Seymour Hersh's article said it was US, Brits, Norway?
then again, he has his sources inside glowie circles, sometimes they were correct like with the iran strikes, but take it with a certain grain of salt
>>2449790Reductively the equilibrium point where Eurasian power pushing outwards meets global power pushing in + where social pressure pushes out against market forces pushing seems to be Gorbachev's proposed union of soviet sovereign republics. A market economy softened by a safety net and state intervention, with a (de facto) single party state managing friction between.
With the RU expanding into a facsimile of it from a position of relative isolation rather than soviet recession into such a form from uncompetitive overextension. Where gorbachevs attempt collapsed from an atrophied party infrastructure and lack of sufficient political capital (plus monumental naivete), born of cold war defeat. The party organs of Belaya Rus and Russia united have the leadership, inherent infrastructure and a raison d'etre in conflict with the west that could sucessfully bind such a project.
Not condoning this as sufficient but observationally appears to be the long term trending point of Eurasian governance at contemporary levels of development. Take what you can get I guess.
Full 54-minute NBC interview with Sergei Lavrov about Ukraine War and negotiations
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HwlmTRBGyVDa
>Russia is prepared to continue direct negotiations with Ukraine and suggests forming three working groups on the subjects of military, humanitarian, and political matters<Ukraine has not responded a month after this proposal was made>Zelensky demanding to meet with Putin is "theatrics" and Ukr and EU are "distorting" what was discussed in Anchorage <Russia insists on osc concept of Indivisible Security where "no one can strengthen his security at the expense of another.">nato complaining about this "reveals that they want divisible security" and to dominate the European space at Russian expense <in the first round of negotiations in Istabul Ukraine proposed neutrality for itself with security guarantees by the forces of the UN security council states, plus Germany, Turkey, "anyone else that was interested," and this was signed by both sides>Putin said that he is ready to meet with Zelensky "provided this meeting leads to some actual resolution" not to give Zel an opportunity to "get on stage" since Zel has publicly refuted negotiating with Putin on any issue<Washington insisted that issues like territorial questions and nato membership must be considered and Zelensky refused>lavrov goes on to state that they don't want to give zelensky the "opportunity to take a picture and say 'now I am legitimate.'"<Zelensky is recognized as the de facto head of Ukrainian regime but isn't suitable to sign a legal document with Russia>the meeting in Anchorage was "substantive" and discussed "real things" like the violation of Russian security<Russia suggested signing a pact with nato in 2008 and this was ignored>in 2021 Russia suggested separate treaties with US and nato only to be ignored, blinken told lavrov that they could discuss possible limits on what weapons nato shares with Ukraine but that membership wasn't for anybody else to discussThis is really embarrassing. They keep trying to browbeat him into admitting that Russia destroyed a civilian, American owned factory in Ukraine, that it purposefully attacks civilians, and is unilaterally refusing a ceasefire. Muh maternity wards.
>lavrov insists that security guarantees must be agreed on by the related parties but that this isn't a "Russian veto"<in lavrov's view Trump's domestic focus would have made the American government unlikely to sponsor this war in 2022>Ukraine has the right to exist "provided it let people go," ie that ethnic Russians can determine their own politics<the smo was started to protect Russians persecuted by the regime>accusations of war crimes in Bucha didn't arise until two days after Russia withdrew and Ukraine took possession, no names or identities of the supposed victims have been made public<no ceasefire, no line freeze, Russia will achieve its stated objectives, neutral Ukraine, no nato, non nuclearNbc: my budapest memorandum
Lav: have you actually read it?
Nbc: yes
Lav: what does it say?
Nbc: you promised not to invade but then you did
Lav: so you haven't actually read it
>the guarantees are just that nuclear states will not use nuclear weapons against non nuclear states, not that Russia agreed to provide security to the post coup regime, particularly after Zelensky openly considered developing nuclear capabilities<Russia has no interest in Ukraine’s territory but is interested in the Russian people living there Lavrov manages to keep his cool in spite of the dimwit accusing Russia of slaughtering civilian while turning a blind eye to Ukraine also killing civilians.
>was your sweatshirt a signal that Russia wants to reestablish the Soviet Union? No, whoever doesn't regret what happened to the su has no heart, but whoever wants it back has no brain<does putin want peace? Yes>Russia is ready to make peace but western law makers insist on Ukraine not being defeated<"cancel culture in modern history is dangerous"https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250827-french-german-and-polish-leaders-head-to-moldova-to-denounce-russian-interference-ahead-of-voteMacron pledges 'determined support' for Moldova, condemns Russian 'lies' ahead of pivotal poll
<French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday declared France's "determined support" for Moldova and its EU ambitions, while slamming the "Kremlin's propaganda" on a symbolic visit to the former Soviet republic. Leaders from France, Germany and Poland are in Moldova on the eve of the campaign for next month's high-stakes parliamentary poll. …
>Sandu's Party of Action and Solidarity now holds 61 seats in the 101-member assembly. But according to an opinion poll published last week, it is likely to win no more than 41 seats in next month's poll.
