For lack of anything better to do, both pundits and peasants alike in Russia are discussing the effects of strikes on energy infrastructure in Ukraine.
Nov 19, 2022·edited Nov 19, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker
Hey Rolo. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the "huge exodus of the youth and middle class from Russia". Should be interesting.
Could Russia's strike on Ukraine's energy infrastructure be her contribution towards the great reset? To hurt Ukraine's energy production while the US hurts Europe's? Shouldn't Russia be using its missiles to strike enemy supply lines instead?
The locomotives run on grid electricity, a very efficient system but very vulnerable. Cutting electricity shutdown those locomotives more effectively than blowing up rails.
I used to read every new article coming from Dmitry Orlov, before he changed his platforms, and his blogs became inaccessible (at least I don't know how to get them). In any case, he wrote, after the US-funded neo-Nazi coup in 2014, that a million young military-aged men fled to Russia. I guess those left didn't get out in time.
Nov 19, 2022·edited Nov 19, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker
I still find it inconceivable, that these rail bridges across the Dnepr have not been destroyed in the initial phase already.
It would cut off eastern Ukraine from any supply, and almost automatically yield historical New Russia, and all efforts could be concentrated on Odessa.
This is the second thing I don't get, why leave Ukraine black sea access for this long?
I can only conclude again, this is a political mess, saboteurs and 5th column, a bit similar to US situation internally, certain tribal enemies run the show.
I find it crazy Russia still fights a WWI style trenches war in Donezk Oblast, and Ukrainian trains bring in supplies and US weapons over the Dnepr since half a year.
Bridges take a long time to build and can be defended. I believe the Allies would not have destroyed the Antonivsky Bridge had it not already been damaged by HIMARS. It was very stupid of the AFU to hit it in the first place.
Nikolaev, seems a very attractive place to take, it has shipyards, capable of building large hulls, something Russia lost really with end of SU.
I recall this strange sinking of the only Russian dry dock, and act of sabotage? And the accident with the only air craft carrying missile cruiser, afaik not repaired yet?
According to even wikipedia, there is still a hull of an unfinished Moskva class lying somewhere around in Nikolaev. I haven't found it on the satellite maps though.
The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's only carrier, is presently the only aircraft-carrying Navy ship in the world whose pilots regularly perform flights at polar latitudes. Last May, the ship finished its seventh long-range voyage, which lasted nearly six months.
Constructed at the Mykolaiv South Shipyard (present day Ukraine) in the mid-1980s, the Admiral Kuznetsov only became fully operational in 1995, as the result of severe budget cutbacks to the Russian military following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The ship, designed to engage large surface targets and to protect maritime routes from enemy attacks, is capable of carrying between 41-52 fixed and rotary wing aircraft, including Su-25UTG and Su-33 fighter aircraft, as well as Ka-27 and Ka-29 anti-submarine and assault transport helicopters.
I worked at a company that provided control equipment for electricity providers all over the world.
This was 2013 to 2017.
The impression I got from our weekly briefings was that most electric yard equipment is extremely expensive and not easy to replace.
We have a yard in downtown Sacramento that suffered a transformer fire last year and still is not repaired.
So I have no idea how they are coping in Ukraine, but it's a great way to terrorize the population, especially if the grid is not flexible enough to easily re-route power from other sources.
China would have repaired that transformer damage in a month. In the dystopia of democrat-controlled California, you can't even build a mile of high-speed rail.
Those main power transformers take about five years to build and, if I am not mistaken, they were built in Ukraine for the entire world, pre-Nazi at least. Any that are being replaced quickly were in stock and stock has to be limited.
General of the 3rd Army in Yugoslavia, in 1999 after 78 days of the relentless bombing campaign against infrastructure of the rump Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) gave Yugoslavia's president Milosevic report: "We are in a full readiness for the NATO''s ground invasion". Milosevic said: "The Army is ready but Serbia isn't". He shortly signed capitulation. Russians know what they are doing, especially learning on the experience of the others.
Many thanks for your post. The Russia/Ukraine situation is in essence political theatre, perhaps even Monsters Inc!!
