by MoA
In early September Gallup did a survey in Ukraine:
More than six months into a war that many around the world (including Russia) thought Ukraine would lose quickly, most Ukrainians are resolved to keep fighting.A clear majority — 70% of all Ukrainians interviewed in early September — say their country should continue fighting until it wins the war with Russia. Just over one in four (26%) favor negotiating to end it as soon as possible.
That 70% poll number is likely the high point as it came at a time that promised Ukrainian successes.
The situation for Ukraine has since gotten worse. Much worse.
Since mid September the Ukrainian counter offensive east of Kharkov has come to a halt. Despite serious Ukrainian losses the counter offensive in the southern Kherson direction has likewise not moved a lot. Both of these front lines are now stable. On the Donbas front the central Ukrainian position in Bakhmut (Artyomovsk in Russian) is in danger of being overrun.
Russia has mobilized some 220,000 reservists and some 70,000 volunteers. These are now in training and by next month most of them will be able to join the fight. The weather in recent weeks has become more rainy. Tanks and trucks can no longer move over open fields without risking to get stuck. In late November/December frost will set in. The ground will freeze and Russia will be able to launch large attacks.
Russia has also changed the war’s rhythm. While it had so far refrained from hitting civilian infrastructure, aside from electrical transformer stations serving the railroad network, it has now launched attacks on thermal power stations and Ukraine’s 330 kilovolt long range electrical distribution network.
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In Ukraine, as in Russia, thermal power stations are also used as district heating sources. Hot water is distributed to houses over large pipe networks. When the power stations are out people’s homes will freeze. There will also be no drinking water. The freezing lines will experience serious damage.
The Russian attacks are effective:From towns near frontline battlefields to high-rises in the capital, Ukrainians were trying to conserve energy as President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Tuesday that Russian attacks over the past eight days had destroyed 30 percent of Ukraine’s power stations and caused “massive blackouts across the country.”The latest strikes have increased the likelihood of a miserable winter, with residents having to do without basic services such as heat and water.
…Mr. Zelensky urged Ukrainians in his nightly address on Monday to reduce their electricity use during peak hours to “enable the whole country to go through this period more stably,” and many residents and businesses have been doing their part.
In his statement on Tuesday, he did not specify which power stations had sustained significant damage. On Tuesday, blasts hit a district on the eastern shore of the Dnipro River in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, according to the mayor, along with cities in the north and center of the country.
The attack on Kyiv killed three people and knocked out electricity and water in parts of the city, officials said, and came one day after Russia struck the city with exploding Iranian-made drones, apparently targeting electricity and heating facilities.
In Kyiv, lights flickered just after 9 a.m., and residents living in the city’s eastern reaches said they had heard an explosion. The mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, said that an “object of critical infrastructure” had been struck. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a senior official in Mr. Zelensky’s office, said that at least three strikes had hit an energy site, resulting in “serious damage,” without elaborating.The USSR left Ukraine with a very decent electricity network and substantial generation capacities.
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The backbone of Ukraine’s network are the 13,000+ kilometer of 330 kV lines and the 88 330kV transformers which connect the regions and allow capacity to be moved around. It could move enough electricity even to the eastern frontline when, due to the war, the power plants in the east were turned off.
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The Russian attacks seem to have two focal points:
- To turn off all thermal (coal, gas) power plants in Ukraine.
- To destroy those switching station where more than two 330k lines connect.
This will cut the generation capacity in Ukraine by half and totally disconnect some regions, especially in the east, from any generation capacity.
It will thereby darken the cities in eastern Ukraine which will make waging war more difficult for the Ukrainian military. It will also make it more difficult for material support like weapons and ammunition to reach the front lines. (The regions that were integrated into Russia receive electricity from Russia.)
