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I read some studies, that colonies were the major problem of Spain.
Gold from America flooded Europe and caused major inflation and economic crisis.
There were too much easy money, everybody who could (especially the best) left for America. As a result, Spain suffered from depopulation, from lack of skilled workers, and from the welfare trap.

I wonder, once the heat of the moment cools, if they’ll regret ruining their lives for a bunch of illegals? That reality will certainly must be a bitter one I think.

Oh, these poor peaceful protestors. They can’t possibly get a fair trial in Tarrant County because of all the publicity. The prosecution needs to get a change of venue to someplace like Abilene, Sweetwater, or Palestine, Texas.

“about Ukraine’s destruction of Russian oil and electric power bases... we are not normally seeing how all these individual events form part of a preplanned whole... over months Ukraine had learned the complex connections of various parts of the Moscow area power grid. They were then able to strike the various sites in the right order to develop a cascading failure”

I can’t imagine that these strikes on Russia’s oil infrastructure and energy infrastructure could be proceeding WITHOUT such an overarching strategy, to achieve a Strategic effect.

NATO planners and NATO Intelligence Agencies would naturally be asked to evaluate this for Ukraine’s Military aid and budget requests. As you point out, Ukraine has already demonstrated that they approach this Campaign in such a planned manner. Far too much has come together on a coordinated timeline, for me to think it is not a sequenced Campaign Plan being executed, to achieve Strategic effects.

As such, I expect to see some significant (game-changing) effects on Russia this Winter.

In one week, we will be seeing the start of serious sub-zero temps in the West Siberian oil fields. Russian oil is seriously boxed in already.

I just checked the episodes are available with English subtitles on YouTube. They have a lot of great Russian TV series there.

Also,

“560 illegal immigrants arrested in October during ‘Portland Sweep’ ICE operation”

https://thepostmillennial.com/560-illegal-imigrants-arrested-in-october-during-portland-sweep-ice-operation

Ps I meant the Spanish civil war. I don’t know why I said revolution. I’ve never called it that before. I’m getting old lol

I only hit about 220 days in China. It was an eye-opener to this then-25 year old. Got there two weeks after Mao had died.

“ Rushing elevators, crowding in line and making general arses of themselves.”

Yes, you understand. It’s overwhelming. And in Japan…. That’s quite a stark difference indeed. You can only imagine how they handled security, They obviously have been thru a security line before, so I didn’t understand why it was so hard for them to understand that they needed to remove their shoes. Or how to put their suitcases into the X-ray. Everyone in front of them were doing it. They were shown what to do by employees displaying the action. Yet they would stand there blank faced. SMH

I think it might be a good idea to move to Michigan. It must be a very healthy environment. Detroit especially, I would bet.

Here are additional links and information about Ukraine’s destruction of Russian oil and electric power bases.

Ukraine unleashes missiles: Power plants burning across Russia
RFU News — from Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc6A3ZDRj8M

This almost 6 minute video sets out in mapped detail how Ukraine is upscaling its attack on Russian power and especially electricity. It shows how Ukraine is developing a coordinated strike in many areas at once with interlocking damage to multiple military and industrial plants, and to residential heat and light. Eleven sites were shown and described, including one that is now out and affecting a large number of surrounding industrial activities. Longer range more powerful missiles are now carrying out the expanded Ukraine plan.

Huge Russian convoy ambushed and burned on the road to Pokrovsk
RFU News — from Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1stLURlA7D8

This five and one half minute video maps in detail the failure of a Russian column attempting to take advantage of fog to slip past Ukraine drones to enter the east side of Pokrovsk. The map then turns to showing how Russians are trying to move all the way into Pokrovsk from south to northern border. Using teams of 2 or 3 men with a hundred drones they attempt to destroy Ukraine troops. Ukraine is succeeding in destroying Russian soldiers hiding in Pokrovsk buildings using heat detection equipment and sailing drones right into these hideouts and blowing up the troops there.

In both videos, RFU explains how they have developed a Timeline Builder tool to enable a more comprehensive understanding of the planning and complexities of Ukraine’s efforts. We may see this site was bombed, that site was bombed, but we are not normally seeing how all these individual events form part of a preplanned whole. I first became aware of this intelligent complexity a few days ago when viewing a video of the major Moscow blackout. There it was explained how over months Ukraine had learned the complex connections of various parts of the Moscow area power grid. They were then able to strike the various sites in the right order to develop a cascading failure throughout the Moscow area. Later I heard that this failure had even set off cascading failures much further to the east in Russia.

Thanks for pointing out this rabbit hole to me!

In Texas by the grace of God!👍

Oblast of illannoy here.

Bookmark.

“out for 3-4 months” (Novorossisyk’s Oil export terminal)

That is the hard freeze period of Winter, when we are watching for Russian oil flow to back up, and wells to be capped for widespread secondary damage.Shutting the flow out of Novorossisyk would be a big part of getting that done.

BBC regrets nothing. They are sorry they got caught.

“Ukraine has to make a mega strike on Moscow that will make it lights out for a few days.”

Here is a link, where they discuss and analyze that strategy.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4056716-can-ukraine-black-out-russia-in-winter.html

Ryazan oil Refinery (just knocked offline) is (was) the primary supplier of Moscow for several fuels, including gasoline and aviation fuel (Moscow is the superhub of domestic Russian aviation). The pipelines between Moscow and that refinery have also been struck.

I think it likely the Moscow will have its worst Winter of the war. Big blackouts would be quite a development.