Length of gas lines in Russia?
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Length of gas lines in Russia?
lol I think this Thread is down to you and Granny Glee
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😅😂🤣
Trump rejects Zelensky on Tomahawk missiles in “tough” meeting
Axios ^
Posted on 10/17/2025, 7:00:07 PM
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4347038/posts
I guess this Tuesday is off the table. 😉😂😂
And once again, granny is running to her zeeper friends to boo-hoo about a post she is too cowardly to address on her own.
Typical rat behavior.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump met at the White House on October 17 and discussed ongoing US support for Ukraine and efforts to the war.[1] Trump expressed confidence in his ability to end the war and assessed that both Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin want to end the war in Ukraine. Zelensky reiterated that he remains open to a bilateral or trilateral meeting with Putin. Zelensky reiterated during the meeting and the following press conference that Ukraine is interested in acquiring US-made Tomahawk missiles to use against Russia in tandem with Ukrainian-made long-range strike drones.[2] Zelensky noted that striking legitimate Russian military targets requires missiles in combination with “thousands of drones” and that Ukraine does not yet have enough missiles. Missiles can carry larger payloads and fly at faster speeds than long-range strike drones, increasing their chances of penetrating Russia's air defense umbrella and causing more damage to higher-value, better-defended military objects. ISW previously noted that US Tomahawk missiles’ long-range capabilities and sizable payload would enable the Ukrainian military to inflict substantial damage on key Russian military assets located deep within Russian territory, including the Shahed drone factory in Yelabuga, Republic of Tatarstan, and the Engels-2 Air Base in Saratov Oblast, from which Russia sorties the strategic bombers that fire air-launched cruise missiles at Ukraine.[3] Ukraine can likely significantly degrade Russia's military capabilities by targeting a vulnerable subset of key rear support areas, such as Yelabuga and Engels, that sustain and support Russia's frontline operations and long-range strike campaign against Ukraine.[4]
Zelensky stated that Ukraine would be willing to trade Ukrainian-made drones in exchange for the US provision of Tomahawk missiles, and Trump expressed interest in the exchange.[5] The United States and Ukraine are reportedly negotiating an agreement in which Ukraine would sell millions of battle-tested drones to the United States in exchange for Ukraine purchasing weapons from the United States.[6] Zelensky stated that he and Trump discussed the possible future US provision of Tomahawk missiles, but that both leaders agreed not to publicly comment on their discussion.[7] Trump urged Putin and Zelensky to end the war soon and pursue peace in a social media post after the meeting.[8] Two sources briefed on the meeting told Axios on October 17 that Trump told Zelensky that the United States does not intend to provide Tomahawk missiles for now.[9]
Zelensky also met with US Energy Secretary Wright and executives of several US energy companies on October 17 to discuss strengthening cooperation to bolster Ukraine's energy sector amidst Russia's intensified strike campaign targeting Ukraine's power system ahead of Winter 2025-2026.[10] Zelensky also met with representatives from US defense companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin to discuss strengthening Ukrainian air defenses, including long-range capabilities.[11]
The Kremlin continues to employ a dual-handed rhetorical strategy, leveraging economic proposals and veiled military threats in an effort to simultaneously pursue normalizing US-Russian relations and deterring US support for Ukraine. Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO and key Kremlin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev used a series of English-language X (formerly Twitter) posts on October 16 and 17 to promote a possible joint US-Russian economic venture, likely in an attempt to persuade the Trump administration that normalization of US-Russian relations would economically and politically benefit the United States and Russia without engaging in peace talks with Ukraine.[12] Dmitriev functions largely as a persuasive agent that the Kremlin leverages to strengthen relations with the Trump administration, and Dmitriev’s use of the proposal likely aimed to generate media attention and underscore existing Kremlin narratives that bilateral economic cooperation is preferable to a negotiated peace in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Head Sergei Naryshkin reiterated on October 17 that Russia would perceive the provision of US-made Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine as a “hostile move” that would threaten global security.[13] Naryshkin repeated consistent Kremlin accusations that European states advocating for the provision of Tomahawks to Ukraine are a “war party” that opposes lasting and just peace.[14] Russian President Vladimir Putin and other Kremlin mouthpieces have repeatedly portrayed the possible provision of Tomahawk missiles as a significant “escalation” in an effort to deter support for Ukraine.[15] The Kremlin has consistently relied on veiled and explicit threats, including nuclear saber rattling, and began offering economic incentives to deter Western aid to Ukraine.[16] ISW continues to assess that the US provisioning of Tomahawk missiles would not engender a significant escalation in Russia's war against Ukraine, and instead that the provisioning of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine would mirror Russia's own use of commensurate Russian long-range cruise missiles against Ukraine.[17]