The attacks on the Ukrainian electricity network will have some external effects. Throughout the last years Ukraine supplied surplus electricity to some of its neighbors. Moldavia and Hungary were the two biggest buyers of Ukrainian electricity. While Hungary is connected to the wider European network Moldova is not. It also has only 350 megawatt of generation capacity. In 2017 some 20% of its energy came from Ukraine. Should one of its own power plants fail or need maintenance it will likely see blackouts.
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Partying in Kiev had continued throughout the war. It will now end. The misery of war will now come to its capital and to the rabidly nationalist cities and towns in its west.
Putin is terrorizing the civilian population of Ukraine as his military forces continue to be driven back. He’s methodically setting up the people of an entire nation for extreme deprivation and death by cold and starvation in the coming winter—all for daring to resist his invasion of their homeland. It’s a war crime, plain and simple. It’s state terrorism. Putin has become a worse terrorist than bin Laden or Saddam ever were. He’s become nothing less than a calculating mass murderer.
The evil little bastard’s lunatic actions are going to throw all of Europe into chaos, send the US economy into a terminal tailspin, and ultimately lead us into a Third World War that will leave everything—including Russia—in ruins. Nobody will benefit but the rats and cockroaches.
Killing this guy before that happens is probably the only way left to prevent it. Hopefully some Kremlin insider will redeem himself and his nation in that fashion before it’s too late.
Russia is winning the war.
What was left of Berlin, after allied bombing? What was left of Nagasaki, its a war you dolt. But never enough blood for serious negotiations to start.
Now after giving Ukraine internet through Starlink Ukraine wants Musk dead, why? He suggested a peace plan while Biden pours billions into a black hole.
Russian warplane takes out Russian apartment building, killing 13 –
It looks like the parachuting pilot narrowly missed the resultant fireball. Several residents who jumped trying to escape weren’t so fortunate.
Russia is winning the war. (And no one clicks on your links, btw).
I don’t understand why that makes you so gleeful.
At least he provides them for anybody who wants to see where he got his info.
Since they’ve been caught lying, generating false war scenes hollywood-style, we are under no obligation to treat these as anything more than they are:
Hoaxes.
Latest UK Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 19 October 2022
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01/19/2022 – Russian commander says Kherson situation “difficult” as Ukraine advances
Kherson is the only Ukrainian regional capital Russia has managed to take since Putin launched his disastrous invasion back in February.
Russia is winning the war.
The Western Propaganda machine, who has no support or relation to the free peoples of the West, are desperate. They have caused this war, and seem to be leading us deeper into it.
France is leaving NATO. Thunberg wants nuclear. Musk is calling for Peace, as is Trump. The WEF/Deep State/Leftist War Machine is completely out of their minds and calling for more death.
Resist these fools and check them when they spout off like this idiot greg does.His serial posting is proof enough.
They are losing and they know it.
All propaganda. All lies.
Maybe the huge NATO operation Polaris 21 before the invasion, ending just as Zelenskyy announced Ukraine was going to invade recapture Crimea, was a bad idea?
Or they WANT this war.
Zelenskyy as the false “hero” in a green t-shirt was generated by US and British propaganda forces, using actual test groups to see what plays better.
Green screens, lies, and propaganda.
They laid out this plan to bait Russia into a war on purpose.
THIS WAR, LIKE COVID, WAS PLANNED AND UNLEASHED…ON PURPOSE.
Anyone else get those spam emails about how you can get paid to post and link and retweet pro-NATO, anti-Russian propaganda?
It’s probably coming from your government.
Our tax dollars are paying for idiots like greg.
The Military Industrial Complex has a rich history of lying and creating propaganda to get normal citizens onboard with their needless wars.
You need an enemy – Putin, as we see idiot greg double-down on “It’s just Putin and he’s evil and he’s going to be killed, etc”
Rejected.
You need a hero – Green-shirt Zelenskyy, an actual actor-puppet installed by the US and NATO for just this purpose.
Rejected.
