The AP is reporting that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has restarted drone attacks against Russian oil refineries despite the request by President Trump to halt targeting energy infrastructure. There are a lot of aspects within this dynamic.
♦ First, keep in mind that any attacks against Russian infrastructure should always be evaluated against the capability of Russia to effectively mitigate such attacks. Russia is an analog infrastructure in a digital world, and one of the benefits to their system is the rapid repair capability in the old-school systems.
This may seem like a small detail, however, as noted in the prior attacks against almost all Russian infrastructure, Russia continued energy operations and exports of diesel fuel despite Ukraine targeting. Russia is remarkably resilient and they build out their capabilities with redundancies no longer used in most of the western industrial systems.
Due to their analog systems Russia may be less efficient in maximizing productivity; but what they lose in industrial productivity becomes an actual asset when shifting between internal systems becomes a matter of physically opening and closing valves to shift from damaged to operational stations. Russia’s slow adaption of technological innovation factually becomes a strategic advantage in this type of kinetic war.
♦ Second, it is worth remembering that oil refining capacity has been curtailed by the “climate change advocates” who now assemble to support Zelenskyy. The nations now aligned against the interests of Russia are yet dependent on the dirty industrial carbon energy resources provided by Russia and other oil exporting countries.
Think about it.
Because oil was considered a polluting industry, Canada, the U.K, almost all of Europe and even in the USA the refineries were devalued and capacity was eliminated.
For decades coal, oil and gas were industries without investment. However, clean energy systems can generate electricity but not much else. Canada, the U.K, most of Europe and the majority of the world are still dependent on coal, oil and gas.
The irony of the dependencies plays out when you look at two-faced Europe purchasing oil/gas from Russia yet decrying Russian oil/gas sales to the global market.
France is the biggest LNG purchaser from Russia, while NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte’s home country of The Netherlands is also a big buyer of Russian energy.
These dynamics become remarkable hypocrisies when we look at how the ‘Clean Energy West’ is fighting President Trump on the issues of Russia. In fact, it is not difficult to see how these same aligned nations are positioning their politics to attack President Trump and the alignment of domestic American opposition seeks to take advantage of this.
♦ The Wall Street Journal published an article earlier today that was transparently trying to set up a post-midterm impeachment narrative using the issue of Ukraine’s claim of Starlink no longer being a defense tool, because Donald Trump turned off the satellite system {SEE HERE}. It’s all nonsense, but with three weeks until the election, it doesn’t matter if the manipulated reporting is accurate or not – they are throwing everything at Trump in order to nudge the election.
Meanwhile Ukraine continues to represent a serious national security threat to the United States, especially when we see reports that Mexican and Central American drug cartels are sending their foot soldiers to Ukraine to learn how to use drones in preparation for combat against U.S. law enforcement {SEE HERE}. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has launched investigations into the matter.
It has become increasingly clear that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not only a puppet to U.K/EU interests, but he’s also an unstable person. Zelenskyy is the precarious front man of a very corrupt system that operates throughout Ukraine, and it is increasingly obvious that Zelenskyy himself has little to no impact on the military operations inside Ukraine.
Ukraine military leadership seems to be running a simultaneous campaign of violence and self-enrichment. This was happening in eastern Ukraine for a long time, since approximately 2014, long before Russian President Putin crossed the border with Russian troops to confront what he called Nazi extremists and terrorists. The war machine is exceptionally lucrative for most of the Ukrainian leadership and unfortunately for Zelenskyy the world is very aware of it.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine attacked a Russian oil refinery Thursday, abandoning a brief truce involving energy-related targets that it said Moscow did not heed, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he felt betrayed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The drone strike started a fire at the refinery about 300 kilometers (180 miles) southeast of Moscow in Russia’s Ryazan region, according to the Russian Defense Ministry and Ryazan Gov. Pavel Malkov. Russia’s Astra online news outlet posted what it said was a photograph of the blaze.
The strike could further complicate Kyiv’s relations with Trump, which have soured again in recent days amid deepening tensions between Ukraine and Washington.
Zelenskyy said he was outraged by Russia’s continuing aerial bombardment of energy infrastructure in apparent defiance of Trump’s demand on Sunday for both sides to halt those attacks. (more)
With all of that being said, there’s also something else becoming clear – and that is making several EU leaders very nervous.
There’s a general awakening throughout the citizenry of the nations that form the foundation of Zelenskyy’s support. Despite the extreme propaganda being promoted by the European Union, the populations of Germany, France, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria and several other nations are now looking at the conflict and noticing how Zelenskyy is behaving with the politicians who support him.
Things don’t look right and people can sense what they are witnessing isn’t the whole truth. As a consequence, Zelenskyy is being told to dial back his direct confrontational stance toward President Trump, and it looks like some EU leaders have some form of an intervention planned for Friday.
