@ Orchard1 82
I have been thinking about the captured foreign mercenaries.
And the Grinder basketball player.
Then add in Ukraine has requested EU, US, Canada and others for $750 billion to help in “rebuild”. That money would come from the frozen or seized Russian assets. Of course the problem with this is it is simply robbery. No other way to term it. Taking money from someone simply because you don’t like them, and what they are doing.
The EU and all national treasuries are sort of scratching their necks, wondering how they could do this without retaliation from Russia, since they all have money in Russian banks for trade purposes.
So mercenaries…..become hostages.
Want them back? Hands off our money. Starting taking our money, executions start. Take all of our money, all will be executed (or have their full term prison sentence), and any others captured.
My guess is no one, even Azov members will be executed for several years. However an execution stay will still mean life in prison (Siberia), not a pleasant thought.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jul 9 2022 1:12 utc | 104

Replying to ptb | Jul 9 2022 1:02 utc | 101
There’s what looks like a parallel with the type of military campaign both US/NATO and Russia wage. Since the use of energy as leverage is part of the overall assymetric battle, that isn’t surprising. The US invades with “shock and awe” so it perceives that as a ‘winning’ campaign. Russia invades with precision and patience, which those wearing US rose glasses perceive as a ‘losing’ campaign. US blockades uncooperative nations with intent to cause mass suffering and infrastructure damage. This it sees as ‘winning’ the sanctions fight. Russia continues to service gas, oil and commodities customers with the obvious intention to avoid catastrophic infrastructure damage. This approach most Western observers perceive as ‘losing’ the sanctions fight.
Will LNG by sea etc. make up for the self-inflicted NS I and II pipeline shortfalls? I doubt it will in the short to medium term, as suitable regassing facilities and local infrastructure are built in a panic and ports are hastily dredged and altered to handle LNG tankers which don’t yet exist. It will take more than money, and Russia is remaining available to ‘keep the home lights burning’ in a less combative future market. Russia may be over-optimistic, but it has little to lose with its own approach to sanctions.

Posted by: TPaine | Jul 9 2022 1:37 utc | 106

@104
yea that’s about it. we’ve gone over this before of course. Eventually Russia retools to sell it all East and that’s that.
Sure EU can build LNG facilities in like 4-5 years. Hey, they can build a Taj Mahal in every port, at today’s prices. But that’s just it, the fundamental pipeline-transport cost advantage (compared to LNG importers like Japan for example) will vanish — for most EU buyers. The SouthStream/TurkStream countries will probably also get screwed somehow by the EU.
I think everyone is kindof ready for this sub-optimal outcome, and pretty much gave up fighting it. So then what’s the point of bluffing one’s way into an acute physical-supply crisis? Like with the Ruble payments, I think they understand that there isn’t one. Though now anyone in a position to ‘throw a wrench into the gears’, like Canada or Lithuania, has a chance to extract something from someone. So they might blow it up still. Nothing’s easy…

Posted by: ptb | Jul 9 2022 2:28 utc | 108

@ ptb #8
Why in the gods name the turbines were sent to Canada in the first place.

Posted by: Fred | Jul 9 2022 4:54 utc | 110

The goblins ate my post on anti-spiegel dot ru
Go there for an excellent and comprehensive Ukraine biolab report from the Russian MOD mostly in english but page translate will assist.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 9 2022 5:13 utc | 112

@ uncle tungsten | Jul 9 2022 5:13 utc | 110 with the biolab link…thanks
What I have trouble understanding are the seeming ongoing success of the myriad of media blocks being thrown up around subjects like this and others.
Hunter Biden’s laptop and Ukraine
Biolabs in other countries
What happened to the 2500 that surrendered from Azovstal?
The other side of that coin for me are the ongoing bald face or manipulated lies about reality….employment number in US come to mind because I just read that full and part time employee numbers have gone down but the number of folks with multiple jobs is reported as going up to make it look like the economy hasn’t been in the recession/depression we have already been in since 2008 and at least, the past two quarters ….end rant about employment statistic lies

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 9 2022 5:44 utc | 114

#—-: Bemildred | Jul 8 2022 23:53 utc | 91
A soldier understands that his life may be forfeit, what he demands is that it not be wasted.
That goes for wives and mothers, too.

