re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

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Between the three components of the oil business - production, refining and downstream retail, the lynch pin is refining.

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The use of the ERAM would require Ukraine to seek approval from the Pentagon.

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Just like Biden. The more things change...

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Peace won’t happen until Russia feels like they have more to lose by continuing the war

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They have been economically hammered. It takes hundreds of lives if not thousands to make relatively miniscule territorial gains. And yet they keep going despite likely having a decent out via Trump. What does that tell you?

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What does that tell you?

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I wouldn’t want to be Russia’s neighbor.

German welfare state 'can no longer be financed' — Merz

German economy in real trouble. German de-industralization is a disaster.


Rut roh.

Fritz is not going to be happy.

Credit to Mertz. The other weak European welchers don't have the balls to do it. They continue to allow the invasion from third world shitholes and then they put them on government benefits. When you bring in people who are alien to your culture and refuse to assimilate for the purpose of them working, but you put them all on government benefits while they are not made to work this is what you get.

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Compressors are 2-3 years

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Totally made up

Another hole Putin has dug for himself.

Russian foreign minister sets condition under which Ukraine "has the right to exist"

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — Sunday, 24 August 2025, 19:18

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Ukraine only "has the right to exist" if it renounces the territories where Russia staged sham referendums on annexation.

Source: Lavrov in an interview with NBC

Quote: "Ukraine has the right to exist, provided it must let people go. The people whom they call terrorists, whom they call species, and who during several referenda – in Novorossiya, in Donbas, in Crimea – decided that they belong to the Russian culture."

Details: Commenting on his own remark that Russia should also take part in security guarantees for Ukraine, Lavrov said: "I never said that Russia must have a veto on security guarantees. But security guarantees must be subject to consensus."

He added, "If you believe that Russia being marginalised in the discussions on security issues on our borders, that this is something which is natural and normal, then I'm sorry, something is wrong with the philosophy of your channel."

Background:

On 23-27 September 2022, Russia staged sham referendums on joining Russia in the occupied areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, later declaring that between 87% and 99% had voted for annexation.
A few days later, Putin signed an "agreement on accession to Russia" for the occupied Ukrainian territories and declared that henceforth their residents would be Russian citizens.
On 21 June 2025, Putin said Moscow insists that Kyiv recognise the results of the "referendums" held in autumn 2022 in the so-called "Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics" (essentially Russian-backed terror organisations), and in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, after which the occupied Ukrainian territories were labelled "Russian".

Ukrainska Pravda

Yes, I thought the same thing, a slight retreat from his hardline statement a few days ago.

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Compressors are 2-3 years

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Totally made up

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I'm talking large centrifugal compressors for chemical plants, in the 14,000 BHP to 35,000 BHP range. Try ordering one with less than a 2 year delivery. Not your air compressor for your aquarium. You really are a clueless clown.