The level and speed of technical development and iteration in this war is something that has never been seen before.
Absorbing all on Oryol.
Putin flips Trump the bird.
Not guilt by association… Guilt by actions.
Warning. Idiot at “work”.
Russia has lost control of its oil refining industry due to war with Ukraine - Trump
“Due to the war against Ukraine, russia has lost control of its oil refining industry, as the vast majority of its refineries have already been put out of commission.
US President Donald Trump wrote about this on his Truth Social account on September 21, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
The White House chief called on moscow to stop its aggression.
“Russia has unfortunately lost control of its Diesel Oil Industry due to its War with Ukraine. A large number of their diesel refineries have been blown up and are, at least temporarily, out of commission. This ridiculous and never ending war with Ukraine must be ended. The whole world suffers as 25,000 people, mostly soldiers, are being killed each month. What a shame!” Trump wrote.”…
The decision making process becomes convoluted.
Getting gas bad.
The rat of the nook.
Hmm. Mainly Russians doing what morally corrupt Russians do… Mainly.
What’s in the pipeline for the Russian forces you may well ask.
I admit to losing track of which refinery has been clobbered at which hasn’t. Anyways…
So. A carbon fibre plant becomes a, “pardon my fire-on plant”?
A SCFO : Special Carbon fire Operation
American linked ships? American oil supplies?Coming from Russia?
Yuck the Fanks, backstabbing, profiteering ■■■■■.
Only on their terms. Ruck Fussia as well as the Yanks.
…”Peskov also stated that Kyiv supposedly knows what decisions need to be made to end the war.
“In Kyiv, they know perfectly well what responsibility they need to take upon themselves and what decisions need to be made so that we can set out on a path that will lead us not to a ceasefire, but to a lasting peace,” the Kremlin spokesman noted.”…
linked and targeted eh? So nothing actually happened did it? If it did he could have given specifics which would have granted his weak argument some sort of gravity but he didn’t. So now we all know he didn’t have anything.
Fractious farken Fickle Fico formulates fiendish facade facilitating festering flaws.
The Orange Nong is getting feisty. Methinks he’s run out of cards to play.
You’ve had over one and a half farken years to swing this particular axe you bloated, orange faced bag of wind.
Grrr. How the poster child of The West deals with an antogostic, warmongering, rogue state… Farken sanctions my ar$e.
….““The one thing we are concerned about, however, is that over the last few months, on a number of occasions, American-linked ships, American oil supplies have been targeted, probably not deliberately, but targeted nonetheless by Ukraine. And so that’s something that needs to be addressed,” Rubio said.”…
It’s not a fly in the ointment, it’s a maggot.
Yes Mr. 24-hours I will fix it, we’ve heard this bullsh!te from you over and over. Show us your cards.
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Yep, yep, yep.
You started it.
How Ukraine’s devastating attacks on Putin’s oil refineries brought the war to Russia’s doorstep
Ahh, the far-right, middle-right, any farken right side of politics… “SHOW ME THE MONEY”. One has to wonder where world-peace and conservation of the planet would be without them?
Germany cut Russian gas after 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Now, its far-right AfD party is in talks with Gazprom to bring it back, and Kremlin welcomes decision
“Its foreign-policy speaker met Gazprom’s chief in Moscow to discuss resuming supplies.”…
Two things - Essendon will never fall in power because of good management and Europe will always be prepared for conflict because of historical prudent military spending.
Will Europe be as unprepared as Ukraine was?
Russia’s hybrid war forces the Europeans to confront their security gap
French Foreign Legion soldiers, part of NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence battle group, take part in a military parade in the town of Tapa, Estonia, in April 2023. | REUTERS
By Tatyana Deryugina, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Ilona Sologoub
Project Syndicate
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“Twelve years ago, Ukraine was sleepwalking toward catastrophe. Now Europe is.
Before 2014, Ukraine’s military had been hollowed out by decades of neglect and disarmament. That was a choice. Why spend scarce resources on defense when the 1994 Budapest Memorandum offered security assurances in exchange for Ukraine surrendering its nuclear arsenal? Why prepare for a conflict that the prevailing intellectual consensus said could never happen? Liberal democracy had triumphed, great-power conflict was a relic and the arc of progress bent toward peace, liberalization and economic convergence.
Worse, Ukraine allowed Russia to penetrate its information space, promote pro-Kremlin narratives, cultivate political allies and meddle in Ukraine’s elections. Under President Viktor Yanukovych, a former Russian citizen served as minister of defense. The army was sabotaged from within.
Ukraine should have known better. The warning signs were there. Russia had invaded Georgia in 2008, demonstrating that it was prepared to use military force to prevent another former Soviet republic from escaping its orbit. Putin was already questioning whether Ukraine was a real country, describing parts of its territory as a “gift” from Russia. He publicly described Russians and Ukrainians as “one people,” and used energy and trade to gain political leverage. Yet the belief that Russia would go no further prevented decisive action.
