How Does Russia Keep Hitting High Value Targets?
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Category Archives: Ukraine
Theorizing On Why Russian Assets Have Not Been Used To Fund Ukraine
Stereotypically speaking, your average elite are in favor of more taxpayer support for Ukraine than your average hillbilly. But your average hillbilly is more willing to take seized Russian assets and give them to Ukraine then most members of the elite. As usual, the elite position makes no sense to the average hillbilly. You want to spend extra taxpayer money on Ukraine but you don’t want to spend Russian money that has already been seized? What kind of logic is that?
To be honest, I am a little bit in the hillbilly camp here. I am not sure I do understand the logic. But I have more faith in the average elite then most blue collar folks do in that I believe the elites usually have reasons for what they do. Often they are cowardly reasons. Often they are the result of trying to avoid making hard choices so that they can have their cake and eat it as well. But the hillbilly solutions are almost never as simple and consequence free as your average redneck believes. So I am presupposed to believe that there is a reason that your average elite is more willing to spend taxpayer dollars then seized Russian dollars to fund Ukraine. But that still leaves the question of why? Continue reading
More Ukrainian Strikes
More on the attacks on oil and gas structures. Ukrainians are doing better then I expected at striking in Russia. However Russia seems to have improved its ability to hit critical military targets in Ukraine.
If you want a longer form look at the recent attacks, you can look at the one below. But honestly, I think the one above tells you all that is worth noting at this stage. A bigger picture look will not mean much until at least a month has gone by and there is time for the dust to settle.
Ryazan Oil Refinery Hit By Multiple Ukrainian Drones
Shows what it is like and related to previous discussions.
RUSSIAN Oil Refineries Shut Down After Drone Attacks as Ukraine Targets Russian Oil & Gas Revenue
A good overview if you have lost the plot of the various attacks.
Russia’s twenty years until collapse
In a recent post, I said “Regardless of what happens in the War in Ukraine, Russia has 20 years at most before its political system breaks down.” I did not go into why that was the case because it was not main focus of that particular post so today I figured I would rectify that. Continue reading
First Patriot Launcher (Likely Two) Destroyed By Russia
Vladimir Solovyov wants to nuke Western cities
Just as a reminder, this is the main guy in the video. He is not some fringe kook. He has the full support of the Russian establishment although I think they view him as just someone to whip up the crowds and not someone to be taken seriously. But I still it is important to remember that this is becoming part the the normal discourse in Russia.
The Problems with Russia’s Gasoline Crisis Run Deeper Than It Seems
Ukraine Announces Full Withdrawal from Avdiivka
From what I understand from various sources, the primary causes of the fall were lack of artillery shells on the Ukrainian side, a heavy fog that rolled in for a few days that kept the drone from being effective, and lots and lots of very large glide bombs lobed from long range by Russian aircraft. Even with all of those things the losses were absolutely horrendous on the Russian side as you can see recounted from a Russian source here (you have to keep clicking through on the side to get to get all of it). A list of all the different Russian formations that played a roll can be found here.
The below video gives you the news and overview
This gives you background on the reasons for giving up….