Russia sent Steven Seagal to occupied Ukraine to spread propaganda, part of his role as a Kremlin spokesman

https://www.businessinsider.nl/russ...part-of-his-role-as-a-kremlin-spokesman/

Ukraine is not even a NATO member... I've had about enough of the "Cold War" spending... Americans need monetary help more than some corrupt Govt. in Africa, or Asia, or the Ukraine...

US to send $3 billion in aid to Ukraine as war hits 6 months

https://apnews.com/article/us-ukraine-3-billion-dollar-aid-package-363cdbeb670626eb410d72e81bd8068c

The car bombing of Darya Dugina in Moscow is interesting her father was def the target!
Who was behind it FSB, Ukraine secret services, CIA??

Maintenance work: New record: gas price rises to 315 euros per MWh
BUSINESSPlumley News about 2 hours ago
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The gas price in Europe continues to soar. The futures contract TTF on the energy exchange in Amsterdam, which is trend-setting for European gas trading, continues to rise and reached the record value of 315 euros per megawatt hour on Thursday.

In the past week, natural gas was traded at a peak of just under 241 euros. Within a week, the price has risen by 23 percent. And compared to the previous year, the price of gas has increased almost twelvefold.

Maintenance work
On the market, the new surge in gas prices was explained by a renewed interruption in Russian gas supplies to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Russia has announced that it will suspend gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in the Baltic Sea for three days at the end of August. The state-owned company Gazprom announced that no gas would flow from August 31 to September 2 due to maintenance work.

According to Russian information, after the maintenance work, 33 million cubic meters of natural gas will be delivered again every day. This corresponds to the 20 percent of the daily maximum output to which Russia reduced deliveries a few weeks ago.

The CEO of Lukoil Ravil Maganov "fell out of a window", about a dozen of oligarchs have died during the war under mysterious circumstances. Real mafia shit. One less constant critic for Vladimir Putin.

Russians are fleeing the second-largest city in Ukraine Kharkov now Putin faces second revolt as Russian Officials slam War, demand resignation.

Russian energy exec falls from boat in latest mystery death

https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/russian-energy-exec-falls-to-his-death-from-boat/

China as well as India have growing concerns about how the war is going. During a meeting with India's Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Uzbekistan security summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he wanted to end the Ukraine conflict "as soon as possible," without saying how.

Exclusive: NATO chief calls Putin's nuclear threat a 'dangerous' escalation

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...scalation-dangerous-reckless-2022-09-21/

Russians researched how to break their own arms and hurriedly bought one-way plane tickets out of the country to avoid war call-up.
Russian conscripts would be 'cannon fodder' 90% of these reservists have not received any form of training.

Yes, I think conscription is going to backfire on Putin. Russia today is not like the USSR of the Afghanistan war era. Russia doesn't have an antiwar movement like America's during the Vietnam War era. But, young Russian men are just as likely to resist being conscripted into fighting a war they don't want as were their US counterparts years ago.

Yeah now young people in Moscow and Saint Petersburg have to go to fight a war against their brothers and most of them will die the western weapons the Ukranians have are superior.

Ukraine war: Putin not bluffing about nuclear weapons, EU says

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63016675

Complaints about Russia's chaotic mobilization grow

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...tic-mobilisation-grow-louder-2022-09-24/

Europe investigates 'attacks' on Russian gas pipelines to Europe

https://www.reuters.com/business/en...ndersea-gas-pipelines-europe-2022-09-27/

Vladimir Putin heightens World War tensions with rant about the West on big day in Russia and Ukraine war
Putin's lengthy diatribe today culminated with the signing of documents that, from Russia's perspective, has made four Ukrainian regions part of the Russian Federation.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-heightens-world-war-28124224

You can take Russia out of the Soviet Union, but you can't take the Soviet Union out of Russia. Stalin is dead; long live Stalin.

100% that's why Putin denied today seeking to revive the Soviet Union. However communism has been replaced by nationalism and imperialism.

I do think China, India and Kazachstan could press Putin not to escalate further. China doesn't want a war with the West.

His speech was pretty scary!

Putin portrayed the annexation as a holy war against the West, using startling rhetoric.

"They [the West] are moving toward open Satanism," he said in a speech broadcast to millions online.

Western elites were teaching "sexual deviation" to children who changed their gender, he said. "We're fighting for historical Russia, to protect our children and grandchildren from this experiment to change their souls," he added.

Putin invoked Jesus by name to bear witness to his "truth" and portrayed himself in messianic terms.

"I believe in the spiritual power of the Russian people and my spirit is its spirit, the suffering of the people is my suffering," he said.

"The destruction of the Western hegemony is irreversible," Putin added, as he neared the climax of his oration.

He's pulling a Hitler. Unfortunately, the U.S. can't be the war machine we once were. If it wasn't for our ability to aid the world in WW2, Europe would've collapsed. Our industry is outsourced, kids are pussies, and all of our comrades are fighting an imaginary war.

Europe still can't carry their own weight they are now waiting what the US will do.

Wait until winter comes. We've dipped into our oil reserves. Our president can't even ride a bike. Hopefully his cabinet can play chess.

Blinken is a smart guy, but I agree Biden often looks lost and confused lol.

Russian natural gas lines... some go through Ukraine, others don't, but the ramifications to Germany cannot be understated...

Germany's Catastrophic Gas Problem

Russia said on Saturday its troops had abandoned their bastion of Lyman in Ukraine's east for fear of encirclement and the leader of Chechnya, a close Kremlin ally, said Moscow should consider using a low-yield nuclear weapon in response.

The fall of the town is a major setback for Moscow after President Vladimir Putin proclaimed the annexation of the Donetsk region, along with three other regions, at a ceremony on Friday that was condemned by Kyiv and the West as a farce.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...nd-lyman-stronghold-military-2022-10-01/

Prices here are still going up it's crazy and we still didn't reach the peak. The third economy of Europe is now also hit hard.

The Russian state gas group Gazprom no longer supplies natural gas to Italy. This is reported by the Italian oil and gas company Eni. Eni says it has been informed by Gazprom that it is not possible to supply gas to Italy from Austria due to a transport problem.

There are growing doubts over whether Russia can actually win this war. This raises the question of whether the Russian elites are prepared to stick with Putin until the bitter end, particularly amid growing threats to use nuclear weapons.

The idea that Russia will inevitably prevail has started to be overshadowed by doubt over what price Russia is prepared to pay in order to bring Ukraine to heel. The longer the conflict rages and the more resources the Russian regime throws into the furnace of war, the more divided Russia’s elites may become, and the more serious those divides.

There are no signs that the Russian elite sees Ukraine as an existential problem for Russia. For Putin, it is an extremely emotional and personal topic. He is fixated on ideas of historical justice, Russian ancestral lands, and the desire to “liberate” the fraternal Ukrainian people from anti-Russian “occupiers” sponsored by the West. But this viewpoint is not shared even by many hawks, never mind the technocrats.

The Ukranian forces are making big progress in all four Russian-occupied territories.