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October 27, 2025
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.

“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.”

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.

Comments

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 28 2025 21:03 utc | 293
Oki doki…If you are to dumb to search for yourself: Here ya go…
Statement by Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina in follow-up to Board of Directors meeting on 24 October 2025 | Bank of Russia

Posted by: Brigitte Mohnhaupt | Oct 29 2025 1:01 utc | 301

Posted by: Naive | Oct 28 2025 21:11 utc | 296
“Trump is so stupid that he is asking information on the new nuclear powered missile.”
 
Can you cite a link for that claim?

Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 29 2025 1:27 utc | 302

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Oct 28 2025 22:39 utc | 299
Borzzikman on YouTube reports Russia has started an operation to aid Venezuela and delivered a secret cargo for military purposes.

If this is true, then the “secret cargo” is probably experts in the operation of Russian anti-ship missiles and SAM systems which are presently in Valenzuela, and have been for some time AFAIK.
It will be interesting to see whether any more “special cargo” deliveries take place in the near future,

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Oct 29 2025 1:45 utc | 303

Hay media docena de avellanos plantados en Venezuela, todos listos para dar frutos. ¡Sólo para Nutella, por supuesto! Ja ja ja!

Posted by: Arbolista | Oct 29 2025 5:42 utc | 304

Posted by: spare_truth_03 | Oct 28 2025 16:29 utc | 264
Who do you think I am ? Fucking Red Cross ? I’m a guy with a keyboard commenting about “grand chessboard” stupidity and vanity …
Your “friend” should have fled earlier , now it’s time to be an adult and assume his past choices. I assume that if he want to go to Germany among all other places , it’s because he can’t flee elsewhere … so he can do like Bandera and ask the local catholic church 🙂

Posted by: Savonarole | Oct 29 2025 9:30 utc | 305

General Factotum: “I suspect that your reactor driven rocket, based on your design principles, would indeed have power and flight characteristics very similar to a hammer.”
 
 
I’m curious why you imagine a pocket-sized breeder reactor, assuming the Russians are good enough at miniaturizing machinery to make such a thing, makes more sense as a disposable power source for a missile than a  gas-cooled reactor? I am interested in seeing the details of how that works from someone such as yourself who is an expert in these matters. In particular, explain to me in idiot terms how a micro-sized breeder reactor can be made more affordably than a high temperature gas-cooled reactor, and how a breeder reactor beats a gas-cooled reactor in power/weight ratio (someone once mentioned to me that was important for heavier-than-air flying machines).
 
 
As well, why do you call a turbojet a rocket? Do you normally confuse the two? If so, the Wikipedia pages on rocket and jet engines can be helpful for you.

Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 29 2025 13:00 utc | 306

Could the heath source of this nuclear missile be obtained by the decay heat of a radioisotope: such concepts already exist, the radioisotope thermal generator (RTG). There is no nuclear fission with its control difficulties and probably no size issue. 

Posted by: scc | Oct 29 2025 14:27 utc | 307

William Gruff  307,
 
I read G Fathtum’s comment and thought it defined the term hubris rather well, as I said:
 
 

I’ll leave the empty headed one upmanship comments to others and…reading through the comments, there appears to be a few of those. God Bless the anonymity of the internet” –  S Brennan   268

Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 29 2025 15:37 utc | 308

accurate @308:
 
RTGs won’t work as a power plant for a flying machine due to the power/weight ratio thing I mentioned above that makes me skeptical of breeder reactors being suitable, only more so. RTGs are great for small amounts of energy for long periods of time, but for powered flight you need lots of energy. An RTG that can supply enough power would be too big and heavy, and the more you scale it up to increase the power output the worse the problem gets.
 
Your power source needs to be light weight and compact, and since it is disposable it must be uncomplicated to facilitate serial production. RTGs are nicely uncomplicated, but the power/weight ratio just isn’t there. 

Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 29 2025 18:31 utc | 309

S Brennan @309:
 
He reminds me of another poster, gordog. Smart, but with very constrained and opinionated (and outdated) notions of how things must be done. I remember him arguing that SpaceX launch vehicles were failures even as those launchers were delivering the bacon. That poster reminded me a lot of the Boeing engineers who posted on NASASpaceFlight forums asserting that SpaceX Falcon 9 launchers couldn’t possibly ever work because they couldn’t do it, and if Boeing couldn’t do it then nobody could.
 
Come to think of it, there was a gordog poster there as well… I wonder…
 
Anyway, yeah, it is a kind of hubris. 

Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 29 2025 19:04 utc | 310

“Posted by: Naive | Oct 28 2025 21:11 utc | 296“Trump is so stupid that he is asking information on the new nuclear powered missile.” “Can you cite a link for that claim?”
 
Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 29 2025 1:27 utc | 303
 
Naive is powered by emotion, mostly hate [as well as ;envy’,  of your superior prose, canuk. editor] treats politics as a Religion-he tends to be  quite elusive  when you ask him to support his argument with proper documentation.

Posted by: canuk | Oct 29 2025 19:32 utc | 311

Posted by: sam | Oct 28 2025 15:11 utc | 242
“They are sane alright but Anglos are such an evil race that their persistence in destroying what they consider enemy is beyond belief ”
—————————————————————— “Fascinating! I didn’t know that evil was a genetic trait that is present in some races but not others.  I heard that there were some who believed or used to claim that all Blacks were lazy.  Are you one who believes that all members of a certain race have identical characteristics? I believe that is the definition of “racist.””
 
Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 29 2025 0:40 utc | 301
 
Yes , sam, is a racist.
 
A pity.

Posted by: canuk | Oct 29 2025 19:34 utc | 312

How many boys did you lure with Candy there canuk.

Posted by: Ok | Oct 29 2025 21:06 utc | 313

“How many boys did you lure with Candy there canuk.”
 
Posted by: Ok | Oct 29 2025 21:06 utc | 314

 
Ok your unconscious projection (1)of your pedophile desires is very unseemly.
 
1.”Freudian projection in this case, the unhinged poster called OK whom  employs a defense mechanism where he unconsciously attributes his own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses  unto canuk . This allows OK to avoid confronting these uncomfortable traits within themselves. For example, a person who is secretly insecure might project their feelings of inadequacy by constantly calling others incompetent or in this case .OK is projecting his pedophile impulses.  OK should receive therapy where OK would be chemically castrated to protect the kids.”

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Posted by: canuk | Oct 29 2025 23:59 utc | 314

I think Zs only chance is to fly to Russia and spill the beans.   Perhaps he could negotiate house arrest or something to be revealed at a future Nuremberg2.  He is a pitiful figure, said simply with no honor whatsoever.

Posted by: Stierlitz | Nov 2 2025 18:26 utc | 315

To answer any question, you need to understand the nature/origin of this war.
It is a proxy war of the USA nazi-fascist terrorist genocidal empire AGAINST Russia and Venezuela and Iran and China.

The goal was never to allow Ukraine to win. The goal, as the Pentagon’s think tank RAND Corporation put it in 2019, is to over-expand Russia.

And to achieve that goal, Ukraine is not be be saved. Ukraine is to be SACRIFICED. a
As well as Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Syria, etc.

The people that the Washington imperialist pigs want in charge of those countries, are very competent in doing exactly what they are told, in order to help USA achieve its goals.

So, Zelensky isn’t insane. Zelensky is exactly like Skaashvili and Zourabishvili in Georgia, like Tsikhaniuskaya in Belarus, like Netanyahu (although in this case the tail also wags the dog through corruption, aka zionist lobbying…) in “israel”, like Maia Sandu in Moldova, like Pashinyan in Armenia, like Scholz and Merz in Germany, like Juan Guaido and Corina Machado in Venezuela, like al-Sharaa (“ex” al-Quaeda terrorist) in Syria, etc.

Neother of them is insane.
They are all very sane and competent.
It’s just that neither of them has ever had any goal of helping their own countries and much less their compatriots.
Their goal is to obey Washington, and to achieve the goals that the imperilaist pigs in Washington order them to achieve.

And all this will only end when the USA is defeated, dismantled, cut in peaces, decolonized, denazified, and all traces of this imperialist genocidal ideology are erased. USA urgently needs an civil war… or a meteor armageddon… or a nuclear “accident” when all the pigs are meeting in Washington DC…

What is INSANE is for the people in the rest of the World to keep tolerating USAmerican stupidity and evil. To keep negotiating with these terrorists. To keep trading with them at all.
USA has to be completely isolated from mankind!

In that sense, I agree with the building of a wall, but with the opposite objective: to keep them all inside!

Before our governments do anything, we can already start doing something ourselves: STOP buying anything made-in-USA, be it machinery, cars, hardware, software, food, drinks, clothes, social networks, or “culture” and “news” aka propaganda!

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, UNITE IN THIS ANTI-IMPERIALIST CLEANSING!!!

Posted by: Carlos Marques | Nov 3 2025 9:36 utc | 316