European leaders plan to urge Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to soften his public criticism of US leader Donald Trump, according to The Financial Times.
According to the FT, a summit of EU leaders is scheduled to take place in Brussels on Friday, October 16.
According to officials familiar with the meeting plans, European politicians intend to discuss the situation with Zelenskyy during closed-door negotiations. (more)
Enough is enough!! Cut everything. Financial help, intelligence help, no Patriot Missile license, no more weapons to NATO. CUT EVERYTHING!! 😡😡😡😡😡
100%…time to pull the plug on this thespian thug.
Shades of John Wilkes Booth eh? Rumors had Ukrainians as actors at J6. Thrown knife that hits hilt first is enlightening or should be.
The US MUST get out of UN and NATO and every disgusting GLOBALIST ORGANIZATION.
So he’s been stealing from us all along and now he’s going to tell us to go to hell. Eliminate the Threat.
And who in DC has been facilitating his grand larceny of Uncle Sugar’s pockets and those of taxpayers.
He hasn’t raked in the eye watering dosh all by his lonesome.
Who has been “taking his or her cut”…
Zelenskyy certainly knows and has the goods on many I’m betting.
Here, in Britain, and in Europe.
The stench is overpowering.
Oh yes, if Z was taken to a third party rendition site….the videos would shake the world…..one can dream but dictators usually meet a sorry and sordid end.
Every one of those Senators and their little intel chick mascot that hosted him last time he was in the US trying to undercut the President.
The Midweek Update – Trump’s Treasury Chief Calls Their Bluff: The End of the IMF Playbook? – October 14, 2026
Give this little gnome a piano and some viagra and send him on his way-
“They are throwing everything at Trump in order to nudge the election”.
That one sentence explains everything you see, domestically and globally.
Here’s the interesting thing to note about that statement. It’s akin to the Doom and Gloom to justify the Covid lock downs to commit the Great Cheat.
Except this time, IT’S NOT GOING TO WORK!
Amen! I agree! Praying verses in Psalms 109:20 MSG “That’s what they’ll get, those out to get [President Trump & our nation] – an avalanche of just desserts from God.” Along with many other verses – BUT GOD!!
Amen!
True, and what they fail to see is President Trump isn’t going anywhere in the next two years, regardless of the midterm elections.
Even if the DemonRats took Congress, it wouldn’t be enough to stop him. All the impeachment talk is pure tripe.
Carney in Canada fails to see this or at least pretends not to see it so he can continue to lie to the elbows-up crowd. Congress gave the president powers over trade, and the DemonRats can’t take it back as long as the President holds the veto pen.
As for Europe, these current leaders and their minority governments are going to fall, because their policies are utter folly and failures.
The UK Labor government will stay in power until they have to call elections, regardless of the damage they do to Britain, but they with fall just like the UK, and for the same reasons.
We will be witnessing the end of the EU and a corrupt world order.
Steel your resolve and listen to then candidate Trump in October 2016 (it makes my hand stand up), and get everyone you know to vote Republican.
Link: Stunning Donald Trump Speech: “The Crossroads In Our History” – Video and Transcript…. – The Last Refuge
[…] Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People. There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense.
The Washington establishment, and the financial and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.
The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. As an example, just one single trade deal they’d like to pass, involves trillions of dollars controlled by many countries, corporations and lobbyists.
For those who control the levers of power in Washington, and for the global special interests they partner with, our campaign represents an existential threat.
Even the Houthis bombing the Saudi Oil Company, etc.
It also makes them highly resilient to ‘soft’ digital attacks using worms and viruses to crash operating systems. A hack can’t physically turn off a manually operated valve.
Same with their basic military technology, it can survive long periods with basic field maintenance because it was largely designed for a conscript army to operate.
Digital and analog are different beasts to be sure.
I just think it’s funny that military brass keep trying to get rid of the A-10. It is very much an analog airframe that keeps coming back in spite of punishment over the favor of high tech digital like the F-35 that is much less resilient.
Sometimes you just need the thing that works well enough.
The A-10 is the 300 straight six ford made for so many years. Low maintenance, high mileage. Components fail. Take em off and throw them away and the damn thing still runs. They last, and the mere presence of one instills fear in the enemy.
My 260z was a straight six…miss it sorely; that telephone pole jumped out in front of it after an all night game of high school poker.
Funny enough I still got a 280zx in storage. One day I will rebuild that straight six and get it running again. Was such a blast to drive with a manual transmission.
I can tell ya, there is a whole lot of ‘old stuff’ out there that runs far better than the new stuff.
And a lot of it is in high demand..
30mm Gatling gun fires 3900 rounds per minute, plus it can take an amazing amount of punishment and still provide superior close air support. Kick some Ukrainian ass
And now with the newly modified Hydra rockets, a veritable drone killer.