It is a distraction as well as an excuse to steal taxpayers money when nobody is looking. Except of course some are well aware what is going on. It also distracts from the harm and death from vaccines.
I remain puzzled, Rolo, over your contention that Ukraine's army still has a numerical advantage over Russia, (although they might if you only take into account the amount of military in what was Ukrainian territory before the war started, as Russia didn't activate enough troops in Putin's SMO). If you are correct, then other analysts like Scott Ritter, the men at the Duran, and Brian Berletic are wrong. They've been saying for months that the Ukrainian army is getting slaughtered while Russia, in comparison, is suffering relatively low casualties (up to 10 Ukrainians casualties for every Russian). They report that most of the military aged Ukrainian men are either already in the army, severely wounded, or killed, and are down to drafting older men up to age 65 and women, and much of the replacement army has very little training. Of course, they were wrong when they said that Ukraine would be unable to mount a successful offensive, but maybe they didn't take into account the massive amount of help "little Napoleon" Zelensky would be able to extract from Washington's War Party and NATO as well as from the Poles and others who have been "sheepskinned" into Ukrainian uniforms. They seem to be convinced that, once the ground freezes over, Russia will mount an unstoppable offensive which will end the war and bring an end to the corrupt Zelensky Regime. Are Ritter and the others way off base in their analysis?
On another note, I notice that you said "Best" Korea? Was that a typo or do you mean that the North is superior to the South?
>Are Ritter and the others way off base in their analysis?
My friend, you have a brain and a search tool, yes? Go back and read what they were writing literally weeks ago. Or, for more of a laugh, go back and read what they were writing over the summer. Or at the start of the war. If you read them often, you should remember some of their outlandish claims and then compare them to the reality that has manifested. These people were drawing lines on maps showing Russian advances on Odessa for crying out loud.
Thanks for your response, Rolo. When you say that those men's claims are "outlandish" and that I should "compare them to the reality that has manifested," that gets to the heart of the problem. Where does one who is seeking to learn the reality go for answers? Certainly not the US mainstream media, which gave up on practicing objective journalism well before Trump entered office. Once one has been blackpilled to their lies, in service to the globalist's wet dreams and the democrat party, where does one go for truth? Sitting in my comfortable living room chair in the dis-United States, it appears that the truth becomes more and more elusive. That's why I thought I'd give your blog a try, Rolo. I'm always open to other opinions. Cheers.
The whole thing is as much as anything to help make money for arms manufacturers in the USA among others, where 6 out of top 10 manufacturers are based.
Keeping the war going helps a lot for this agenda. Much of what we hear is false anyway, or exaggerated .
But really it's like a pantomime so I treat it as such here, although my intent ans summary are serious.
This war has been replete with half-measures by both "sides" since February 24. Perhaps that's because such a "careful" conflict—which yields enough death and destruction to maintain a patina of full-on war without burning everything to the ground—is first and foremost a geopolitical tool which, more effectively than any other "event" in the world at present, enables a recalibration of the international monetary and financial system (IMFS)—a recalibration that certainly the G20 countries desperately desire above all else (http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/files/en/u82esHnvQFdHOjV25AJg73rnLGEe8cK6.pdf), as their debt-based and increasingly automated (read: artificial) economies implode. Until a new IMFS is realized, however, Russian and Ukrainian brothers will continue to senselessly slaughter each other while the puppets leading the supposedly warring sides ensure mostly smooth sailing for global commodity and capital flows: https://politros.com/23748665-the_hill_ssha_i_ec_vkladivayut_sotni_millionov_v_yadernoe_oruzhie_rossii?utm_source=finobzor.ru.
The locomotives in Ukraine run on electricity. Killing the electricity to the railroads means the tanks and trucks have to drive from wherever they enter the country to the front which wears the undercarriage of the tanks as well as using a ton more fuel than one train to haul them all. There may be diesel-electric locomotives available and maybe even some coal-fired steam locomotives left somewhere, but those require coal/diesel fuel. For the steam locomotives, keeping feed water thawed along the routes will also be necessary.
Electric cuts will create more refugees. More Refugees will mean more pressure on the EU. It also means more population loss for Ukraine, which will be permanent and good for Russia in the coming years.
