reddit is melting right now, calling for invasion of Saudi and Iran to seize their oil wells. lmao, maybe they should attempt it, then 90% of users on reddit would dissapear

Starting October 20th the CDC will no longer be reporting daily covid cases/deaths

Pandemic is over folks!

I'm seeing reddit :soypoint-1: :ukkkraine: :soypoint-2: headlines insisting that Ukraine is triumphantly pushing in north of Kherson, where surely they'll catch Putin's orcish hordes and liberate Crimea in no time.

Any insights into this? Or is this more paradox brain map obsession?

Zelensky declares Russian islands as Japanese

This gave me a laugh. How small and petty can you get?

https://i.redd.it/tmfxyktuwwr91.jpg

A BBC journalist in Ukraine pretending to be on the front lines while a local lady walks around like normal in the background

Ukraine to join Spain and Portugal’s bid for 2030 World Cup. Announcement due on Wednesday. Plan - backed by Zelensky - would be for Ukraine to host one group.

Europeans must be stopped, this is insane lol

Predictions on what kind of American tantrum happens if OPEC follows through? UAE confirmed.

The worst part of lib eagerness for nuclear war is their absolute refusal to accept the West provoked this conflict with the 2014 coup.

In their world that never even happened, so it is only sensible to resist Russias unprovoked invasion with all possible means.

Truly the most propagandized people on Earth.

Ukraine ‘must revamp labour laws and step up privatisation to fix economy’

:ancap-good:

Also of note (from the article):

Rodnyansky was promoted to become chief economic adviser earlier this year after two years with the government. His father is a film producer who helped Zelenskiy become a household name as an actor.

Update - @Malinowski (D-NJ) to introduce bill requiring US to pull its troops & missile systems out of Saudi Arabia & UAE, after oil cut "It is time for the US to resume acting like the superpower in our relationship w/ our client states in the Gulf"

I like to see how they'll pull this off, would be amazing if they able to do it, accelerating the collapse of the empire.

Libs going from "Biden is saving the climate, take that tankies" to "ackshully Biden is better at oil than trump, we do more drill now than ever and that's a good this" is giving me omega whiplash

Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow will take Zelensky's words on preventive strikes on Russia into account when taking measures to ensure Russia's nuclear deterrence and security.

Also, apparently Starlink is having issues in Ukraine, and it's causing the Ukrainians issues on the front. Either Elon's inventions don't work (extremely plausible) or he's being catty about Ukraine insulting him. Honestly, the absolute funniest thing would be Musk deciding to pull out the satellites altogether in response to Ukrainian politicians insulting him on Twitter.

Imagine if that was the interpreted reason as to why the Ukrainians lost. God, that would be so fucking funny.

Looks like the Russian retreat from northern Kherson oblast has done much to stabilize the front there, but Ukraine remains desperate for results. The rains and the mud are also posing a barrier to advances. Could go either way.

Meanwhile, Ukraine could soon attack on the Zaporozhye front, which has been accumulating troops and equipment for the last month, maybe two. Ukraine has put much deception and secrecy into this, though the Russian information gathering appears to have overcome it. It appears to be a major site to watch in the next few days and weeks. Again, I don't know which side will falter here, but given Russia's decency to retreat at the first sign of trouble, it seems very plausible we could see a similar Ukrainian advance here and let the Russian elastic defence strategy work its magic. Hopefully they're evacuating everybody out of the area.

Ukraine has been losing incredible amounts of men and equipment, and what the Pentagon is giving them - or at least claiming to give them - is almost a hilariously tiny amount at this point. In contrast, Russia's decency to retreat before Ukraine can form cauldrons around them means that they are receiving few losses in men and equipment. Apparently up near Kherson, the Russians lost only a couple broken trucks.

My thinking, and the thinking of various commentators, is that Ukraine and the West knows that they cannot win militarily, and so are trying to win by other means. These offensives are not strategically oriented - Ukrainian reserves are being pulled from the important area of the Donetsk front, especially near Bakhmut, and instead put into other fronts. These offensives are instead trying to cause tactical victories for Ukraine - no matter the cost - that look bad for the Russian government, and Putin himself. Kherson City is kind of the crown jewel here, but we've also seen inordinate resources put in to capture places like Lyman, which are of no particular military purpose.

Zelensky's decree that he would never make peace with Putin was worded that way for a reason. He did not say he'd never make peace with Russia. What Zelensky is trying to do is cause a revolt in the upper ranks of the Russian government, or perhaps the oligarchs who have suffered from the sanctions, to get Putin out of government. Ukraine and the West cannot win the war militarily, and so are attempting to win it through other means, like regime change. Apparently - I haven't been reading them - western media is increasingly drawing from despondent Russian sources rather than their traditional Ukrainian sources, as a way of displaying how "badly" this war is going for Russia, and create panic, and thus anger, among anybody sympathetic to the West that is still in Russia.

The end result of this desperation by the West and Ukraine may be false flag nuclear strikes on Ukraine, in order to try and create divisions between Russia and their geopolitical allies. Let's all hope this war ends before they get that desperate.

The decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its Russia-led allies to cut oil production has Washington looking at ways to hit back. U.S. lawmakers are pushing bills that aim to break up the cartel; charge it in front of the World Trade Organization; or even seize assets its members own in the U.S.

They should do it, want to find out what happen after they f*ck around.

Europeans are joining South African internet groups and forums to ask for advice on how to prepare for rolling electricity blackouts/load shedding lmao.

It's really going full circle