Posted by: Anne B | Jul 9 2022 6:24 utc | 116

psychohistorian #112
My guess is that maintaining media blocks on this biolabs discussion is vital to the west. Like gas, it is not allowed to leak out anywhere as it is truly explosive. I grok the eastern patience and persistence, but I still wish to see bio warfare perpetrators hang or at least get a biohazard star to wear.
The latest revelations are so sensitive to Germany that it is akin to dropping a zyklon b tablet in the washroom. After all it was also named prussic acid if you get my drift. Hence the predictable/drastic attacks on freedom of information here and there. I guess the vinyard bird has more readers than the anti-spiegel dot ru pheasant.
The suppression will not succeed imo.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 9 2022 6:28 utc | 118

ostro #115

Hackers from the Killnet group hacked into the website of the Lithuanian state energy company ESO. “>https://www.eso.lt/

Ok so its good news and then you give a link to the hacked site and I click only to get a FU its unavailable :/
Not angry at you, and I will shout you a bottle of whatever distraction you deserve ;))

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 9 2022 6:33 utc | 120

At the rate things are going, the Ukraine is going to end up like Paraguay after the Paraguayan War.
“Paraguay is estimated to have lost up to 69% of its population, most of them due to illness, hunger and physical exhaustion, of whom 90% were male” – Wikipedia entry on the war.

Posted by: Gigo | Jul 9 2022 6:37 utc | 122

Re: pipeline turbo-compressors
It’s my understanding that the NS1 has 6 turbo-compressor (trains) – 2 of the 6 are pulled for service.

Posted by: Exile | Jul 9 2022 6:40 utc | 124

uncle tungsten | Jul 9 2022 5:13 utc | 110
I’ve just been researching it the last twenty four hours. Trying to dig up all the Rus Mod stuff plus other. It turns out everywhere Russia went in they were heading for a biolab. Kherson, north of Kherson, Mariupol, one in Luhansk oblast, several in and around Kharkov, Sumy, and three or four in and around Kiev.
Not forgetting the one on the Khyerson Crimea border. That one they wouldn’t have had time to strike a match to burn their paperwork.
Heading for the biolabs. https://www.bitchute.com/video/tpKUMGQh9HJc/

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 9 2022 6:52 utc | 126

Exile #123
The map at Military Summary today located the few AZOV level battalions scattered about the battlefield and it was immediately obvious they would be the highest priority targets next to any artillery locales. I guess with them out of the way the probability of surrender, abandon and retreat decisions of the conscript clusters will grow exponentially.
The hard hitters have been very hard hit by the liberators.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 9 2022 6:59 utc | 128

The Globe and Mail take on turbine…
Read the comments…further to north, dumber the people…

Posted by: ostro | Jul 9 2022 7:16 utc | 130

ostro #119

Even, if the turbine is returned from Canada through Germany to Gazprom, no one in the “west” knows what would happen on 21st July.

That’s one of the defining differences between east and west. The west can’t stand suspense and even more so if it drags on for more than seven days. I imagine the Russians will eventually install it but then what if there is a Ukrainian pipeline that spits a turbine? Will they relocate it there but will it take a week for the Ukies to extract the broken and then another week to install the spare, if they can still find it 😉
There is adequate scope for payback to bring a smile to those Lavrov lips.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 9 2022 7:25 utc | 132

Posted a reply to uncle t earlier but a I guess link to bitchute and it got eaten by the abyss.
Living in the dark ages.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 9 2022 7:47 utc | 134

Speaking of weak points, Snake Island was a weak point, which the Russian military came to understand very well, and have now passed this one back to the Ukrainians and CIA to look after. Just think, if the Ukrainians go and occupy Snake Island, they then inherit all the difficulties the Russians had in occupying it. They would be vulnerable, they have the resupply problems the Russians faced, and would be completely exposed to missile attack, which is a strong point of the Russian side. If the Ukrainians insist on putting their forces and effort into Snake Island, they will further lose blood and materiel as they are on the mainland.