Then, in February and March 2014, Russia annexed Crimea without firing a shot because there was barely anyone to fire back (and those who might have helped urged Ukraine to stand down). Shortly afterwards, Russia occupied parts of the Donbas. This time, Ukraine fought back, but from a position of profound weakness against a stronger and better-prepared adversary.
Ukraine struggled to reach a consensus about what had happened and what must be done. While some called for mobilization, many believed that the war was local and confined to a strip of territory in the east and a distant peninsula. The worst was over, they claimed: Putin had taken what he wanted.
It followed that compromises, even if painful, could buy peace. Surely, the right leader could sit across the table from Putin and negotiate an end to the bloodshed. The election of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019 partly reflected this yearning. Zelenskyy spoke of ending the war in Donbas, of talking directly to Russia and of finding common ground. Many Ukrainians wanted to believe that the problem could be talked away. Instead, on Feb. 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion, targeting Kyiv and seeking to decapitate the Ukrainian state. The war that was supposed to be local became existential.
Europe’s resemblance to Ukraine’s trajectory is striking. The comparison is not exact: Europe is richer, more institutionally resilient and still largely sheltered by NATO, at least in principle. But the similarity in habits of thought and action is close enough to be deeply troubling, as Germany’s pathetic reaction to a failed Russian drone attack at Leipzig airport amply demonstrates.
After decades of peace, Europe has systematically dismantled its defense capabilities. NATO’s guideline of spending 2% of gross domestic product on defense had, until recently, been treated as a ceiling rather than a floor. For decades, Italy and Spain hovered around 1.5%. Belgium and others trailed even further behind. Germany allowed the Bundeswehr to deteriorate to the point where soldiers trained with broomsticks instead of rifles and major weapons systems had readiness rates below 50%. Europeans’ willingness to strengthen their defenses via public-spending cuts or peacekeeping deployments in Ukraine is shockingly low.
The mindset behind this neglect is familiar from Ukraine before 2014. Big wars cannot happen: we have the European Union, NATO and nuclear deterrence. The United States will handle security. Defense spending is wasteful. Diplomacy and economic interdependence will keep the peace. Russia would never attack a major trading partner.
Those assumptions have collapsed. Washington has signaled with increasing bluntness that the era of American security guarantees without European burden-sharing is over. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration openly questions the value of NATO. Nuclear weapons do not deter subthreshold aggression (like drone and cyberattacks) or the use of coercion and subversion to erode sovereignty. What is striking in much of Europe is not just pacifism or poor readiness, but the lingering sense that even now the old rules will somehow reassert themselves.
Europe is now facing its own warning signs. Russia is already waging what NATO calls a campaign of sabotage, cyberattacks, electronic interference, disinformation and political influence across the continent. Russian drones and aircraft increasingly violate NATO airspace, while suspicious incidents around undersea cables and other infrastructure have forced NATO to strengthen their protection.
These provocations are deliberately below the threshold of war. That ambiguity enables Russia to probe European defenses, test political resolve and learn how much provocation the West will tolerate before responding. And, like Ukraine before 2014, Europe keeps finding reasons not to act.
Across Europe, support for rearmament and for Ukraine remains politically contested. In Italy and Spain, voters resist higher defense spending. In France and Germany, influential voices frame urgency as overreaction (the far-right Alternative for Germany, which won a huge election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, calls for a deal with Russia). In Slovakia, leaders have openly favored accommodation with the Kremlin.
Russia finances political parties, penetrates cultural institutions and promotes disinformation throughout Europe. Across the continent, many argue that the war in Ukraine can be ended through negotiation if only Ukraine’s leaders would be more “realistic” about territorial concessions.
Winston Churchill’s verdict on the catastrophic 1938 Munich Agreement is as relevant as ever: “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.” Europe in 2026 can invest seriously in its own defense, accept the costs and trade-offs involved and build credible deterrence. Or it can continue to underspend, hope that diplomacy alone will suffice, assume that U.S. protection will always be available and tell itself that the war in Ukraine is a local affair.
But the price of appeasement is never paid by the politicians who choose expedience over vigilance. It is soldiers and civilians who bear the consequences. Europe still has time — provided by Ukraine, at extraordinary cost. The challenge is not merely to spend more, but to think differently: to accept that deterrence is not alarmism, preparedness is not provocation and strength is often the precondition for peace.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/21/world/europe-security-failures/
In Australia we should all stock up on beer. Oh, and snags for the barbie.
“Fears are mounting”??? See the above.
For some, the fear is palpable.
Yeah, yeah. I wanna know what he reckons about Essendon winning a flag that year too.
Sarcasm following:
I can’t believe those pesky Ukrainians won’t simply stop fighting so this war can end.
They are being so difficult. Surely they can let the illegal invasion/SMO by Russia be completed?
I’m mean, there’s financial deals to be made and profits begging to be taken…..
won’t someone think of the poor billionaires?
This is a significant development. One voice at the moment, but the opinions expressed would be growing, shows seeds of discontent are spreading.
Things are indeed farked when the “voice of reason” is someone saying “you know what was better than this? When we were communist…”