re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

No refineries up there so must be haul fuel to it

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Putin need to use the Trump’s blueprint, settle for territory held now, and lick his wounds.

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That's not how Putin thinks.

If you're not familiar with it, read Putin's 'rat story' copied and pasted below. If gives insight into how he thinks about fighting the war.

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As a youngster growing up in the 1960s, Putin was a typical Russian hooligan, living with his family in a communal apartment in what was then Leningrad. Several other families, including Putin’s, shared these living quarters, with no bath, often no hot water and a stinking toilet. To get to his apartment on the fifth floor, young Putin had to run up the flight of stairs, infested by hungry rats. Armed with a stick, Putin at first fended off the filthy creatures and ran away from them, before he eventually decided to observe their behavior.

Putin spent hours studying these hordes of rats. Once, as he revealed in his official autobiography “First Person,” a “huge rat” he chased into a corner with a stick had nowhere else to go, so it turned around and attacked him. That frightened the future spymaster, and he was lucky to run away fast enough to elude his adversary.

This incident had a profound psychological impact on Putin. He realized that, if cornered and there’s nowhere to retreat, he must always be prepared to fight back and attack the opponent, like that rat from his childhood.

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Putin's Rat Story

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Seems like Russia is lighting Kiev up again. On the front Russia has made some gains to the South in the Zaporizhzhia (no more money for Ukraine until they make city names easier to spell) and Ukraine has had some success pushing back Russian forces in the city of Pokrovsk.

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The Chechens whipped the Russians behind the first go round. 2nd go at it, Russia attacked the populace instead of military to win. Russia turned all Chechen cities to rubble.

Thxs good stuff.

I said that was the logical thing to do.
You are 1000% correct, Putin isn’t a logical thinker and DJT is finding that out.

The only way they get their act together is to get rid of their weak socialist governments and it's leaders, wokeness, their stupid green agenda and their social welfare systems. Stop the invasion!!!

If they were willing to do what it takes, which they won't, the people would Mussolini them all.

Their leaders are out of touch with the people. I will give you an example: When Mertz announced recently that the German welfare system can no longer be sustained because they can't afford it or pay for it, he immediately announced right after that they were spending an additional 12 billion on Ukraine. That went over like a fart in church. The AfD is eating. The Germans love their social welfare.
Poland is fixing to erupt because Tusk has refused to secure their borders and enforce laws pertaining to immigration. He is finished in the next round of elections if he lasts that long. The Polish people don't like invaders from shithole countries. They are not going to put up with it.

We suffered through four years of this type crap with Biden. Europe has been driving hard down this road for decades. They spent nothing on their own defense for decades (welchers) yet they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Where did all of that money go? What did they spend it on?

Like I said they have done it to themselves.

Time to pay the piper.

News for the leftists: Socialism fails again!!!!

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Rut roh.

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4th quarter orders from US Chemical manufacturing is already very soft. This does NOT help the US at all

Who said that it did?

It is called reality.

Something that is alien to many of you.

Additionally, execs with several small EPC contractors who lost contracts starting 5 months ago when projects were cancelled. Last week one told me that the only thing keeping their engineering in business was renewable fuels. Petrochemical and refining projects were dead except for a couple of major new plants (Arab money)

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Of course they could always take that $300 billion in Russian assets and spend it on themselves instead of Ukraine.

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If they give it to Ukraine with strings attached, it will be spent in their nations.

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i've seen a few reports that the "breakthrough" was allowed by Ukraine to chop up the incursion and already had the Azov unit standing by. This means that Ukraine's dire need for troops may also be not as bad as reported. This maybe hyped by Ukraine to get Russia to make stupid decisions.

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But Sy Hersh (who ended up being correct about Nordstream from the beginning) is the one with wild theories