https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-15/russia-s-oil-revenue-jumps-to-20-billion-in-may-iea-says

Who is sanctioning whom actually?

If the Russians have to sell their oil with 30% discount, it halves their earnings (given it costs them about 40% of the original price to actually produce and transport oil).
That means less money for war.
Also Russian ruble getting too strong means that they actually get less roubles for their oil exports.
They cant really buy foreign stuff using their money.
It all adds up and will hurt Putin more and more every month.
The war already stalled as Russia needs to regroup and rebuild its forces, its now more like Russia terrorist rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities.

"Sentenced to death" English mercenary is singing National Anthem of the Russian Federation.



This post was edited by Norlander on Jul 15 2022 08:28am

I think the Russian offense on Kramatorsk/Slovjansk will be massive, but at the same time, I think that they will throw all of their remaining resources into this attack, including T-62s and even T-34s and pretty much all troops they can still muster. Not sure if they can even take this agglomeration, but even if they can, I have a hard time seeing them maintaining a strong enough force to go any further, to branch out of the Donbass and push toward Kharkiv or Dnipro.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 15 2022 08:39am

Several needles under nails can be quite convincing to learn and sing Russian anthem



T-34 is a ww2 tank, do you expect any of them in working condition?
Ukrainians took theirs out of museums but used them as road blockades, not real tanks.
We dont know whats gonna happen.
I have a friend who travels to Ukraine with humanitarian help.
She told me that things are not ok there. In the western/central Ukraine things are ok, but eastern is doing bad.
She also told me that in her opinion western UA people are not really helping enough to people in the East, and that East relies on international help instead. A help that decays as people get used to war
It looks to me like we humans arent really passing our exam of humanity, both Ukrainians and Western people.
We said to ourselves "never again" after Hitler, and whats now? Here we go again
Whoever reads it, keep helping Ukrainians please, especially in he East, the war isnt over.

So if Biden started the Ukraine war, than France started WW2, right? Hitler and Putin are innocent, cool people, right? And the west is to blame for the wars, that evil guys started?
What a bullshit is on the internet nowadays, its like some people are totally shameless of saying BS.
This is the conflict between free world and the evil empire. The empire is much weaker, but free world is very much divided and hedonistic and is having problems stopping the small evil Putin empire.
No country in Europe has army bigger and more motivated than Ukrainian, no people here are more stubborn than Ukrainians. So we either help Ukrainians defeat Putin in Ukraine or we risk whole Europe.

Alrighty, noted.

If Ukraine doesn't compromise and give up, Putin will just start shelling civilian centers with artillery.

Same thing that happened in Crimea 2014. This can only end in one way.

Putin wants Ukraine's seaports, and he is poised to get them now.