I mentioned this last night, and now more solid reports have emerged. Basically, Ukraine and Russia are taking turns striking each other’s warehouses and distribution centers with missiles and drones. However, the brunt of the damage and chaos is being felt only by one side—Ukraine.
Zero Hedge has a solid article explaining the dynamics:
A Russian drone struck a Ukrainian Defense Forces ammunition storage site in the village of Myla Friday evening, just west of Kiev. The resulting fire and hours of secondary detonations killed at least 37 people, injured dozens more, damaged around 50 residential buildings and a care home for the elderly and disabled, and forced the evacuation of hundreds. Among the dead was the local community head who had gone to help.
In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ¹the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.” The first impact, he said, hit a depot storing shells, mines, other munitions, and drones that “definitely shouldn’t have been there” – while prosecutors in Kiev opened a criminal investigation into the legality of storing explosives next to civilian housing. This is the second such incident in two months. A July strike on a depot in nearby Vyshneve produced similar secondary blasts, deaths, and later detentions of state defense-company executives.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the Myla site held components and launch boosters for long-range drones. It also claimed strikes on Flamingo cruise-missile related facilities in the Kiev region and on the ports of Mykolaiv and Izmail. Social-media claims that Patriots were stored there remain unconfirmed by official Ukrainian statements.
Here comes the fact that few in the west understand:
Friday night’s blast came amid a multi-day Russian campaign of jet-powered drones and missiles that has produced near-continuous air-raid alerts over Kiev and hit warehouses belonging to supermarket chains, postal operators, retailers, and logistics firms. Ukraine Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi told reporters that, “roughly speaking,” about 90% of the food-logistics infrastructure used by major retail chains (large distribution centers serving networks such as Fora, Silpo, NOVUS, and Varus) has been destroyed.
[…] Both sides have been systematically striking each other’s logistics and dual-use commercial infrastructure. […] Zelensky’s government has framed its own long-range strikes as a way to force Russia to negotiate. (more)
You can hit centralized Russian distribution centers and not accomplish any material impact to the people of Russia. However, if you hit centralized Ukraine distribution centers, chaos and crisis quickly surfaces for Kiev residents.
The why is not complicated.
Metropolitan Russia, home to more than 75% of the population, was set up around the concept of govt planned precincts.
Each few buildings you will find a generally useful grocery store, a bakery, a coffee shop, a pharmacy, a utility store, tobacco, produce shop etc. all within immediate walking distance.
EX. Bread is made in each bakery; made, not just taken out of a box. Actually made.
They set it up that way a long time ago during the Soviet era. Now, over time stores are different, but the planning never changed. The people of Russia also operate Dacha Gardens all over the urban sprawl and suburban areas.
“Gardening as provided food for the people of Russia for over 1,000 years, starting as mainly subsistence or survival gardening and evolving into an independent, self-provisioning model between the Bolshevik Revolution and World War II and continues into today.”
Ukraine, we are told – even by former Defense Minister Fedorov, was convinced by western intelligence analysis that destroying the roughly 200 online Wildberries distribution centers it would cripple the Russian consumer economy.
Increased strikes did not yield the desired results.
Who in their right mind thought destroying regional Russian online warehouses would have some great impact? Russia is analog in a digital world.
However, conversely in our westernized, centralized, corporate consumer structures and logistics, we built distribution economies on centralized production and cost-efficient distribution, vis-a-vis Kyiv or Brussels etc.
Ex. The western bread for a hundred locations is made in one centralized or regional facility. Boxed, shipped and distributed for maximum efficiency and profit.
Bombing Russian distribution centers doesn’t have any impact on the precinct level operation. But taking out westernized regional hubs and distribution centers in Kiev can create immediate chaos.
That’s what we are seeing now.
Honestly, this is not complicated to analyze. These are two completely different economic and logistic models. One is centralized (Ukraine) and one is decentralized (Russia). Attacking the logistics of a decentralized system creates no substantive impact. Attacking the logistics of a centralized system creates major impact.
I think part of the reason the western news doesn’t make sense is because western media doesn’t understand Russia or pretend not to know things.
Apparently, the same applies to Western intelligence.
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[¹People are starting to suspect that Director Ratcliffe told his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin where the ammo was stored.]
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ¹the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.” “
Terrorist 101 playbook:
Use civilians as “human shields”.
Ukraine = Hamas when it comes to using civilians as human shields.
Z continues to use Ukrainian soldiers (kidnapped off the street or otherwise in the military) to stay in power. Why can’t idiots in the West, and the MSM, see this?
Why can’t idiots in the West, and the MSM, see this?
American politicians and the cia?
They don’t see it because they are getting paid big $$$$ not to see it and they write and say what they’re told to write and say. A bunch of media and gubmint whores.