If you were a mother with 2 kids, would you stay in Kiev without water, heat, and electricity? Or move to the EU with free food and housing on the Mediterranean? Bingo.
They don't get free housing on the mediterranean but a commieblock like most Europeans live in and it isn't good for Russia because Russia ought to reabsorb those people not send them fleeing to Russia's enemies.
If you have sons, they're not allowed to leave the country anyways, so thats out of the question.
Sorry, you are incorrect. Here is a link to Ukrainian refugees living on the Mediterranean, with a view of the sea: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/12/ukrainian-refugees-france-ferry/ There are male refugees in the pictures. Refugees are being housed in major cities all along the EU Mediterranean., which is what I meant.
All the NATO countries have family reunification laws for the men, so as soon as the men get out, it will be off to Canada or the USA. Either by end of war or escape. Male children, the future, are allowed to leave now.
The Ukraine with 15 million people is better for Russia.
That is right and any mother will be taking her teenage under 18 sons with her, so that will be a blow to any future mobilisation efforts.
I think logically Russia just wants a weak less populated smaller Ukraine that's going to be lesser of a threat in the future. I believe most of Ukraine`s wealth is in the East in the very contested areas anyway so if Russia wins Ukraine GDP will sink lower than it already was before the war being already one of Europe`s poorest countries.
Its difficult to assess whats going on maybe Russia is just playing the long game now, shortenning the contact line & preparing for the long war of a attrition. Maybe the only way Russia can win this is by turning the whole of Ukraine into an Afganistan shit hole. They want to fight to the last Ukrainian and thats the way its going to be.
Maybe the west will start using African mercenaries, who knows not much would surprise me any more.
Well, reports indicate that Al Quida jihadists are being recruited by the CIA and are already fighting on the ground in Ukraine. Their salaries are paid by US taxpayers, naturally.
Hey Rolo. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the "huge exodus of the youth and middle class from Russia". Should be interesting.
Could Russia's strike on Ukraine's energy infrastructure be her contribution towards the great reset? To hurt Ukraine's energy production while the US hurts Europe's? Shouldn't Russia be using its missiles to strike enemy supply lines instead?
>Shouldn't Russia be using its missiles to strike enemy supply lines instead?
they used to
The locomotives run on grid electricity, a very efficient system but very vulnerable. Cutting electricity shutdown those locomotives more effectively than blowing up rails.
I used to read every new article coming from Dmitry Orlov, before he changed his platforms, and his blogs became inaccessible (at least I don't know how to get them). In any case, he wrote, after the US-funded neo-Nazi coup in 2014, that a million young military-aged men fled to Russia. I guess those left didn't get out in time.
I still find it inconceivable, that these rail bridges across the Dnepr have not been destroyed in the initial phase already.
It would cut off eastern Ukraine from any supply, and almost automatically yield historical New Russia, and all efforts could be concentrated on Odessa.
This is the second thing I don't get, why leave Ukraine black sea access for this long?
I can only conclude again, this is a political mess, saboteurs and 5th column, a bit similar to US situation internally, certain tribal enemies run the show.
I find it crazy Russia still fights a WWI style trenches war in Donezk Oblast, and Ukrainian trains bring in supplies and US weapons over the Dnepr since half a year.
Bridges take a long time to build and can be defended. I believe the Allies would not have destroyed the Antonivsky Bridge had it not already been damaged by HIMARS. It was very stupid of the AFU to hit it in the first place.
I am adding more "what I don't get"
Nikolaev, seems a very attractive place to take, it has shipyards, capable of building large hulls, something Russia lost really with end of SU.
I recall this strange sinking of the only Russian dry dock, and act of sabotage? And the accident with the only air craft carrying missile cruiser, afaik not repaired yet?
According to even wikipedia, there is still a hull of an unfinished Moskva class lying somewhere around in Nikolaev. I haven't found it on the satellite maps though.
It's repaired!
https://sputniknews.com/20150820/admiral-kuznetsov-aircraft-carrier-1025964223.html
The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's only carrier, is presently the only aircraft-carrying Navy ship in the world whose pilots regularly perform flights at polar latitudes. Last May, the ship finished its seventh long-range voyage, which lasted nearly six months.
