Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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EV's are looking better, now that Trump has the cost of gas going through the roof.
Until rates for electricity go up.
AFA Russian logistics across "the front" collapsing...
• Crimea is not "the front". Ukies have made life more difficult for the civilian population in Crimea, but that hasn't stopped Russia from moving forward across the entire front, including in the south.
• If drone attacks on roads and bridges were enough to collapse an army, Kiev would have collapsed two years ago. Ukraine's "drone wars" are irritating but not strategic.
It does look as if Ukraine is planning some sort of media incursion, sending in a relatively small contingent as deep as possible to video themselves planting flags. They'll be wiped out, just like the Kursk offensive, the 2023 southern offensive, and the ridiculous plays for Rabotyn and Krynky were wiped out
Yes, electric costs could be a problem. However, the American voter can insist that these large data centers have to provide their own power. Too late to help us but building them in the low temperature of space may be the best way forward. Cooling the chips is a lot of the problem. And they are having some success dealing with that.
As for the rest of your post regarding Ukraine; wrong. You, are heading for a major clash with reality.
The way I understand it, THGR, is that Russian military staff and policy planners view the SMO as a series of related probabilistic differential equations. Everything happens at a rate, each with its error band:
Russia marches forward at a certain rate.
Russian loses military and economic capability at a certain rate.
Ukraine loses at a certain rate.
EU economies decline at a certain rate.
USA weapons stockpiles are used up at a certain rate, and produced at a (lower) rate.
Popular opinion changes at a certain rate.
Some rates are linear, some are higher order, occasionally they experience a step change, like the introduction of new technology like drones or the change of a particular government or the opening of a new front.
I don't have information needed to make accurate predictions. But this is war, and losses are inevitable on both sides. The question is, who is losing more faster? AFAIK it's Ukraine and the EU.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Until the very end, you'll deny the facts, reality. Trust me, that day is coming, and soon.
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Russian troops begin withdrawal as supply chain strikes leave Putin's troops without water
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You cannot win an argument comrade signym if your facts are wrong. The truth will prevail.
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"What A Million Casualties Bought
The final column in the ledger is territory, and it is the shortest. Four years of war, more than a million casualties by every serious estimate, the named graves of 200,000 men, 14,000 confirmed armored vehicles, a third of the strategic bomber fleet, and the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet have purchased Russia roughly a fifth of Ukraine — much of it rubble, none of it secure, and all of it costing more each month to hold than it returns."
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Every method of counting Russia’s Ukraine war dead now points to the same staggering conclusion
For most of this war, the honest answer to the question of Russian losses was that nobody outside the Kremlin knew, and the Kremlin was not saying. Ukraine's daily tallies ran high by design, Moscow published almost nothing, and Western intelligence kept its estimates classified or vague.
That era is ending. As of this spring, four independent counting methods — name-by-name verification, statistical demography, photographic confirmation, and Western intelligence assessment — are converging on the same range, and the range is staggering: well over a million Russian casualties, with the dead alone numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
For most of this war, the honest answer to the question of Russian losses was that nobody outside the Kremlin knew, and the Kremlin was not saying. Ukraine's daily tallies ran high by design, Moscow published almost nothing, and Western intelligence kept its estimates classified or vague.
That era is ending. As of this spring, four independent counting methods — name-by-name verification, statistical demography, photographic confirmation, and Western intelligence assessment — are converging on the same range, and the range is staggering: well over a million Russian casualties, with the dead alone numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
The numbers can now be laid out method by method, domain by domain, and the picture they form is the most expensive military campaign any country has waged since the Second World War.
How The Counting Works: Mediazona, Oryx, And Western Intelligence
Every figure in this accounting belongs to one of four evidence tiers, and the tiers matter more than any single number.
The floor is name-by-name confirmation: the Russian independent outlet Mediazona, working with the BBC's Russian service, verifies individual deaths through obituaries, cemetery records, and official notices, a method that undercounts by design because many deaths never surface publicly. One tier up sits statistical estimation, in which Mediazona and Meduza analyze Russian probate filings and excess-mortality data to estimate total deaths that the naming method misses. The third tier is photographic: the open-source project Oryx logs every tank, vehicle, aircraft, and gun for which destruction can be visually documented, another deliberate undercount since cameras miss much of a thousand-kilometer front. The ceiling is the claims tier, Ukraine's General Staff daily figures, which run far above every other method and serve best as an upper bound.