>Among the 21 groups registered by the Election Commission are two blocs with broad support. The Patriotic Bloc, including Socialists and Communists who want closer ties with Russia, is projected to win 36 seats, while the Alternative Bloc, accused by the government of concealing a pro-Kremlin bias, is projected to win 13 seats.
>One of the leaders of Alternative, former prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo, wrote on Telegram on Tuesday that the West would soon lose interest in Moldova once the war in neighbouring Ukraine has ended.
>Sandu won re-election last year over Stoianoglo by a 10-point margin, but had to rely heavily on the votes of Moldovans living and working outside the country. A referendum endorsing her EU membership campaign cleared 50 percent by a narrow margin.
>Sandu has warned of attempts by Russia to influence the poll, last week saying that Moscow intended to funnel some $100 million into the country in cryptocurrency alone to help pro-Russian political forces.
>An openly pro-Russian bloc overseen by a fugitive Moldovan business magnate has been banned from taking part in the poll. >>2449958>Kiev has threatened Poland with a response if it passes the law equating Bandera symbols with fascist onesDUH It's literally illegal to sully the good name of "Ukraine independence fighters" including Nazi collaborators.
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https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/314-VIII#Text >>2450067Honestly it’s why I love them. Making the Europoorans absolutely debase themselves while Ukrayne is only ever sullenly thankful and just demands more gibs.
I think the Ukrayne nationalists don’t actually believe how broke Europe is.
>>2450091 (me)
Post inspired by Putin, Merz, all those whiny Hungarians, etc.
>>2449925how the fuck did it revert back to the retard-ass bothsider version? There is also no internationalism general, whatever that is, it went the way of the dodo. Like the whole of the "anti-campist" project etc.
Not only is the op fucking retarded, it is also outdated af
Anyway I don't care anymore, that's how they get you. Just an endless stream of annoying retardation. This is just a drop in the ocean, here.
>>2450141The irony is that anti-campists didn't even like discussing geopolitics, their primary goal to my recollection what to just to stop geopolitics being discussed entirely as it is "bourgeois politics".
but to be real, they knew that because politics had completely calcified under neoliberalism at home, the vast majority of contemporary western politics therefore revolves around the jungle and how the garden seeks to control it, therefore geopolitics is a concern they're not going to benefit from idealistically nor materially and thus not willing to discuss.So the seething remark isn't even as though we're doing geopolitics wrong, but that we're discussing it at all.
>>2450167Exactly, the only reason to discard geopolitics is because you realise you're not going to come off as the victim when discussing it, but my word did they try in their heads and threads.
>Vulgar anti-Americanism!>If the oil wars are solely imperialistic, then why do I still have to pay for gas/petrol?>Erm ackshually the cost of living is cheaper in the jungle, I'm more oppressed by my landlord than any third worlder>Why am I responsible for what my government does? I already said I don't support my government, now it's Iran/China/Russia's turn to do something.><insert leader here> is a genocidal dictator, I mean I'm not saying I support west attacking them, but removing genocidal dictators is good and the people suffering under them would be grateful for their liberation after they stop being bombed, eventually like the Iraqis..Libyan.. err this time is different! Also, I shake my fist at my TV any time a western leader is on screen so, yeah, "balanced" is how I'd describe myself, how are you not getting that? Do you just hate me for no reason? Are you a fascist? >>2449843The Belarusian "nomenklatura" would rather kill themselves and start an early nuclear war out of sheer spite than to mass privatize, whether it be to Western or Russian investors. Lukashenko is often held up as the main safeguard but the sentiment against neoliberalism is widespread not only among infuential officials but also among rank and file workers and farmers. There have already been demonstrative temporary arrests of Russian nationalists living in Belarus in the past year alone that went unnoticed by Western media because Belarusians got annoyed at their constant yapping about Russkiy Mir and
>le traditional values and muh OrthodoxyInterestingly right now the Belarusian Orthodox Church is in a dispute with the Russian Orthodox Church. The Russian hierarchy demanded that the BOC change their name to reflect that they were just a branch of the Russian church and not their own thing. The Belarusians complied and then a week later stealthily modified the name again when they thought the Russians stopped looking, in order to downgrade the significance of the Russian addition.
>>2450175I go for weeks at a time ignoring geopolitics because it feels like Vassals' Greatest Hits on repeat.
Those with the will to knife America don't have the power to do so, and those with the power don't have the will (at least not in my lifetime, apparently).
