Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Well, apparently Scholz was in on the plot.
I can't imagine him being in office long when Germans learn this. There will be a political crisis brewing and Scholz will be (rightly) seen as a traitor. Either there will be full-on repression or a political upheaval. Possibly both.
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Quote:The Nord Stream natural gas pipeline was owned by Russia, not Germany, so it is not like the German Prime Minister ordered German property destroyed.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, apparently Scholz was in on the plot.
I can't imagine him being in office long when Germans learn this. There will be a political crisis brewing and Scholz will be (rightly) seen as a traitor. Either there will be full-on repression or a political upheaval. Possibly both.
Russia will sue the US government for damages. Since Justice is extremely swift because lawyers are famous for designing well-functioning systems that make rapid and fair decisions, surely Russia will be paid very soon.
None of the four Nord Stream pipes were currently operational, bringing the Nord Stream project to an effective standstill. In reaction to this, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken stated that "... it’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream
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The Russian private paramilitary outfit, the Wagner Group, is reportedly employing increasingly predatory recruitment practices in Russia's prisons as its founder and chief financier, Yevgeny Prigozhin, faces difficulties in finding new hires.
Now, as reports and data indicate that Prigozhin is struggling to draw in new recruits, Russian prisoners are effectively being forced to join the Wagner Group. Convicts are being threatened with new criminal cases should they refuse, independent Russian news outlet Agentstvo reported on Wednesday.
Lawyer Yana Gelmel told the news outlet that Russian prisoners in colonies located in the Samara and Rostov regions, the Krasnodar Territory, and the regions of the North Caucasus, are being pressured to join the once-shadowy paramilitary unit.
"The operatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the FSB arrive [to these prisons], promise to bring up [cases] that are 10-20 years old, for which the statute of limitations has already passed, [and] they scare that they will initiate cases against those who refuse to go to war," Gelmel said.
According to Agentstvo, she learned of the new recruitment practice from several of her sources in the penitentiary system across various Russian regions.
"They threaten to initiate cases against those who refuse to go to war," she said.
Gelmel noted that now, far fewer convicts are voluntarily agreeing to join the Wagner Group compared to the summer and autumn months of 2022 because convicts are learning about the high fatality rate in the war.
The news outlet cited Oksana Asaulenko, a human rights activist and the mother of a prisoner held in Russia's Perm Territory whose sentence is ending soon. She reportedly told the news outlet that her son was being threatened to join the Wagner Group.
The developments come as Prigozhin's recruitment drive in Russian prisons appears to be faltering.
https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-group-yevgeny-prigozhin-recruiting-tac
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The Nord Stream natural gas pipeline was owned by Russia, not Germany, so it is not like the German Prime Minister ordered German property destroyed.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, apparently Scholz was in on the plot.
I can't imagine him being in office long when Germans learn this. There will be a political crisis brewing and Scholz will be (rightly) seen as a traitor. Either there will be full-on repression or a political upheaval. Possibly both.
Russia will sue the US government for damages. Since Justice is extremely swift because lawyers are famous for designing well-functioning systems that make rapid and fair decisions, surely Russia will be paid very soon.
None of the four Nord Stream pipes were currently operational, bringing the Nord Stream project to an effective standstill. In reaction to this, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken stated that "... it’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
German industrial competitiveness and the German standard of living depends on cheap energy. I don't think forcing German industry and people to pay up to 5X more for energy will improve their standard of living. Forcing Germans to be "free' of Russia's nat gas may be IN OUR interest, but whether or not the Germans want to pay the price- literally- well, in a democracy isn't that for the GERMANS to decide?
Germans could quite justifiably see the secret agreement to blow up their standard of living as a betrayal.
As usual, you're obfuscating the issue.
Liar.
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Ukraine intercepted Russian plans to destroy Moldova
February 9, 2023, 6:36 AM
BRUSSELS -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that his country has intercepted plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova
Speaking to European Union leaders in Brussels, Zelenskyy said he recently told Moldovan President Maia Sandu about the alleged scheme.
“I have informed her that we have intercepted the plan of the destruction of Moldova by the Russian intelligence," Zelenskyy said through a translator.
Zelenskyy said the documents showed “who, when and how" the plan would "break the democracy of Moldova and establish control over Moldova."
Zelenskyy said the plan was very similar to the one devised by Russia to take over Ukraine. He added that he did not know whether Moscow ultimately ordered the plan to be carried out.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov charged last week that the West was considering turning Moldova into “another Ukraine.” He alleged that the West backed the 2020 election of the pro-Western Sandu, claiming that she is eager to take the country into NATO, merge Moldova with Romania and “practically is ready for anything.”
In December, Moldova’s national intelligence agency warned that Russia could launch a new offensive this year with the aim of creating a land corridor through southern Ukraine to Moldova’s Moscow-backed breakaway region of Transnistria.
