It appears you Neocons have lost a fellow cheerleader
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Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then lost in service with its new owners, it is only added as a loss of the original operator to avoid double listings. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it's not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
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As you said, “Nothing wrong with a breeding program, just so long as you are not out killing off those who not up to snuff. Which the Nazis did.” And Hitler’s “up to snuff” meant NO minor flaws even though treatable like a cleft palate, an extra finger, or a club foot. Fortunately many problems can be avoided by proper nutrition or more modern methods of selective breeding.
When my husband and I decided to have a child, we went into “training” for 6 months before attempting a fertilization. We avoided alcohol, cigarettes and junk food. Instead we made sure we got a reasonable amount of outdoor exercise, and concentrated on eating especially nutritious home cooked meals.
A prosperous couple we knew was worried about a heredity error in the chromosomes of one partner. They used in vitro fertilization at considerable cost to avoid inflicting a child with this error. In a laboratory their egg and sperm were combined, and it was possible to select a zygote that did not have that error which was successfully implanted in the mother. The result is a healthy child. Implantation of a second zygote did not succeed, so this family is completed.
This move by President Trump does seem to hit Lukoil and revenue to the Kremlin hard.
Was unaware of how much income entities like lukoil were making outside of Russia up to this point.
If their overall revenue was down before these actions, removing these income streams will make the situation far worse not just for lukoil, but for pitin and the Kremlin budget shortfalls.
God Almighty is in charge of that and all your calls for "breeding" away 'mistakes' shows the extent of your macabre view of the here and now. Go away granny, cheer on your war elsewhere. You're as sick as Demmy Dimwit.
It appears you Neocons have lost a fellow cheerleader
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Iran’s recent efforts to remove itself from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklist have failed. FATF announced on October 24 that Iran will remain on the FATF blacklist due to Iran’s failure to address its long-standing financial deficiencies and non-compliance with United Nations nuclear non-proliferation obligations.[24] The FATF is an international body that sets standards for combating money laundering and terrorist financing.[25] CTP-ISW assessed on October 22 that Iran was very unlikely to meet the FATF’s requirements to be removed from the blacklist because Iran continues to provide financial and material support to members of the Axis of Resistance.[26] Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed Iran’s conditional accession to the Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) convention on October 22 as part of an effort to remove Iran from the FATF blacklist.[27] FAFT had required that Iran ratify and implement both the CFT convention and the Palermo convention in line with FATF standards.[28] The Iranian Expediency Discernment Council approved the Palermo Convention in May 2025.[29] The CFT is a set of international policies and measures that prevent terrorist groups from accessing and using financial resources.[30] Pezeshkian approved the CFT convention under seven conditions, stating that the Iranian constitution and domestic legislation take precedence over the convention if the convention comes into conflict with Iranian law.[31] Pezeshkian added that Iran reserves the right to define terrorism financing for itself in accordance with the Iranian constitution, which does not define Iran’s support for the Axis of Resistance as terrorism financing.
IRGC Commander Major General Mohammad Pakpour appointed Brigadier General Hojatollah Ghoreishi as the IRGC Deputy Coordinator on October 27.[32] Ghoreishi replaced Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, whom Pakpour appointed as his unspecified “senior adviser.”[33] Ghoreishi served as the Deputy Defense and Armed Forces Logistics Minister in January 2024 and as the Deputy for Supply, Research, and Industry Affairs in the Defense and Armed Forces Logistics Ministry before that.[34] The US Treasury Department sanctioned Ghoreishi in 2023 for negotiating an agreement to supply Iranian drones to Russia for use in Ukraine and for leading Iranian military research and development.[35] An Iranian outlet reported on October 26 that Ghoreishi has been functioning as the IRGC Deputy Coordinator for ”some time.”[36] CTP-ISW is unable to independently verify this claim. Coordination deputies in Iran serve in a similar capacity to a chief of staff in the US military.
https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-october-27-2025/
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If a hard freeze winter hits the Yamal and West Siberian oil–gas corridor today (say, sustained –50 °C, power interruptions, and extended cold similar to 1992–1994), the scale of freeze-burst damage would be much smaller than in the 1990s—but still potentially severe regionally.
Here’s how it would likely compare:
🔹 1990s Baseline
Infrastructure age & neglect: Pipelines, compressor stations, and valves were built mostly in the 1960s-1980s, with little insulation or redundant heating.