The Kremlin is reducing its financial incentives used to recruit volunteer soldiers, likely as part of the Kremlin's efforts to restructure force generation efforts and centralize control over Russian recruits in an effort to sustain its protracted war in Ukraine. Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation reported on October 17 that Russian federal subjects (regions) are reducing and canceling one-time enlistment bonus payments for new contract military service recruits.[18] Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation reported that the Russian authorities in the Republic of Mari El recently lowered their regional one-time enlistment bonus for new recruits from three million rubles (roughly $31,600) to 800,000 rubles (roughly $9,800); in the Republic of Chuvashia from 2.5 million (roughly $26,300) to 800,000 rubles; and in Samara Oblast from 3.6 million (roughly $37,900) to 400,000 rubles (roughly $4,900). Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation noted that regional governments are also reducing payments in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, and the Republic of Bashkortostan and that the St. Petersburg officials retroactively canceled the governor's one-time payment of 1.6 million rubles (roughly $16,800).[19] St. Petersburg-based outlet Fontanka reported on October 16 that it obtained information that St. Petersburg canceled already-promised one-time payments for volunteers and that servicemembers in BARS (Russian Army Combat Reserve) reported issues receiving their enlistment payments.[20] The BARS servicemembers stated that officials told them that the St. Petersburg government issued a decree on August 26, 2025, stating that the regional government would not pay the 1.6 million rubles designated for one-time enlistment bonuses starting August 1 — retroactively depriving new recruits of bonuses promised when they signed their contracts. One source stated that the regional government retroactively terminated the payments, and regional officials told Fontanka that the decree is classified “for official use only,” but that the regional government only canceled one-time payments for volunteer servicemembers (dobrovoltsi). Regional officials stated that servicemembers who sign regular military service contracts (referring to contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) will continue to receive one-time payments.
The Kremlin is likely coordinating this cross-regional policy and appears to have realized that its financial incentive system and decentralized force generation campaign, which has been in place since 2022, is unsustainable and ineffective in generating sufficient manpower for its war effort in Ukraine. The Kremlin now appears to be disincentivizing service in BARS, likely in an effort to centralize control over BARS and form a new, MoD-controlled active reserve. The Kremlin originally intended in late 2021 for BARS to function as Russia's active combat reserve by recruiting volunteer reservists for a three-year contract service and maintaining their mobilization readiness while maintaining civilian jobs, similar to US reserves.[21] The Kremlin, however, committed BARS units to the battlefield in Ukraine as irregular formations, often under the supervision of Russian businessmen and officials, at the beginning and throughout the full-scale invasion because it did not initially declare mobilization in Winter 2022.
The recent reductions in financial incentives for Russian volunteers may be part of the Kremlin's recent effort to mobilize members of the Russian active reserve on a rolling basis. ISW recently assessed that Russia may begin to mobilize members of Russia's active reserve on a rolling basis to sustain its combat operations in Ukraine, but it is unlikely to conduct a large-scale involuntary reserve mobilization to expand the size of the Russian military dramatically at this time.[22] The Kremlin has traditionally relied on financial incentives and sign-on bonuses to attract volunteers to fight in Ukraine and to avoid mass compulsory mobilization, and regional governments’ decision to decrease or cancel these financial incentives indicates that the Kremlin may be shifting away from this strategy. Russia's existing “pay-to-play” system for generating recruits is likely hitting diminishing returns, which may compel the Kremlin to adopt an alternative approach using rolling compulsory mobilization of reservists to sustain its manpower in the face of its continuing high casualty rate in Ukraine.
