It was planned already? Strategic planning at work. I don't think the war was a last minute objective.. a simple over sizing ahead of time and a pipeline can have the capacity easily.
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It was planned already? Strategic planning at work. I don't think the war was a last minute objective.. a simple over sizing ahead of time and a pipeline can have the capacity easily.
So it might be ready by 2024, that's not really going to help the Russian finances much in the next year and a half or so, and that's assuming they can manage to finish it in time, what with all the sanctions meaning that an awful of the specialist equipment needed to build the pipeline is likely going to be in short supply for Russia as there tend to be a limited number of companies that make it (and they'll likely not be supplying it via china either if it's for a Russian project).
You what, Jester* is a source of evidence giving credence to Russias claims?
That's a pretty low grade of evidence, lower than opinion posts done by media outlets to gather clicks.
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The deal was agreed 3 weeks before the invasion. Since then Russia has been crippled by sanctions and now they no longer have access to the tools and technologies to build out a pipe like that (in all likelihood a western company like BP or Shell would have been leading the construction). The Chinese could build it but I'm not sure they would want to invest all that capital into a country that's as untrustworthy as Russia besides it would break international sanctions which would backfire on them.
Battle to end the war: Ukraine's chance to get edge over Russia
The third phase of Russia's war on Ukraine is coming. The first, the Kremlin's brazen blitzkrieg in late February that culminated in the Battle of Kyiv, failed. The months-long Battle of Donbas in Ukraine’s east making up the second phase has gotten bogged down, with Russia having barely enough
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Battle to end the war: Ukraine's chance to get edge over Russia
The third phase of Russia's war on Ukraine is coming. The first, the Kremlin's brazen blitzkrieg in late February that culminated in the Battle of Kyiv, failed. The months-long Battle of Donbas in Ukraine’s east making up the second phase has gotten bogged down, with Russia having barely enough
Ultimately Russia seems to have been under the impression they could replay Crimea with the Ukrainians putting down their weapons etc. so didn't expect to need large forces. A large part of why they withdrew from the north was likely the realisation the ~37K troops they'd committed there were hopelessly inadequate to siege a city like Kyiv against an adequate defence. (To put it in comparison in WW2 Germany used half a million soldiers to encircle Kyiv and those numbers are still relevant today in the kind of warfare going on in Ukraine).
Yea it probably will hit delays, Russia will suffer for a couple of years without that massive income but it isn't only about the gas.
The article covered so much more and showed how these sanctions aren't really having the desired effect so why even keep them all going.
Zelensky wants everyone to keep giving aid so Ukraine can keep fighting but for how long, neither us or the Americans are pushing for peace.
We are providing financial and military aid and that should be enough, we shouldn't have to suffer financially to show solidarity with Ukraine.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/29/putin-ruble-west-sanctions-russia-europe
It's clear the Russians expected light or no resistance; using 30 odd thousand soldiers to capture northern ukraine is pathetic in hindsight - assuming they actually made it in numbers to kyiv, it assumes they steamrolled through the countryside and villages, which we know never happened
Because of bravery like this pensioner, the Russians ran with their tails tucked. Using a scavenged RPG and some hand me down hand grenades, he was able to stop a Russian column dead in its tracks from passing through his village and he then alerted the ukraine military who proceeded to lay down artillery to the road to clean up
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There’ll be peace when the Russians get the hell out of Ukraine. The Russians version of peace is occupying Ukraine and killing the population. That isn’t peace. The west will continue to arm Ukraine until Russia is pushed out and then we’ll arm them even more to keep Russia out, along with the rest of NATO.
Russia has done the west a favour really while crippling itself. All very long term of course, less fossil fuel, technology benefits from war, NATO a good kick up the backside. Quite incredible tbh.
A war over nothing
Such an own goal it’s incredible to see it on such a level.
its such a funny story, the old man shot the Russian column with an RPG and then started throwing grenades at them, the fuel tanker was on fire and the fire was spreading everywhere, the Russian soldiers just got out of the troop transport and started undressing infront of the old man haha.
He certainly had the Ghost of Kyiv in him.
The Belarus Army refused to go in basically the generals told the pawn leader that the soldiers will not fight against the Ukraine. They are not a enemy of them basically and if they did the populace would rise up and Belarus would be in civil war.
To be clear what is your inference here?
I don't believe this is sustainable long term, countries in Europe some are worse off than us will want to push for some kind of resolution.
Look at Germany where they are getting told to take cold showers, less showers and some weird stuff
lol they can't be serious with that face and title after sending weapons to kill Russians.
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