Russian Casualties: From 200,000 Named Dead To Half A Million Killed
The evidence stack now runs, tier by tier, as follows: more than 200,000 individually identified Russian dead as of February by the Mediazona-BBC verification count; 352,000 Russian men between 18 and 59 estimated killed in Mediazona and Meduza's May statistical update; roughly 1.2 million permanent losses including more than 500,000 dead in the April assessment of the Netherlands' military intelligence service; nearly 500,000 killed per the head of Britain's GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler, in May; 1.1 to 1.5 million total killed and wou
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Cheap Death:
Ukraine's drone chief reveals how much it costs to eliminate one Russian soldier
By Daryna Vialko | Thu, June 11, 2026 - 19:42
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces accounted for one-third of Russian military losses over the past year. The cost of eliminating a single soldier is less than $1,000, Commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces Robert "Madyar" Brovdi said in an interview with Reuters.
He said that the average cost of eliminating one Russian soldier over the past year was approximately $918.
More at https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraine-s-drone-chief-reveals-how-much
-it-1781195869.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) continues to fabricate evidence as part of its cognitive warfare effort to support false claims of advance.
The Russian MoD posted footage on June 11, which it claimed showed elements of the Russian 126th Motorized Rifle Regiment (71st Guards Motorized Rifle Division, 14th Army Corps [AC], Leningrad Military District [LMD]) seizing Okhrimivka (northeast of Kharkiv City).[22] A local Kharkiv Oblast Telegram channel pointed out on June 11 that the official Russian Northern Grouping of Forces (GoF) Telegram channel had posted the same footage on June 10, claiming that it showed Russian forces striking Ukrainian forces near Ruska Lozova (just north of Kharkiv City and roughly 66 kilometers from Okhrimivka).[23]
Russia has increased the sophistication of its cognitive warfare effort over the last several months, producing more complex montages with high-production editing and using artificial intelligence (AI) footage to make claims of advance in areas where Russian forces do not maintain enduring positions.[24]
These videos are part of the Kremlin’s systematic cognitive warfare effort to aggrandize Russian advances through exaggerated claims of gains and infiltration missions in an attempt to portray them as a sweeping, broad-front advance to falsely portray the frontline as collapsing across the theater, contrary to all available evidence.[25]
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-june-11-2026/
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Europe can legally quit Russian LNG today. It keeps choosing not to.
Since October, every long-term buyer has had legal cover to walk away from Russian LNG. Only Germany has even asked.
Russian LNG is still flowing. The EU paid Russia €7.2 billion for it in 2025—enough to fund nearly three times Russia's 2024–2025 Iskander-M ballistic missile contract.
For Ukrainians, this reality is painfully tangible: every euro of revenues from Russian fossil fuel exports is transformed into drones and missiles that strike our cities and civilians.
By Kateryna Kontsur
11/06/2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/11/europe-says-it-almost-broke-fro
m-russian-fossil-fuels-the-almost-is-lng/
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Frontline soldiers set for major pay increase under new Ukrainian army plan
June 12, 2026, 07:50 AM
Ukrainian service members will begin receiving higher compensation under a planned military pay reform, with frontline infantry expected to earn an average of UAH 300,000 ($6,670) per month and rear-area personnel receiving at least UAH 30,000 ($670), President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on June 12.
https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/ukraine-to-raise-military-pay-frontl
ine-infantry-to-receive-uah-300-000-zelenskyy-says-50615740.html
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Next step for drone warfare in Ukraine
Scientists have trained 200,000 human brain cells grown on a microchip to "play" the original Doom. “If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, Doomguy shoots. If they fire in another pattern, he moves right, and so on."
