These are refineries not oil fields. They turn oil into gasoline, diesel, kerosene and much much more.

No, that is exactly what is going to happen. The Russians leave them out their tied up, so the Ukrainians can kill them.

The US is not part of the ICC.

That is the clear difference to close source. YouTube, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Twitter, PowerPoint or Word are amazing names…

“Buy” implies they have money to pay for it.

In Crimea the Russian authorities have started using coupons to be able to buy fuel. So there is clearly a shortage. I would not be surprised, if that extends to the front at least eough to slow down attacks.

The other part is that Russia had a breakthrough a few days ago and Ukraine has closed that. They probably put a lot into that. Besides the Donbaz the fighting is also pretty light.

This is really important right now. The new EU sanctions targets crude oil and Trump hitting India increased the discount for Russian oil. A lot of poor countries especially in Africa would love to buy that, but lack reffineries. So Russia refines the oil and sells it. Ukraine damaging Russian refineries obviously makes this a lot harder.

It really looks like Russia is struggling right now.

It really is striking how low the tank losses are.

By detain you mean this right:

We are talking about 128million non White Americans and that is not including white Latinos. Just to put it into context the Holocaust killed 6million Jews, the Partition of India moved 12-20million people and created a lot of suffering doing so and somewhat similar numbers in displaced people in Europe after WW2(moving borders and the like). Those are some of the darkest chapters of human history and this would be an order of magnitude large then those.

First of all, doing that would create a massive reaction. We are talking 38% of the US population being deported, so a civil war is very much an option.

The honest answer is that a lot of Americans are very well educated and rather rich. So if they would be allowed to leave, then they would be welcomed by other countries. However we are talking about numbers here, which would compeletly change the housing and job markets here. The locals will not like that and close their countries off. Still a good number would make it. At that point the US has two options: Wage a war to take some land for them or kill them. Taking land would lead to hatred of the Americans including the deported. We are also talking about a massive country here and probably a lot of death. Obviously killing everybody would be even worse. There is also the option of pushing them into say Alaska and make that independent. However that is unlikely.

The US economy would be absolutly destroyed by this. If you deport them quickly, it would lead to shortages. Most certainly shortage of workers, which would indeed push up wages. Housing would end up being cheap and people would move to the best cities of the country. On the international stage the US would be widely hated and probably be hit with sanctions(they deport a lot of people and that causes huge problems for other countries). So long term it might actually be good for white workers. However the rich would hate it, due to it destroying their cheap workforce. Short term the US would have massive shortages and suffer a lot.

Even just deporting a larger part of the non-white population would cause a lot of problems.

Now the international powers that be are more interested in entering into weapons contracts with Ukraine than they are “stepping back and letting Russia continue the war” (i.e. selling vital electronics components to Russia for their fighterbomber jets?) and the longer Russia continues the war the more they underline how international powers stand far more to gain by working with Ukraine and gaining access to their advanced technology and innovative tactics than they do partnering with Russia and gaining access to outdated equipment, doctrine and armored vehicles that simply cannot protect their crews and passengers period.

Ukraine wants to be part of the EU. So any country wanting such military support from Ukraine would have to be aligned with the EU as well. That was a huge selling point of Russian weapons. Currently China fills that market with decent enough cheap weapon systems. They certainly do not care too much about Russia buying weapons components from them.

It does not even need to be a majority. Actually doing it makes you more believable when you promote any sort of action. It also works as a sort of promotion in itself. As in people can see you cycle, not eat meat or have solar panels on your roof. By doing it, you also create demand for the alternative, like for example solar panels, bicycles or vegan products. That makes those alternatives easier and cheaper to purchase. It also makes it politically easier to ban something, as part of the society is not impacted at all.

In the end calling somebody an idiot, for promoting individual action due it not being an attempt to change society is just dumb. After all anybody who does that promotion tries to bring other people to do something. At that point it really is no longer the action of an individual. Honestly it really is a simple way to lobby against such actions on a bigger scale.

Looks like they plan to introduce some sort of change in the next parliament session.

Wales just moved from first past the post to proportional under a Labour government in the Senedd.

Labour had a bit more then a third of the votes, which is pretty close to were Reform is polling today. However Labour won a massive majority with those votes. If Labour wants to prevent a Reform victory they need to change the election system. It is even worse for the Tories. So long term Tory supporters will cheer them on.

We are heading into a feudal system of a sort. The wealth gap is absolutly massive and the only way to end up in the upper class is to inherit. As per usual the population feels that the system is unfair, but is unable to see the real problem. Media is really pushing far right talking points, as the upper class realizes that the system is broken and a real revolution is a problem. Thats how the US ended up with a de facto monarchy. The UK is moving towards that pretty quickly too.

The good news is that Labour might make some really usefull changes. Mainly end first past the post to prevent Reform from taking over. That might very well allow left wing parties like the LibDems and Greens to win more seats and change the narrative.

Russia is building more, so they will never fully run out. If you are thinking of storage, then they are out of the long range systems and currently move towards WW2 era guns. They have a lot of those, but the range is much shorter. So even more destroyed guns.

And this is the sort of stuff we see, when Russia is loosing power. Small things like this remove Russian influence in a lot of places.

Republik Königsberg here we go…

Doubt the Israel plan. Syria and Sudan are pretty good places to show morality is relative. At least with some propaganda.

The problem is that an end of the war means thousands of unemployed men with actual war experience running around in Russia. If Putin can not show what he gained in the last two years, during which a lot of those men lost their friends and maybe family, those men might get some ideas. Wagner marched on Moscow after all.

So Putin just gambles that the West gives up on Ukraine. That is the only way he can actually show something.