Russia's short-range and long-range drone strike campaigns continue to disproportionately impact civilians in Ukraine. The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (UNHCR) released a report on October 10 discussing the impact of Russian strikes on civilians in Ukraine.[23] The UNHRC noted that the total number of civilian casualties from January to September 2025 increased by 31 percent compared to the first nine months of 2024. UNHRC reported that short-range drones, mostly with first-person view (FPV) capabilities, killed 54 civilians and injured 272 and are the leading cause of civilian casualties near the frontline. The UNHRC estimated that FPV drones account for 29 percent of all civilian casualties in Ukraine. The UNHCR reported that 69 percent of deaths and injuries occurred near the frontline, particularly in Donetsk and Kherson oblasts. Russian forces have indiscriminately targeted both civilian and military vehicles traveling in frontline oblasts, and the indiscriminate strikes on vehicles complicate or block medical services and civilian evacuations from the frontlines, in addition to impairing Ukrainian military logistics.[24] Russian forces have long targeted civilians with FPV drones in isolated frontline areas, including in Kherson City, and Russian forces have extended this practice across the entire front line over the last year and a half.[25]
The UNHCR reported that Russia's long-range strikes also continue to pose a serious threat to civilians, especially those living in large cities such as Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipro.[26] The UNHCR reported that Russia struck Ukrainian energy infrastructure 31 times in September 2025, marking a 15 percent increase in the number of strikes on energy infrastructure in August 2025. Russian forces have recently increased strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in an attempt to disrupt the Ukrainian power system on a large scale ahead of Winter 2025-2026, and Russian strikes have caused widespread power outages for civilians living in Ukraine. Russian overnight long-range strike packages also purposefully target Ukrainian cities and disproportionately impact civilian infrastructure. Ukraine's European allies continue to provide military aid and support Ukraine's growing defense industry. The Council of the European Union (EU) and members of the European Parliament approved a provisional agreement on defense industrial investment on October 16, which would allocate 300 million euros ($350 million) to fund Ukraine's defense industry.[27] Finland announced on October 17 that it will provide Ukraine with a military assistance package worth roughly 52 million euros ($60.6 million), most of which are new orders for Finnish-made military equipment.[28] Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal met with Luxembourg's Defense Minister Yuriko Backes on October 17 and announced that Luxembourg will supply Ukraine with a new military aid package, including tactical vehicles, drones, and night vision devices.[29]
The Church has introduced special prayers for the protection of Russia from Tomahawks
According to our source close to Patriarch Kirill, they were introduced on the direct order of Vladimir Putin. Prayers will be read by carefully selected clergy seven times a day – along with special prayers for the president, which we wrote about.
“We really asked to introduce such prayers. Tomahawks can bring Russia a lot of trouble, even make it so that the NWO ends incorrectly. I hope that Vladimir Vladimirovich during their conversation convinced Trump that it is not worth giving Tomahawks to Kiev. But we better pray additionally that this does not happen,” our source in the Kremlin said on this occasion. He added: “The situation is such that prayers are likely to help better than any negotiations.”
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/6305
Robert Sapolsky: Religious Ritual is OCD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gKJLadgzfY
12 min video
OCD and other forms of repetitive behavior (incl chewing gum, publish text at repetitive positions) cause an increase in serotonin levels which can help decrease anxiety.
100%. Whether it's showing sympathy toward the illegal invasion or promoting Biden's war in Ukraine, she always defaults to PBS talking points. Not once has she supported Donald Trump, not to mention claiming she voted for him.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Does seem that the Russian money train is derailing much like its actual rail infrastructure.
Retroactively cancelling signed bonuses is just one sign of financial problems.
Curious what kind of internal civil issues that will cause and how the Kremlin will react.
When the “falling debris “ hits refineries and ammunition depots “protected” by these prayers, I wonder what the citizens of Russia think?
Does a rug come with the 7 prayers “Gott Mir Uns” protocol?😂
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ5POmzIsAk
Apparently more prayers and golden idols are needed.
Tomahawks would be nice, but apparently Ukraines home grown “falling debris” weapons are too much for Russia.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