You need “war atrocities” – Film crews and sets have been used to give the false pretense Russia is losing. From the US sinking the destroyer (Ukraine didn’t) to every other gamed story, the myth of the “noble Ukrainians fighting for their homeland” isn’t real.
Rejected.
You need people to keep thinking the paid, owned press is “independent.” – All media sources that the trolls and others link to are compromised, owned, and complete mouthpieces for the regimes in question.
Rejected.
If anyone links to the AP, Reuters, Politico, NBC, FOX, CNN, etc…you are a responsible citizen in merely REJECTING their link as any form of proof. It’s actually proof they are lying.
10/19/22 – McCarthy signals GOP-led House likely to oppose more aid to Ukraine
At least McCarthy is making the GOP’s intentions clear.
This article likely made Vladimir Putin’s day.
Enough money has been wasted, period.
The GOP will abandon Ukraine and then blame Democrats, just like Trump abandoned Afghanistan and then blamed Biden.
It’s their Standard Operating Procedure. You’ve seen them do it again and again.
Remember in November: The authoritarian and repressive GOP has now become the puppet of Donald Trump, who thinks Putin is very smart.
The better solution is negotiations for a peace, Zelensky has called for preemptive nuclear strikes thus he cant be involved. Putin has always contended going nuclear would be reactive action, dont nuke me I wont nuke you.
Where is the diplomacy? I thought democrats were all about diplomacy.
Putin doesn’t do ‘diplomacy’. He only wanted Crimea. Now look.
If the GOP prevails Ukraine falls, Putin remains in power, and he eventually dominates all Europe, because he’ll also have stolen Ukraine’s massive offshore oil and gas reserves. McCarthy sent a message about Ukraine, just like Rick Scott sent a message about Social Security. I suggest everyone look at those messages very closely.
Bahahahah…so that’s how your gonna weasel out of your insane predictions eh?
Doesn’t matter if the Dems win or the Reps…Russia will never lost this conflict. That you believe Ukraine had any chance just shows how insane you really are.
Putin…and Zelenskyy…BEGGED for diplomacy.
That was rejected by Biden and his masters.
Europe’s problems are Europe’s problems. It should be Germany in there wasting their money.
Not the US.
And in your idiot propaganda tirade, you linked Putin to Social Security…
Rejected.
Um, you didn’t know that’s why he’s invading? Wow.
The fool Biden is getting us into WWIII, and going to get the USA wiped off the mat.
Americans soundly reject this, and no one supports Biden and the regime.
No one.
Their diplomacy is to coup, When it begins a civil war as it did in Ukraine sit back and laugh and laugh until some other country steps in to stop the slaughter of innocents. Then arm the aggressor to the teeth for the puppet government they installed.
Zelensky said no such thing. Zelensky called for preventive strikes inside Russia to prevent nuclear escalation. The bridge to Crimea was one such. The Russian fuel depot in Belgorod was another. Both were military targets. There should be plenty more. Ukraine should not be expected to fight a war against an aggressive tyrant with its hands tied by the invader’s “rules”.
I think ALL Russian supply lines feeding Putin’s war should be targeted. He started this. He can stop it—or the Russians can stop him. They need more incentive to do so.
Abandonment is the hallmark of democrats. First, in post WWII, democrats abandoned the Chinese fighting mao and today we have the CCP. democrats adandoned south Vietnam and today Vietnam is communist. Then, idiot biden abandoned Afghanistan and now the taliban rule again.
You’re doing exactly what I just observed Republicans do.
They crashed the economy in 2007-2008, and then blamed Democrats. Trump killed the Obama recovery in a 4-year binge, running up more debt than any modern president, and then blamed Biden. In both cases, the GOP actively resisted all Democratic efforts to restore public confidence, while doing the same stupid song-and-dance tune that goes “All will be better, if only we cut taxes, cut regulation, disassemble the social safety net, oppress women, and put an assault rifle in every closet.”