It puts the whole US situation of 4 gigantic beef processors controlling 85% of the US beef supply (and two of those are foreign owned) into a new light. So much of the US supply chain is efficient to the point of extreme fragility. (Remember the great toilet-paper shortage?)
“[O]ur westernized, centralized, corporate consumer structures and logistics, we built distribution economies on centralized production and cost-efficient distribution.”
Western educated MBAs are trained to eliminate “redundancies” to maximize efficiency and therefore maximize profits. But redundancies are what gives a system resiliency. Redundancies are a backup. That’s why God made us with two kidneys when we can live on one, two lungs, two of lots of things, because accidents happen.
Gen-Z, Affluent Western Urban-dwelling Liberals (aka AWFULs) think that constant access to online merchandise like Amazon or Temu or Doordash or Wildberries is essential. That’s who is at the Pentagon and in the CIA making these idiotic targeting decisions.
?????????? The safe and effective crowd? This is right up their alley. Lie and decieve.
“Why can’t idiots in the West, and the MSM, see this?”
Because they are stupid, and because they are liars.
Mostley because they were complicit in all of it.
Because they are doing the work of Satan, prince of this world.
People are easily seduced by power and material reward.
The antidote to possession by the evil one is faith in God.
“The antidote to possession by the evil one is faith in God,” is the crux of all worldly happenings.
God’s law is designed to strengthen our faithfulness. Humans are never punished -by God- for their faith. It is quite the opposite.
Faith delivers us from evil. Fear, the anti-faith, delivers us TO evil. Doubt is when evil pulls up a chair.
In the end times satanic forces are unrestrained but the purpose of the ‘final’ showdown has been made abundantly clear: to demonstrate the fate that awaits those who choose to remain separated from their God.
Remember there is always a choice to be made: Faith vs fear.
They don’t care. Throw them in the meat grinder. Drone fodder and no elections in Ukraine.
What is unbelievable is that the idiots believe Ukraine is winning the war, meanwhile they are kidnapping men off the streets to throw to the front line meat grinder. What winning army does that?
Israel runs the West and the MSM that’s why.
Next question.
That cokehead globalist puppet Zelenski has lost control over the Ukraine population. If these Russian attacks cripple Ukrainians basic necessities as intended, the Zeester will be looking for a personal exit before his own people introduce him to his last day
Ask the ghost of Mussolini how that works . . . (The Italians always did have a certain flair for theater.)
Call it Operatic.
Shucks Deplorable, I didn’t see your post and posted the exact same analysis. My bad.
No problem.
Great minds think alike!
Agreed to both Deplorable_Infidel and Monti.
Seems Sundance has us all asking the right questions WVMagaPatriot.
Lots of great folks in WV. Have a gr8 evening.
Took the words right out of my mouth!
Then, the captured Marxist/Globalist Western news media dutifully reports that Russia is attacking civilian neighborhoods, thereby killing women and children, while heroic Ukraine fights back by attacking only Russian infrastructure.
The Western media doesn’t even need to be schooled on what to report. They have PDS (Puten Derangement Syndrome), so all that the CIA/NATO needs to do is to provide details of the latest Russian “atrocity” and the media run with it.
And yeah, it’s literally no different than what has been going on for decades, with Hamas and Israel, where NDS (Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome) has the Western media virtually frothing at the mouth.
Ukraine’s battlefield casualty numbers and prolongation of the war are proof the Z regime doesn’t care about the lives of Ukrainians. (Other than to exploit Uke casualties for propaganda and for sympathy to keep the western money flowing in.)
Russia is pretty much unbeatable. Ask Napoleon and Adolf. The place is GIGANTIC.
Remember when Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan were a part of Russia?
Not so hard when you take it on piece at a time.
The British have plotted to divide Russia up for several hundred years.
Now it looks like not-so-great Britain will be consolidated into a califate.
Less Britain
Yeah but they can’t Hide da Park and get rid of Speakers Corner cause that has already been done.
Little Britain.
we probably should pull any nukes we have over there before the caliphate grabs them
One would think the home office would be a little preoccupied with their back yard debacle. F’ing roving gangs, hordes of unruly immigrants. Wait until they arrive on the doorstep of someone who has a false sense of importance.
Such as the king and Camilla?
Preoccupied? Why? Everything about UK population-replacement is proceeding according to plan.
got it in one
Minor detail and you need to reread what really happened … those smaller nation-states you named ALL “broke away” after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
The USSR was actually a form of Federation that included those states. Those states were actually referred to as “Breakaway Republics” for some tme after the USSR fragmented.
NOBODY took anything.
This the the point exactly. You help the people in those states decide to “break away” and supply them the means to do it.
how long will the keep it? History says not to long.