Posted by: colin786 | Jul 9 2022 7:56 utc | 136

Peter AU1 #132
Thanks, I got the bitchute link.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 9 2022 8:01 utc | 138

The Military Summary Channel reported today that Russia will soon start ‘shelling’ (disabling) all Ukrainian non-nuclear power plants to turn off the electricity in Ukraine.
He commented that it’s obviously dangerous to ‘shell’ the nuclear power plants, but I think precision weapons can disable the electricity distribution from the two Western Ukraine nuclear power plants plants in Rivne and Khmelnytskyi without damaging the reactors.
I thought Russia would do this earlier, to increase the refugee flows to the EU, right when the EU is struggling economically.
My guess that the electricity will mostly be turned off in the parts of Ukraine that aren’t primarily Russian-speaking.
Similar to how Russia disabled the electricity distribution for the rail networks (less costly to restore than destroying bridges), I suspect Russia will destroy the electricity distribution for the power grid, since this is less costly to restore than destroying power generation stations themselves.

Posted by: Contrarian_Ed | Jul 9 2022 8:54 utc | 140

@Contrarian_Ed | Jul 9 2022 8:54 utc | 138
That is an idiotic idea. Why destroy power plants when they will be yours?
The most idiotic ideas are nato propaganda. The ones completely moronic come from UK.

Posted by: rk | Jul 9 2022 8:58 utc | 142

all Ukrainian non-nuclear power plants to turn off the electricity in Ukraine.
Better to destroy substations and transmission grids thereby unbalancing the load……..they would have to shut down themselves

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Jul 9 2022 9:06 utc | 144

@ ostro | Jul 9 2022 9:15 utc | 143
Since they don’t bother to disturb the nazis in Kiev and Lviv, I highly doubt they’ll go after nazis in US or EU

Posted by: rk | Jul 9 2022 9:19 utc | 146

I’m presuming it’s called Shock&Awe when the Americans do it because Blitzkreig didn’t poll well with the focus groups? Had the Russians done it in the Ukraine no doubt it would have been wall-to-wall Blitzkreig in the western media.

Posted by: MadisonAVenu | Jul 9 2022 9:35 utc | 148

@rk | Jul 9 2022 8:58 utc | 140
That is an idiotic idea. Why destroy power plants when they will be yours?
@Contrarian_Ed | Jul 9 2022 8:54 utc | 138
I suspect Russia will destroy the electricity distribution for the power grid, since this is less costly to restore than destroying power generation stations themselves.
So I’m not sure what “idiotic idea” you’re referring to – we’re in complete agreement (which is rare here 🙂

Posted by: Contrarian_Ed | Jul 9 2022 9:42 utc | 150

Posted by: albagen | Jul 9 2022 9:36 utc | 147
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Oh, don’t get your knickers twisted…
The Marty guy was a KGB officer of the border troops since August 1985, until he was…well, guess that yourself. And, try to decipher what is “doing business with the US”…😏

Posted by: ostro | Jul 9 2022 9:46 utc | 152

bevin 59″If multipolarity means independent sovereigns, everything will be up to the people, who will make decisions based on, ultimately, experience and necessity.”
Thank you for your answer! This is exactly what has happened in Sweden since we joined the EU,and our sovereignty has been lost, as the EU Treaty, the EU Constitution, is superior to the Swedish Constitution and the people are finding it increasingly difficult to act.

Posted by: Northern Eve | Jul 9 2022 9:54 utc | 154

… Of course Russia may use the Lithuanian situation to inform Germany that no free access to Karlingrad may mean no more gas.
…
Posted by: watcher | Jul 9 2022 1:32 utc | 103
Agreed, even if / when this turbine makes its way back to RF, it’d be pretty easy for it to be accidentally dropped, especially if the engineers were preoccupied with how unfriendly the geopolitical climate was for Mother Russia.
That sort of thing could cause a perfectly understandable lapse in concentration.
The way things are going, I wouldn’t be surprised if one pretext after another was used to justify EU gas deliveries being gradually run down to zero.

