Sitting In A Damaged Glasshouse Throwing More Stones

October 27, 2025

Ukraine: “Let’s attack Russian refineries. The Russians will run out of gasoline and diesel. There will be protests and Putin will be deposed.”

Result:

Emergency power outages have been introduced in the city of Kyiv as well as Kyiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and other oblasts on the morning of 27 October.
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“On the orders of Ukrenergo [Ukraine’s state-owned electricity transmission system operator], emergency power outages have been introduced in Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.”
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In addition, Sumyoblenergo, Sumy’s distribution system operator, announced emergency outages for its consumers.

The same situation is occurring in Cherkasy, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv oblasts.

Reaction (machine translated):

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has threatened Russia with “expanding the geography” of long-range strikes.

Zelensky wrote about this in his telegram channel after the stavka meeting.

“Russian oil refining is already paying a significant price for the war and will pay even more. We have defined tasks to expand the geography of our long-range range, ” the Ukrainian president said.

I seriously doubt that these people are sane.

Posted by b on October 27, 2025 at 17:19 UTC | Permalink

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To paraphrase Upton Sinclair – it’s difficult to get a cocaine addict (or a bunch of them) to understand something, when his salary/career/life depends on his not understanding it…

Posted by: ThirdWorldDude | Oct 27 2025 17:33 utc | 1

b wrote: I seriously doubt that these people are sane.
Count in the amounts of Colombian marching powder consumed. Seriously, don’t do drugs.

Posted by: MorePain4Cakes | Oct 27 2025 17:34 utc | 2

I seriously doubt that these people are sane.

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They are ideologically possessed. Reason and logic don’t enter into their considerations.

Same thing with the Israelis. People are captured by an “idea” and they won’t deviate from it.

A proxy for religion is the belief in power on this plane.

Most people need something to believe in, even if that is nonsense and suicidal. What that something is matters.

A lot.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 27 2025 17:44 utc | 3

Amen b.
as per my last post on previous thread
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 27 2025 17:30 utc | 191

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 27 2025 17:50 utc | 4

I doubt they are sane. Perhaps like Hitler full of drugs. But what can Z do? If he offers peace to the Russians (e.g. unconditional surrender), he will sure be killed wether by his own people or disgruntled allies like UK. If he continues the war, he will be alive (for now..) but must obey and like Fuehrerbunker 1945 he is desperate because out of alternatives. Perhaps (!) he will be allowed to settle elsewhere pouring his robbed millions. If – and only if, his masters decided so. I have my doubt. If the Yurps / UK and finally the US-DS MUST surrender, he will be done and his knowledge what has happend behind zhe curtains might feel too dangerous for some goons inside the intelligence agencies.. and then.. oops. He stombled out of the shower and break his neck.. or whatever.

Posted by: ableman | Oct 27 2025 17:52 utc | 5

Posted by: Caliman | Oct 27 2025 17:52 utc | 6

I seriously doubt that these people are sane.

The narrative is more important than the facts in a feminine (postmodernist) hierarchy. The message is the organizing principle, not the competence of the individuals working within it. Facts don’t matter.

Posted by: frithguild | Oct 27 2025 17:54 utc | 7

I seriously doubt that these people are sane.

They believe they are far beyond the point of no return.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 27 2025 17:55 utc | 8

They are not insane, they are driven by the ideological promise of own everything, use everybody, acquire from everybody monopoly power and assert that monopoly power against everyone..

This is greed not insanity?

Whenever a group professing to be adherents to the ideology have run into to trouble the global network of ideologist have always found ways to bail their fellow greed seekers out.

If it were insanity they could not be held culpable for their actions.

Posted by: snake | Oct 27 2025 17:57 utc | 9

Zelensky is consumed by rage. He will not stop even when his country is completely destroyed. He will simply move on to another country and continue the fight from there.

Posted by: Jl | Oct 27 2025 17:58 utc | 10

To be fair to Zelensky what else can he do? He can’t negotiate as he will be killed by the Banderists. If he escapes he will be killed by either the Banderists or the western intelligence agencies. The safest place he can go is Russia.
all he can do is keep saying his lines and hope to figure out a way to get free of this acting gig. I am reminded of the Richard Dreyfus character stuck in a similar role.

Posted by: Old Microbiologist | Oct 27 2025 17:59 utc | 11

It just gives legitimacy to destroy every single piece of generative infrastructure in Ukraine they can find. Because the question is Nato using Ukraine as an attack launching pad, so reduce anything Nato could use to its benefit. Drive the population west, create (Russian controlled) buffer/defense zone in the middle.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 18:02 utc | 12

is it sane to flee one’s own guilt by spreading the conflict? when your future is a war crimes tribunal, make everyone a war criminal. that’s the Western strategy. here’s $7k to spread Nazi filth on behalf of Israel. and ICE is hiring if you want to rape some immigrants or kids Trump/IDF/True Detective style.

sanity is what appears rational within a social context. escalating war with Russia appears eminently rational, so rational as to be unavoidable, in certain contexts. but the reality is that escalation is unavoidable within the capitalist social framework, and then this becomes rationalized.

“if you are going to strike, strike through the mask” – Capt Ahab. it will be fun in the US if VZ goes the way of the Bay of Pigs.

Posted by: duck n cover | Oct 27 2025 18:03 utc | 13

I seriously doubt that these people are sane.

Posted by b on October 27, 2025 at 17:19 UTC | Permalink

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No skin in the game.

Posted by: too scents | Oct 27 2025 18:03 utc | 14

What else could Zelensky say?
The high rise, Soviet style urban towers in all of the heavy urban areas are uninhabitable without electricity. Water, and more critically sewage, systems don’t work without electricity for the pumps.
And then there is this: winter is coming.
While the core heat systems are generally fossil fuel derived – the circulation systems require electricity for pumps whether it is hot water, oil or air used to circulate the heat.
The fancier buildings/areas can afford diesel powered generators – everywhere else, good question.

Posted by: c1ue | Oct 27 2025 18:05 utc | 15

What else could Zelensky say?

Posted by: c1ue | Oct 27 2025 18:05 utc | 15

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How about “I surrender”?