They were last part of the Soviet Union! 🙄
At times in imperial days and during the Soviet rule but while under Imperial/Soviet rule they maintained their identity and some home rule, this was the Soviet Union not Soviet Russia. Stalin tried to overcome that by transplanting whole populations which is what happened in Ukraine. Yet when the Soviet Union fell those Republics wanted and achieved independence. Some remain in the Russian sphere of influence, others do not. That was basically the start of the Ukraine war. A pro Russian president was elected and Obama, Clinton and Valerie Nuland wouldn’t accept that and funded an overthrow of the government. It’s a bit more complicated I have already used to much space.
personally, I don’t think you’ve used enough space; a lot of people have forgotten this part of very recent history
I agree! Go on👍🏻
Canada is gigantic too. Size matters but it’s not enough.
Size and space does not matter as much as you think in the age of air and space power and nuclear weapons. Much of that space in Russia is just that wide open space and not a military target.
Lots of square feet and few people.
And Winter is Coming.
This comment is key.
Winter does not allow crops to grow.
Winter does not allow comfort without warmth from oil/gas/wood heat.
Winter does not even allow a drink of water once the water turns to ice.
Winter kills.
And winter is indeed coming.
But I thought the biggest fear was warming?
Patton was willing to take a shot. But no. And the rest is history.
[¹People are starting to suspect that Director Ratcliffe told his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin where the ammo was stored.]
Especially given the past 80 straight hours of successful strikes . . .
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I think he did tell him… Russia and the U.S. ally up to defeat Ukraine, EU, NATO and the globalist system.
I’m Team USA and Russia.
You are truly a breath 0f Sunshine and count me in also.
Vladimir Putin won my respect in the sit down He did with ‘bite my tongue’ Tucker Carlson. it was very evident that Putin is a long range thinker and he loves his country and his people unequivocally, just like Trump. i’m siding with Putin and have been since this whole deal started.
That interview was embarrassing. Carlson was inept and missed out on a chance to ask Putin any significant questions.
So you like a man who kills his neighbor and takes his property ?
You must be new here.
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Note the double name sign 😉
Which means what? Please….🤔
Nope.
That’s why we like President Putin.
Carlson did that? /s
Michael…where you came from ?…..are you OK ????
You mean Obama and Nuland?
Amen, Mallory. I’ve said all along that Trump and Putin have a LOT in common!
“I’ve said all along that Trump and Putin have a LOT in common!”
Citizens of the United States and Russia have a lot in common too. Historically it’s the select few covertly burrowed into long term government positions that have been the ones to foment hostilities.
Russia and the US won WW2. We are neighbors and have a long history of working together to achieve common goals.
The Russians have their own excellent intelligence apparatus … We’re not gonna tell them anything they don’t already know.
Did Ratcliffe go to Russia to offer up information, or was he invited to Russia so he could be given advance notice on what was to come?
I’m team USA stay out of a european conflict involving Ukraine and Russia. period.
that is not to say I am opposed to military force, but not in this one. We should be focused on iran, where we have basically left the field…
should the US want involvement in UKR or Russia is should be limited to providing economic treatise that allow BOTH countries to benefit from the vast oil and energy resources of Russia through Ukraine.
oh…oops…I think I just answered my own question.
of course the US is involved. We can’t allow Russia to become a global market maker for energy now can we..think of the US producers…think of the children. think of the nazi’s. think of the (fill in blank), but no matter what lets don’t talk about the real issue. Russia is standing on an enormous inexpensive resource of oil and gas. They would like to sell it and grow the 4th leg of any superpower…an energy provider to a global market.
THAT is why the US is so keen on arming Ukraine. Keep the prices high, no competition, fewer competition and the banks are rewarded…and the money continues to flow.
God Bless America
arming and providing (space-based/satellite) intelligence to Z
So why take a C-17 instead of a G 650? Ratcliff has one at his disposal. Perspiring minds need to know.
Cargo plane can carry transportation vehickes, supplies, countermeasures. Who knows what we gave them other than intelligence.
can also transport dead bodies…… john
yep… as in American mercenaries/CIA operatives. clean-up operation?
Yes, they needed to transport the vehicles for the motorcade. Ratcliff was not just going to catch an Uber to his meeting.
And maybe they didn’t fully trust the US Moscow embassy staff to come give him a ride.
To carry his own armored transport and avoid the threat reality of Ukrainian/EU/NATO operators.
Concur. Very plausible.
Can it carry a SCIF?
Yes. The C-17 can carry a modular SCIF. VIP rigs for other aircraft can incorporate SCIF like features (shielding, etc.)
Perhaps something of value was returned.
Were we storing any of Russia’s precious metals?
Like . . . Uranium?
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No. Russia’s gold reserves are held domestically. When the western nations sanctioned Russia, Russia’s central bank held around $207 billion in euro assets, $67 billion in U.S. dollar assets and $37 billion in British pound assets. It’s possible that other Russian tangible property was in the U.S. Museums loan out artwork all the time. There could have been cultural items stuck in the U.S.