“We grew a human brain fused to a computer, sent it to a digital rendition of Hell, and gave it a gun.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/1rk7e7t/we_grew_l
ife_in_a_dish_and_taught_it_to_play_doom/
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tick tock tick tock...
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RUSSIAN Lights Out
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This is NOT speculation. If you are wealthy yet don't cheer for a Russian victory, you will be jailed on false charges, convicted, and your fine will be the loss of your business. "Russian billionaires see their empires crumble as Putin seizes assets" June 5, 2026 https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/russian-billionair
es-see-their-empires-crumble-as-putin-seizes-assets-20260604-p603vv.html
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Russia Confiscates $7.6 Billion in Assets in Largest Nationalization Yet
June 12, 2026
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/06/12/russia-confiscates-76bln-in-
assets-in-largest-nationalization-yet-a92991
Russian authorities have confiscated assets worth 550 billion rubles ($7.59 billion) linked to jailed billionaire Vadim Moshkovich and transferred them to state ownership, the Interior Ministry said Thursday, in what appears to be the largest asset seizure of Russia's recent wave of nationalizations.
Moshkovich, 58, founder of major agricultural producer Rusagro and ranked 51st on Forbes Russia's list of the country's wealthiest businessmen, has been held in pre-trial detention since March last year. Former Rusagro Chief Executive Maxim Basov was also arrested in connection with the case.
The seizure underscores the scale of the Kremlin's campaign to bring private assets under state control since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a drive that has already transferred businesses worth an estimated 6.5 trillion rubles ($89.7 billion) to government ownership.
The Interior Ministry said its investigation into Moshkovich had been completed and that all property seized in the case had been "transferred to state revenue."
In May, Moscow's Khamovniki District Court ordered the nationalization of Rusagro, one of Russia's largest agricultural companies. Rusagro is the country's second-largest pork producer, third-largest sugar producer and controls more than 800,000 hectares of agricultural land.
According to the Kommersant business daily, Moshkovich faces charges of large-scale fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; intentional bankruptcy and money laundering, each punishable by up to seven years; and bribery, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years.
The value of the assets seized from Moshkovich exceeds that of several other high-profile nationalization cases that have reshaped Russia's business landscape in recent years.
Those include the confiscation of seafood magnate Oleg Kan's "crab empire," valued at about $4.3 billion; Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, valued at 320 billion rubles ($4.42 billion); gold producer Yuzhuralzoloto, controlled by billionaire Konstantin Strukov and estimated to be worth around $2 billion; assets belonging to former Yugra Bank owner Alexei Khotin worth more than 200 billion rubles ($2.76 billion); pasta producer Makfa, valued at roughly 100 billion rubles ($1.38 billion); PVC manufacturer Sayanskkhimplast, valued at 92 billion rubles ($1.27 billion); and car dealer Rolf, valued at about 60 billion rubles ($828 million).
Bloomberg previously reported that some of Moshkovich's associates had appealed to President Vladimir Putin to intervene in the case, but that the Russian leader declined to do so.
According to Bloomberg, concerns among some of Russia's wealthiest businessmen about potential prosecution or asset seizures have prompted efforts to demonstrate loyalty to the Kremlin.
The agency reported that billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, whose fortune is estimated at $11.6 billion by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, offered during a closed-door meeting with Putin in March to contribute 100 billion rubles ($1.38 billion) to the state budget.
Bloomberg reported that the federal budget subsequently received 220 billion rubles ($3.04 billion) in what officials described as gratuitous contributions following Putin's annual meeting with leading business executives.
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Russia DIDN'T shoot down MH17. It may have been Donbas separatists who shot it down by accident, but Russians did not fire the missile and Russian officials didn't give the order to shoot.
The actual Telegraph headline and sub readsQuote:
“Ukraine needs a victory before autumn to silence Western doubters.” Its sub-headline read: “Volodymyr Zelenskyy is running out of time to shore up support, with some believing his country’s battle against Russia is futile.”
While G7 nations may have vowed to continue military aid, they fail to say AT WHAT LEVEL.
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Russia responsible for downing of MH17, UN body rules
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd62v890l5qo
Putins' Troops are responsible. And of course, signym takes Russia's side.
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