Posted by: too scents | Oct 27 2025 18:07 utc | 16

Hello b,No matter what the drug addict says about Russian losses, he is seeing distorted images.Unfortunately, however, the Russian people are suffering from the terrorist attacks and are increasingly asking why the Kremlin is taking this strange approach. Why are there no ultimatums to Kiev to end the terrorist attacks on the Russian population?Why, for example, is Moscow not threatening the targeted complete destruction of a Ukrainian city in the event of renewed terrorist attacks?Putin’s friend Bibi sees things very differently.But for me, as an East German who speaks Russian well and has also visited Russia, it is still difficult to understand the Russian soul.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Posted by: Oberbayer | Oct 27 2025 18:08 utc | 17

nothing about this is an ‘sanity’… thanks b…

if the west was sane, things would be a lot different.. look at the usa president.. i suppose some folks think this is sanity too, lol..

Posted by: james | Oct 27 2025 18:09 utc | 18

Crooke said some very important things to Judge Napolitano this morning regarding Trump being Trumped by the Billionaires and Russophobes on his Team plus others within the Deep State that denied him his meager attempt to restore relations with Russia, thus the canceled meet in Budapest. Crooke further expounded on the results of Kirill Dmitriev’s visit to Depravity Central which confirmed Trump’s incapacity. Trump has flown off to East Asia for APEC where he hopes to get concessions from Xi on trade. Crooke in closing also said some very interesting things about what the new Japanese PM has supposedly said, although my brief search didn’t provide any confirmation of what appears to be a sensible policy change. But the main bulk of the chat was over Russia and the fate of the 10,000 Ukie troops within the two surrounded cities that Zelensky appears willing to sacrifice instead of ordering them to retreat, which would be the norm for him.
Putin’s trip to an OP to talk with Gerasimov and other generals didn’t reveal much of substance other than the Burevestnik’s test results. I’m sure NORAD watched it fly here and there, so I anticipate the New Start Treaty to expire next year as there’re no sensible people within Team Trump or the Deep State capable of admitting Russia has effectively beaten the Outlaw US Empire. Crooke says the Hybrid Third World War we’re experiencing will continue since the West is incapable of capitulation where IMO it’s adopted the Zionist denial perspective narrative he discusses at the opening of the chat.
So, onward to Odessa and Kiev, while Western Ukraine will continue to be bombarded now that Russian glide bombs can travel 200Km and its SEAD operations will likely allow launches from the Dnieper. It appears the Outlaw US Empire will need to look for a new battlefield to confront Russia on. Or perhaps it will try what the Empire thinks will be a cakewalk–Venezuela.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 27 2025 18:09 utc | 19

as in Ukraine, so throughout the West: an interruption in the conflict simply creates opportunities for embarrassing questions to be asked, this one above all,

“Where’s all that military budget money going?” for a military machine designed with the same craft and care as Tesla Cybertruck and Windows 11. and a Big Mac.

Posted by: duck n cover | Oct 27 2025 18:12 utc | 20

Not sure which is “saner”…
Ukraine pushing envelope yearly, or Russia doing nothing about it yearly…

The weapons “show” is nice.
But a show is just that, hardly to be taken seriously when everyone knows you’ll never use them.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 27 2025 18:14 utc | 21

Bottom line is Z gets up in the morning in likely relative comfort. The idea his country will lose the war has been with him for 3+ years. He is surviving and gotten accustomed to it. He has no election concerns either. He likely will ride it out as long as his life can remain complacent.

Posted by: GS | Oct 27 2025 18:14 utc | 22

@Old Microbiologist – 11
I have really enjoyed the movie “Moon Over Parador”, and I am not particularly a Dreyfuss fan.

Posted by: Helen Weals | Oct 27 2025 18:15 utc | 23

The problem Zelensky has is that he was elected on a platform to bring peace between East and West Ukraine. The country was in (and remains so) the midst of a civil war when he was elected. There’s no doubt he was threatened by elements not to agree to a cessation of hostilities in the East even prior to Russian entry to the civil war. Ultimately, he has sacrificed millions of Ukrainians. He has betrayed his people, his country and himself.

Posted by: Cavery | Oct 27 2025 18:15 utc | 24

With apologies to Voltaire

Sanity, like history, is a lie commonly agreed upon

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 27 2025 18:30 utc | 25

It took you 4 years to start having doubts about their sanity? 😀

Posted by: Ali | Oct 27 2025 18:30 utc | 26

Crooke further expounded on the results of Kirill Dmitriev’s visit to Depravity Central which confirmed Trump’s incapacity.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 27 2025 18:09 utc | 19

I thought Crooke was smarter than this. The question he should have been asking himself is: what is the point of Dmitriev spending an extended weekend in Miami if no developments were made? On top of similar trips made by Witkoff, the answer should be that the Russians continue to maintain the flow of news alongside the Trump team. I’m surprised anyone thinks President Trump would head to the Budapest meeting after the refinery strike by Ukrainian terrorists, never mind VVP, but then a lot of resistance media types have goldfish level memory.

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Oct 27 2025 18:32 utc | 27

@ 5
You do have to feel kind of bad for Zelensky. A rock and a hard place doesn’t even begin to describe it. The Ukrainians cannot win this war barring some revolutionary upheaval in Russia, but are the Russian workers ready for revolution? Is there even a revolutionary imagination alive today that would point the way? Maybe the DPRK soldiers imparted it to civilians in Kursk.
So far the war has been a sweet enough deal for the Russian working class, so long as they’re in the rear and not facing conscription. The Russian government has had plenty of ways to avoid conscription so far and Ukrainian lines could collapse before the need for mass conscription gets to that point. Zelensky has no choice but high-risk actions because the Ukrainian military does not have the momentum on the battlefield. The Russians may be moving at a glacial pace, but they have a lot more people to bleed.

Posted by: fnord | Oct 27 2025 18:32 utc | 28

It does seem insane only if you assume that these people have the preservation of the nation or the wellbeing of their citizens as a goal.
Their actions start to make sense if you see them as second rate grifters working as imperial overseers using Ukraine as a disposable tool in the Gringo’s proxy war against Russia. Grifters and traitors with offshore bank accounts and mansions in Florida for the day after. Which is the same way you could look at most leading EU politicians, by the way.Thank you for your attention on this important topic.