“Ukraine, we are told – even by former Defense Minister Federov, was convinced by western intelligence analysis”
How much are these dufuses that work for “western intelligence” being paid?
Me thinks some more cuts need to be made, because they do not know diddly-squat.
They are mostly British, with a sprinkling of Sea Eye Ah, and Froggie Crauts.
DIE prevails.
There is a powerful lesson in this sentence…
Sorry! I put that first sentence in the quotation html, but for some reason it didn’t work, and I don’t see an option to edit or delete.
You have to look for the little gear at the bottom and to the far right of your comment. Clicking on that will bring up the option to edit, which is only good for about 10 minutes, OR until someone else replies to your comment.
Aha, thanks very much!
There is an edit button – it’s the little gear-gizmo below your comment, near the right margin. We are able to edit for about 4-5 minutes after posting. (Hover over the gear and a little manage comment/edit drop-down appears)
Yes, I see it now! Thank you!
I’ve tried the HTML quote before and its never worked. I now just copy and paste, then put quotes around the thing.
Annoying for sure. Glad to hear it wasn’t only me. ;~)
Similar model as the internet, and more specifically, the Tor network.
Redundancy.
Yes, and resilience.
This is great! Never heard it before, but Joe Walsh is a groovy dude.
Welcome aboard, free.and.true!
[blushes] Thank you kindly, Paprika!
His Maserati does 185.
He lost his license, now he don’t drive…
When it runs!
This song is the first thing I thought of when I read the post this morning.
I knew what it was when I saw the u tube addresss. Thank you for posting.
Joe Walsh has some incredible songs and is a great discoverer of talent.
He and Ringo are brothers-in-law, also.
This video of him at the Troubadour is awesome.
Carburetors vs computers. I’ll take the carburetor, thank you very much.
The dream of anti-fragility…
“¹People are starting to suspect that Director Ratcliffe told his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin where the ammo was stored”
Perhaps Director Ratcliffe should cut off the targeting data and assistance that Ukraine is receiving from the west. As far as I know, other members of the “five eyes” do not own very many (if any) satellites up there.
exactly. i do not understand why we keep pretending not to be a primary participant in this war. oh to be a fly on the wall when the former republic of the US came to lecture them yet again….
russia knew where that depot was, and almost certainly let it go because of where it sat. but their patience has worn thin.
the intentional visibility of the visit, the sudden vatican visit, the new euro idiot proclamations, the russians publishing the list of sites where drones are made in europe/uk, our inability to defend against missile attacks since we blew it all in iran, weak sanctions that dont take effect and no one is going to abide by, the asymmetric bombing that just occurred, the unprecedented bond moves no one is paying attention to…
we are all just guessing about the legendary meetup… but to me, it seems a lot more obvious that its a coordinated push to try one last time and convince russia to stand down as the west come to the realization that the entirety of ukraine civilization is about to collapse. and with it, NATO and the former republic of the US’s impotence is on display for all to see.
winners do not ask for mercy and ceasefires.
the non-western powers smell the blood in the water.
A scary alternative
and smell of blood in the Gulf military bases….hmmmm
We aren’t a primary participant, our totally corrupt “intelligence” community is.
Perhaps the visit was to communicate what the US will and will not respond to.
As in the US will respond if Russia does kinetic attacks on NATO member territory (Article 5.)
But the US will not respond if Russia hits sites inside Ukraine where they are preparing long-range drones and missiles to hit Russia. (giving Russia the go-ahead signal. No need to be concerned about a US response. Go ahead and take out all the stuff the UK gave them after we told the UK not to do so.)
“attacks on NATO member territory (Article 5.)”
What does Article 5 say about NATO countries aiding and abetting attacks on Russia by proxy via Ukraine?
My neighborhood is analog in a digital world,,,,,,,,,
Beware the Bear that lurks behind the Urals…feed him gun powder and blood, then poke him on the nose isn’t wise.
” Zelensky said ¹the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.” This is the second such incident in two months. A July strike on a depot in nearby Vyshneve produced similar secondary blasts, deaths, and later detentions of state defense-company executives. ”
Once an exception, twice a pattern.
Zelensky is a murderous war criminal with NATO co-conspirators. They do not give a damn about the Ukrainian people and loss of life.
Gibbs’ rules:
There are no coincidences.
Ukes absolutely put it there on purpose, betting that russia’s restraint would keep them away. and it did, for a long time. but there is no freaking way russian intel did not already know EXACTLY where that stash was.
Terrible negligence toward Ukrainians since …April 2014…..bombing right now is worse than in the Stalingrad…continuously bombing of Kyiv past 48 hrs…….
..toward russian speaking Ukrainians since April 2014……
Traveling again—-thank you for all you do to bring us these timely updates and unique insights.
I don’t understand why Russia doesn’t take down Ukraines power grid, and keep it down.