I wish we would just cut the bastard off. Enough is enough.
No more targeting data….no more targetting.
time for putin to cut off the e.u. right before winter.”as the lil douchebag can’t seem to leave our refineries alone we are now short on oil and lng so we will be keeping it for ourselves”thanks for your attention to this matter!
I give it a couple of weeks and something terrible is going to happen to this little NAZI. Remember winter is fast approaching,, and those Muslims sure as hell do not like the cold. No telling what the hell they might burn down to stay warm.
If the “intervention” doesn’t leave the little green troll 🧌 in a straight jacket, propped up in the corner of a padded room & drooling 🤤 it’s wasted time.
When Daddy smacks him down, he may be down for the count.
At some point, Russia will become tired of the nitpicking and fire up the bombers and level Kyiv and other bases. Frankly, I am amazed at the restraint they have shown.
I am also amazed at the restraint Trump has shown towards Iran. I certainly would not have been this patient.
I was thinking the same thing. If Putin gets irritated enough or more Russian infrasructure is hit and people are dying, he just might take the kid gloves off. His patience is probably paper thin right now.
His original goal was not to smash UKR but to protect Russia and Russian citizens inside UKR. He’s apparently being pushed by the powers in the EU to get into a bigger fight and so far he’s had the sense not to do it, but there is a line to how long he holds off slamming the door on Z and the UKR military.
I wonder what he and PTrump decided besides the diesel fuel deal when they talked. My guess is they agreed to hold off any major slap down by Russia until after the midterms. The desperation by the power people over in EU is getting ramped up. They want Russia to attack so they can point at our Pres and say he didn’t stop any of that war and now it’s worse.
This mid term election cycle needs to hurry up and be over with.
The damage is already done. After that Oval Office stint and now his rant against 47 & Elon, President Trump won’t forget, much less forgive. Zman got too big for his britches. He’s toast. Just a matter of time.
No more intel. Pentagon needs to shut down StarShield.
IMO it will be the EU and Canada
that will be caught up in the U.S. net. They are the ones supporting the Ukrainian war effort against Russia. Plus their duplicity in purchasing Russian energy while they claim their green new deal is fabulous.
Perhaps their green ideal could be tested.
He’s probably pooping those britches, as he ‘s figuring out he’s a DMW! (and I don’t mean Drunk Man Walking)…
Trump told the world one more attack on Russian refineries and US Intel shut off …Z is a walking dead man politically without us.
in short..
Sundance: Russia is amazing
Enough is enough. This guy is being blatantly insubordinate and disrespecting our President, and by extension all Americans. It’s time to cut off Ukraine from all assistance and tell Ukraine and Europe they are fighting Russia all by themselves. This guy called you weak, Mr. President. Prove him a liar.
If we are supporting this nonsense via satellite access, why can’t we just pull that access?
We can, it’s just a matter of will.
There are $$$Trillions$$$ at stake!!!
Quite frankly, from a personal perspective, I am tired of the little sh*t, and wouldn’t mind hearing that someone/something had mopped the floor with him. He’s a disgusting, lying, weasel!
The Ukrainian people deserve someone who actually represents them. I’d vote to split that country into tiny little pieces; give Russia whatever parts of it they want, and rename everything else. Make it so small that no power could be had by being in charge of anything related to it.
Ugh. What a sorry piece of work. Good thing it’s not me making the decisions!
PT has been slowly and carefully peeling this onion for the world to see.
NO ONE can deny Z’s perfidy now.
this may be the moment when nothing can stop the dominoes from falling.
Trump needs to untie Putin’s hands and let Russia eliminate Ukraine.
The EU, UK, the WEF thought they could use access to the US comsumer market to fully fund the transition and bear the pain of the change to ALL electric energy.
Just tell all the dems voters they’re paying $9 diesel in CA because their boy Z can’t stop flying drones and blowing up refineries. Also, studies show all that smoke is killing trans-people and minorities.
The EU leaders and ex-leaders are beyond complicit. I’d hope they be targeted as war participants.
As for Zelenskgay, he seems to be from the Sam Brinton school of government honesty. When James O’Keefe exposes corruption, he often finds a homosexual as the corrupt one. James Lindsay explains that ‘Queer theory’ opposes normality and therefore ‘Queer’ has no limits, hence the bitchy determination to continue conflict or to be corrupt with no remorse.
I’m confident that November 4 will see the beginning of a definite and stronger US response.
….yeah…you ain’t got no $ but you’re demanding mine….
“US cannot force us to the negotiating table and force us to listen. We are an independent country.”
Ukraine is far from an independent country and you are not your own man.
Desperation….when you’re hearing footsteps.
Doesn’t sound very “Independent” to me! Sounds more like a pissed off “EX”.