>>2450067>entitlement It's more like desperately trying to stay a real country (while of course in reality doing everything possible, almost, to abolish Ukkkraine as a country or political entity) standing up to the big evil, bad guys.
But we already know this script. The world will move on. Shame
>>2450316Now post Russia's oil/gas revenues YTD
I already know you won't
>>2450341Retard fight! Retard fight!
Critical support to the fascist Modi regime, I suppose it can't be helped
>>2450341"Indo-Pacific" containment of China status?
Honestly what the fuck is going on? I genuinely though that Trump would be throwing Ukraine away to pivot to Asia, but here it seems they are sabotaging their plan in the Pivot to Asia in order to stick by Ukraine.
>>2450370The atlanticist catch 22 is that russia must be dealt with before the pivot to asia to unhook china's secure asian land border, isolating them from safe economic supply chains, potential military assistance and continental political support, so china can't focus on a single pacific front. But russia cannot be dealt with because from its secure asian border, amicable asian states are providing political cover, safe economic supply lines and military assistance allowing them to focus on a single front.
Failing to subjugate russia skewers faith in pacific client states' belief that the hegemony has the capacity to defend them, so the pivot to asia cant happen. Conceding to russia in negotiations raises alarm in pacific client states that they too will be sold out, so the pivot to asia cant happen.
and it goes on and on, a friendly india is needed for a sucessful pivot to asia to contain china, but they are interlinked with russian economy, so russian must be dealt with, so we cant pivot to asia yet.
A western-friendly russia would allow a pivot to asia, but capital demands its post cold war spoils to delay the crisis of profit. So the frontier of extraction must push into ukraine and russia at the displacement of the national bourgeoise so we have take out russia. Which we cant do.
>>2450400 (me)
ironically enough; its 2 more weeks™ until the pivot to asia
>>2450464>It's difficult to see how this isn't an everlasting failure even in the best case scenario for the RF.Cucktinism has been a disaster for russia. What was that botoxed goblin even thinking?
Let's face it. Putin has dementia and is ruled by incompetent chuds in the russian military academy(tm)
>>2450597Let's be real.
Russia sucks at war.
No amount of coping by martyanov will change that russia sucks at war.
Putin has opened pandora's box of endless war all because he wasn't a fast boi.
>>2450609As in I didn't include everything prior to 1965 which would be 1955, if we're going to include any involvement in counter-insurgency then
>Second US Intervention in the Somali Civil War: 2007 - present>US intervention in Yemen: 2002, 2009 - present>War in North-West Pakistan: 2004 - 2017>US military intervention in Niger: 2013 - 2024>Operation Inherent Resolve: 2014 - presentSo you're adding to 2014 - 2022 to Russia's involvement in Ukraine, but, dare I say it? At what cost?
>>2450630>they would just bite the bullet and hire a bit more US tech workers thus putting even more downward pressure on wagesIf domestic labor becomes more in demand, then wages will rise. You would only be correct if the bourgeoise was forced to import educated labor because there's a genuine lack of it, instead they import labor so as to reduce spending in an environment where less profits are generated each year
>imagine being some Amazon H1b sucker working at AWS who is on call 7 days a week and routinely works 70-80 hours a week while their white product/project manager just reams them for not working enoughI'm sure they're crying all the way to the bank with their six figure salary
>but to call for a blanket deportation of people is cruel and unnecessaryI wouldn't wanna deport anyone, just give everyone thats already here and cancel the educated work visa programs
>>2450569why are you trying to cope here? if you need hopium about russia loosing, just go back to reddit, Im sure they have a whole lot of propaganda to calm your shaking (dont read too much recent mainstream media though, even they have started to admit defeat).
here we cheer the defeat of a nato imperial project and the death of banderites, russia winning on the battlefield and humiliating the west is just a bonus, whats important is a shifting of global condition away from US hegemony and towards multipolarity
ofc the mass death of normal people is a disaster, but then again, how hard is it to frag your officers and organize against nazis rather than let them run your country into the ground on behalf of the west while filling their pockets
>>2450324>spookle "modern monetary theory" gaggler joined the thread.
The only spook is to believe it's a spook.
Their debt is amassed by the weapons they have to coerce others to give them credit, to not repay the debt, fix whatever interest they want that is convenient for them.
>>2450328France can print trillions more dollars. Debt spookery is pushed by neolibs like Macron who want to cut public spending.
>>2450693China's real debt is like 300% of GDP. The problem is not debt. The problem is what you spend it on. If you give tax cuts to billionaries like America then yeah the debt feels like complete dogshit. But if you're a socialist country mass building infrastructure it doesn't matter.
