Weekend Update #158: The Long Dark Winter Has Come Early Pokrovsk Update; Sanctions Bluster Unravelling

Hi All, Just released my latest free weekend update. No. 158--which amazingly enough comes out almost exactly three years after the first one. Its been quite a trip.
Today, the focus is on blackouts. Darkness is coming early to both Russia and Ukraine this winter. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

UK protecting Belgium? Sounds familiar.

Former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg writes in his memoirs he refused President Zelensky's February 2022 request for a no-fly zone over Ukraine because NATO would have had to strike Russian air defenses in Belarus and Russia, risking direct war. He called ending that phone call painful.

Thinking that through the most likely scenario is that orcs in key position MUST resort to corruption and embezzlement in order to make a living since they aren't able to quit or sue. The inherent inability of fascism to self-criticism and self-control will rip it apart again.

I'm curious what's meant by "its technical condition".

Angelina Jolie used her Instagram platform to shed light on Russia’s so-called ‘human safari’ in Kherson. It is a deeply important and much-appreciated gesture.

Merkt euch diese Zahl: 1.14% 👈

Heute:
Besetzt nach dem 24.02.2022: 71.345 td . km2 = 11.82%

Am 9.11.2023:
Besetzt nach dem 24.02.2022: 64.446 td. km2 = 10.68%

Differenz nach 2 Jahren: 1.14% ‼️

DAS sind also diese grossen, russischen Erfolge nach 2 Jahren! 🤦‍♂️

Quelle Deepstate

Was this on purpose?

Well, Ukraine doesn't.

They made their beds. Now good night.

I hope you have someone for therapy talk with each other. Sounds like you really need it.

He's a fascist. These buggers are the worst criminals on earth. No worse people out there. They are the mother of all criminal organisations.

Damn orc.

Die SPD ist längt ein Teil des Problems.

@kommtdraufan2.bsky.social

Womöglich schlägt hier Quantität in Qualität um?

Ich würde mich im Sinne der Sache freuen, wenn du mit deiner Einschätzung die Strafanzeigen betreffend am Ende falsch lägest.

Of course, they do. Which secret service wouldn't use their by far best weapon?

😆 These are Venezuelan, not orcs.

He still has some millions of them.

Die AfD verbreitet so viel Panik über Verbrechen, als sei die Kriminalitätsrate in der Bevölkerung so hoch wie in der AfD.

Orcs killing each other. Anyone fancy stopping them? No? Right, me neither.

At least for no one but orcs.

I doubt the bugger is haunted by that. If so, he'd fight his war differently.

Orcs fighting each other. I won't hold them back.

Where did you get the idea that orcs have a hand in this. They don't use decoys. The use drunkards.

The dummies lack some enthusiasm though.

No one knows. No, he neither.

Is it just my rampant imagination or does the BMW ix3 look like the cave troll from Moria?

Especially electric cars. China is years ahead there. Happens to everyone sleeping too long.

Das Wadephul innerhalb der CDU nun stärker unter Druck gerät als es Spahn je wird, sagt alles über den moralischen und geistigen Zustand dieser Partei (und leider auch des Landes) aus.

Das politische Programm der CDU:

Syrien ist so sicher, dass dort niemand um sein Leben fürchten muss. Der Dortmunder Hauptbahnhof allerdings ist so gefährlich, dass dort jeder um sein Leben fürchten muss.