Posted by: Concerned Celtiberian | Oct 27 2025 18:32 utc | 29

“b wrote: I seriously doubt that these people are sane.”

The City of London and their brethren have had it their way for 500 years that type of success that breeds narcism, a bloated idea of your station in life, one becomes reckless, like snorting an eightball of Pure Bolivian Marching Soldiers.

And they are ruthless-there was no military reason to nuke Japan twice-so part of their threat is that having no morals and a driving thirst for power its hard to reason or negotiate with such Creatures-and even if they agree to some kind of truce or understanding as soon as the situation is in their advantage they strike-yeah they are treacherous too!

An old geologist/physicists told me that he found high grade plutonium in Liberia in the 70’s that was 300 million years old-he could tell by the radiation and he swore that there was nuclear plant there 300MM years ago- uranium to plutonium

Now I am not a scientist yet the guy found 5 major mines, he was no fool. If we give him that one above one can surmise that mankind has gone through the cycles before and how do they end-ljust ike the shit we are gong through now.

Posted by: canuk | Oct 27 2025 18:32 utc | 30

With apologies to Voltaire Sanity, like history, is a lie commonly agreed upon
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 27 2025 18:30 utc | 25

“Insanity is a perfect rational adjustment to an insane world.”

RD Laing (1)

1. If you ever get the chance read his ‘poetry’ in a book called , ‘Knots”; it.s excellent.

Posted by: canuk | Oct 27 2025 18:37 utc | 31

From Reuters

Trump says Putin should end the Ukraine war, not test missiles

U.S. President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin should end the war in Ukraine instead of testing a nuclear-powered missile, and that the United States had a nuclear submarine positioned off Russia’s coast.

We are in the very MAD phase of our civilization war.

On one side you have the exceptional barbaric patriarchy folks and on the other side you have not that. Doctrow says that you have to be a bully to beat a bully and we are seeing the exception to that rule. When you want to end rule by bullies in a MAD world by getting ahead of the bullies in military prowess but don’t use it except in defense and to show that it exists.

And I think there is all sorts of communication going on behind that scene to not go the MAD direction.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 27 2025 18:40 utc | 32

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 27 2025 18:09 utc | 19

Trump supposedly threw the START treaty in the bin. The Russians already put the Burevestnik into mass production.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 18:42 utc | 33

Most don’t get it… Zelensky has not had any agency of his own since the infamous meeting with the Azov Battalion in Donbas shortly after his election as “peace candidate”. The carrot of the west turning a blind eye to his team’s corruption was a pleasant addition to the stick of “hanging from a tree if he betrays Ukraine”.Ukraine’s backers in “the west” don’t give a rat’s ass about the damage to people and infrastructure in Ukraine as long as it is used as a means to “inflict strategic defeat on Russia”. The costs to them are minimal. They still have the fantasy that Russia will ultimately retreat in shame, as the USSR did in Afghanistan. Sorry to inform… not this time.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Oct 27 2025 18:43 utc | 34

“plutonium in Liberia in the 70’s”
not in Liberia
but Oklo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor#Discovery_of_the_Oklo_fossil_reactors
been running for millions of years.

Posted by: MAKK | Oct 27 2025 18:46 utc | 35

“Zelensky is consumed by rage. He will not stop even when his country is completely destroyed. He will simply move on to another country and continue the fight from there. ”

Posted by: Jl | Oct 27 2025 17:58 utc | 10

I agree.

It will be much when Chiang Kai-shek went form mainland China to Formosa/Taiwan; hey, that front is still there 77 years later.

I could see Zelensky in the City of London for years….

Posted by: canuk | Oct 27 2025 18:48 utc | 36

Posted by: MAKK | Oct 27 2025 18:46 utc | 35

Thanks for the correction-he told me that story in 1991 and he was 80 at the time

Posted by: canuk | Oct 27 2025 18:49 utc | 37

Posted by: canuk | Oct 27 2025 18:48 utc | 36

We know for a fact that Zelensky has a British government paid PR team creating all the frames, settings and scripts he reads every time he speaks publicly.

As such, one could plausibly assume the British government scenario was always that ‘Zelensky de Gaulle’ moves to London to ‘continue the fight’.

The thing why ‘Zelensky de Gaulle’ is not yet in London to ‘continue the fight’ is because Russia did not take Kiev but concentrated on Donbass, Zaporozhye, Kharkov and Sumy and disposing of Ukraine/Nato army as efficiently as possible. So Kiev is not threatened, for now.

Yet Zelensky still spends most of his time abroad, officially for fund raising. He is a British actor groomed by MI6.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 18:57 utc | 38

“Most don’t get it… Zelensky has not had any agency of his own since the infamous meeting with the Azov Battalion in Donbas shortly after his election as “peace candidate”. The carrot of the west turning a blind eye to his team’s corruption was a pleasant addition to the stick of “hanging from a tree if he betrays Ukraine”.”

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Oct 27 2025 18:43 utc | 34

You are 100% right on.

Posted by: canuk | Oct 27 2025 18:59 utc | 39

Sanity?
The collective West have jumped off a cliff in the full and perfect confidence that something will happen to save them before they hit bottom.

Posted by: pasha | Oct 27 2025 18:59 utc | 40

‘Why, for example, is Moscow not threatening the targeted complete destruction of a Ukrainian city in the event of renewed terrorist attacks?’

That’s the question, Johnnie.

That has been the question since almost the beginning, but certainly for the last two-plus years and absolutely for the past year-plus.

It needn’t be an entire city. Probably shouldn’t be.

Take out the leadership or tell them to leave because you are going to take them out and then destroy all the intel/ground comms and everything important you presumably have intel on. Specific bldgs, city blocks, etc.

‘Putin’s friend Bibi sees things very differently.’

lol. Excellent.

But to reiterate, you do not want to become them.