Surely a country that for so many years has been ready and able to go to war with the US should be able to knock out Ukraines electrical and gas supplies, or are they afraid of the bad press of causing millions to be without light or tv?
i think for the same reason they have held off pummeling kiev and a bunch of ammo stashes hidden behind the skirts of their civilians.
And that reason is??????
Not long ago the Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. Many Russian allied citizens throughout especially Kiev.
And maybe Putin feels some simple of remorse for the Holodomor.
because russian leadership is under the delusion that the west will wake from its stupor and stop before they have to go scorched earth and officially kick off WW3?????
20 million refugees, half of which might try to go to Russia.
PDJT just being the peacemaker before Z et al pushes the bear too far until he won’t be further pushed and instead pushes the button.
When Putin decides he has been “pushed too far,” he has many [other …] options.
an alternate theory: we have it backwards… russia called on us to provide the CIA rats of the US and euros one last chance to stop this insanity before their red line is crossed. and in the days since, they have walked and talked exactly what they meant with massive bombardment, calling up a million soldiers, and pronouncements that they WILL strike targets outside ukraine, and we have no defense.
check out the pics of tens of thousands fleeing every day now.
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/more-speculation-re-ratcliffes-moscow
They don’t summon a CIA Director like an ambassador. He was sent there by President Trump.
The #ProfessionalLiar Media spun it as PDT ordering Putin around.
I doubt either leader was issuing ultimatums to each other. I would hope they are both helping each other unwrap this snakeball.
This theory makes the most sense about the events and that the director was summoned and that PDJT sent him.
While not the main focus….
This statement is propaganda in its most blatant form:
“In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ¹the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.” The first impact, he said, hit a depot storing shells, mines, other munitions, and drones that “definitely shouldn’t have been there” – while prosecutors in Kiev opened a criminal investigation into the legality of storing explosives next to civilian housing. This is the second such incident in two months. A July strike on a depot in nearby Vyshneve produced similar secondary blasts, deaths, and later detentions of state defense-company executives.”
Wanna bet why those munitions depots were located near civilian residences? Same reason Iran stores munitions in mosques and near schools. Litte Z man is lying through his teeth with that statement.
I think Z-Bag had his own cathedral bombed recently. In the past, he bombed a nuclear power plant to blame it on Russia. I believe he has even bombed his own troops at times.
I wonder if Lindsey Graham wasn’t poisoned in Ukraine so Zelensky could go to Congress and say “Fund me again for Lindsey’s sake!”
He may have even arranged these bombings for sympathy and to justify WW III.
There was also a hit on some sort of Jewish worship center back when Loomer was over there meddling around.
Very suspicious, immediately called out as a false flag, and just like that *poof* no longer reported in the media as if it had never happened.
It is plausible that the scenario you described could have happened to LG.
It makes more sense that when he realized he gave away the secret location of the underground drone factory, he worried himself into a heart attack because he knew they knew he was responsible and that they’d soon be coming after him seeking revenge.
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The USSR created ’15 minute cities’.
Sorta like East Dayton where I grew up in the 1950’s where this homunculus was sent on errands to the butcher shop, the green grocers, and Bob’s beer and wine store and mom did not have to worry of my safety.
Now it is one big mercado.
Were they requiring a note from a parent to buy booze, cigarettes and ammo then?
Never bought ammo but did hand a note for beer and cigarettes for dad for when he was to come home on shore leave. Several blocks down 3rd St hill and back up.
My thunking differs a wee bit from yours. I think Russia (not the USSR) developed a 15 minute neighborhood structure within the cities.
There’s quite a bit of difference between the two concepts.
Ordinary Soviet citizens didn’t buy cars or petrol. They had to have necessities in walking distance, just like people everywhere before the modern consumer economy.
Ukraine concealed its military systems inside that its civilian infrastructure from day one. AD systems, pre-warned by NATO, dispersed into towns and villages, and an MLRS battery, weeks later, was struck whilst sheltering in a shopping complex after conducting a shoot and scoot mission.
Once again, the narrative only survives amongst the ignorant.
They must have learned that from those slimey muslims.
There is another dynamic also.
Like Mark Carney, Zelensky’s interests are severed from the Ukrainian peoples because they are both paid by the World Mafia.
President Putin has his nation’s historical interest in mind, where der GrifterFuhrer just wants an endless paycheck.
Z-Bag will even attack Ukraine and his allies if it helps to secure that paycheck in some way. President Putin doesn’t attack Russia.
And Zelensky literally sells his people as Cannon Fodder.
Selling soldiers in a human grocery store, ain’t that fresh?
We in the USA are extremely vulnerable, centralized and vulnerable supply chains in food, fuel, electrical power generation and almost any other aspect. Even data centers right?
Factories do not keep stocks and if one truck shipment is delayed it can cause assembly lines to halt.