>>2450799*Yawn* it was the same last year. Then Ukraine ran out of drones they've been stockpiling the whole year, but Russia continued the grind all the same.
That was *just* last year. Have you forgotten already? And you were told repeatedly that random terrorist attacks won't change the battlefield, too
>>2450799No name given no damage provided no casualties listed
Enjoy seeing Ukraine disappear you natcuck retard
>>24508192025-2023=?
use your fingers, nafo.
>>2450799Air defence sits with cock in hand.
Benzin price go up. I'm sure there's a killing to be made in arbitration here which will of course see a fraction be pocketed by the beloved Tsar Cucktin to buy more luxury yachts.
Or he will probably procure the only working air defence systems in the country and let all the workers suffer bavovnas
>>2450799I mean what is the RF gonna do?
Can't attack the Ukrainian ruling class because they are our liberal brothers.
Can't attack NATO because of imaginary rules that NATO doesn't respect, imagine the optics.
So I guess the only option is to keep lining the MICs pockets to make Ukrainian workers miserable. And grinding soldiers on the battlefield to justify the budget.
>>2450832Where are the Western troops in Ukraine? Russia is destroyed, humiliated, cucked, cannot attack dear partners, - and yet, no troops in Ukraine, airspace open to Russia, and Russian missiles and drones hit ANY position in Ukraine as if it was Russia's backyard.
Are you sure Ukraine is winning?
I will say, if there was any truth to
>>2450252 then RWA would be immediately reporting it and complaining such western liberal hippy treachery wasn't tolerated by the Tsardom
>>2450897Look at the size of westoids' budgets and say that again
>>2450899>still literally everyone wants to be hereAnd I repeat, if Russia was paying migrants subsidies like Europe or USA does, Russia would also be receiving the same numbers of migrants from all over the world, not just Central Asia. Thing is, however, Europe has replaced common economic sense with jerking off to population growth line
>>2450918>Yes, butAgain, we've established this, that is your answer regardless of what cope you follow it up with.
Ukraine puts its military targets never to civilians and then yelps about Russia targeting civilians, that's not comparable to something like pic related
>>2450910It's like a broader Westoid economic trap, all of them want their own Hasidic Jews population, religious apolitical minority that keeps on breeding like crazy, and they are all spending insane resources to acquire it, be it promoting their own Chirstian fundamentalists or by importing muslims.
It's kind of hilarious that Westoids came to equate population growth with economic growth, after all those years of preaching about how capitalism is so much more efficient than other economic systems. Turns out, modern capitalism's economic growth is below the rate of population growth i.e. Westoids are getting poorer with each year
>>2450951It's their own narrative that ramping up austerity has to happen because more money needs to be diverted to Ukraine, NATO and their own militaries because they're spooked by Russia's actions in Ukraine.
So unfortunately, you've got to contend with that.
>>2450964Rrrright.. but the point is that NATO saying NATO nations need to ramp up austerity because NATO needs more money to defend itself and Ukraine against Russia is a NATO narrative and being a NAFOids you have to contend with that
>The Nazis have narrative xThen I don't have to accept their narrative, like you have to accept NATOs
>>2450888and they can't even answer a simple mathematical question:
2025-2023=???
at least I expect a Patrick Star-style answer:
FINNNNLAAND No reply to
>>2450501 but suspiciously nafoid's a pleading that any negative outcomes for NATO nations are not a consequence of the conflict and was already happening and limited.
>>2451052the fuck is that filth
ukrainians men get leg checked for nato, europe, and the nazi clown show ruling them, its certainly not to the ukrainian womens benefit
>>2451077>Isnt just Crimea status enough? Using the years calculation is too autistic to be funny.they never answer, because they know. and, oh, they know what I am talking about. I always, always, always post these, with the 2025-2023=?? question.
I know they know.
>>2451016See
>>2450906Support the AFU defenders of Russian workers and punisher of the Russian capitalist class
>>2451089>This is the thing, unlike Russia, nobody gives a damn about bread prices hereI was told three threads ago that Russians are the most cucked nation on earth, because they, like good orcs they are, don't go to protest the situations they are in.
you can't have it two ways.
>>2451103Come on now, you know what you were doing
>People in Russia universally struggle to afford bread>No one struggles to afford anything in the west unless they've wasted their money on partying daily and other frivolous purchasesDon't even try it lad
Oh just realised that Moffin' visits these threads
>>2449715 but why doesn't he post? There's plenty of posts in these threads he surely would agree with.
Russia’s Sanctioned Arctic LNG Plant Boosts Output to New Record
https://gcaptain.com/russias-sanctioned-arctic-lng-plant-boosts-output-to-new-record/
>By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project boosted gas output to record levels this month as the export facility keeps loading cargoes that have struggled to find buyers.
