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Nov 19, 2022·edited Nov 19, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker

Hey Rolo. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the "huge exodus of the youth and middle class from Russia". Should be interesting.

Could Russia's strike on Ukraine's energy infrastructure be her contribution towards the great reset? To hurt Ukraine's energy production while the US hurts Europe's? Shouldn't Russia be using its missiles to strike enemy supply lines instead?

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Nov 19, 2022·edited Nov 19, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker

I still find it inconceivable, that these rail bridges across the Dnepr have not been destroyed in the initial phase already.

It would cut off eastern Ukraine from any supply, and almost automatically yield historical New Russia, and all efforts could be concentrated on Odessa.

This is the second thing I don't get, why leave Ukraine black sea access for this long?

I can only conclude again, this is a political mess, saboteurs and 5th column, a bit similar to US situation internally, certain tribal enemies run the show.

I find it crazy Russia still fights a WWI style trenches war in Donezk Oblast, and Ukrainian trains bring in supplies and US weapons over the Dnepr since half a year.

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Nov 19, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker

I worked at a company that provided control equipment for electricity providers all over the world.

This was 2013 to 2017.

The impression I got from our weekly briefings was that most electric yard equipment is extremely expensive and not easy to replace.

We have a yard in downtown Sacramento that suffered a transformer fire last year and still is not repaired.

So I have no idea how they are coping in Ukraine, but it's a great way to terrorize the population, especially if the grid is not flexible enough to easily re-route power from other sources.

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General of the 3rd Army in Yugoslavia, in 1999 after 78 days of the relentless bombing campaign against infrastructure of the rump Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) gave Yugoslavia's president Milosevic report: "We are in a full readiness for the NATO''s ground invasion". Milosevic said: "The Army is ready but Serbia isn't". He shortly signed capitulation. Russians know what they are doing, especially learning on the experience of the others.

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Hello from the UK

Many thanks for your post. The Russia/Ukraine situation is in essence political theatre, perhaps even Monsters Inc!!

It is a distraction as well as an excuse to steal taxpayers money when nobody is looking. Except of course some are well aware what is going on. It also distracts from the harm and death from vaccines.

If anyone is interested, my link.

https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/04/05/put-in-boots-the-ukraine-panto/

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Nov 19, 2022·edited Nov 19, 2022

I remain puzzled, Rolo, over your contention that Ukraine's army still has a numerical advantage over Russia, (although they might if you only take into account the amount of military in what was Ukrainian territory before the war started, as Russia didn't activate enough troops in Putin's SMO). If you are correct, then other analysts like Scott Ritter, the men at the Duran, and Brian Berletic are wrong. They've been saying for months that the Ukrainian army is getting slaughtered while Russia, in comparison, is suffering relatively low casualties (up to 10 Ukrainians casualties for every Russian). They report that most of the military aged Ukrainian men are either already in the army, severely wounded, or killed, and are down to drafting older men up to age 65 and women, and much of the replacement army has very little training. Of course, they were wrong when they said that Ukraine would be unable to mount a successful offensive, but maybe they didn't take into account the massive amount of help "little Napoleon" Zelensky would be able to extract from Washington's War Party and NATO as well as from the Poles and others who have been "sheepskinned" into Ukrainian uniforms. They seem to be convinced that, once the ground freezes over, Russia will mount an unstoppable offensive which will end the war and bring an end to the corrupt Zelensky Regime. Are Ritter and the others way off base in their analysis?

On another note, I notice that you said "Best" Korea? Was that a typo or do you mean that the North is superior to the South?

Regards, Outsider

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This war has been replete with half-measures by both "sides" since February 24. Perhaps that's because such a "careful" conflict—which yields enough death and destruction to maintain a patina of full-on war without burning everything to the ground—is first and foremost a geopolitical tool which, more effectively than any other "event" in the world at present, enables a recalibration of the international monetary and financial system (IMFS)—a recalibration that certainly the G20 countries desperately desire above all else (http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/files/en/u82esHnvQFdHOjV25AJg73rnLGEe8cK6.pdf), as their debt-based and increasingly automated (read: artificial) economies implode. Until a new IMFS is realized, however, Russian and Ukrainian brothers will continue to senselessly slaughter each other while the puppets leading the supposedly warring sides ensure mostly smooth sailing for global commodity and capital flows: https://politros.com/23748665-the_hill_ssha_i_ec_vkladivayut_sotni_millionov_v_yadernoe_oruzhie_rossii?utm_source=finobzor.ru.

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The locomotives in Ukraine run on electricity. Killing the electricity to the railroads means the tanks and trucks have to drive from wherever they enter the country to the front which wears the undercarriage of the tanks as well as using a ton more fuel than one train to haul them all. There may be diesel-electric locomotives available and maybe even some coal-fired steam locomotives left somewhere, but those require coal/diesel fuel. For the steam locomotives, keeping feed water thawed along the routes will also be necessary.

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Rolo:

I've seen many postings of Ukie military funerals and freshly dug graves. Are similar things being shown in Russia or are they being hidden US style ?

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Nov 19, 2022·edited Nov 19, 2022

Electric cuts will create more refugees. More Refugees will mean more pressure on the EU. It also means more population loss for Ukraine, which will be permanent and good for Russia in the coming years.

If you were a mother with 2 kids, would you stay in Kiev without water, heat, and electricity? Or move to the EU with free food and housing on the Mediterranean? Bingo.

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