Over centralization benefits Wall street and huge conglomerates but does it really deliver the best product at the highest quality to the local consumer? The vulnerability of not having dispersed back up systems for food fuel and power should be obvious.
just wait til the diesel fuel shortages start hitting home.
What? Explain where and why of diesel fuel shortages Muley Bulley and provide links to back up your opinion please
inventory of distlliates at multi-decade low:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WDISTUS1&f=W
price at all time high:
https://agtransport.usda.gov/Fuel/Historical-Diesel-Fuel-Prices/u2kh-s8ke
When I see news of Truck Stops closing their fuel islands….then
maybe I might get concerned. There is no real disruption in the mid east at this point. ..and reserves have been low since OBiden.
It’s election year so we must all be very afraid.
I will however do some research and see.
Practically every summer some refinery has a breakdown and goes offline for a few weeks. Then prices all across the country spike. One refinery can spike prices. That’s the proof the fuel supply chain is too thin and fragile.
We can all remember Wuhan Flu and the change of food distribution from retail to restaurant caused huge problems. Just in time inventory only works when there is time.
Exactly Terry Anderson.
“The Great Toilet Paper shortage.”
Or better yet, remember when car manufacturers were stuck with thousands of vehicles they could not sell because the supply chain for one particular type of chip was disrupted?
One Carrington event and nothing will work (except the Amish farms).
Another in depth article about the dire situation for Ukraine.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/russia-changing-missile-and-drone-attack-strategy-on-ukrainian-captial
The article describes a possible new strategy on Russia’s part that may well turn things. It appears the Ukrainian people will be hiding instead of going about their parties and normal lives because weapons are too close to residential neighborhoods. Russia blowing these up may turn the people against the Ukraine government.
The article also talks about recruitment and it sounds like without “forced” enlistment, they won’t be able to survive. I think this is key. If they have to force Ukrainians to defend their country it means there is a lot of disgruntled population.
Frankly, I don’t understand why a country would have a strategy that destroys most of the country, to keep a smaller portion. Ukraine can’t win so what are they doing antagonizing Russia even more into more destruction of what you’re trying to protect? Is reality not a thing over there?
It’s like the Monty Python King Arthur and Black Knight battle. The Black Knight has an attitude just like Ukraine. They won’t give up until they are utterly destroyed.
Monty Python Black Knight is a great comparison to little z.
“It’s just a flesh wound” isn’t going to work in the real world. . .
MM- ” Is reality not a thing over there?”
Reality is barely a thing in most of today’s world…
It’s because they are part of the globalist deep state system and they don’t give a damn about the civilian population.
Same for Iran.
Understand that Fedorov just took some job offer with the Italian defense ministry. Something to do with modernization, which apparently he is an expert with. If this is true, then someone (EU probably) must have arranged to end his trouble-making and get him out of there. So no more election demands and Z has no one to interfere with him being a dictator. Plus, I suppose you could say Fedorov won’t get bumped off and there won’t be all the adverse news about such a thing happening.
Or easier to accomplish and have plausible deniability if they off’d him in another country?
I’d be more worried about MI-6 and the CIA than Little Z if I was Fedorov.
Good points.
This war has always been madness from a European perspective. I have no idea why they started it, or why they keep it going. The European economy is in free fall as a result.
Europe’s Economic Collapse Is Accelerating — These Are The REAL Numbers
…because the Elites can get away will all kinds of spending (hoping to rev up their economies and their laundering) during a war.
The public is more sympathetic to the cause versus during peaceful times. Plus it’s a distraction and a fear generator to manipulate people. Just like during the pandemic.
The fall or at least a reset of some sort has been inevitable ever since the formation of the EU and the path to socialism was chosen.
As Margret Thatcher so succinctly stated, “Socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money.”
Globalists don’t care if Western Civilization falls apart….they desire serfs not well off middle class free citizens.
I see that Sundance still travels with his black straw.
I once saw him kill three men in a bar fight with just a plastic straw….
oh, wait…. that was a movie.
Safe travels. Please stay away from Wildberries.
This is what happens when your nations leader is a puppet for another interest and doesn’t represent his countrymen. We had a similar situation with JoeBama and others Same thing happening in Canada with another globalist installation. Trump 2028!
Zero was the original model.
I like to think the recent trip by Johnny Boy passed along detailed location of the Rogue operatives of the Globalist and DS Spooks of the Clowns In Action.
Time to close up the laundry shop
Russia should have done this four years ago! In fact, the United States should have carpet bombed Tehran, killed 700,000 people and destroyed every hospital and power plant. Then see if Bloomberg News says IRAN WON? 🙄
Sorry B52…BUT THIS IS VERY SICK COMMENT…..
We had no problem bombing Tokyo, Berlin, Dresden or Hanoi. I don’t see any difference. This crap would have ended on Day One and would have never reared itself ugly head again in a hundred years. Hezbollah, Hamas and the IRGC would cease to exist.