Maintenance collapse: Funding and staffing plummeted after the Soviet breakup; electric heaters and glycol-circulation systems failed.
Damage scale: Thousands of valves and kilometers of small-bore lines froze and burst; major oil leaks in Komi and West Siberia spilled hundreds of thousands of tons of crude.
Restoration timeline: 10–20 years, with foreign help.
🔹 2020s–2025 Context
What’s improved
Heated pipeline infrastructure: Most trunk pipelines (Yamal–Europe, Bovanenkovo–Ukhta, etc.) now have redundant electric trace heating and buried insulation, plus pressure/temperature telemetry.
Polymer-lined and stainless valve tech: European retrofits (ABB, Technip) introduced cold-tolerant elastomers and self-draining valve bodies.
Better logistics: Winterization protocols, backup diesel gensets, and field housing are much improved.
Centralized SCADA monitoring: Gazprom and Transneft control rooms can remotely isolate or purge a frozen section.
What’s still vulnerable
Aging secondary systems: Condensate separators, water-treatment units, and small-diameter brine lines at older Yamal-Nenets and Komi fields still rely on manual drainage.
Smaller private producers: Non-Gazprom operators sometimes skip full winterization.
Power reliability: If regional substations fail, electric heat tracing can go dark fast.
What the Soviet Union didn’t have was Ukrainian “sanctions” hitting important hubs, and electrical generation.
My prediction is it will be much worse than the 1990s
Turkey is reducing its oil and refined products purchases from Russia. In 2025 they got 65% of their oil from Russia, that is down to 47% this year.
They have increased purchases from Iraq (Kurdistan), Kazakhstan, Brazil and Angola.
China and India took a lot more Russian crude, but Turkey had been buying over 25% of Russia’s more profitable refined products exports. That is now dropping as well.
“sanctions” hitting important hubs, and electrical generation.”
Hitting hubs will be Ukraine’s success story. Gas hubs with compressors, electric hubs aka substations, oil hubs, chemicals hubs. Putin and Russia’s doom is kicking in this winter, God willing.
I see predictions in this thread for an above average cold winter for Russia.
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WTI Crude $60.21 —— Urals crude $2 less
with all Russians crude discounting, they will be lucky to make $2/barrel
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Actual profit per barrel might be as low as $2–3, sometimes even zero for older fields.
🔍 Broader picture
Russia keeps pumping mainly to maintain field pressure and retain export markets, not for big profits.
The budgetary breakeven oil price for Russia’s federal spending is estimated around $80–85/bbl.
At ~$60 WTI and discounted Urals, they’re running deficits covered by sovereign funds.
So your “lucky to make $2/barrel” line isn’t exaggeration — it’s right in the realistic margin zone once logistics and sanctions drag are factored in.
Since Western companies installed most of Russia’s improved freeze damage mitigation on its oil infrastructure, Western Intelligence should have excellent information on how to target it.
It will be an interesting test.
“I see predictions in this thread for an above average cold winter for Russia.”
…and heavy rain (of missiles and drones).
Something not often talked about is the software component and lack of updates, as well as possible hacks with lack of security updates
Another night of sanctions on Russian refineries last night. A twofer.
Kyiv Independent (4 Nov):
“The Russian city of Kstovo in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast was rocked by explosions amid similar blasts across Russia, the outlet reported, citing local residents. Two oil refineries in Kstovo, IBUR Kstovo and Lukoil Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez, had also reportedly caught on fire amid the attack.
Overnight, local Telegram channels reported that drones targeted the Lukoil Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery, resulting in a large fire.
Video footage circulating online showed flames at the facility, which local monitoring channels identified as the likely target of the attack.”
Good information as opposed to RT talking points
Pokrovsk may fall, but as a strategic defeat it is not except maybe for Russia.
18+ months to take a ruined city that has lost any strategic value, but the only real “victory “ pitin can claim, maybe😂😂
Russia goes dark, and broke but RT and the usuals talk as if Stalingrad has been liberated or Berlin conquered.
Lots of cope there, especially for all the Russian widows.
People like you are the reason that America’s reputation is in the toilet. You think you are a big man by calling other people that name? It figures you like Putin.
Now go crawl off to the nearest corner and beg The Trump to invade your joke of a country
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