Transnistria broke away after a 1992 civil war but is not recognized by most countries. It extends roughly 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the eastern bank of the Dniester River to the country’s border with Ukraine. Russia has about 1,500 troops nominally as “peacekeepers” in the breakaway region.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/zelenskyy-ukraine-inter
cepted-plans-destroy-moldova-97001285
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Quote:Let me check the truth of your statement: "Germany Natural Gas Border Price is at a current level of 35.37, up from 28.79 last month and down from 37.36 one year ago. This is a change of 22.85% from last month and -5.34% from one year ago." https://ycharts.com/indicators/germany_natural_gas_border_price
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
German industrial competitiveness and the German standard of living depends on cheap energy. I don't think forcing German industry and people to pay up to 5X more for energy will improve their standard of living. Forcing Germans to be "free' of Russia's nat gas may be IN OUR interest, but whether or not the Germans want to pay the price- literally- well, in a democracy isn't that for the GERMANS to decide?
Liar.
Before the war started, before the pipeline from Russia stopped flowing because Russia stopped pumping for "maintenance", before the pipeline was bombed, the price of natural gas was higher than it is now. There are other forces than bombing a pipeline that had already raised prices.
Germany Natural Gas Border Price
35.37 USD/MMBtu for Dec 2022
35.37 December 31,2022
28.79 November 30,2022
20.81 October 31,2022
55.18 September 30, 2022
69.98 August 31,2022
51.15 July 31, 2022
32.91 June 30, 2022
27.46 May 31, 2022
31.99 April 30,2022
41.73 March 31,2022
26.98 February 28,2022
27.89 January 31,2022
37.36 December 31,2021
https://ycharts.com/indicators/germany_natural_gas_border_price
Global price of Natural gas, EU US$/MMBtu
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ZQow
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Funny,but that graph contradicts the one you posted before, which had a longer timeline.
I see you're still posting from the psych ward.
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Quote:I presume you misunderstand the difference between Germany's price for natural gas and the average price all of the EU pays. One graph is for one price and the other is for the other price.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Funny,but that graph contradicts the one you posted before, which had a longer timeline.
I see you're still posting from the psych ward.
Here is a number for you: 20. I expect Signym to flippantly disregard 20, either saying the number is incorrect or that losing 20 of anything is of little consequence for almighty and powerful Russia.
Japan estimates that 20 of Putin's generals have been killed in the war, based on intelligence gathered by Tokyo in cooperation with the United States and Europe.
The former chief of staff of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force described the tally as "unbelievably high," while speaking to Nikkei Asia, especially when compared with the U.S. which has seen almost no combat deaths of officers ranked that highly.
"The death of a general weakens troop morale," he said.
The news outlet reported that one theory for such high losses was that Ukraine located commanders by tracking signals from their cell phones, which were used due to communication shortcomings earlier in the war.
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-generals-killed-war-ukraine-japanese-
intelligence-1780131
Deaths in Russia's top brass unnerve India and China
Military inadequacies in Ukraine raise questions for security relationships
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Comment/Deaths-in-Russia-s-top-brass
-unnerve-India-and-China
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The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), based in Washington, noted in its daily assessment of the conflict that on February 9, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, visited a tank manufacturing plant in the Omsk Oblast and highlighted the need for Russia to ramp up production of modern tanks.
"Medvedev likely framed his calls for increased production as a response to Western military assistance to obscure the fact that substantial military equipment losses are driving the need for increased production," the ISW said.
Moscow has moved 50-year-old T-62 tanks from "deep storage" to be deployed for use by its Southern Grouping of Forces.
The ISW observed that Dutch open-source group Oryx reported Russian forces have, throughout the course of the war, lost 1,012 destroyed tanks in Ukraine, with an additional 546 tanks captured by Ukrainian forces.
These combined losses represent roughly half the tanks that Russian forces committed to Ukraine at the start of the invasion, the ISW said, citing Oryx data.
In a failed attempt to take the eastern Ukrainian city of Vuhledar, Russian forces are believed to have lost dozens of armored vehicles, the British ministry of defense assessed on Friday.
Last month, Denis Pushilin, Russia's leader in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, said that the capture of the Vuhledar region will be a game-changer for Russia's war efforts. "Taking control of this settlement will provide our troops with access to the Krasnoarmiysk (Pokrovsk) and Kurakhovskoye directions," he told state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
This month, "Russian troops likely fled and abandoned at least 30 mostly intact armored vehicles in a single incident after a failed assault," the ministry said in a daily assessment of the conflict.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-loss-tanks-terminator-vuhledar-1780353
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Moldova's prime minister, Natalia Gavrilita, resigned on Friday, soon after her country confirmed reports that a Russian missile had entered its airspace.
"If a country can start an annexation war without any regard for international law, then in this sense, nobody is safe," Gavrilita said. "I think a lot of countries are worried."
In discussing her decision to step down during a news conference, Gavrilita cited a lack of support for enacting her planned reforms but did not reference the recent report out of Ukraine about a Russian missile crossing over Moldova's airspace on early Friday.
That report came from General Valeriy Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, who announced that two Russian missiles were launched from the Black Sea and passed over the borders of Moldova and Romania before re-entering Ukraine.
Romania, a member of NATO, later said a Russian missile had not crossed over borders. However, Moldova said that one of Putin's missiles violated its airspace. As a result, Moldovan Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu summoned Russia's ambassador to Moldova over what he called an "unacceptable" incident.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-loses-ally-after-warning-that-putin-p
lanned-destroy-moldova-1780423
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