Posted on 08/21/2025 3:11:19 PM PDT by delta7
SOCAR Oil Terminal Destroyed in Odessa
Despite claims from the Trump administration about the success of Monday’s meeting with Zelensky and the European pimp delegation, the prospect for a successful negotiation to end the war in Ukraine is zero. Trump continues to mistakenly believe that he simply needs to get Putin and Zelensky together, who will hammer out a deal. Trump labors under the false assumption that the war in Ukraine was caused in part by a personal tiff between Putin and Zelensky.
Putin has been very clear that he will only meet with Zelensky once the details of a Ukrainian surrender have been agreed upon. Trump also thinks that is nothing more than a dispute over land, and that land swaps is a key to achieving a peace agreement. Here again, Trump displays profound ignorance about the legal status of Zaporhyzhia and Kherson republics under the Russian Constitution. Putin cannot concede any of that territory to Ukraine any more than Trump can give Alaska back to Russia.
But there is some good news: Notwithstanding Trump’s ignorance of Russia’s reasons for starting the Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022, he is sincere about reestablishing dialogue and normal diplomatic relations with Russia… at least that is what the Russians believe. During the Biden term in office, communication with Russia ended in January 2022. Now they have someone to talk to… actually several someones, which includes Trump, Rubio, Ratcliffe and Witkoff.
Russia is not going to back away from increasing military pressure on Ukraine. In the last 24 hours, Russia hit two key oil refineries –i.e., the Kremenchug oil refinery in the Poltava oblast and the SOCAR oil terminal/depot in Odessa. The Kremenchug Oil Refinery is owned by PJSC Ukrtatnafta. The ownership structure of Ukrtatnafta includes:
• The Ukrainian state, through Naftogaz of Ukraine NJSC, holding about 43% of shares. • The Privat Group, controlled by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, holding about 56% via offshore entities. In case you forgot, Ihor Kolomoyskyi is a prominent Ukrainian oligarch who played a significant role in Volodymyr Zelensky’s rise to power during the 2019 presidential election. This support included:
• Media Support: Kolomoyskyi owned the 1+1 Media Group, whose main TV channel (1+1) broadcast “Servant of the People,” the hit political satire starring Zelensky. This show helped propel Zelensky’s national profile and popularity. Kolomoyskyi’s media outlets gave extensive, supportive coverage to Zelensky throughout his campaign. • Business and Personal Connections: Zelensky’s production company, Kvartal 95, had business ties with Kolomoyskyi’s media group. During the campaign, Zelensky appointed Kolomoyskyi’s personal lawyer as a key adviser, and he travelled to meet Kolomoyskyi abroad on multiple occasions while Kolomoyskyi was in exile. • Perceptions of Influence: These connections fueled perceptions, especially among critics and political opponents, that Zelensky was “Kolomoyskyi’s candidate” or a potential puppet of the oligarch.
His campaign benefited from Kolomoyskyi’s resources and media influence, leading to skepticism about the independence of his anti-oligarch platform While Kolomoyskyi and Zelensky have since parted ways, Ihor is still a major economic force in Ukraine, and this hit him where it counts. It also damages Ukraine’s lines of communication with respect to getting fuel to Ukrainian military vehicles.
The bombing of SOCAR in Odessa is even bigger news. SOCAR is the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic. It’s Azerbaijan’s national oil and gas corporation and operates fuel stations, terminals, and logistics facilities in several countries, including Ukraine. The Odessa depot serves as a gateway for fuel products destined for European markets and for Israel.
The destruction of SOCAR’s Odessa oil depot is a significant financial blow for Azerbaijan, leading to reduced market access, increased cost burdens, and forcing a reassessment of both commercial and diplomatic strategies for Azerbaijan in Ukraine, in Israel and in Europe. Consider this: SOCAR operates around 60 fuel stations across Ukraine and has invested in oil storage and network infrastructure in the Kiev, Odessa, and Nikolayev regions.
This is not just an attack against the leader of Azerbaijan; it also is a severe blow to Ukraine’s ability to supply oil and fuel to its military forces. Putin sent a clear message to the Azeri leader, Aliyev, who has been way too chummy with Zelensky, Israel and the United States… FAFO.
If you want to know what Putin’s government is thinking in the wake of Monday’s meeting in Washington between Trump and Zelensky, set aside 20 minutes to listen to Sergei Lavrov:
Was there a point in this invasion where the Ukes had a chance of winning ever, and I missed it? Or did the Erous just pretend that the Ukes could have somehow won their territory back if they’d only done this or this or that other thing?
End of reading with this crock o bs.
Because they all know PDJT is an idiot. Right? Hello? Bueller?
Does he go by Delta7 now?
Given that the Ukraine is losing the war …
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That is an understatement…the recent SBU( Ukraine) document dumps state St Z has lost 1.5 million…KIA. The Ukrainian population knows this- there is no hiding it from the Ukrainians- only the western MSM can. i am awaiting Zelensky’s Mussolini moment.
US air support for Ukraine
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Sources please? You are a victim of western MSM tripe.
“Was there a point in this invasion where the Ukes had a chance of winning ever, and I missed it?”
The Russians were clearly overextended at the beginning, but given that the Neocons were set to not only drive the Russians out of Ukraine, they were then going to try to take Crimea, which, like Kalingrad, would be responded to with nuclear weapons.
So, Ukraine was always going to lose one way or another. It was more a question of whether they took-down the West with them...heck, even Obama CLEARLY understood it. Trump then made the mistake of trusting the Neocons his first term...so he set the table for Biden’s women to launch the war. And now Trump has to clean up the mess.
And now Trump has to clean up the mess.
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Amen brother. Ultimately, Vlad will never give his Russian Provinces up, ever…and St Z will not accept territorial losses, it will be decided on the battlefield…
and things are looking worse every day for the green goblin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpSVsmVMjUw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B-aXrhvrP0
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I fear that you are right on this one
That's a dishonest way of saying "The USSR collapsed under the weight of its own stupidity, oppression, and corruption".
Not in the slightest.
Well he wrote it and posted it on the internet - therefore, it has merit...right?
There is now a growing “woke right” which is becoming increasingly indistinguishable from the “woke left.” Reality has zero bearing on what is said.
“The USSR collapsed under the weight of its own stupidity, oppression, and corruption”.
They did. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was a complex event caused by a combination of internal and external factors. Economic stagnation, political reforms, and the rise of nationalism within the republics all played significant roles, alongside the impact of the Cold War and the perceived failure of communism. And communism has failed everywhere it has been tried.
Communism is a political and economic ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society. In true communism, everyone is equal. Same house, car, paycheck, access to everything...it’s all equal. If one person gets something, they all have to or the ideology fails. No reward for harder workers, or even the luck of striking oil on the property you are on because everything is shared and nothing is owned.
But that society will fail because it will stagnate into itself. No progression or a desire to. You won’t gain from it, so why try. And it is filled with oppression because of it.
wy69
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Not to be confused with Charles Johnson (Little Green Footballs).
https://freerepublic.com/tag/lgf/index
https://freerepublic.com/tag/littlegreenfootballs/index
Is that still relevant? LGF went from right to left, then from left to irrelevancy 15 years ago. Now the site mostly post links to other creator's content. Not as bad as Gateway Pundit writing BREAKING stories about posts on X, I guess.
Back to Johnson, looking over what he was saying 20 years ago, it is easy to see why after a few years he was a pariah to both the left and right, and the Bush hating press. It pains me to see when Johnson and Scott Ritter showed they were bad actors then, are now treated as reliable sources today.
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