>Natural gas production at the Novatek PJSC-led plant averaged nearly 15 million cubic meters a day during most of August, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. That likely also translated to higher output of LNG — gas that has been cooled to a liquid form for ease of transport.
>The facility, located above the Arctic circle, is pivotal for Russia’s plans to triple LNG production by 2030 and tap new gas markets after a sharp decline in pipeline exports to major buyers in Europe.
>While those ambitions were squeezed by international sanctions after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, five tankers — also subject to restrictions — appear to have loaded LNG cargoes since June, with most of them heading now toward Asia.
>It remains unclear where the vessels will unload and whether the cargoes have found foreign buyers, but suggests Russia may be finding ways around the sanctions.
>The Arctic LNG 2 project ramped up daily gas production to more than 25 million cubic meters a day on Aug. 25 and Aug. 26, the person said, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as the information isn’t public.
>The latest hike may signal plans to continue loading LNG. In December 2023, when it was launched, the plant pumped an average of 13.7 million cubic meters of gas a day.
>The La Perouse LNG vessel is currently heading in the direction of the facility, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. If loaded, that would be the sixth export this year from Arctic LNG 2, with no clear signs of the other five cargoes finding buyers.
>The Christophe de Margerie tanker remains loaded near the Koryak floating storage unit, also sanctioned by the US, in Russia’s Far East. The Voskhod and Zarya vessels are sailing in the Bering Sea, while the Buran and Iris ships are heading east across the Northern Sea Route.
>Arctic LNG 2 and Novatek, the project’s largest shareholder, didn’t immediately respond to Bloomberg requests for comments. COMMENT: Can Russia weather Ukrainian drone attack fuel crisis?https://www.intellinews.com/comment-can-russia-weather-ukrainian-drone-attack-fuel-crisis-398208/?
>Russia is once again navigating a familiar crisis: surging gasoline prices, empty fuel pumps, and mounting pressure on its domestic supply system. This is not the first time Russia has faced a fuel crisis. They have been relatively common in the past, but unlike previous shortages, this year’s disruption may have more serious and lasting consequences. The difference, argues Sergey Vakulenko in a note for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is the war.
>“The drone attacks that began on August 2, 2025, have been different,” Vakulenko writes. “Ukraine clearly has more drones now and can send out attack swarms numerous enough to overwhelm Russia’s air defences.”
>The Kremlin admitted that the attacks are starting to hurt this week. Ukrainian drone strikes have taken out 13-17% of Russia's oil refining capacity, resulting in a daily loss of about 1.1mn barrels that can be processed into gasoline and diesel, according to the Wall Street Journal.This has compelled Russia to increase oil exports, while the US continues to exert pressure on China and India to reduce their Russian oil imports. The situation is further worsened by Western sanctions, which have been in place since 2022, hindering infrastructure repairs and maintenance. Over the past month, Ukraine has targeted more than ten Russian oil refineries. The fire at the Novoshakhtinsky refinery was finally extinguished six days after the attack on August 21 and major damage was done by another strike on the Ust Luga oil export terminal in the Baltic Sea last week. Eight refineries were hit in just August, some of them multiple times and the crucial Druzhba oil pipeline that transports oil from Siberia to Budapest was hit three times in two weeks, and is now out of action for at least a week.
>At the same time, the conflict is increasingly fought with missiles. Russia is producing some 1,200 highly sophisticated missiles a year and has quadrupled its drone and missile salvos against Ukrainian targets this year, but Ukraine has in the last month rolled out its first Flamingo cruise missile and updated its Neptune missile, both of which are much more powerful and both of which can now hit targets deep inside Russian territory, without seeking permission from Ukraine’s western allies – the constriction previously placed on Nato-supplied missiles.
>These upgraded strikes are doing far more damage than in the earlier stages when drone war first broke out, Vakulenko notes. They are a game changer. Kyiv has changed tactics and while the fighting was almost exclusively contained to Ukrainian soil for most of the last three years, now the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is taking the fight into Russia, aiming to cause “maximum damage—up to and including shutdowns” at Russian refineries.
>By mid-August, Ukraine had succeeded in damaging key facilities including the Ukhta, Ryazan, Saratov, and Volgograd refineries, along with the Samara group of plants. While some of these supply lower-demand or export-oriented regions, refineries in the arc from Ryazan to Volgograd serve a populous area that includes agricultural zones and vacation destinations. On August 26, Russian media reported that fuel supplies to the island of Sakhalin have completely run out and almost every Russian region is running short of petrol.
>This escalation coincides with the seasonal strain of Russia’s peak driving season. “This year [the attacks] began in August: a time when the oil market’s systemic problems traditionally come to the fore,” Vakulenko notes. Harvests drive agricultural demand, while summer holidays increase car use. Compounding the issue, regular maintenance has taken some refinery capacity offline, while the sky high interest rates have made it unprofitable to stockpile fuel in advance.
