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Sitting In A Damaged Glasshouse Throwing More Stones
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.
Very Good Points made!
RE:
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 18:02 utc | 12
“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….”
This should have happened in early 2022!
AND THIS:
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 27 2025 18:14 utc | 21
“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.”
I must ask this: On the lens of objectivity, are we (like Trubind1) also “Not sure which is “saner”?
– Zelensky’s Kiev refusal to give-up (surrender) even while being outgunned because of the commitment of continued support by their US-EU-NATO patrons “to the last Ukrainian”.
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– Putin’s Kremlin refusal to apply appropriate military capability to obliterate a NATO proxy posing a clear and present existential threat to her before an overwhelming collective direct NATO+EU attack against her gets underway.
Realistically, the former is ‘saner’!
Here, the GOOD-NEWS is that a handful within the Russian decision-making circles have now realised the futility of the restrained SMO attrition warfare (whatever being the rationale), advocating for a decisive sledge hammer deterrent approach having seen that the former emboldens rather than subdues NATO’s Zelensky.
Sadly, the dreadful BAD-NEWS is that this Putin’s Kremlin characteristically WILL NEVER CHANGE GEAR TO THE BOLD DETERRENCE-ENFORCEMENT APPROACH OF ‘SHOCK & AWE’ in order to quickly depose Zelensky’s Nazi regime. Putin remains in his default mode: that with a modest-attritive military operation and continued rhetorical diplomacy with the US/West ‘as partners’, hopefully Zelensky and his Nazis will change heart and give up the fight and/or US/NATO/EU will somehow back-off and allow Russia her sphere of influence. On the contrary, continued escalatory acts and rhetorics against Russia have proved such thinking as mere wishful optimism and unrealistic, coming from people who ought to know better (armed with all the apparatus of intel).
Unarguably, it is near impossible to achieve any of the stated goals of the SMO while the Kiev regime as presently constituted by the Russophobic Nazis still holds power. NO REGIME WILL GIVE UP FIGHTING EXCEPT ROUTED BY AN OVERWHELMING MILITARY OPERATION. Power, by default, is not given, but taken.
This ‘kid-gloves’ formula for addressing an existential threat is rather self-deamning and self-destructive. IT BREEDS CONTEMPT from hegemon warmongers/alliances that hitherto lacked the temerity to attempt such attacks in the manner we see it today on Russian soil, veiled as Ukrainian attack. Having been condoned as to be considered as weakness, the escalation trend will definitely be incremental until it triggers the much dreaded doomsday.
Let’s keep this crusade loud, louder and loudest to trigger a hurricane-like inconvenience to Putin’s Kremlin to end this dreadful quagmire now and recover Russia’s lost deterrence factor. It’s a better option than to keep condoning this “insanity” that will most likely totally doom humanity in its present form!
Posted by: cegnoveltyesq | Oct 27 2025 22:45 utc | 118
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