Posted on 12/22/2024 12:03:03 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin has promised ‘further destruction’ of Ukraine after a Russian oil field was destroyed by a ‘massive’ drone strike overnight.
Video footage of the strike shows the oil field erupting in an enormous explosion after the drone attack, lighting up the sky with apocalyptic yellow and orange as Russian air defences seek to defend the strategic depot. The Steel Horse facility supplies Vladimir Putin’s armed forces in Ukraine, and links to the Druzhba pipeline which sends Russian oil to Europe.
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
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From European troops to NATO membership, the guarantees Zelensky expects from alliesEU prepares ground for future negotiations to end war launched by Russia as uncertainty grows over Trump's stance
Maria R. Sahuquillo
Brussels -22 DEC 2024 - 05:40 CET
El Pais[excerpt]
Trump has promised to stop the war within 24 hours. He has not given any clue as to how he would do it, but his public rhetoric has not been encouraging.
In fact, this week he sent a message from his luxury golf club in Florida to the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, to start thinking about a ceasefire and giving up all the occupied territories. “It's nice to say that they want to get their land back, but the cities are mostly destroyed,” he said. “You look at some of these cities and there's not a single building left standing. So when you say 'get the country back'... Get what back? It's a 110-year reconstruction,” he said.
“There are a lot of unreported,”
How many?
Why in the hell would Russia report any of its oil exports to countries trying to evade western sanctions? “Oh, by the way, please arrest my customer who just bought my oil off the books to evade your sanctions.”
Clown.
“Clown”
Thanks for admitting you don’t know if your post was correct.
“Change two words, Russia to the US, and Putin to Biden. It is exactly the same.”
Yup
He has every right to go INSANE ON UKRAINE.
And he will.
And I wont care.
you SO MUCH HOPE that we get dragged into a war and that is why I am sickened by your guys, to be honest.
You’re NEOCON MONSTERS whose loyalties lie in other countries and so then you are akin to almost an enemy of the republic.
You’re a disease.
Trump is the cure.
He’ll end that mess and Russia will own 30 percent of your comedian’s land
Putin will retreat from occupied Ukrainian land if he wants President Trump to provide sanctions relief for Russia.
Perhaps but the German version only lasted a few weeks😎
I support whatever Trump decides.
It will be fascinating to see how these Russia lovers behave with Trump as our president.
The usuals like to talk out their asses about stuff they don’t know
My favorite is “see Russian GDP is up, sanctions aren’t working”
Second is Russians are selling oil….
True, which was the goal, keep crude on the market while their profits go to near zero.
Loss of refined product sales which are most profitable(hint Putin didn’t stop exporting refined products because he wanted to, lol, he has to. Uke strikes are doing their job
Then there is natural gas and ask Gasprom how that is going
Lastly using welded together calm water ships during high waves to haul fuel oil is what one does when everything is going well
“Lastly using welded together calm water ships during high waves to haul fuel oil is what one does when everything is going well”
Ghost ships.
Yup and that kind of cuts into profits
50-60 year old ships are such a good idea😎
finally! I have been saying since day 1 of this war that Ukraine needs to take out all Russian oil infrastructure.
The constriction point is the refineries, take those out and Russia will be crippled for a decade.
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Russian oil profits are dropping alongside the rest of its shitty economy. There are cars on fire in Moscow and St. Petersburg the past few days because Russia can’t pay what it owes to its people.
You’re picking the wrong time to post the triumphalist “The Russian economy is A-OK!” propaganda.
How did I read like 5 different reports just today, alongside funny new videos of shitty Russian assaults getting massacred?
Calm down, Nancy. Turns out we didn’t need to join the war. Russia is collapsing all on its own due to their incompetence and inability to defeat Ukraine despite its media promising Kyiv would fall in 3 days.
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