A vote for the GOP is a vote for the appeasement of Putin, and a vote for the Texas Taliban. It’s a vote to give the 1% that already own 1/3 of everything additional money and power. It’s a vote to let the GOP “reform” Social Security and Medicare. It’s a vote to let Republican state legislatures overrule the outcome of national presidential elections, because they “have a feeling something must be wrong.” It’s a vote to pretend that climate change isn’t real, and that our supplies of oil and gas will go on forever. It’s a vote to deprive gay people of their rights, and a vote for the book banners and burners.
President Trump has gotten under your skin today. Have you called the suicide hotline yet?
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Will you leave the country, presumably you are here, when MAGA republicans win both the House and Senate?
And when President Trump is re-elected in 2024, “your” country will no longer exist as you would prefer.
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The inflation reduction act if implemented will stoke the raging dumpster fire of inflation be adding to the six trillion in debt biden had created.
The VP has said her favorite part of the IRA was electric school busses, now that will bring down the price of eggs yup yup yup.
When Trump wins in 2024, he…and the rest of us…will put this right.
The globalists and their puppets such as Trudeau and Biden have failed.
We don’t want them.
Pence will probably win the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination. Unlike Trump, he isn’t a criminal or traitorous lunatic. America is ready for a return to integrity and sanity.
Pence will probably win the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination.
No, he won’t.
Trump has done nothing wrong. You’ve never given any evidence of anything.
America is indeed ready for a return to integrity and sanity. We miss Trump, and he’ll win easily in 2024…knowing that we will arrest any vote riggers this time.
This isn’t sane, you stupid fuck.
Yeah, you sure have an ear to the ground when it comes to MAGA politics. It is laughable that any one with a modicum of intellect would think the traitor pence has even a remote chance of winning the nomination for the GOP
The only support for traitor pence will come from the pedophiliac group known as the lincoln project.
Pence was the guy who refused to leave with a lynch mob in the Capitol, upholding his oath of office and stymying Trump’s coup attempt. Pence is a national hero. Like Cheney, he’s a Republican who hasn’t abandoned his personal integrity. I can disagree with him while still respecting him.
Pence could actually win in 2024. Trump would doom the GOP to another election disaster.
Where is the evidence that pence was requested to leave with a group of rioters? Did the media miss that tidbit?
Was he held at gunpoint?
Where’s the evidence that English is your native language?
Pence bwahahahahahaha
The gays can have their porn books just not in our schools they are not being burned, we would be just as upset if straight porn was pushed into schools.
Gays should not have extra rights just the ones everyone has.
Have you ever looked at the most-banned book lists? The Texas Taliban should get the hell out of our schools and libraries. Maybe migrate to Russia or Iran, where they’d feel right at home.
I’ve had it with the GOP’s crap. They mollycoddle such extremist fanatics in return for votes. It’s how the GOP has become so debased that they’re methodically purging patriotic people of integrity, principle, and conscience.
Trump is only a catalyst.
Uh, the “Texas Taliban” myth had been dead for awhile, you cuck.
We’re not allowing your sex-addled death cult to infect our children’s education.
No books were banned. We were just intentional with what our kids learn.
Piss off.
You’ll be pleased to know that Iranian troops are now in Crimea, supporting Putin’s efforts to destroy Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. ‘Birds of a feather,’ I suppose.
10/20/22 – US: Iranian troops in Crimea backing Russian drone strikes
“Rather than holding the Iranian regime to account for its atrocious conduct, Mr Biden’s priority remains to secure another flawed nuclear deal with Tehran, one that would result in enabling Iran to have nuclear weapons with no prohibition on the missiles to deliver them, as well as the lifting of punitive economic sanctions and up to a trillion dollars in additional revenues to “export the revolution.”
…The Biden administration’s intransigence on the Iran issue also helps to explain the recent decision by Saudi Arabia to reach an agreement to reduce oil production….
The Saudis remain frustrated by Mr Biden’s obsession with trying to revive the Iran nuclear deal, which to the kingdom is a mortal threat…. How could Biden have expected them to help him?