How about we just keep our busy-body noses out of that middle east sand box and focus on our own side of the globe….
Yep! That’s a great idea along with don’t start what you don’t have the stomach to finish!
ms.Linda: killing Russians is good thing…….are you agree with that..?? also..this is not a world 85 yrs ago…..
What did the Persian people of IRAN….(not the muslim mafia running the country) ……what did they do to you……show me where they touched you.
You mean like the Good Germans?
No I mean the subjugated Iranian people who comply or die under sharia.
Not my problem! Iran has been good at dishing out death for 50 years let’s see how good they are at taking it.
“These are two completely different economic and logistic models. One is centralized (Ukraine) and one is decentralized (Russia). Attacking the logistics of a decentralized system creates no substantive impact. Attacking the logistics of a centralized system creates major impact.”
Are the logistics planners of the centralized (United States) paying attention to the differences between these to systems? Might be wise to keep these differences in mind before the war mongers try starting another Military Industrial Complex skirmish.
Any logistician worth his salt would already know this lesson. Trying to get this sort of sense through a bunch of MBA bean counter types who would miss the structural resilience for upfront cost inefficiencies is an uphill battle.
One important reason why that would never work here is due to (unironically) economic freedom.
Give people the option to save money today for nothing tomorrow, and they’ll do it. Their model works on the backs of the Soviets who disallowed much.
Making the tradeoff to do like them voluntarily would have to involve exiling CATO/CoC types from the US.
Per the description of the difference in urban designs and infrastructures between Russia and Ukraine …
History teaches much to those with minds open enough to learn from it.
Western media entities have written their scripts and do not have the wit or the imagination to contemplate that Russia will not oblige their fantasies or their ignorance…nor comport with them.
Yup, the enemy always gets a vote.
Secondly, did the ‘we’re so much smarter than you’ crew stop using standardized test scores ……to at least screen the folks who apply?
Third, after investors took over Blue Cross and hospitals, and put MBAs in as administrators, the standard joke was that the hospital administrators were the bottom of the class, because the top graduates were on Wall Street.
“Ukraine, we are told – even by former Defense Minister Fedorov, was convinced by western intelligence analysis that destroying the roughly 200 online Wildberries distribution centers it would cripple the Russian consumer economy.”
If there is any good CIA intelligence leadership, they will fire the “western intelligence analysts” that came up with this idea. There needs to be negative consequences for stupid “intelligence”.
Keep in mind the CIA actions are all plots within plots and we still don’t know if Radcliffe has control or not.
Exalted Admiral Alexander Vindman has the free time now to step in as Ukraine’s Defense Minister. He could save the country.
A fat, lying infantryman isn’t saving anything.
Thank you for the link to dacha gardens Sundance.
Lesson for us all.
71% of Russian people use, operate these so says the source.
What would happen here if even 50% of the population had a home garden?
We do 6 months out of the year and share produce with our neighbors, it’s a wonderful thing and tastes much better.
I know it’s not the main point of this post but I appreciate the information.
We like to be a little independent of the big food businesses.
Mostly because of the pesticides.
Is illegal to grow food in some place and xiden tried to make it country wide.
Remember when you couldn’t buy seeds?
Yes!!! We’ve saved seeds every year on tomatoes and peppers, moringa and other greens…
Saving seeds is easy.
We are on limited income so it saves $
I/we are “Feeling” the same. Thanks.
Make the population hungry, game over.
Thank you, Sundance, for your analysis on the subject.
The longer this conflict goes on, I cannot help but wonder what is the long-term goal here? I mean, there has to be one, at least. It all seems to be a very odd conflict, until one realizes, perhaps, that the whole thing is to prop-up the U.S. economy/the banks in some way to prevent it from collapsing?
It’s too easy to say that this actor and that actor are instigating for their own ends (e.g. Victoria Nuland, though she, admittedly, would stand to gain personally).
It has become too easy to say this conflict is due to ideological differences of the parties involved behind-the-scenes (though this may, admittedly, play a small part).
It just seems that the answers we typically lean toward don’t seem to sufficiently cover all the bases and that there is more to this protracted conflict than meets the eye and my mind does not want to settle for the usual pat answers.
There is money involved, very big money. And very big power, just not in the way we are typically led to believe. That is my gut feeling. Nothing else makes sense outside of it.
I believe that outside of constant warfare and welfare, the world economy collapses. This is where we are.
— A Russian Geran-4 loitering munition struck an ammunition depot in Kyiv’s Podilskyi District, triggering secondary explosions that can be heard and seen in the video.
@IntelSlava Today 5:03 PM ECT
— Earlier today, a Russian Geran-4 loitering munition struck a gas station in Kharkiv.
Something is clearly burning at the site, but due to the blurred footage, it is impossible to determine exactly what caught fire.