Constructed at the Mykolaiv South Shipyard (present day Ukraine) in the mid-1980s, the Admiral Kuznetsov only became fully operational in 1995, as the result of severe budget cutbacks to the Russian military following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The ship, designed to engage large surface targets and to protect maritime routes from enemy attacks, is capable of carrying between 41-52 fixed and rotary wing aircraft, including Su-25UTG and Su-33 fighter aircraft, as well as Ka-27 and Ka-29 anti-submarine and assault transport helicopters.
I worked at a company that provided control equipment for electricity providers all over the world.
This was 2013 to 2017.
The impression I got from our weekly briefings was that most electric yard equipment is extremely expensive and not easy to replace.
We have a yard in downtown Sacramento that suffered a transformer fire last year and still is not repaired.
So I have no idea how they are coping in Ukraine, but it's a great way to terrorize the population, especially if the grid is not flexible enough to easily re-route power from other sources.
China would have repaired that transformer damage in a month. In the dystopia of democrat-controlled California, you can't even build a mile of high-speed rail.
Those main power transformers take about five years to build and, if I am not mistaken, they were built in Ukraine for the entire world, pre-Nazi at least. Any that are being replaced quickly were in stock and stock has to be limited.
General of the 3rd Army in Yugoslavia, in 1999 after 78 days of the relentless bombing campaign against infrastructure of the rump Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) gave Yugoslavia's president Milosevic report: "We are in a full readiness for the NATO''s ground invasion". Milosevic said: "The Army is ready but Serbia isn't". He shortly signed capitulation. Russians know what they are doing, especially learning on the experience of the others.
Hello from the UK
Many thanks for your post. The Russia/Ukraine situation is in essence political theatre, perhaps even Monsters Inc!!
It is a distraction as well as an excuse to steal taxpayers money when nobody is looking. Except of course some are well aware what is going on. It also distracts from the harm and death from vaccines.
If anyone is interested, my link.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/04/05/put-in-boots-the-ukraine-panto/
I remain puzzled, Rolo, over your contention that Ukraine's army still has a numerical advantage over Russia, (although they might if you only take into account the amount of military in what was Ukrainian territory before the war started, as Russia didn't activate enough troops in Putin's SMO). If you are correct, then other analysts like Scott Ritter, the men at the Duran, and Brian Berletic are wrong. They've been saying for months that the Ukrainian army is getting slaughtered while Russia, in comparison, is suffering relatively low casualties (up to 10 Ukrainians casualties for every Russian). They report that most of the military aged Ukrainian men are either already in the army, severely wounded, or killed, and are down to drafting older men up to age 65 and women, and much of the replacement army has very little training. Of course, they were wrong when they said that Ukraine would be unable to mount a successful offensive, but maybe they didn't take into account the massive amount of help "little Napoleon" Zelensky would be able to extract from Washington's War Party and NATO as well as from the Poles and others who have been "sheepskinned" into Ukrainian uniforms. They seem to be convinced that, once the ground freezes over, Russia will mount an unstoppable offensive which will end the war and bring an end to the corrupt Zelensky Regime. Are Ritter and the others way off base in their analysis?
On another note, I notice that you said "Best" Korea? Was that a typo or do you mean that the North is superior to the South?
Regards, Outsider
>Are Ritter and the others way off base in their analysis?
My friend, you have a brain and a search tool, yes? Go back and read what they were writing literally weeks ago. Or, for more of a laugh, go back and read what they were writing over the summer. Or at the start of the war. If you read them often, you should remember some of their outlandish claims and then compare them to the reality that has manifested. These people were drawing lines on maps showing Russian advances on Odessa for crying out loud.
Also, yes, North Korea is Best Korea.
Thanks for your response, Rolo. When you say that those men's claims are "outlandish" and that I should "compare them to the reality that has manifested," that gets to the heart of the problem. Where does one who is seeking to learn the reality go for answers? Certainly not the US mainstream media, which gave up on practicing objective journalism well before Trump entered office. Once one has been blackpilled to their lies, in service to the globalist's wet dreams and the democrat party, where does one go for truth? Sitting in my comfortable living room chair in the dis-United States, it appears that the truth becomes more and more elusive. That's why I thought I'd give your blog a try, Rolo. I'm always open to other opinions. Cheers.