Posted by: anon2020 | Jul 9 2022 10:06 utc | 156

Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (09.07.2022)
In the area of the settlement of Bereznegovatoye of the Mykolaiv region, as a result of the fire damage to the positions of the 99th mechanized battalion of the 61st Infantry Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than 75 nationalists and about 30 units of armored and automotive equipment were destroyed.
In the area of Zelenodolsk, Dnipropetrovsk region, a high-precision weapon of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit the temporary deployment point of the nationalist Tornado battalion. More than 40 militants and up to 10 pieces of weapons and military equipment were destroyed.
Due to heavy losses and desertion, the staffing of the units of the 127th Territorial Defense Brigade in Kharkiv is carried out by prisoners who have served their sentences in correctional institutions of the city.
As a result of the strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the positions of the artillery division of the 72nd mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Soledar, more than 30 percent of the military personnel were destroyed and most of the artillery pieces were withdrawn.
In the area of the settlement of Chas Yar, a hangar with American 155-mm M777 howitzers and up to 30 Ukrainian militants who shelled residential quarters of Donetsk was destroyed by a high-precision weapon of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, rocket troops and artillery defeated 22 control points during the day, including: the 98th battalion of the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade in the Novovorontsovka area of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the 16th mechanized brigade in the Pokrovskoye area of the Donetsk People’s Republic, artillery units in firing positions in the 72 districts, as well as manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 117 districts, including two locations of foreign mercenaries in the Kharkiv region.
Five ammunition depots were destroyed in the areas of Pershetravnevoye settlements of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Visunsk of the Mykolaiv region, Bakhmutskoye and Seversk of the Donetsk People’s Republic, as well as fuel storage for military equipment in the Annovka settlement of the Kirovograd region.
Su-35s and MiG-31bm aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down two Su-25s of the Ukrainian Air Force in the areas of the settlements of Bereznegovatoye and Chervonaya Dolina of the Mykolaiv region.
In addition, 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by Russian air defense means during the day in the areas of the settlements of Dolgenke, Brazhkovka, Zelenoe, Yakovenkovo, Peski-Radkovskie, Hrushevka, Chervonyi Oskol of the Kharkiv region, Donetsk and Svyatogorsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
In the areas of the settlements of Dolgenke, Kharkiv region and Gorne, Donetsk People’s Republic, six shells of the multiple rocket launcher “Hurricane” were intercepted.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 239 aircraft, 137 helicopters, 1503 unmanned aerial vehicles, 353 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3994 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 738 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles, 3117 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 4099 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

Posted by: noname | Jul 9 2022 10:21 utc | 158

The trial is still going and they’re not POWs, that’s only for regular army. Death or life in prison are the only options. If they send them back nothing will change, US controls the war and they don’t care about some captured idiots which aren’t even from US. So far I haven’t seen any action from Russia that will make US think twice before killing more Russians, there simply isn’t any military or economic danger for them so their fun time will continue not only in Ukr but also expand to Taiwan

Posted by: rk | Jul 9 2022 10:28 utc | 160

Sushi #159

A well respected Sanford University professor has recently endorsed the theory the recent plague issued from a bio-lab but this was an American laboratory and not an Asian laboratory.

Here he is presenting the ‘Keynote Speech by Jeffrey Sachs for the Hiroshima International Conference on Peace & Sustainability’
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He has been advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary General António Guterres. He spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. He has authored numerous bestseller books. His most recent book is The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020). Sachs was twice named as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders and was ranked by The Economist among the top three most influential living economists.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 9 2022 10:43 utc | 162

The idea is to not to allow the EU natural gas storages to be filled (<80%?) before the heating period starts, and not to let the have any means to find new sources to get that gas. This will show the foolish EU leaders that the US is not reliable, as the US cannot supply that lacking gas and find ways to to get gas from other sources. Biden will fail with MbS later this month. Also, Putinfaltion in the US is rising...an interesting 2022...😏

Posted by: ostro | Jul 9 2022 10:44 utc | 164

@42 i don’t speak about more casualties as consequence of carpet bombings, what i mean, maybe we all remember where RF struck a abandoned mall in the outskirts of Kiew because it was a hideout for AFU artillery, RF could track the way from the firing position to the hideout with a drone, so why they are not able to do a 24/7 surveillance in the area around Donezk anymore and track the howitzers? Where is their superior power ?
Currently RF just rely on their almighty long range artillery and missiles, but imo it takes more to de-nazify and de-militarize Ukraine.
btw. Russia started this operation with the wrong assumption it could fulfill their objects with a like 200k smo squad, it won’t work.

