Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Putinistas Come Forth

You lonely bro? https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/attention-seeking-behavior#common-causes

We'll see but I think it's Putin that has made the long term fark up. It's going to cause some problems short term for Europe to wean itself off Russian natural gas and oil. No doubt about that. But I think this has been a wake up call for them. They don't want to be dependent on an unstable dictator like Putin for any kind of essential resource anymore. Fortunately for them there are other sources even if it will be difficult making the switch.

On the other hand it's going to be damn hard for Putin to shift that volume of business elsewhere. People just chant India and China like it will be a simple deal for them to pick up the difference. Not so. The primary source of natural gas in Russia is in the northwest portion of the country on the Yamal Peninsula. The Yamal Peninsula is ideally located to pipe gas to Europe. But get a map out and take a look at what it would require to pipe it to China or India. A hell of a lot of new pipeline and infrastructure work that doesn't exist now and would take years to build. The only one currently under construction isn't going to be finished until 2030.

And oil exports will suffer for Russia also. Currently China has a policy to never import more than 15% of such a commodity from any one country so as to not be overly dependent on any one country. And they are already at that 15% level with Russia now. Also Russia doesn't have the shipping capacity to make up the loss of oil they currently pipe to Europe. And thanks to all the businesses and investors that have stopped doing business with them they do not possess the ability to build the fleet of tankers it would take to make up the difference. Also if there is any stoppage in the flow of oil in those lines that oil will turn to immovable sludge during the Russia winter. And if they have to start capping wells because they are no longer in use go ask one of your buddies in the oil business the problems involved with making them usable again. They have received a lot of outside western tech help over the years with stuff like this. Thanks to the boycotts that help is no longer available.

It will be interesting to watch and see.

Attrition is Bringing Me Down ..

Not a Soul is asking for Time..

Not One of those Euro Lesbians has Blinked an eYe.

Attrition is Bringing Me Down ..

Seems like another case of Rubble..

That’s what they do Best ..

Attrition is Bringing Me Down ..

Ukraine launches counter offensive to retake Russia Held areas in the south.

Reuters, WSJ

How many counter offensives are they going to launch? I’m losing count.

Zelensky's going to end up like Mussolini.

He certainly deserves to end up like Mussolini !

As does y’all’s boy putin.

Any why must they launch them?

Any of them successful?

Russia has recently received their first shipment of drones from Iran but has experienced many failures with them to date.

Reuters, WSJ

One terrorist buying from another terrorist. What could be more fitting for Vladie?

They're not one, not even holy Ukraine worth one U.S. nickel. I say let them fight it out. Why in the name of the good Lord we even worry about Europe or the Middle East or Africa or Taiwan or the Stan nations I cannot figure out. If we have accomplished anything good by going to war since the Indian wars I can't see it. I make exception for the Indian wars because that at least was inside our own country.