Interesting day in Russia
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The Russians had the press release ready earlier today, but had to wait until the plane took off and crashed.
New pool or already dead?
Top Russian general missing since Wagner mutiny 'fired'
The news, reported by state media, follows months of speculation about the fate of Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who was known to have been close to mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
www.nbcnews.com
already dead...2 months to the day I believe. Could be off there.New pool or already dead?
Top Russian general missing since Wagner mutiny 'fired'
The news, reported by state media, follows months of speculation about the fate of Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who was known to have been close to mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
No no no not fun at all. Wow things would be so much better if people didn’t insist on being idiots.
2 months in the pool????....Significant shrinkage!
SHOCKED I tell you…… SHOCKED.
news.yahoo.com
Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed dead in a plane crash outside Moscow
Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military earlier this year, was presumed dead Wednesday after a plane crash north of Moscow that killed all 10 people on board. Prigozhin was on the plane, according to Russia’s civil aviation agency, which...
This ranks right up there with the shock and belief value that Epstein killed himself....
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yes- they haven't won a major fight since WW2
unless you honestly think that the folks who have direct control over their nukes are insane (and I don't believe that) in what regard to you think they pose a real threat?
We've made the USSR and then Russia the boogyman for 70 years- at what point do we realize that they aren't all that?
A haiku:
Russia is not weak,
But they’re not so strong as to
Take Kiev in a week.
I told my wife when the plot failed……dead man walking. I was wrong ….dead man flying and falling.
Again?SHOCKED I tell you…… SHOCKED.
Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed dead in a plane crash outside Moscow
Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military earlier this year, was presumed dead Wednesday after a plane crash north of Moscow that killed all 10 people on board. Prigozhin was on the plane, according to Russia’s civil aviation agency, which...
I’m impressed. Instead of solo deaths by poisoning or falling off a hotel balcony, now they’re being much more efficient with multiple deaths at the same time.
Lie down with dogs - get up with fleas. Who else supported Wagner Group's attempted coup?
Expect more "accidents" to follow as Putin authorizes clean-up on aisle 12.
Expect more "accidents" to follow as Putin authorizes clean-up on aisle 12.
Agreed. What Ukraine is doing with severe restrictions (all defense - no offense) and US equipment is amazing. They’re fighting with one hand tied behind their back. But it’s more proof (Vietnam is another) that fighting for one’s homeland is a powerful motivator. Conscription in Russia is failing and they just killed off the most powerful leader of their most successful PMC. They’re done.
I'm not an aviation expert, but planes don't usually just fall out of the sky like that.
They probably got one of his mistresses, his body man, and maybe a lieutenant or two for the bargain. Not bad for a day's murders.
Well for one:
Russia supplies a significant volume of fossil fuels to other European countries. In 2021, it was the largest exporter of oil and natural gas to the European Union, (90%) and 40% of gas consumed in the EU came from Russia.
you seem to know, who controls the nukes? what are the nukes checks and balances? what person runs the military?
Due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and the reaction to such by the EU, the situation has changed dramatically.
2023 isn't over, so it's impossible to provide full-year data for 2023. I think that looking at the 1st quarter of 2022 and of 2023 should be sufficient for showing how much things have changed.
The EU banned seaborne imports of Russian crude oil on Dec. 5, 2022, and then banned imports of refined oil products on Feb. 5, 2023.
In the 1st quarter of 2022, Russia supplied 26% of the EU's oil, the USA supplied 10.4%, Norway supplied 9.5%, Kazakhstan supplied 8.5%, etc. In the 1st quarter of 2023, Norway supplied 13.3%, the USA supplied 13.1%, Kazakhstan supplied 10.1%, Saudia Arabia supplied 8.2%, etc. In the 1st quarter of 2023, Russia only supplied 3.2% of the EU's oil.
Switching to natural gas, in the 1st quarter of 2022, Russia supplied 38.8% of the EU's NG, Norway supplied 38.1%, the United Kingdom supplied 8.9%, etc. In the 1st quarter of 2023, Norway supplied 46.1%, Russia supplied 17.4%, Algeria supplied 13.4%, the United Kingdom supplied 12.9%, etc. I should note that these figures are natural gas in a gaseous state.
If you examine liquefied natural gas, in the 1st quarter of 2022 the USA supplied 48.6% of the EU's LNG, Russia supplied 18.1%, Qatar supplied 10.7%, Nigeria supplied 6.3%, etc. In the 1st quarter of 2023 the USA supplied 10.2% of the EU's LNG, Russia supplied 13.2%, Qatar supplied 13.1%, Algeria supplied 6.7%, Norway supplied 6.6%, etc.
While coal is being de-emphasized in the EU, it still uses it. In the 1st quarter of 2022 Russia supplied 42.1% of the EU's coal, Australia supplied 19.6%, the USA supplied 18.0%, Colombia supplied 9.6%, etc. In the 1st quarter of 2023, the USA supplied 25.0% of the EU's coal, Australia supplied 23.2%, Colombia supplied 17.4%, South Africa supplied 15.8%, etc. Russia supplied 0% of the EU's coal in the 1st quarter of 2023.
The above is a lot of data, but in short Russia no longer supplies "a significant volume of fossil fuels" to EU countries as of 2023.
yes, I know them all personally, a bunch of really great guys, none of whom are insane
Do people really think NATO and the US wouldn’t know Russia was going to launch Nuks before they launched?