>Russia’s long-standing efforts to control retail fuel prices—via formal mechanisms like dampener payments and informal bans on sharp price increases—are now blunting the market’s natural capacity to adapt. “This policy reduces the effectiveness of market signals and discourages producers from increasing supplies or stockpiling,” Vakulenko writes.
>Wholesale gasoline prices surged in spring and hit new records in June. Since early August, prices have continued to climb, exceeding the all-time highs of the last fuel shortage in 2023.
>Retail prices, constrained by regulation, have risen more slowly but steadily. “In the week beginning August 18, the wholesale price… approached the retail price,” Vakulenko notes, warning of pressure on company margins.
>Yet the situation, while tense, is not yet critical. Most damaged refineries are still operating at reduced capacity, and deficits have been partially offset by rerouting supplies and drawing from state reserves. Vakulenko emphasises that “a lot of Russian vehicles and military equipment run on diesel, not gasoline,” and the country maintains a surplus in diesel.
>With annual gasoline production exceeding domestic demand by up to 20%, and diesel output more than double, Russia still has room to manoeuvre, says Vakulenko.
>Even if the attacked refineries—representing roughly 20% of refining capacity—shut down completely, the deficit could be filled through imports, particularly from Belarus, although Minsk is currently selling its refined oil products to Asia where the prices are higher. Although Ukrainian strikes targeted the Druzhba pipeline, Vakulenko notes that “repairs were swift,” and expects Druzhba to be fully functional again “within days.”
>However, should the crisis deepen, more drastic interventions may be required. Spread over a vast territory, Russian air defences are clearly lagging the escalation. The government could abandon price controls, Vakulenko suggests, or temporarily permit lower-quality motor fuels to be sold. “If the worst comes to the worst, a crisis measure would be gasoline rationing.”
>At present, these measures remain hypothetical. But the resilience of Russia’s fuel infrastructure, and the government’s willingness to adapt its policies, may soon be tested. “There is still a long way to go before the transport, agriculture, and industrial sectors—or, most importantly, the army—experience any significant fuel shortages,” Vakulenko concludes. >>2451219A doctor asks Manuel why he hasn't taken his medication, the portuguese man clarifies:
Ora pois, the package says: keep it close, gajo.
THIS JOKE WAS A COURTESY FROM /BRG/ >>2451285Because you can just ship oil to other countries' refineries. The wells dont stop producing. But you lose the added value of refining it. I assume most of it is for internal consumption anyway.
BTW, since I work in the sector, a compressor trips and you need weeks to find and ship spare parts and fix it. That is lost millions for just a tiny plant. Those booms we see lately will take months and months to fix. And if something very special was damaged even years.
>>2451318oh, it was in Poland.
I knew it was an F16, but I misread the earlier reports believing it was in 'Murrica.
>>2451416Well based on Kiev's willingness to risk an unborn baby we can surmise that, contrary to anon's assertions earlier, they don't think this war is going to last 25 years let alone 30+
Otherwise they'd be transplanting that unfortunate tadpole into a test tube, THEN sending the mother out.
>>2451270>>2451285If a refinery stops buying crude because it got burnt then there's excess crude that is produced that isn't being bought inside the RF assuming other refineries are at max capacity. Therefore the crude seller is forced to store their crude and bank on a quick repair of domestic refineries or find foreign buyers to make money.
And yes foreign currency sales do matter because the RF is so dependent on imports for china to keep things going in the face of western sanctions. The ruble/yuan swap is a crucial lifeline to plug gaps with Chinese products where the Russian economy is incapable of filling by itself. If the ruble shits the bed then everything Chinese becomes much more expensive. Beijing isn't going to arbitrarily weaken its currency just to keep sales to Russia high.
>>2450569Ukrainian "victory" meant NATO membership, reclaiming the Donbas and Crimea, and at one point in 2022, Russian capitulation, followed by reparations, disarmament and balkanization.
I know the fact you lost is a tough pill to swallow, but maybe consider coping a bit less, it's embarrassing really.
>>2451456>the war is with NATO not Ukraine.Obvious misrepresentation because Ukraine is a NATO proxy, NATO announced they wanted Ukraine as a member and they wouldn't listen to any Russian seething about that, but now it got violent NATO is walking that back.
>NATO wanted severed relationship of Russia with EuropeAnd they were achieving that just fine up until they started banging the drum about Ukraine, now Georgia looks like a pipe dream for them.
>Europe buy burger energyIn a "deal" Europeans other than Von Der Leyen are extremely insulted by
>dead RussiansCunt.