‘But for me, as an East German who speaks Russian well and has also visited Russia, it is still difficult to understand the Russian soul.’

It’s not much different than yours friend. Just colored by a different culture and that’s a good thing.

There is an underlying solidarity…

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=1OKGl65PL4s

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Oct 27 2025 19:00 utc | 41

“Why, for example, is Moscow not threatening the targeted complete destruction of a Ukrainian city in the event of renewed terrorist attacks?”
Oberbayer | Oct 27 2025 18:08 utc | 17
Because it makes no sense militarily. Build whatever monument you want and see what happens (not what you want, anyway). You’re a desk strategist with a hardcore computer game.

Posted by: smartfox | Oct 27 2025 19:01 utc | 42

“Yet Zelensky still spends most of his time abroad, officially for fund raising. He is a British actor groomed by MI6.”

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 18:57 utc | 38

Good post, I agree.

I think a better solution is for Russia to take Odessa , get Ukraine land locked and leave Kiev alone-…and, I believe Romania, Moldova, Poland , Hungary vultures can take care of the rump of Uke,.doing Russia’s job for them.

Posted by: canuk | Oct 27 2025 19:04 utc | 43

I’m guessing this means the sale too as disposal, reprocessing, and supply is a package, if I got it right. About time, but maybe it’s a complex cycle that Russia needed to wind down systematically. I assume the USA has worked it all out on it’s end too 🙃

Vladimir Putin announced the cancellation of the agreement with the US on the disposal of nuclear plutonium.

https://t.me/Novichok_Rossiya_2/32483

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 27 2025 19:09 utc | 44

canuk | 27. Okt. 2025, 18:49 Uhr UTC | 37
Bayern III, one of Germany’s state television stations, has aired a report about a “natural” reactor in Africa that is tens of millions of years old. It is said to be the product of natural forces rather than intelligent design. (Available in the “Mediathek Bayer II”. Section “Alpha Centauri”)

Posted by: smartfox | Oct 27 2025 19:16 utc | 45

Before taking the role of president, zelensky should’ve read the script properly and not just the first few pages. Being a desperate for stardom little man with zero awareness of geopolitics and how satanic the city of London is, he must’ve thought all his christmases had come at once when he got chosen for the role. Can you imagine the roller-coaster of realisations that man has been on since day one. I hope he’s writing a secret diary, it’d be fascinating to read.

Posted by: Ogre | Oct 27 2025 19:17 utc | 46

Posted by: smartfox | Oct 27 2025 19:16 utc | 45

Yeah, I heard abut that one too-I really don’t know enough about uranium/plutonium/radiation to give an opinion.

But, perhaps, that was what he was talking about.

Posted by: canuk | Oct 27 2025 19:19 utc | 47

psychohistorian | Oct 27 2025 18:40 utc | 32—

Trump laments he has no missiles to test. Imagine half-dozen Burevestniks circling 500Km away from New Youk and DC, just loitering as they’re designed to do. Then after a week or so, they get replaced by another six-pack while the others return to be recovered and refueled. Add another six-pack loitering along the West Coast. That would be far more meaningful than having subs lying offshore. And if the Outlaw US Empire tried to chase them away, they could move out of range then return since they can stay airborne for days on end. Yes, that would be very bold but akin to moving NATO to Russia’s borders.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 27 2025 19:20 utc | 48

Keep on topic barflies pls.
Fafo continues. As does the incessant idiot calls for RF to do to Ukrainian cities what they are attempting to do to Russian ones.

There is no need to risk civilians deaths and RF pilots and troops when the judo means that the fa-fo progresses – latest update

‘ @MyLordBebo
2h

🇺🇦 Ukrenergo (Ukraine’s state-owned electricity operator) declares emergency power outages in Kiev, Kiev Oblast and Dnepropetrovsk Oblast

Oct 27, 2025 · 5:12 PM UTC ‘

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 27 2025 19:22 utc | 49

“Why, for example, is Moscow not threatening the targeted complete destruction of a Ukrainian city in the event of renewed terrorist attacks? … for me, as an East German who speaks Russian well and has also visited Russia, it is still difficult to understand the Russian soul.
Posted by: Oberbayer | Oct 27 2025 18:08 utc | 17”

Consider for a moment that they’ve made no such threats because Russia isn’t run by murderers. Such threats are neither necessary nor sufficient to winning, and would not deter the murderers running Ukraine and its supporters.

Posted by: Dalit | Oct 27 2025 19:25 utc | 50

that would be very bold but akin to moving NATO to Russia’s borders.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 27 2025 19:20 utc | 48

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What is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 27 2025 19:26 utc | 51

Why would Russia want to destroy America or Europe?

What would they gain?

So many people have a Western colonizer/barbarian outlook on geopolitics and cannot fathom a multipolar and peaceful world.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 27 2025 19:28 utc | 52

@ karlof1 | Oct 27 2025 19:20 utc | 48

What do we know about the propulsion system? The power source is obviously a small nuclear reactor. But the ~1 Mach speed means it can’t be a scramjet. A nuclear powered turbojet? How does that work? How does the material stay cool?

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 27 2025 19:33 utc | 53

In response to
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Yes, that would be very bold but akin to moving NATO to Russia’s borders.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 27 2025 19:20 utc | 48
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You got that right! Folks keep falling for empire casting of different reality.

With the reported couple of kettles of 5K+ soldiers in Ukraine, we may be getting closer to that conditional surrender pig that Trump is still making lipstick for.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 27 2025 19:35 utc | 54

“Dalit | Oct 27 2025 19:25 utc | 50”

… and I give the same answer to others in this thread insanely and immorally clamoring for Russia to threaten or commit murder.

Posted by: Dalit | Oct 27 2025 19:38 utc | 55

I seriously doubt that these people are sane.

Posted by b on October 27, 2025 at 17:19 UTC | Permalink

The horse is sane, but the rider is not.

Posted by: BlindSpot | Oct 27 2025 19:40 utc | 56

More of Biden’s money laundering project exposed.

