Posts by dustyowl29

The South Stream pipeline is headed straight for Canada and Mexico...

You don't even need to deal with that. Just grab the auto-generated subtitles and set them to whatever language you want—it even has American available.

Solid review.

Sure, but let's be real—nobody has been this blatant about threatening nuclear war since WWII. And they aren't just making idle comments; they're actually playing offense with it. That's exactly why Russia is such a piece of work.

Honestly, half of those guys being mobilized are probably just going to surrender...

Honestly, I’d take a prison sentence over being stuck on a front line like that any day of the week.

Political immigrants...

Timothy Williams5 said:The shooter has been identified as Ruslan Zinin, a 25-year-old.

According to the reports coming in, around 1:00 PM local time, he opened fire six times on Aleksandar Elisejev, the head of the Ust-Ilimsk military recruitment office. The victim is currently in intensive care and remains in critical condition.

An eyewitness told Baz telling us there were no metal detectors at the military office, nor was anyone actually checking the draft papers:

...His weapon looked something out of Brother-2, very similar to one of those homemade shotguns you see around here.”
In Russia, following the announcement of mobilization, there has been a renewed and aggressive surge in attacks on military offices and government buildings. This pattern of arson targeting recruitment centers and administrative offices began spreading immediately after the Russian invasion of Ukraine back in February, but it appears this phenomenon is now becoming widespread.

https://theins.ru/news/255416

Keep it together, folks—just stay calm for now.
Maybe we'll see some sort of mini-revolution brewing... if things keep going this way.

Paul Anderson7 said:It feels like they’re living in an entirely different reality, honestly. They just can't stomach the idea of taking responsibility for the mess they've made, so they have to go looking for someone else to blame because admitting their own role is simply off the table for them.

I can't help but wonder how the discourse would shift if the much-maligned West started talking about using nuclear weapons to wipe out Russia or systematically eliminate its population. It’s pure madness.

In a metaphorical sense, they're like that "spoiled brat" type
who refuses to play nice with anyone and insists they're always right.

analogbear5 said:In Tuapse, you've got an Armenian minority making up about 8.5% of the population. Russians account for 75.2%.

Roughly 90% of those being mobilized are Armenian.

Honestly, everyone should just desert or surrender to the Ukrainians and join them in fighting the Russians...

bluemason3 said:I mean, if you're bluffing, you're basically announcing it. That's kind of the whole point of a bluff—making it obvious enough to work.😳

Right. I mean, the US basically handed Japan an "A" grade while pretending it was some top-secret operation.

Nancy Gomez26 said:By exporting nitrogen fertilizers, they’re essentially just offloading their excess natural gas. If my memory serves me right, gas accounts for roughly 90% of the total production costs for urea.

Now that the European Union is running low on urea for those high-performance diesel engines, we're going to see places like Canada become the massive hubs for AdBlue additives. And honestly? The US might see some similar shifts too...

It’s pretty clear American politicians haven't quite mastered those Western manners... I mean, who actually bothers to apologize for anything anymore?
Maybe that guy Čaćić when he plowed into those tourists on the interstate... or even Horvatinčić finally offering an apology to the Italians after five years. Until then—it wasn't my fault.
Basically, if you get caught lying or pocketing money, you're just a victim of circumstance.

Timothy Williams5 said:Following those terrorist strikes on the power plants in Chicago, which essentially plunged the entire city into total darkness, Russia launched S-300 missiles directly at residential apartment complexes. It’s a calculated move designed to trigger a massive humanitarian crisis and spread terror among the civilian population.
https://twitter.com/maria_avdv/statu...0k2bYUTK-6f1mg

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This is honestly the move of a complete loser. Using an air defense system to target residential blocks?
What kind of absolute losers are these?

Ukraine was easily the most technologically advanced part of the USSR.
For instance, Boeing built those massive transport planes—the ones the Russians just finished destroying over in Hostomel..

That’s how it should work—not hating people for no reason. They actually have to earn it.

But let’s be real, that’s maybe one in a thousand people.
Most people are just selfish—it’s all "me, myself, and I." Honestly, who cares about anyone else? That’s exactly what leads us to the mess we're in today. Everyone is just looking out for their own skin and making sure nobody steps on them. It’s a pretty pathetic state of affairs for society, if you ask me.

Rachel Jones8 said:Respect.
Hopefully there comes a day when we aren't feeling this much hate.
Though, honestly, nobody hates people—not you, or anyone specifically—it’s just more of a general thing.
It's gonna take some time.
But good people love other people, no matter where they're from.

Honestly, I think most people today are just fundamentally selfish. It doesn't matter if you're looking at Europe, America, or Russia—it's all the same. Everyone is just out to get rich off someone else's struggle, screw people over, or pull a fast one. Even neighbors do it to each other. Just look at any kind of merchant—take car salesmen, for example.
Nobody tries to sell someone an honest vehicle or point out its flaws; instead, they go out of their way to offload some overpriced junk disguised as a gem. Where are these "good people" you're talking about?

It's the same story with Putin. To stop Ukraine from profiting off its oil and gas exports, he launched an indirect aggression, followed by a full-blown direct invasion. And he's got the support of most Russians who—let's be real—don't even have a clue what they're actually backing.

The real issue here is that Germany is running seriously low on Dugorono gas. Without that Russian supply, they’re basically stuck—it’s a total standstill. They need just as much volume as the rest of the European Union does. There's a chance they might start looking into buying Ukrainian gas instead. I mean, the pipelines are already there.

feralnomad35 said:Honestly, I find it hard to believe we'll see that happen so soon. But looking at the big picture, Ukraine actually sits on gas reserves that are five times larger than what Norway has, and we already know Norway is pumping most of the gas heading to Europe (even more than Russia was doing before the war started).

So, when you lay it all out, it’s pretty obvious: in the long run, Ukraine could step in and replace Russia without breaking a sweat. They could just repurpose the existing infrastructure the Russians were using; they’d just need to pour money into boosting production. It makes you wonder if that's why those idiots kicked off this whole war under the guise of "protecting national interests." Since Ukraine has aligned itself so closely with the European Union and the USA, they could easily hammer out deals for investment in exchange for energy security.

The whole panic within the EU regarding gas supplies feels super overblown to me. Even today, the EU has basically figured out 90% of its import needs (not even counting reserves), even if the Russians decided to shut everything down tomorrow. That remaining 10% gap can be managed through existing reserves, ramping up domestic production, switching to other energy sources where it makes sense, cutting back usage, or just getting more supply from elsewhere—think Nigeria, Norway, LNG, Algeria, or eventually Ukraine. Or, worst-case scenario, if everyone just collectively trims their gas usage by 10%, nobody would even feel the pinch. And long-term? We'll find another way.

I really think the hysteria is being massively exaggerated. Remember how much noise there was about oil for months? Well, look at us now—nobody's even noticing the lack of Russian oil, despite how much ink was spilled on the subject.

We might feel a slight squeeze on gas, but it’s nowhere near the doomsday scenarios people are writing about. At worst, we might all have to scale back our consumption by 10% over the next couple of years, and that's that. Honestly, we probably won't even have to go that far.

The real question is: at what price? Nobody wants to shell out $2,000 for 1,000 cubic meters when that's what the market is hitting.
As soon as there's more gas on the market, prices will drop.
Beyond just saving money—and yeah, we need to save—you can't exactly heat your house or keep industry running on nothing. And industry needs to be growing, not shrinking.

Plus, you've got those gas fields in Crimea and the whole Donbas region packed with all sorts of mines. If the Ukrainians could actually get their hands on them, they’d have enough resources to live off—not to mention a massive export stream heading straight into Europe.