@IntelSlava 5:13PM ECT Today
— The explosion at an ammunition depot in the village of Myla, Kyiv Oblast, targeted by a Russian Geran-4 loitering munition, was captured on video by passengers in a minibus traveling along the Zhytomyr Highway.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
@IntelSlava 5:29PM ECT Today
Here’s Dima’s video from this afternoon.
Kyiv Ammo Depot DestroyedDonbas Front CollapsesRussia’s 10K Missile ThreatMilitary Summary 2026.08.29
0.o
This is the place to go for the official Russian position
……whenever that position aligns with the truth.
Going back to the 50’s and 60’s growing up;
Neighborhood grocery stores everywhere. Also most neighborhoods had a small business district or street. The druggist, bakery, butcher, cafes, etc would be there.
Schools had cafeterias with kitchens where real food was cooked.
We had that decentralized system and then it changed. Efficiency? Not for the people.
Did you search everywhere for discarded soda bottle to take to those neighborhood stores for the 2 cents deposit so you had funds for candy, a popsicle, one baseball trading cards?
Sure. Those were great finds. Coins on the ground too.
Isn’t placing military installations in civilian areas a war crime? Where are all the screaming loonies demanding war crimes trials for Zelensky?
Same lunatics who turned a blind eye when Hamas stored weapons and ammo amongst the Gazan civilians (if you accept the premise there were ever any real civilians. That whole culture is made up of terrorists).
There must be DOZENS of military installations in civilian areas all throughout the US 😎
Take a look at a map sometime for where Andrews AFB is 🤗. Or the Pentagon 😂
I was being devils advocate. You know if the situation was reversed there would be no end of the banshees screaming for war crimes tribunals.
The political left cannot define what a woman is, so what makes you think they’ll be able to understand this?
Another effect of a decentralized system is that people get out and walk to stores. Remember the elderly with their wheeled grocery baskets behind them?
In a lot of places if you have a home or a flat within 20 minutes walk of the train station or subway then that is considered a prime location. In the US children are taught to take it easy from the get go as parents get them in the car to drive a few hundred feet to the school bus stop.
Walking is healthy.
“Walking is healthy” You’re in trouble now.
“…western media doesn’t understand Russia or pretend not to know things.
Apparently, the same applies to Western intelligence.” Gold!
Come on Sundance, you make it sound like the Russians have not been harmed at all. As though there is no consequence to Russia over the last 4 years.
If you want a pro Z-pee website, you will have to go elsewhere.
Awfully awfully glad Sundance has taken the time, steps and effort to understand the Russian people and their way of thinking!
Fake Wars and Fake Pandemics etc..manufactured by installed globalists are great for distracting you from one of the main dynamics that’s makes it all possible in the first place, and that is Fake Election Results.
Installations/Midterms are critical for the establishments UniParty Club to continue abusing us.
In other words, if elections around the world were honest and fair, this so called War in Ukraine according to Fake News reports, would not even exist or would have concluded a long time ago.
AI supported psyops are the New Normal and Nothing is off the table
“Russia is analog in a digital world.”
Not only that, Russia is grandma and grandpa in a Taylor Swift world.
Grandma and grandpa could raise a garden, mend socks, bake bread (and so much more), create toys out of a single piece of wood, and remembered many of the old timey remedies needed to fix broken body parts that come from God’s good earth.
Taylor Swift’s euro party people, not so much.
Thank you Sundance and the commenters. MSM, even the WSJ, are propagandists and useful idiots.
The runt is going to get his ass kicked
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ¹the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.”
[…] Zelensky’s government has framed its own long-range strikes as a way to force Russia to negotiate.
Yeah, the snakes who gave all those billions to the Palestinians to ‘negotiate’ with Israel have absolutely chosen a new model for the Ukrainians to ‘negotiate’ with Russia.
Different propagandists spewing different propaganda, different useful idiots & street militias with different beliefs & paymasters, different political actors with different incentives, different terrorists with different tactics … totally different.
Maybe President Trump trying to authorize cattle farmers to produce their own packaged products has more to it than meets the eye. In this case a decentralized system creates a substantial impact!? 🤷🏼♂️😎
Islam > israel
Russia > ukraine
In the end it shall be.
You haven’t read or don’t believe in the Bible. Islam does NOT win.
You haven’t read or don’t believe in the Koran.
“…where the ammo was stored.]” – YES… YES… and YES.
That visit was so fast and so short that it was my one and only thought as to its purpose.
Trump wants that conflict to stop and Trump knows how corrupt the ZEL regime is. And Trump knows the EU is not his friend.
We’re stuck in an One World Order battle, we are the prey, and our defenders are Trump and Putin.
Whom ever is providing Ukraine with Russian intelligence does not understand Russia.. they should have learned during World Cup USA is ethe only convenience based market.. China knows this that’s why they flood our market with short life products.. Maybe Ukraine should invest in a better spy