The whole thing is as much as anything to help make money for arms manufacturers in the USA among others, where 6 out of top 10 manufacturers are based.
Keeping the war going helps a lot for this agenda. Much of what we hear is false anyway, or exaggerated .
But really it's like a pantomime so I treat it as such here, although my intent ans summary are serious.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/04/05/put-in-boots-the-ukraine-panto/
This war has been replete with half-measures by both "sides" since February 24. Perhaps that's because such a "careful" conflict—which yields enough death and destruction to maintain a patina of full-on war without burning everything to the ground—is first and foremost a geopolitical tool which, more effectively than any other "event" in the world at present, enables a recalibration of the international monetary and financial system (IMFS)—a recalibration that certainly the G20 countries desperately desire above all else (http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/files/en/u82esHnvQFdHOjV25AJg73rnLGEe8cK6.pdf), as their debt-based and increasingly automated (read: artificial) economies implode. Until a new IMFS is realized, however, Russian and Ukrainian brothers will continue to senselessly slaughter each other while the puppets leading the supposedly warring sides ensure mostly smooth sailing for global commodity and capital flows: https://politros.com/23748665-the_hill_ssha_i_ec_vkladivayut_sotni_millionov_v_yadernoe_oruzhie_rossii?utm_source=finobzor.ru.
The locomotives in Ukraine run on electricity. Killing the electricity to the railroads means the tanks and trucks have to drive from wherever they enter the country to the front which wears the undercarriage of the tanks as well as using a ton more fuel than one train to haul them all. There may be diesel-electric locomotives available and maybe even some coal-fired steam locomotives left somewhere, but those require coal/diesel fuel. For the steam locomotives, keeping feed water thawed along the routes will also be necessary.
Rolo:
I've seen many postings of Ukie military funerals and freshly dug graves. Are similar things being shown in Russia or are they being hidden US style ?
Electric cuts will create more refugees. More Refugees will mean more pressure on the EU. It also means more population loss for Ukraine, which will be permanent and good for Russia in the coming years.
If you were a mother with 2 kids, would you stay in Kiev without water, heat, and electricity? Or move to the EU with free food and housing on the Mediterranean? Bingo.
They don't get free housing on the mediterranean but a commieblock like most Europeans live in and it isn't good for Russia because Russia ought to reabsorb those people not send them fleeing to Russia's enemies.
If you have sons, they're not allowed to leave the country anyways, so thats out of the question.
Sorry, you are incorrect. Here is a link to Ukrainian refugees living on the Mediterranean, with a view of the sea: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/12/ukrainian-refugees-france-ferry/ There are male refugees in the pictures. Refugees are being housed in major cities all along the EU Mediterranean., which is what I meant.
All the NATO countries have family reunification laws for the men, so as soon as the men get out, it will be off to Canada or the USA. Either by end of war or escape. Male children, the future, are allowed to leave now.
The Ukraine with 15 million people is better for Russia.
That is right and any mother will be taking her teenage under 18 sons with her, so that will be a blow to any future mobilisation efforts.
I think logically Russia just wants a weak less populated smaller Ukraine that's going to be lesser of a threat in the future. I believe most of Ukraine`s wealth is in the East in the very contested areas anyway so if Russia wins Ukraine GDP will sink lower than it already was before the war being already one of Europe`s poorest countries.
Its difficult to assess whats going on maybe Russia is just playing the long game now, shortenning the contact line & preparing for the long war of a attrition. Maybe the only way Russia can win this is by turning the whole of Ukraine into an Afganistan shit hole. They want to fight to the last Ukrainian and thats the way its going to be.
Maybe the west will start using African mercenaries, who knows not much would surprise me any more.
Well, reports indicate that Al Quida jihadists are being recruited by the CIA and are already fighting on the ground in Ukraine. Their salaries are paid by US taxpayers, naturally.