In a Monkey Werx video from a week ago, which I am finally listening to now, he notes there are only 17 days left in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
No F16's for Ukraine - SITREP 5.7.24
In a Monkey Werx video from a week ago, which I am finally listening to now, he notes there are only 17 days left in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
No F16's for Ukraine - SITREP 5.7.24
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WCSSTUS1&f=W
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In a Monkey Werx video from a week ago, which I am finally listening to now, he notes that some of the F-16s the Ukrainians are to receive will not be modern F-16's, but will instead probably be 'B' and 'C' models which are very dated and will have to be modified which will take time. He said most of the Ukrainian pilots who are being trained don't know much about flying and are new pilots which will require years of training (i.e., learning air refueling, combat tactics, weapons sysems etc), given the complexity of the aircraft. The Ukraine would have to locate modern airfields near Russia to be effective but Russia will easily target them. Ultimately, he believes any air support will have to come from NATO.
Russia has warned that F-16-s will be treated as nuclear threats
The portion about the F-16's in this video starts around the 27 minute 50 second mark.
The link below starts at 27:50 in the video.
No F16's for Ukraine - SITREP 5.7.24
Sidenote: Monkey Werx notes the odd situation wherein Russian and American soldiers will occupy the same airbase in Niger. He said the Russians are the Wagner group, and the US needs to get their troops out of the way there (Niger's Junta is ending a military cooperation with Washington, which has agreed to remove US troops)
At the 34:25 mark, he mentions the 'DeepState Telegram' channel which is close to the Ukrainian military (he says it's a Nazi stronghold and has been since 1948), blames local command for the 'collapse of defenses in the area.' In the video images, the article continues, saying the Brigade involved in the defensive collapse posted on Facebook that its soldiers did not run away, but had taken daily firepower that was 10-15 more powerful than their own.
Monkey Werx displayed a map showing that the Ukrainian military has no gains after $200 Billion dollars in Foreign Aid, spent fighting for 2 years (he means fighting on Russian front line). (ransomnote: On FR there are regular posts about Russia taking/losing this territory or that, but Monkey is referring to the main Russian/Ukrainian front lines).
At 35:23, Monkey talks about Russia's threat to fire on British military facilities and equipment in the Ukraine and beyond, if British weapons used in the Ukraine fire on Russian territory. Monkey believes this was Russia basically warning the UK, 'Hey look, we know the UK already has infrastructure and assets inside the Ukraine, that's going to be their primary strike targets...'
The “strategic petroleum reserve” is not what the general public think it is.
First of all, the oil is not refined, secondly, there may be enough to run the military for awhile, but the USA as a whole? Perhaps a few weeks.
There are other reserves in the country that are perhaps not “strategic” and those are doing just fine.
Don’t let propaganda scare you.
outdated SPR data.
3 million barrels were bought in dec 2023.
a 3 million barrel buy was recently announced after the april cancellation.
Capacity is 713.5 million barrels. As of February 2024, the SPR currently holds
approximately 357 million barrels of crude oil
the weird thing is, Strategic Oil sales are required by law.
The December 2022 Omnibus led to the canceling of Congressional mandated sales equivalent to 140 million barrels that were set to take place between FY24 - FY27.