Target Z
So the EU and NATO are willing to hurt themselves more in order to hurt America a little bit more? Just for the next 3 weeks? I mean, the only way that makes any sense is that trillions really are at stake. I say ef it, let Trump go forth unafraid.
The way Ukraine has been able to resist the full weight of Russian Imperial attack
is amazing.
Zelensky is courageous and a hero for stopping the Russian advance on Europe.
Years ago a good friend mentioned the pervasive corruption over there. We do not want to ignore that reality either.
That said, there are things going on under the surface of this conflict that are disturbing.
The USA has clearly been targeted and pushed to the front of financing and providing weapons in aid of Ukraine.
Europe, that has an economy 10x or more the size of Russia, has created military weakness that invited this attack.
Now we are starting to see the cross purposes as both Russia and Ukraine resist moves toward peace.
Part of the unmentioned reality is just how much Ukrainians hate Russians.
Stalin killed 8 to 12 million Ukrainians in the early last century.
Ukraine does not forget.
The second unmentioned reality is that the destruction of Russia itself
and the resulting chaos, is not really in American interest.
America has challenges in Asia that are more important.
Peace will be hard to achieve.
And harder to lock in, so that it will last.
Still, durable Peace is what is in the American interest.
Zelensky is a putrid clown
Zero is a CIA/Soetero concoction. It was very strange that President Trump reached out to him in 2018, with calamitous results. Personally, I have felt that the President never grasped the length and depth of the CIA. The CIA is now caught between a rock and a hard place as their influence gets jeopardized. For sure, Putin needs customers and the list is not shrinking. A long, cold winter may be in store for NATO and and those clouds could be the clouds of war. Putin, for sure, understands the role of the CIA in all of this. He has options. War seems inevitable.
Trump and US Military need to stop everything period…and not just till the election is over. We have allowed the Ukrainian people to be forced into the military and sent untrained to a front to die. Smart ones surrender.
This entire wicked cabal of anti-human psych jobs represent the single greatest threat to humanity and our Republic that has existed since our founding.
Zelensky is a servant of Satan, as are all supporters of this vile war, whether they are consciously aware of it or not.
I’m so done with all of this, I don’t even have the words to express just how done I am in a polite way fit to post.
The older I get, the more I see the wisdom in Isolationism..
I just don’t care anymore about what is going on out there anymore. We can do damn near everything we need to do entirely here, we don’t need any of then or any of this !!
Ukraine is bingo on Patriots. No defense from ballistic missile attacks per CNN. Z has abandoned placating DC both the diplomats, the envoys and our President. Z is verbally attacking DC and possibly losing citizen support in EU.
President Trump has exposed Ukraine as being a bad actor against the EU, NATO and the world’s interests. Taking out Russian petro products hurts the world. Three steps now, if you will, too far by Z. The goal now is to isolate Ukrainian leadership and get them or new leaders to sue for peace to make it all stop.
Winter is coming. Patience for just a bit and this problem will resolve….and it will resolve quickly if all assistance by the USA is stopped.
He, Z has now made himself our enemy…..and the world’s enemy including Western Europe….treat him as one.
Addendum:
Last a warning. This desperate little piece of caca has the capacity and funds to try desperate actions here on our soil. Stop this now else trucks with drones arrive at priority assests here in the USA.
Just shut it all down and let the mighty midget play his piano. Like Nero fiddled while Rome burnt. (Lyred)
Poking the Bear comes to mind when reading this and honestly thinking, are there no nations in the European Union with any memory of history at all?
Russia, Winter, don’t poke the bear anyone?
And even if they weren’t taught the history is there…
“Theatricality and deception are powerful agents to the uninitiated.”
Putin could send a hypersonic missile straight up the Gnome’s coke filled nostrils anytime he wanted. A legitimate super power letting a two bit cosplaying actor breathe free air makes zero sense. Russia could have snuffed this guy in 2022 at the start of the war if it wanted.
Zelensky is probably sending 33% of his plunder to Mother Russia.
…and you get cold enough you won’t care where the gas came from….or maybe not even care how much it costs….energy isn’t optional.
“Volodymyr Zelenskyy is {…[ a puppet to U.K/EU interests”
Why did
If Lil’ Z is training the drug cartels, then we should definitely whip a Maduro on him and stick him in GITMO!!!
He won’t be able to get up to any mischief in there.
“Things don’t look right and people can sense what they are witnessing isn’t the whole truth” I sure hope you are right. The WSJ is absolutely brutal and incredibly frustrating/infuriating. It seems most people are blaming Trump. I fear the goons will at least take congress – the leftist Americans and the hoards they have imported are our most dangerous foes.
Indications are otherwise for the midterms. Stop hand wringing and go vote and take everyone you know with you.
Black Bag that little Nazi.
Problem solved.