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[Strangelove]

Or why Chinese are looking down at America...

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[Strangelove]

Little limey Brits are very organized in descending back to the dark ages.

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Britain is making plans for organised blackouts for industry and households over winter when cold weather may coincide with gas shortages, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

Electricity capacity shortfall could total about a sixth of peak demand, according to the government's latest "reasonable worst-case scenario," even after emergency coal plants have been put to use, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the government's planning.

 

[9dashline]

Ray Dalio hinting at war is imminent...

The US-China Tit-For-Tat Escalations Are Very Dangerous

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[pmc]

Could some one in the Kremlin coup Putin already please! Due to his idiotic policy of greatly holding back because of the "Ukrainians are mah brotherly people" policy, by the time the war is over, half the Russian military will be incapacitated.
This is what happens when you hold back and the war continues for so long. coup Putin and replace him with some one willing to carpet bomb Ukraine.

when person is in power for so long. he develops instincts. there is open borders for Ukrainians. he also like western leaders to take night trains to Kiev. Scholz and Macron enjoyed the night ride.
that small drones in Syria had 100km range that is few years old technology. this base is simply not modern like in Syria.

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Konashenkov said that while the drones appear primitive, they use sophisticated technologies and have a range of up to 100 kilometers (60 miles). He charged that the militants wouldn’t have been able to assemble the drones without outside help, but didn’t specify who might have assisted them.

 

[NiuBiDaRen]

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[NiuBiDaRen]

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Militants? More like freedom fighters to me.

 

[Chimpoo]

Little limey Brits are very organized in descending back to the dark ages.

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Britain is making plans for organised blackouts for industry and households over winter when cold weather may coincide with gas shortages, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

Electricity capacity shortfall could total about a sixth of peak demand, according to the government's latest "reasonable worst-case scenario," even after emergency coal plants have been put to use, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the government's planning.

Going back fifty years to this ,I guess:

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[Peas]

After 2 years, finally

 

[Bellum_Romanum]

The Chinese Ambassador to Britain has come out condemning U.K.'s hillarious statements with respect to Taiwan.

 

[baykalov]

Non paywall:

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In the Ukraine war, a battle for the nation’s mineral and energy wealth​

$12.4 trillion in lost wealth

Ukraine is widely known as an

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But as a raw-material mother lode, it’s home to 117 of the 120 most widely used minerals and metals, and a major source of fossil fuels.

SecDev’s analysis indicates that at least $12.4 trillion worth of Ukraine’s energy deposits, metals and minerals are now under Russian control. That figure accounts for nearly half the dollar value of the 2,209 deposits reviewed by the company. In addition to 63 percent of the country’s coal deposits, Moscow has seized 11 percent of its oil deposits, 20 percent of its natural gas deposits, 42 percent of its metals and 33 percent of its deposits of rare earth and other critical minerals including lithium.

Since the invasion began in February, however, the Kremlin has steadily expanded its holdings. According to SecDev and Ukrainian mining and steel industry executives, it has seized 41 coal fields, 27 natural gas sites, 14 propane sites, nine oil fields, six iron ore deposits, two titanium ore sites, two zirconium ore sites, one strontium site, one lithium site, one uranium site, one gold deposit and a significant quarry of limestone previously used for Ukrainian steel production.

Roman Opimakh, director general of the Ukrainian Geological Survey, said the government is still assessing the war’s impact on its mineral resources. But given how much of Ukraine’s raw materials are in the east and south, he suggested that the value of lost reserves exceeds the total calculated in the independent analysis.

The blow to Ukraine is far worse due to the Russian seizure of key Ukrainian ports and a

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of the Black Sea. Some analysts see the lost sea transit routes as more significant than the lost mineral reserves — particularly coal, despite its current value — as other countries switch to greener energy.

“Raw materials like coal are not the future, they’re the past,” said Anders Aslund, an economist who has long studied Ukraine. “It’s more about whether Ukraine loses its ports, which I don’t think they will. If they did not have those ports, they would need to build a completely new infrastructure for exports.”