This tiny US gun shop got a $1 billion contract from Ukraine, took $17 million upfront… and delivered zero bullets OTL Firearms — based in a dusty single-story building on the edge of Tucson, Arizona — struck the deal as far back as 2022 The company had no export record, no large storage facility, and no expertise to handle state-scale orders A perfect case study in wartime corruption

https://x.com/TheOtherSideRu/status/1982857469874618780

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 19:46 utc | 57

A nuclear powered turbojet?

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 27 2025 19:33 utc | 53

Yes, it’s a nuclear-powered turbojet. Aleksandr Berezin speculates it has a sodium-cooled fast reactor:

“Burevestnik”: does a mini-Chernobyl await us? (Naked Science, Aleksandr Berezin, October 4, 2023 — in Russian)

Posted by: S | Oct 27 2025 19:56 utc | 58

@Norwegian #53
Yes, it’s a nuclear-powered turbojet. Aleksandr Berezin speculates it has a sodium-cooled fast reactor:
https://naked-science.ru/article/tech/burevestnik

Posted by: S | Oct 27 2025 19:57 utc | 59

“Burevestnik” has flown. A missile with a nuclear power plant completed a 15-hour flight, covering about 14 thousand kilometers on a nuclear engine without radioactive contamination of the air and terrain.

An overpowered weapon created based on Soviet groundwork after the US withdrew from the ABM Treaty. Bauman Institute alumni will immediately recall the nuclear rocket engine department at Energomash operating since the 1970s, and the general public will remember the very “rocket” message from the 2018 president’s address when Putin showed the “cartoons”.

“A postcard to those who need it” — delivered, with 100% monitoring of the tests via satellites and special reconnaissance aircraft.

From open sources, it is known that the missile has a compact reactor with a power of several megawatts based on uranium-235; air is heated and pushes the device forward, while the active zone with a closed architecture is separated from the working flow.

Tasks that seemed unsolvable in the mid-20th century (and even a few years ago) have been realized in working hardware. The main “problem” has been solved — total atmospheric pollution during tests and flights. This is precisely why the British Avro Z-59 with a nuclear ramjet engine and the American Pluto (SLAM) — a supersonic “flying Chernobyl” — were shut down. Opponents decided it was easier not to show off and to bombard the enemy with conventional cruise and ballistic missiles.

The missile launches using a solid-fuel booster, then flies on the nuclear rocket engine; the platform can “circle” for weeks at low altitudes, maneuvering and approaching the target from an unexpected direction. It is about nine meters long and weighs up to ten tons. It can fly for weeks (!) at speeds up to a thousand kilometers per hour at any altitude, circle over the Arctic or oceans, and wait for orders.

A megaton-class warhead turns this “bird” into a terrifying instrument of retribution. Experts are puzzled about the navigation system in this wonder device. Optical correction is powerless over the ocean, satellites can be jammed, and inertial instruments lose accuracy without external correction. Armchair missile experts are already discussing complex hybrids: astro-inertial navigation, magnetic-gravitational maps, local beacons in the Arctic.

In military-adjacent communities, it is also assumed that “Burevestniks” may serve not only as warhead carriers but also as strategic communication relays or reconnaissance platforms. In a nuclear exchange scenario, such a device could “map” surviving objects or orbit in the sky and maintain communication without satellites.

https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/16864

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 27 2025 20:01 utc | 60

Reminds me of Monty Python’s Black Knight, who still wants to fight after having both arms and legs chopped off.
So I guess it’s satire.

Posted by: Mark Mosby | Oct 27 2025 20:02 utc | 61

The Russian Federations agrees in principal to pay reparations…
Here ya go! The Jewish-Neoliberal Trojan horse and his Bagage is right on track to destroy the Russian Federation…That is the horses mission given to him over 35 years ago in Dresden…

Posted by: Brigitte Mohnhaupt | Oct 27 2025 20:06 utc | 62

The heathen phrase “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad” comes to mind. Sadly, these suits are perfectly willing to start WWIII while hiding in their respective bunkers while the working class fight for causes contrived by the 3LAs mockingbird-media. Just look at Israel today, close to 90% of the primarily European population believes that genociding the semitic peoples of the Levant is a good thing, that percentage is likely much higher than what Nazi Germany achieved for it’s genocide. That’s not an accident, that’s the work of Goebbels disciples. When you are fully immersed in a sea/sewer of propaganda, it works.

There is nothing good people can do at this point but pray. Revolution? C’mon people, dousing yourself with gasoline and burning yourself in a public square, to polite applause of the ruling-class would be just as effective. And..it has to be pointed out that the only “revolutionaries” I’ve seen in my years are those cutout-types sent by the 3LAs to enact “color-revolutions”, in fact, quite a few of those seem to have taken up residence here. Nope, the longer this war drags on the more likely the west will work up the will to employ nuclear weapons.
Then…God help us all.

Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 20:07 utc | 63

@ Norwegian | Oct 27 2025 20:01 utc | 59 with more details about the new Russia missile….thx

Is it a game changer or just a real heavy piece of straw added to the camels back?

FAFO, eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 27 2025 20:08 utc | 64

@Norwegian #53:

How does the material stay cool?

From the article:

To achieve subsonic operation, the turbine air only needs to be heated to 850 degrees Celsius. This temperature is perfectly feasible for metal heat exchangers.

Therefore, there is no longer any need to pass air through the reactor core. It remains closed and can be cooled with molten metal.

Posted by: S | Oct 27 2025 20:09 utc | 65

(This is perhaps a bit jumbled or disjointed, I tried editing it to no avail —probably a bit too tired to do a good job or rewrite it properly).

I think sanity has to be defined relative to some level of actual objective reality or it looses its meaning/definition.

Actual objective reality is that Russia now includes a large part of the former Ukraine and that Russia has withstood the sanctions and the attacks. In addition Russia seems to be doing quite well despite any induced hardships and considering the overall situation.

So I certainly agree with B and the example given and there are many more or in particular the NATO narrative of “defending against an invasion” which they themselves caused. To me they are clearly insane even if they should turn out to be fully aware that they are peddling insane lies because continuing to do so contrary to the reality of the situation is in itself an insanity. They are functional (at least to some degree) but insane.