Posted by: disorder | Jul 9 2022 10:50 utc | 166

rk #158

So far I haven’t seen any action from Russia that will make US think twice before killing more Russians, there simply isn’t any military or economic danger for them so their fun time will continue not only in Ukr but also expand to Taiwan

The US never thinks twice before killing more…. that’s it. It’s what the US does and has done since it ran out of killing Indians and Mexicans. Unconscionable murderers sums up their game and they won’t stop until they get severely stomped. Which could be never. They certainly have been repeatedly rebuffed since China was liberated by Mao and the US cute ally Kuomintang got evicted, then Korea, Cuba, Vietnam….. They are still killing more.
Today it is Russia that has drawn the line and exposed their globally murderous game with bioweapons of enormous destruction. Ebola dispersal in Europe!! think how insane and murderous that is and all done in collaboration with Germany.
This nation and its German ally is a crime against humanity and the swastika is the sign.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 9 2022 10:55 utc | 168

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Jul 9 2022 9:06 utc | 142
all Ukrainian non-nuclear power plants to turn off the electricity in Ukraine.
Better to destroy substations and transmission grids thereby unbalancing the load……..they would have to shut down themselves
Another wrinkle.
If RF destroy the step down transformers the replacements will need to be built to order and have a delivery time measured in years.
Since China is the primary source for high voltage transformers, you may alter the last sentence to read “measured in decades.”

Posted by: Sushi | Jul 9 2022 10:59 utc | 170

In the mean time the Euro is practically at parity with the US dollar…Europe is a walking zombie…lol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/why-the-euro-has-tumbled-near-parity-to-the-us-dollar/2022/07/08/7e4de43c-fedf-11ec-b39d-71309168014b_story.html

Posted by: notlurking | Jul 9 2022 11:22 utc | 172

Different location, same struggle:

The video footage coming out of Sri Lanka right now has been the recurring nightmare of every ruler throughout history.
Thousands of protesters outraged by the deteriorating material conditions of the nation’s economic meltdown have stormed the presidential palace of Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and I guarantee you the aerial footage as they poured into the building en masse has made every government leader and plutocrat a little uncomfortable today.
Caitlin Johnson — https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/07/09/our-entire-civilization-is-structured-around-keeping-us-from-realizing-we-can-do-this/

Posted by: Barofsky | Jul 9 2022 11:33 utc | 174

bevin 85…..and in Sweden and as in other European countries the socialdemocrates have been the best imaginable gatekeepers against socialism, our female socialdemocratic feminist Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and our female socialdemocratic feminist Minister of Foreign Affairs Ann Linde are taking us in to Nato, no bourgeois poltician could how done it. The same with the EU, although it was a male Prime Minster (a feminist too) Ingvar Carlsson who succeeded Olof Palme,no rightwing politician could have done it. (Olof Palme tried to change direction in a way, but he was murdered) And all of the most important strikes of the workers have been betrayed by the socialdemocrates.

Posted by: Northern Eve | Jul 9 2022 11:38 utc | 176

Russian strategy is surprising because it is IA strategy – devised to be unpredictable.
It is by no means “Shoigu’s strategy”.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Jul 9 2022 11:41 utc | 178

The advance towards Siversk is gathering pace, with the reported liberation of Grigorovka.
https://t.me/RVvoenkor/18978
Perhaps the operational pause is ending.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 9 2022 11:45 utc | 180

Where do all these so-called military experts come from? Is there a school churning them out.
Posted by: Barofsky | Jul 9 2022 11:38 utc | 174
———————
Yes, like a KGB school in Baku in the 80s…😏