>however much of Ukraine they could get.Cope assuming this is about conquering all of Ukraine
>They literally got even Russian speaking parts of Ukraine…What a fantastic revelation, I'm not sure anyone has considered that during this conflict, just been overlooked tbh
>>2451459>>2451462But what does "old" have to do with i? The houses of parliament is old, but you wouldn't discount it as irrelevant that if Guysev Fawkov blew it up would you? No one forced you to make that comparison between "entire" oil refineries and "old" office buildings.
If you were trying to make the point that the office building was "old" in that it was disused, then that makes sense, but it clearly wasn't disused.
With Finance Minister's Ukraine visit, Germany escalates war with Russia and austerity at homehttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/27/mddo-a27.html?
>With the visit of German Finance Minister, Social Democrat (SPD) leader and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil to Kiev earlier this week, the German government has finally moved to the forefront of the imperialist war offensive in Eastern Europe. Klingbeil promised President Volodymyr Zelensky annual military aid of at least €9 billion and reaffirmed Germany’s willingness to provide “security guarantees” for Ukraine.
>These commitments follow directly on from the Ukraine summit in Alaska, where US President Donald Trump made it clear that Washington will concentrate its forces on the conflict with China and that the European powers should bear the brunt of the war against Russia. Berlin is determined to take on this role—not in the interests of “peace and security,” as Klingbeil claims, but to enforce its own imperialist interests.
>In the talks in Kiev, Klingbeil deliberately remained vague about what the “security guarantees” actually mean. He spoke of “different possibilities” and a “really strong, defensible Ukrainian army” that must be enabled in the long term to “defend itself and deter.” He also announced that Ukraine would massively expand its arms production with German financing, technology, and expertise.
>He avoided a clear rejection of the deployment of German ground troops. This leaves the option open to the German government of entering the war itself and mobilising German troops directly against Russia for the first time since the end of World War II. Ukrainian President Zelensky explicitly called for the deployment of foreign troops over the weekend to secure a possible future ceasefire. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (Christian Democrats, CDU) already indicated that Berlin was considering this request.
>Parallel to his visit, Klingbeil is preparing the adoption of a war budget. He envisions a tripling of military spending within the next few years. By 2029, the defence budget is set to rise from €52 billion to €153 billion. Together with other items for “war-ready infrastructure,” around 27 percent of the federal budget will then flow directly into militarism.
>The rearmament is being financed by massive new borrowing: Klingbeil is already taking out €143 billion in new loans this year, and by 2029 this figure is expected to rise to €185 billion annually. In total, the new debt will amount to €850 billion. This is only possible thanks to the amendment to the Basic Law passed in March, which exempts defence spending from the debt brake and allows the government to take on an additional €1 trillion in debt.
>While unlimited funds are available for weapons, the debt brake remains in place for all other areas. This means massive social spending cuts. The federal government is already cutting the Citizen’s Benefit welfare payment, freezing spending on education and health, and planning further cuts to pensions and municipal services. Merz said over the weekend, “The welfare state as we know it today is no longer financially viable.” He said he would not be “irritated by words like social spending cuts and slashing and whatever else comes along.” This is unambiguous: even the last remaining social concessions of the past are to be destroyed.
>The rearmament and austerity measures have a clear goal: to build up the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces] into “Europe’s strongest conventional army,” as Merz announced in his first government statement as chancellor. He spoke of a “turning point” in which Germany must assume “lasting responsibility.” Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) repeats like a mantra that Germany must become “fit for war.”
>The scale of this is comparable only to the rearmament on the eve of the First and Second World Wars. In the next decade, military spending is even set to rise to 5 percent of gross domestic product—€225 billion annually. The Bundeswehr is to be expanded from its current 181,000 soldiers to at least 260,000, for which the introduction of a new military service is already being prepared. Pistorius, who is presenting the bill to the cabinet for this on Wednesday, has already emphasised several times that “voluntary service” is only the first step and that compulsory service is inevitable in the medium term.
>With the permanent stationing of a brigade in Lithuania, the Bundeswehr is once again deploying a fully equipped combat unit on Russia’s border—the first permanent foreign deployment of German troops since 1945. Eighty-four years after the start of Hitler’s war of extermination against the Soviet Union, which brought death to some 30 million Soviet citizens and led to the Holocaust, German tanks are once again rolling eastward.
>All the facts underscore that Germany and Europe are transitioning to a war economy. A recent analysis by the Financial Times based on satellite data shows that the arms industry has expanded its capacity three times faster than in peacetime since 2022. Over seven million square metres of new halls, factories and infrastructure have been built.