It would be better if there never was a war to begin with but that was not left for Russia to decide, a sincere look at history seems to prove this, if nothing else then due to the breaking of the promises given during the reunification of Germany. I was alive when those were given and remember them; they were key demands and promises accepted for the sake of a peaceful and beneficial future for all. They were reported in public, they are not “secret”, and people involved have come forth and testified that this is so.

Any human mutual comprehension and agreement of what objective reality consist of is its own layer on top of objective reality itself; it is an inter-subjectivity (including on how to interpret empirical data) and most of it is in general usually not controversial.

However politics these days often seem to consist of deliberately making something controversial or pretending that something unreal is real. That is nothing but manipulation and deception.

If everyone in a hypothetical lunatic asylum fully agrees that each one of them indeed is Napoleon Bonaparte all together and all at once then that still does not make it so.

Nevertheless that’s where NATO is, only with a lot of death and destruction: completely insane.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 27 2025 20:10 utc | 66

*** It appears the Outlaw US Empire will need to look for a new battlefield to confront Russia on. Or perhaps it will try what the Empire thinks will be a cakewalk–Venezuela.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 27 2025 18:09 utc | 19

Will the Gerald R Ford be hit by something hypersonic is the more interesting question. Technology has a way of getting out and running around.

Posted by: frithguild | Oct 27 2025 20:20 utc | 67

@S | Oct 27 2025 19:57 utc | 58
Thank you for the link, that was very interesting even if a fair part of it went over my head.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 27 2025 20:20 utc | 68

Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 20:07 utc | 62

…it has to be pointed out that the only “revolutionaries” I’ve seen in my years are those cutout-types sent by the 3LAs to enact “color-revolutions”, in fact, quite a few of those seem to have taken up residence here.

!!! Millites, Gruff?!…

Posted by: burak | Oct 27 2025 20:21 utc | 69

They are ideologically possessed. Reason and logic don’t enter into their considerations. Same thing with the Israelis. People are captured by an “idea” and they won’t deviate from it. A proxy for religion is the belief in power on this plane. Most people need something to believe in, even if that is nonsense and suicidal. What that something is matters. A lot.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 27 2025 17:44 utc | 3

You’re completely right. Actually, you’re almost literally quoting the psychiatrist Carl Jung, who once said: “We don’t have ideas, ideas have us ”
It’s actually possession, in a psychological sense. And indeed there’s a connection to religion.

To quote Jung again:

“We think we can congratulate ourselves on having already reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind. But what we have left behind are only verbal specters, not the psychic facts that were responsible for the birth of the gods. We are still as much possessed today by autonomous psychic contents as if they were Olympians. Today they are called phobias, obsessions, and so forth; in a word, neurotic symptoms. The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus, and produces curious specimens for the doctor’s consulting room, or disorders the brains of politicians and journalists who unwittingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world. ”

Posted by: Helmuth von Moltke | Oct 27 2025 20:23 utc | 70

Sodium-cooled fast reactor? No way! Much too complicated, heavy, and expensive. Way too much maintenance and far too complicated for a soldier to launch while under pressure.
the reactor is just a solid ceramic block with fuel embedded. A moderator is inserted to start it up. The reactor is air cooled and sits in the “combustion chamber” of the turbojet, directly heating the air/cooling itself (turbojet is just a heat engine with the heat typically supplied by burning hydrocarbons… this one the heat is supplied directly from the reactor core).
Study up on pebble bed reactors. This is just a pebble bed reactor with carefully shaped “pebbles” that fit inside a turbojet. In pebble bed reactors each pebble is essentially a small complete reactor. In this case the “pebbles”, instead of being uniform spheres, are shaped to fit where the combustor normally is in the turbojet. Simple, reliable, and durable. All the difficult engineering is front-loaded into the shape and structure of the “pebbles”. Energy output is regulated by Doppler broadening. Simple as a hammer.

Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 27 2025 20:24 utc | 71

Consider that the people have not organised themselves against this path past the point of no return. Is it because they are not starving yet?

Posted by: Rae | Oct 27 2025 20:24 utc | 72

*** That would be far more meaningful than having subs lying offshore. ***
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 27 2025 19:20 utc | 48

Deterrence unmoored from the big ticket expense of a submarine. Threatens carriers anywhere they may be to boot.

The US response – with a high ponytail and the right eye makeup you can defeat anyone!

Posted by: frithguild | Oct 27 2025 20:25 utc | 73

“….air only needs to be heated to 850 degrees Celsius…This temperature is perfectly feasible for metal heat exchangers and [the reactor core] can be cooled with molten metal” – S 64

And by that I think they mean molten salt, which begs the question, have the Russ figured out the $1,000,000,000 question, an economical metallurgy that can be employed long term in a liquid fluoride [insert-fissionable-element-here] reactor? If so that’s great news…assuming the neocolonialist-nut-jobs running the west don’t get everybody on the planet killed first.

Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 20:26 utc | 74

@S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 20:26 utc | 73
If I understood the article correctly, they talked about molten Sodium (Or Natrium as I would say).

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 27 2025 20:32 utc | 75

While Russia strikes honest and hard-working Slavic refineries and power stations, and people on this blog cheer them on with pom-poms, the Nazi refineries and power stations remain untouched in the rear, laughing at Putin! When will the Russians stop playing around and actually strike a blow against incredibly stable and functional Western Nazi energy security?

Posted by: Skiffer | Oct 27 2025 20:32 utc | 76

Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 20:26 utc | 73

No more good old Hastelloy-N?

The successes the Russians have demonstrated in hypersonics tells that they may have something in materials sciences that operates well under high temperature. How long it works at what temperature is the question. Burevestnik operates for a number of hours/days. Is the engine junk after that. I would guess yes.

Posted by: frithguild | Oct 27 2025 20:37 utc | 77

If USA gives Ukraine Tomahawks maybe Russia can give a Zircon carrying attack submarine formally in the command of the Venezuelan navy?

