I maintain that Germany’s early trade with Russia was a smart move - it tied Russia into economic interdependence. My view is that subsequent leaders chose not to remove all barriers to war, while the US, insulated from the shock, benefits by selling energy at much higher prices. My comments and the facts are not reinventing the wheel, in my opinion. As an ally to Europe, I do not welcome the US now annexing Greenland and selling us oil at 4 times the price, to make their pockets jingle.

This post was edited by ferdia on Jan 8 2026 09:27am

Hungary- 258 billions, Slovakia- 210 billions, France- 209 billions, Belgium- 158 billions, Romania- 74 billions.

These are the results as of October 2025. In total, the US, EU, and UK imported oil and gas worth 1 trillion euros, while aid to Ukraine amounted to about 500 billion, and this is in the form of loans. Essentially, they disposed of outdated military equipment and used the money to buy oil for producing new equipment. Well, that's clever. It's a shame that the average Ukrainian, whose country ranks 78th in the IQ rating- below the level of African countries- won't realize this anytime soon.

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Attacking Russian oil refineries is reckless- the resulting media attention will drive up oil prices. Assisting the US in countering Russian and Chinese influence in Latin America and Africa would have been a more strategic move. Ukraine opted for the first approach. The US is handling the second one on it's own. I can vividly imagine the representatives of Ukrainian special services: their eyes seem to be staring into their own brains, while drool drips from the corners of their mouths. And this is not a sign of degeneration or inbreeding, no. This is the result of counter-selection with the sole purpose of not resembling Russians.

This post was edited by Norlander on Jan 8 2026 09:38am

Its quiet convenient that the targeting by an actor on Russian oil refineries has the net affect of enabling the US to increase the cost of the oil it sells. Its a bit sad how everything leads back to oil.

This post was edited by ferdia on Jan 8 2026 09:47am

Well, what else is there to do. It's not about seizing the black soil lands to dump prices for potatoes and wheat. The price difference with oil is hundreds of times, besides, oil refineries cannot be idle even if prices are barely above zero.

Russia launched an Oreshnik against some area around Lviv
Its unclear what was destroyed, but the footage captured shows clear MIRV as just a fuckton of flashes like lightning bolts and whatever was blown up caused the sky to be pink for hours afterwards through the night
Looks like posturing in response to the vessels being seized, and it appears nobody really caught the launch and gave any warnings before it landed, or if they did it was within just a minute or two with the word getting out

could have been kinetic impacts, definitely wasn't nuclear tipped, but nobody seems to be declaring what was struck and whatever it was, made one hell of a fire apparently

Europe's biggest gas storage facility probably, there's nothing else of interest in Western Ukraine anyway.

Yeah reports are now that Lviv is both without gas and without power, pretty widespread. Presumably gas knocking out power production

Russia has rockets left for 2-3 days, all stocks are exhausted, and now the non-nuclear version of the Oreshnik is in use.
Today's strike served as a cover for an operation to seize washing machines, tvs, and toilets, so incredibly dear to the heart of an ordinary Ukrainian villager- one who had just transitioned in the late Soviet era from mazankas and kopankas into the tender, gentle embrace of Khrushchyovkas.
The new versions of the Shakheds are equipped with self-targeting vibrators featuring artificial ejaculation of highly active biomaterial of Buryats and Tatars.
Furthermore, the last of the abducted children in Siberia are being devoured by wolf packs. In a metaphorical sense, these wolves represent a form of communism.

This post was edited by Norlander on Jan 9 2026 12:59am

Russia’s military has said it fired its new hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a target in Ukraine during a massive overnight strike. Ukraine confirmed the attack, saying it took place in the west of the country near the European Union border.

This should be considered an escalation (Russia said it was in response to an attempt on Putin's life a few days ago).

Vouch
All Russian hero’s, fallen and alive, along with their families, will receive endless supplies of knock off doritos, cheese doodles, VCRs and compatiable cassette tapes for viewing pleasures

This post was edited by colorful on Jan 9 2026 03:49am