Word is getting out that China is quietly backing Russia, and some aid shipments have likely been heading their way for a while now. It’s a pretty thin theory, though.
Check out this link detailing how Russia uses Swiss, German, and Italian companies as middlemen to sneak in machinery essential for weapon manufacturing.
You could drop another thousand posts in this thread and still never figure out who actually blew up that pipeline.
Maybe we'll get some reliable answers in 10 or 20 years.
So why even bother arguing about who benefits? Half of you are rooting for the Russians and the other half for the USA. Then you've got the Norwegians claiming one thing and the Poles claiming another, blah blah blah.
And all this obsession with digging through Maxar satellite imagery or waiting for radar logs to drop? Give me a break.
Telomere said:Whoever blew up that pipeline, it’s going to be hilarious watching German industry collapse this winter. Maybe those Germans will finally get the point when they're freezing and starving. 😁
Man, if they end up screwed, we're going to be even more cooked. 😵
Kate Cook27 said:Spot on—it's the same narrative. Everyone wants to group all the Russians/Mexicans into one single entity. Some ideologies just refuse to die.
It’s turned out the exact same way here. It's an old trick (like the Sudetenland thing, for example) Only this time, it got tangled up with so many other issues that it's all being masked.
This war is a mess. There's going to be bodies everywhere since things are ramping up.
Ever tried taking on a thankless job—like trying to calculate exactly how many trucks we need just to keep everyone fed? It’s a massive number, but honestly, that’s not even the hard part.
The real issue for the US Army is morale and basic training.
I haven't really been keeping up, but when are we actually going to see those mobilized troops hitting the front lines? It won't be for another few months, you'll feel it then.
Alliances? Please. They don't have anything worth having... The only thing they actually get out of Iran is those drones and maybe some other tech systems.
That's just how you see it. One person's terror is another person's justice. The winners write the history books while everyone else gets buried; the survivors just stay quiet and hide. A lot of evil is happening over there, and honestly, more is coming.
Intel and CNN on Telegram are reporting something new that I definitely didn't see coming, and it changes the whole vibe of this war:
The Russians have started targeting power plants, and word is most of Kharkiv is already without electricity or running water. Kramatorsk is out of power too. A thermal power plant in Kremenchuk took a hit.
��������⚡Arrivals were recorded at Kharkiv CHPP-5, which is one of the largest combined heat and power plants in Ukraine.
The EU definitely has its hands full dealing with Orbán because the guy is just straight-up unpredictable.
But when it comes to being hooked on Russian energy? Honestly, it’s pretty simple: they were just the cheapest option on the market. + Plus, there was massive investment poured into the infrastructure, like those pipelines. + And let's not forget a little bit of grease in the wheels.
Because what else are you supposed to do? Dragging gas in on tankers from Ukraine, the USA, or God knows where else is a massive headache.
James Phillips92 said:When people fight against building a Cheniere Energy terminal, you have to look at their actual reasoning. Sure, they'll spin these tales about how it'll mess with ocean temperatures or drive away certain fish species—but let’s be real, that’s just noise. Now we can see the true motivations behind their opposition to LNG.
Building on that, this ties directly into what's happening right now. They weren't actually fighting the ExxonMobil project; they were fighting floating terminals. A floating setup doesn't pay tax revenue to the local government and uses the ocean for cooling. An onshore facility is better—it brings in tax revenue, creates more local jobs, and instead of having a massive eyesore sitting out in the water, you just have a port where ships dock occasionally. Plus, the cooling is handled by burning off some transport gas.
Once the war broke out and this energy crisis hit, it became clear that a land-based facility with higher capacity is the way to go. They just greenlit 180 million dollars for it recently.
The whole situation with Dugin and his daughter is wild; someone actually aimed right for the heart and just missed by a hair. That bearded guy is absolutely unhinged. It’s a damn shame they didn't take him out—these "intellectuals" are always the worst kind of trouble.
James Phillips92 said:None of that is the real reason. The main driver was just grabbing the oil—pretty much the same logic behind Putin seizing territory in Ukraine.
Basically, if you look closer, it's always just about the money, isn't it?
Nathan Thomas12 said:I know you’ll probably dodge links like this—you mentioned on another thread how everyone keeps chanting about how Russ is leveling cities. But hey, I actually trust you and stuff like this—as if Mariupol isn't a total wreck. The footage the Ukrainians put out is basically just movie magic, since Russ turned everything into a floral theater production.
It’s definitely wrecked, but life is slowly starting to crawl back.
gentlestag15 said:The city is pretty much leveled, unfortunately. Probably over 20,000 dead. What can I even say? Justice is slow, and honestly, it rarely shows up at all. That guy Berić, who's fighting with the DNR forces, mentioned they'll be judging an American soldier captured near Mariupol soon, and apparently, the sentence—execution—is already decided.
I keep seeing this channel from Mariupol pop up on my YouTube feed with videos just like this.
Jose Clark2 said:Regarding this and similar claims, I don't take anyone's word for it—not one side or the other. Truth is the first casualty in war, as they say. Both sides have motives to spin events for their own benefit, just as they might suffer because of them. Many maneuvers eventually seem illogical or baffling. Deception is common; the psychological aspect of war is often just as vital as the kinetic one. A False flag is a frequent tactic in any conflict. Until an objective investigation proves otherwise, I trust no one.
Spot on.
The evidence leans heavily toward the Russians doing the killing themselves (satellite footage and all that). But hey, anything is possible—we've seen plenty of "precision strikes" before.
There's no way we're getting an independent forensic analysis here, let alone anytime soon. At this point, you just have to weigh what's actually probable.
Looking at the recent crime committed by the Russian against that Ukrainian guy, I’ve been checking some pro-Russian sources and noticed there isn't much commentary at all. Does that mean it's actually happening? It feels like there's zero real defense coming from them, just the usual nonsense about how it was all staged—which we've heard a thousand times before.
I've seen footage of Russians being executed before, but I haven't watched this one where Russians are being tortured, and honestly, I'm not going to. It looks way too brutal.