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 20:41 utc | 78

b, Ukraine is a distraction and a lost cause and Zelensky knows it but he’s the enabler of the destruction of the EU as we know it.
The Russian Federation (RUF) has initiated special activities in the Baltics, Poland and Finland referred by the Russian planners as the special period or period of emergency.
Historically, this term denotes a time of rising tensions just prior to the outbreak of an all-out war.
Expected outbreak in 5 years from now but could be less.
In Europe, this is known as phase zero during which testing responses, gathering intel and blurring civilian-military lines are shaping in preparation for a confrontation with neo NAZI NATO.
To make matters worse, European intelligence agencies have long stopped sharing critical intelligence with Washington.
The Outlaw US of A wants control of South America and the Middle East and she is handing out Europe in a gold platter to the Russian Federation.
By gold, buy silver and of course Palentir (PLTR).
God bless Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (VPP).

Posted by: pepe | Oct 27 2025 20:42 utc | 79

I haven’t seen this reported elsewhere but if it’s factual it is significant: BORZZIKMAN – ODESSA on FIRE: Russia’s most Secret Drone ‘BANDEROLE’ sank a Large Romanian FERRY full of UK Mercs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4-Ju3G91X4

Posted by: Elmer Fudd | Oct 27 2025 20:42 utc | 80

Russia might want to see what a couple of Oreshnik strikes would do to Kiev…I think Putin has held back too long….

Posted by: pyrrhus | Oct 27 2025 20:43 utc | 81

Zelensky, like the Orange Julius, is between a rock and a hard place.
If they admit the Russians are not only willing but right in the motives behind the SMO they will get themselves killed.
I suspect that the primary reason for DJT’s waffling is to avoid getting himself JFKed. The leaves the Russians little choice but, to speak in old US college football language, practice the Woody Hays (Ohio State University) offense: ‘Straight up the middle and three yards of dust.”

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 27 2025 20:45 utc | 82

karlof1 @ 48

Imagine half-dozen Burevestniks circling 500Km away from New Youk and DC, just loitering as they’re designed to do. Then after a week or so, they get replaced by another six-pack while the others return to be recovered and refueled.

I remember the country communally shitting lizards over an errant Chinese weather balloon, so yeh, imagine half a dozen Burevestniks running convoluted circuitous laps around N. America.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 27 2025 20:45 utc | 83

Military Summary / Dima says Zelensky needs cease fire PRECISELY because of the cauldrons in Kupyansk and Pokrovsk. He needs cease fire to take the soldiers out which otherwise is impossible.
This also implies that after those groupings are reduced there is no more coherent Ukrainian forces left.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 20:49 utc | 84

The “Pokrovskoe” mine management has come under full control of the Russian Federation… There is no more coking coal in Ukraine… 27.10.2025.

https://t.me/Novichok_Rossiya_2/32500

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 27 2025 20:50 utc | 85

@unimperator | Oct 27 2025 20:49 utc | 83

That would be a “Minsk III” type situation. Not happening.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 27 2025 20:56 utc | 86

October 1, 2025

Gasoline sales in Crimea have been limited to no more than 20 liters per customer, announced regional governor Aksyonov. According to media reports, nearly 50% of gas stations on the peninsula have already closed.

https://t.me/llordofwar/500395

October 24, 2025:

Fuel sales restrictions are being lifted in Crimea, announced Sergey Aksyonov, head of the region. Starting October 26, fuel will be available for free sale at 270 Crimean gas stations without restrictions or limits.

https://t.me/llordofwar/515675

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 27 2025 20:59 utc | 87

AFU is sending waves of troops and AFVs to attack and try to recapture Rodynske. Apparently they are suffering huge losses but its an imperative object in an attempt to release the cauldron.
Meanwhile RUAF keeps tightening the noose from the NW part of Pokrovsk toward NE. RUAF also launched another offensive north of the fields from Poltavka toward Novogrykorivka, which may eventually help create another cauldron for the city of Konstantinovka.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 21:00 utc | 88

Posted by: Oberbayer | Oct 27 2025 18:08 utc | 17”
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Because such a threat would need to be achieved, as the other side doesn’t understand or even worse, is ready to accept/cause it. Indeed, irrespective of the renewed support from the West it would entail, such a move could jeopardise the sympathy Russia still has in the ROW, or at least the neutrality of some of them. I believe people do not understand the efforts VVP and its team are constantly develop towards their allies in the ROW to secure a neutral or friendly stance towards this war. If Russia has been able to resists all the sanctions, it is because Russia managed to preserve by hard work and diplomacy its relations with the ROW; VVP cannot afford to lose the main actors of the ROW, which a reckless act like destroying an Ukrainian city would potentially affect an possibly ruin.
VVP has all the cards in hand provided he can rely on the ROW and especially China. And this is not a done deal, it requires a complex, tricky and permanent effort.

Posted by: scc | Oct 27 2025 21:01 utc | 89

Sanity may be overrated in an insane world. In a world where multi millionaires and billionaires are willing to risk world wide Armageddon for more millions and billions, what is it to be sane? Zelenskyyy brings to mind the adage about a guy falling off a cliff who tries to grab at a tuft of grass to stop his fall … illogical and irrational, as there’s no way the grass will hold him up; but sometimes the irrational is all that’s left to us and is better than waiting for the inevitable.
Posted by: Caliman | Oct 27 2025 17:52 utc | 6

If there was ever a more potent reason to remove the ‘Billionaire Class’- and avert Armageddon- then surely destruction on a global scale is it. Failing this- I fear this malice will reassert itself in the future…making WW3 a foregone conclusion.

Posted by: Original Newbie | Oct 27 2025 21:05 utc | 90

Uspenivka fortified area is effectively falling now.
Interesting RUAF used Iskander’s to attack AFU reserves NW of Pokrovsk, which were discovered occupying treelines. Production must be so high they can be used tactically close to the front line?

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 21:06 utc | 91

Nowadays, a headline has gone viral claiming that 38% of Russia’s oil refining capacity is idle due to Ukrainian attacks. At first glance, the figure is impressive. But the reality is much more complex.