Posted by: ostro | Jul 9 2022 11:46 utc | 182

An interesting twitter thread about fake news
Anyone remember the fat Russian general reported in the tabloids a few weeks back – it turns out that he was a retired border guard officer at a border guards day celebration in Volgograd
Remember this “exclusive” story in the Daily Star about “general Pavel”, who was supposedly “dragged out of retirement” by Putin and sent to Ukraine?
So yeah, turns out that’s total bullshit.
https://twitter.com/ArbiterOfTweets/status/1545651614253555712
Meanwhile a real fat general – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1313246/General-Two-Dinners-forks-1-000-XXL-uniform–Embarrassment-20-stone-Army-chief-ordered-tough-new-fitness-tests-troops.html – former head of British army known as general XXL all 130 kg of him

Posted by: Aslangeo | Jul 9 2022 12:14 utc | 184

@187 too scents
can that data set distinguish incoming vs outgoing?

Posted by: ptb | Jul 9 2022 12:41 utc | 186

Where is their superior power ?
Posted by: disorder | Jul 9 2022 10:50 utc | 167
Remember those German anti-aircraft and anti-missile tanks? Maybe they are playing a part in providing Ukrs with air cover?

Posted by: Scorpion | Jul 9 2022 13:03 utc | 188

Sachs is making many good moves. He recently blamed the Kagan neocon clan (including Nuland) for the war un Ukraine.
…
come to think of it: might Sachs see a connection between biolabs and the neocon war?
Posted by: Jonathan W | Jul 9 2022 10:53 utc | 169
I’d be more inclined to see the likes of Sachs speaking up now as a reflection of factions within the US establishment trying desperately to squeeze themselves through a fire exit before they’re flash-fried by the truth of their diabolical WW3 rolling-start biolabs.
AFU personnel, bloodstreams full of weird antibodies and antibiotics that anticipate operational exposure to cholera, coercive, profit-motivated medical experimentation, conducted beyond all ethical, moral and legal restraint, DU-induced birth defects and infant mortality: these are the truths behind the words of rancid Pompeo and his ilk.

Posted by: anon2020 | Jul 9 2022 13:27 utc | 190

I think Sachs has generally been treated unfairly. He’s always been good.

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Jul 9 2022 13:36 utc | 192

Alef@77 “We will liberate you by bombing you and then force to use our language you consider a rural dialect.”
but wait, there’s more,
after Ribbentop-Molotov occupying their ancestral lands, force-conscript Western Ukr minority males to fight the frontlines in the East while telling them they have to atone for their parents’ sins resisting the banderites.
I’d like somebody to ask the EU leaders to explain why is Ribbentop-Molotov pact still standing in Eastern Europe.

Posted by: CommiesGOFY | Jul 9 2022 13:51 utc | 194

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Posted by: Olivier | Jul 9 2022 14:24 utc | 196

@Sushi #172
You might be interested to know that there are a lot of small US companies that make substation level transformers.
There are bottlenecks, but they are primarily at the interstate transmission level/utility scale baseload level transformers.
Wait times for those was already in the year+ timeframe before COVID.
Here is a 2012 DOE presentation talking about the risks associated with large-scale failures at the above mentioned utility baseload/interstate transmission scale transformer network:
Large Power Transformer Study
Note these transformers are in the 110 to 410 TON weight range…
There is also a nice graph showing the historical installation of such large scale transformers from 1950 to 2007 – unsurprisingly, the level of installation in the 2000s was a fraction of that in the 1960s onward.
Net net: if Russia destroys utility-scale transformers in Ukraine, it would be a multi-year process to replace them regardless of what flag flies over the transformer site.

Posted by: c1ue | Jul 9 2022 15:15 utc | 198

How about your mother…?😋
Posted by: ostro | Jul 9 2022 13:48 utc | 195
but, how will you do it, ostro? you are impotent. that’s why you visit here and behave like a macho man, because you don’t have a life and can hide behind an internet name and say to yourself that you matter. how many years since you have been laid, ostro? so, how about my mother, you’ll do her thru internet?
what would martyanov think of you, then?

Posted by: albagen | Jul 9 2022 15:36 utc | 200