>Rheinmetall, Germany’s largest arms manufacturer, plans to increase its production of artillery shells from 70,000 (2022) to 1.1 million per year by 2027. In Hungary, a huge armaments park for Leopard 2 ammunition and explosives is being built. In Germany, the MBDA factory in Schrobenhausen is being expanded to mass-produce Patriot missiles and Enforcer systems in the future.
>At the same time, civilian industry is being integrated into war production: VW, Bosch, Continental, Thyssenkrupp and other corporations are providing factories, personnel and materials. This repeats, under changed historical conditions, the transition to a total war economy in the 1930s.
>Another development in this context is Germany’s direct involvement in the Ukrainian arms industry. At the end of May, Merz and Zelensky signed an agreement in Berlin under which Germany will finance the establishment of Ukrainian drone and missile production. Specifically, 500 “Ljutyj” attack drones with ranges of up to 2,000 kilometres are to be procured, among other things.
>In addition to Rheinmetall, which is already repairing tanks in Ukraine and building an ammunition factory, startups such as Quantum-Systems and Helsing are also present on site. Quantum-Systems produces reconnaissance drones in Kiev and is expanding with a second factory. Helsing is supplying thousands of HX-2 combat drones equipped with artificial intelligence that is said to be resistant to electronic jamming.
>Ukraine serves as a testing ground for German weapons technology. “Only those who are on the ground can adapt to the constant changes. Our findings from Ukraine flow directly into our product development,” explained Sven Kruck of Quantum-Systems. In other words, the war is being used to test new, lethal technologies under real conditions and make them marketable.
>Domestically, this course requires, as in the 1930s, the complete suppression of the working class and the establishment of a dictatorship. In order to finance the gigantic military apparatus, the federal government is not only organising massive cuts, but also establishing an authoritarian police state to suppress growing resistance among the population.
>Under the notoriously right-wing Christian Social Union (CSU) Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, the federal government is working to massively expand the police and secret services and is inciting hatred against refugees in the manner of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). Any opposition to war and militarism is defamed, above all the widespread resistance to the genocide in Gaza, which politicians and the media denigrate as “anti-Semitism.” The establishment of new military service structures aims to force young people into the army against their will and thus recruit the necessary cannon fodder for German imperialism’s new war offensive.
>All the established parties—the CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens, Free Democrats, AfD, and even the Left Party—essentially support this course. The formerly pacifist Greens are even criticising the Merz government’s war policy from the right. The Left Party also voted in the Bundesrat (Federal Council) for the €1 trillion rearmament program and subsequently helped Merz become chancellor.
>The German government’s war offensive in the East seamlessly continues the historical thrust of German imperialism. Already in World War I, the creation of a Ukrainian vassal state dominated by Berlin was a war aim; in World War II, the subjugation of Ukraine was one of the central components of the war of annihilation against the Soviet Union. Today, the issue is once again control of resource-rich Ukraine, access to Russian resources, and the enforcement of German hegemony over the Eurasian landmass.
>At the same time, the US is preparing its offensive against China. Trump is working on a possible Ukraine deal with Russia over the heads of the European powers, while at the same time demanding that they take on more responsibility in Ukraine. Germany and the other European powers fear the developing foreign policy rift with the US. At the same time, Berlin in particular is responding to the collapse of the postwar order by once again asserting itself as the dominant military power on the continent.
>The insane course toward a Third World War is not a “defence of democracy,” but an expression of the insoluble contradictions of capitalism: between the global economy and the nation-state, and between social production and private appropriation.
>But the same contradictions that produce war also create the objective basis for a socialist revolution. Resistance is growing worldwide: In the US, over 15 million people demonstrated against Trump on June 14—the largest protests in the country’s history. In Europe, the Middle East and around the world, massive resistance to war, militarism and social attacks is also developing.
>The decisive task is to arm this opposition with a conscious socialist perspective. The working class can only stop the ruling class’s drive toward world war and fascism by intervening in political events independently of all bourgeois parties, smashing NATO and the EU war machine, and bringing the gigantic resources of the economy under its democratic control.
>This requires the building of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) in Germany and the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) worldwide as the new revolutionary leadership of the international working class. Only in this way can the catastrophe of a new world war be prevented and a socialist future won. >>2451416yeeees! so the mother and hillary clinton can be invited to talk about the powerful Fetus Anti-Air Defense System. like when hillary invited zelya's wife to talk about the Pensioner Anti-Air Defense System, capable of downing SU-34s, and more.
powerful women ❤️
Democracy status?
At an event in Finland a demonstrator was yelling some things. Ursula's response was that if those that scream and yell things (the kakistocracy doesn't like) at such a rally weren't in this EU country without any restrictions, that they would be jailed in 2 minutes. And that's exactly what happened less than 2 minutes later.
Gauleiter Ursula shouting that the EU is free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zofkQU_JtFsArmando Mema arrested
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