Where did this news come from? RBC published an article citing a comment from an expert at the quantitative data analysis agency “Siala,” and everyone else picked up and spread the news. But where did the expert get this estimate from, can we take their word for it, or should it be verified? To start, one can try reverse engineering this figure. On the “agency” Siala’s website, there is a list of all Russian refineries with their nameplate capacity. It is the nameplate capacity, not the average processing volume. In total, the capacity amounts to 327 million tons per year or 900 thousand tons per day. There is also a list of all attacks on refineries up to September 26. Next, a simple exercise can be done – enter the list of plants with capacities into Excel and sum the capacities of all plants that have been attacked, so to speak, starting from August 1, 2025. And… Bingo, you get the very 38% capacity. Is it correct to count it this way? For a top-down estimate, yes. But it will be exactly a top-down estimate.

To get a more realistic figure, at least two questions need to be answered and adjustments made accordingly.
1. Can it be assumed that all attacks completely damage the plant? To the extent that the plant fully stops operation and the entire plant capacity is subtracted from the available volume?
2. Is it certain that at least some of the damage has not been repaired during the elapsed time? To the extent that the attacked plant is still down?

I have no verifiable answer to either of these two questions – information is frankly scarce right now. Nevertheless, based on experience from past years, I think the answers to both questions are that plants were partially damaged, and some repairs were made, so some portion of the lost capacity has returned to operation.

It’s not that there is no problem at all – no one says that. The situation is clearly more acute now than in spring-summer 2024. Ukrainian drones fly farther, carry more powerful warheads, and attacks are repeated regularly. The Volgograd refinery was hit four times – August 13 and 14, and September 18 and 24. The Novokuibyshevsk refinery three times – roughly every three to four weeks, and Ryazan, Saratov, and Salavat twice. Previously, this only happened to plants in Krasnodar and Rostov, which are within reach of cheap, light, and primitive drones launched from Ukrainian territory, unsuitable for attacking more distant targets.

But nevertheless, the problem is not as acute as it might seem from the headline “just over half of Russian oil refining remains.”

The fact is that the total capacity of Russian refineries is indeed about 327 million tons per year, but Russia processes 260-270 million tons and consumes 110-120 million tons of petroleum products. That is, if you start to analyze what the idle 38% consists of, you will first find out that 22% of the nameplate capacity of Russian refineries is always idle, but the remaining 78% produces much more products than Russia consumes. Diesel is produced in Russia almost twice as much as needed for domestic consumption, gasoline 16% more, and in addition, naphtha (a gasoline semi-finished product) is produced at 60% of gasoline consumption – and almost all of it is exported. If needed, it can be quite easily converted into gasoline. Not of the highest quality, not the most environmentally friendly, not the best for engines in the long term, but acceptable as an emergency solution.

The story with these perpetually idle 22% is complicated – often these are old, practically decommissioned units that just sit on their pads at the refineries, and the owners are too busy to dismantle them, plus properly decommissioning a unit is quite a tedious task, and then you have to do land reclamation. It’s much easier to keep it as if it were operational but stopped.

– Sergey Vakulenko

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/143318

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 27 2025 21:07 utc | 92

Lyman-Yampol-Seversk road is now physically cut. Most likely through DRG groups.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 21:08 utc | 93

Caliman @ 6 / Original Newbie @ 89

Sanity may be overrated in an insane world.

“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society” – J. Krishnamurti.

Though checking Google it’s a misattribution, still a good phrase and best in-a-nutshell description of the bourgeoise, or yuppies, or the professional managerial class I’ve come across.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 27 2025 21:23 utc | 94

The “dark forces” are self-programmed by their culture to react to an existential threat to their highness by resorting to the Samson Option (nuclear armageddon). Therefore, Russia’s Burevestnik and/or other “conventional” wunderwaffe would need to be carefully targeted at military infrastructure with advance warning to evacuate personnel as a demonstration. The ultimatum would stipulate “back off or there will be more to come.”

Posted by: norecovery | Oct 27 2025 21:32 utc | 95

Borzzikman says US congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna claims Zelensky is transferring $50 million into a Saudi bank every month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v9Qps3GinM

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 21:34 utc | 96

The Msg that initiated the SMO and made nuclear war likely..

https://naked-science.ru/article/nakedscience/duck-and-cover?utm_source=inarticle&utm_medium=inarticle&utm_campaign=inarticle

The improbability of[.” a nuclear war ended on February 23, 2022 because].. On that day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was scheduled to fly to Geneva for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the situation in Ukraine.

However, just hours before Lavrov’s departure, Moscow received a message from the U.S. Secretary of State. In this message, Blinken stated that “the U.S. does not intend to engage in negotiations with Russia, either on security issues or any other matters on the current agenda.” After that, Russia launched a well-known military special operation in Ukraine”

Posted by: snake | Oct 27 2025 21:35 utc | 97

To paraphrase Enrico Fermi – in the sense of observations made by some future beings on a distant planet “Where is everybody?”.

Posted by: Derric | Oct 27 2025 21:38 utc | 98

William Gruff 70,

Out of my league….but

Q: How is that stored? How is a “control-rod” employed since extraction requires disassembly of the “combustor” section, the area between the compressor and turbine blades, the heart of the assembly? How is that “started”?

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“Is the engine junk after that. I would guess yes” – Frithguild 76

Possible but, kinda uneconomical because engine-life is the real beauty of Turbo-jet/fan/prop engines.

That said, there is a Danish company that’s building “disposable LFTRs” as multiple stand alone Thermal units. The thought being, make them small/cheaply with Ti, don’t worry about refueling or neutron embrittlement, just bring them destructively disassemble the components and melt them down to reuse the Ti and other expensive materials. This company has a lot of interest since they are handling the nuclear side cradle to grave…most utilities have trained staff capable of running steam-turbines/condensers/generators.

Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 21:46 utc | 99

Some thoughtful posts about the Burevestnik missile system, what are barflies thoughts on how it actually generates thrust? Or is it the case that the initial solid-fuel booster stage gets the thing up to cruising speed and then the reactor “engine” takes over to maintain the speed?

I’m kind of thinking that there should be some means of compressing the intake air, in order to provide the the mass volume of heated air out of the “exhaust” port.

Further thoughts, anyone?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 27 2025 21:47 utc | 100

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