…The Biden administration’s wanton appeasement of Tehran is turning into a global embarrassment for Washington as the ayatollahs, buoyed by the knowledge that Washington has no interest in confronting their malign activities, are intensifying their efforts to consolidate their power and expand their influence.”
The democrats underestimate mama bears.
Just out of curiosity…why do you believe that anything these people are saying is true?
Why do you suppose their presentations were conveniently videoed for viral social media distribution, but you can’t find a trace of the story on any legitimate news outlets?
Why can’t you find the books named on any ELA recommended reading list, or any evidence that the school is actually ‘promoting’ them?
What you consider legitimate is MSM, Yes these parents come to the school-boards prepared, there is no one, not one board member denying the books are in the childrens libraries.
but this is not the subject of the thread…as usual.
They are video taped by the school board, not someone with a I-Phone. And there is no “legitimate” news source you would accept. You only rely only the left wing media and it would be a cold day in hell when they reported on Moms Against Molestation.
Please ask that to yourself every time you post your lies and propaganda media links that are also lies.
The books in question are meant to make more gays, because they can’t make themselves (and they don’t really exist, in the first place).
It’s indoctrination. The belief that everything is a social construction, which is patently absurd…and very un-scientific.
So don’t effin’ read them. None of the schools mentioned are actually promoting them, putting them on reading lists, or making them available in school libraries. That’s all overblown bullshit, presented and videoed at school board meetings to be pasted all over right-wing social media sites. The point is stir up outrage against their favorite targets, because stirring up mindless outrage is easier than intelligent, factual discussion. It’s a low-brow gutter politics propaganda technique that has poisoned the GOP and will eventually poison the nation.
Nobody questions how these frothing-at-the-mouth zealots come to mysteriously “find things” in classrooms and school libraries, or how the sordid material they use as stage props actually got there. They probably find it on Amazon. Then it becomes their excuse for banning many other books that don’t meet with their approval—just like their widely-promoted horror fantasies about late-term abortion became their excuse for denying women all choice under all circumstances.
Meanwhile, in the world of real and verifiable news: Parent threw bleach at Charlotte elementary school bus driver’s face, district says
A sheep-dog does not merely “ignore” obvious threats to the flock, greg.
The wolf is always, always prowling…usually under the guise of “this isn’t really happening.”
But we know it is, don’t we.
I can assume you never had children.
Q: What are your thoughts about Vladimir Putin? A Ukrainian grandmother answers, in Russian.
My thoughts are that he was pushed into a war by NATO expansion, and those same puppet-masters who installed a fake regime in Ukraine (Zelenskyy’s regime) are now playing games on the world stage and risking all our lives.
Or out to take them, which seems very plausible.
Europe is breaking apart and many countries seem on the verge of a civil war.
Dutch Farmers being pushed off their land.
France leaving NATO.
UK scripting everything, and losing their PM in 44 days.
Polish troops in Ukraine.
The US blowing up Nordstream, and sending MORE “money” to Ukraine.
Israel sending systems to Ukraine.
It’s literally WWIII, and DAMN sure wasn’t caused by one crazy russian leader who came out of nowhere.
This is your war, greg.
Own it.
If these stories are true, it should not surprise anyone with any knowledge of Russian history.
The soviets gleefully destroyed their own crops just to prevent the Germans from benefitting from them as the Russians retreated.
Millions of Russians died.
When the USSR tried to impose a socialist system on an agrarian people they destroyed incentive (because everyone got paid the same so no one worked very hard and all the crops failed) so, again, millions of their own people died.
The Russian pattern is that their own people don’t matter to them.
Why should the lives of their neighbors?
The median age in Russia is over 40!
They are a dying country that refuses to invite migrants, preferring to annex neighbors who share their heritage.
Here’s their own population pyramid……they are dying.
They have refused to have babies and now must import workers to support their own older people.