Ukrainian Artillery losses Running Total: 391
RuZZian Tank losses Running Total: 2389
October 2023 – 60
September 2023 – 57
August 2023 – 86
July 2023 – 113
June 2023 – 73
May 2023 – 90
April 2023 – 5
March 2023 - 127
February 2023 – 118
January 2023 – 61
December 2022 – 76
November 2022 – 105
October 2022 – 212
September 2022 - 217
August 2022 – 74
July 2022 – 108
June 2022 – 67
May 2022 – 148
April 2022 – 243
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 350
RuZZian Artillery losses Running Total: 881
October 2023 – 45
September 2023 – 48
August 2023 – 67
July 2023 – 56
June 2023 – 47
May 2023 – 43
April 2023 - 24
March 2023 - 37
February 2023 – 41
January 2023 – 31
December 2022 – 19
November 2022 – 55
October 2022 – 64
September 2022 - 73
August 2022 – 21
July 2022 – 21
June 2022 – 18
May 2022 – 20
April 2022 – 52
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 110
Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4189998/posts
Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.
Calling someone a Comrade on FR is considered an insult.
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
“More than three decades after Reagan left office, most Republicans still believe that America is a force for good.”
Looks like Russian defense industries need some more funding, now that they have cleared out the warehouses of old weapons.
10/2/2023, 11:27:41 AM · 32 of 51As to "ample abilities" to "service" debt, most Americans haven't ample abilities of which you write.
Worldtraveler once upon a time to SpeedyInTexas--- "US National Debt doesn't need to be paid off. Just serviced. Ample abilities to do that." Did you really opine in this manner? Wow.
"A perpetual bond is a bond with no maturity date that theoretically pays interest forever." So you think US citizens should be in perpetual debt and only "service" the debt? Others call that involuntary servitude.
An Overview of Perpetual Bonds - Investopedia
US median per capita $65K Less than $50k -- 60.96% of population. CircaYou care and concern for the majority of Americans is very poor indeed. Let them pay -- sorry, "service" -- debt forever, and into succeeding generations who will have had no vote in this.
$50k-$100k -- 24.61% of population.
More than $100k -- 14.43% of population. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States
If you have citations and URLs to bolster your economic outlook as you have citations a plenty about the Ukraine-Russia Twitter war, you might wish to do more than merely assert... "US National Debt doesn't need to be paid off. Just serviced. Ample abilities to do that." Please prove your assertion.
“Ukraine received 31 American-made M1A1 Abrams tanks, which the US promised, Colonel Martin O’Donnell, representative of the US Army in Europe and Africa stated”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1714297425748230522
Should have sent 300 if we really want to make a difference.
Russian oil industry is imploding because of the decline of the ruble, and Putin’s policies to mask the effects from his public.
Joe Blogs on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxUeu2qfrKM ) lays out a persuasive case that the impact of sanctions, importantly through the weakening of the ruble, is inflicting massive damage to the Russian oil industry. The self-imposed export ban on refined products is now about a month old, and indicates an economic disaster.
The biggest single industry in Russia is petroleum refining. They have 44 Mega-refineries, with about half of them currently offline (far from normal).
From six months ago, the international price of crude has increased significantly in dollars, while the value of the ruble has dropped about a third. Net, it has resulted in about double the price in rubles - if there was a free market.
Instead, the Putin regime has imposed domestic price controls, that requires refiners to sell their products domestically about 25% cheaper than six months ago. So every refinery and smuggler wants to sell what product they can outside of Russia - but the Government has imposed an export ban, that has filled storage to capacity and and is just burning their potential revenue.
Winter is coming, and with it the potential for widespread freezing damage to idle oil infrastructure, as happened after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- landed on the island;
- lost all his brothers-in-arms, weapons and boat;
- began to look for the way home in a panic;
- ran and crawled in agony for about an hour;
- eventually died from wounds
and no one will remember about him, simply because they are sent to the islands “on their last journey”
Russian, you shouldn't come here"
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1714348952575672346
My guess is that either the US anticipates less tightness in oil supplies, or there is a more urgent need to apply pressure, but price cap sanctions have just begun to be enforced (maybe the bureaucracy has just finally gotten around to it):
Russian Oil Shipping Rates Jump As The U.S. Sanctions Price Cap Evaders (17 Oct)
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russian-Oil-Shipping-Rates-Jump-As-The-US-Sanctions-Price-Cap-Evaders.html
‘Shipping rates for transporting Russian crude have surged since last week after the U.S. took a tougher stance on sanctions for vessels carrying Russia’s oil above the G7 price cap, traders have told Reuters.
Last week, the United States took a tougher stance on the Western sanctions against Russia.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed last Thursday sanctions on two entities and identified as blocked property two vessels that used Price Cap Coalition service providers while carrying Russian crude oil above the Coalition-agreed price cap...
...Thursday’s sanction move was the first time the U.S. had imposed sanctions for a breach of the price cap...
...As the sanctions spooked more tanker owners that abandoned the market of shipping Russian crude, the freight rates for transporting Russia’s oil from its Baltic Sea ports to India have surged by 50% in just a few days, the trading sources told Reuters.
“Freight rates rose to some $7.5 million per voyage on Monday from $4.5 million-4.8 million last week,” one source with a trading firm involved in Russian oil sales told Reuters.
Some shipowners have already exited Russian trades but the U.S. sanctions enforcement prompted more companies to quit the Russian oil sales market, the source added.”
Darth Putin KGB
18h
“Day 600 of my 3 day war.
Russia cannot continue to fight without North Korean ammo which means I have reduced Russia to merely Pyongyang’s proxy so they can fight USA to the last Russian.
I remain a master strategist.”