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Ukraine is now at war with Russia - official and only Ukraine Thread

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What are you even talking about - plenty of LNG tankers (right now) transit the Panama Canal. An LNG tanker is no different (generally speaking) than any other tanker. It's LNG - L as in liquefied, as in a LIQUID. If there are "tankers" transiting through the Canal, an LNG tanker can also transit the canal. It's a tanker, which is basically a box and like a box it can be scaled UP or DOWN. Tankers are designed with routes in mind, therefore if transiting through the Panama Canal is a requirement - they build them to a size so that it can transit the Canal. If I were a betting man, I would wager the vast majority of LNG tankers in the world CAN transit the Canal.
Ive been in logistics over 40 years in CAF and civvy street. I know what Panamax is without googling it.
 
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The Russian population has been more or less stagnant since the 70's in the 145M range. Their GDP though surprised me when I started to look up where various countries stood in the pecking order. Found this illustrative graphic:

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I had to search a bit to find Russia and had no idea they were that far down the list. Then if you look at their economics and what do they really sell/export, it gets down to ... yup, Oil and Gas. Then look at Ukraine sitting there well situated with some great ports, I have been thinking this is really all about money and pipelines to those ports. And Putin loves money ...

Also I don't think anyone can discount that Putin has a small man complex who has to do this just because. In my opinion he is probably the world's best spy. Not written with any degree of admiration, just stating what I have picked up so much of this has been orchestrated for decades.

Whose next is the question and that answer could be very frightening ...
No one is next because Russia and Putin are useless
 

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Putin is now getting weapons from North Korea and China good luck with that. GO Ukraine GO
 

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A lot of Russian media are criticising Putin's advisers, suggesting he was fed incorrect data about Ukraine.

It's a huge deal that they are doing this openly even on TV talk shows. It tells me that Putin endorses this argument. First it allows him to offload some of the blame for this disaster, second it opens a door for a retreat as in "We changed our mind".
He can withdraw from Ukraine and avoid loss of face by blaming others.
Not saying his days aren't numbered though. Sharks smell blood and are circling. 76E4B45A-E869-46CF-9766-3100A25F4309.jpeg
 
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A lot of Russian media are criticising Putin's advisers, suggesting he was fed incorrect data about Ukraine.

It's a huge deal that they are doing this openly even on TV talk shows. It tells me that Putin endorses this argument. First it allows him to offload some of the blame for this disaster, second it opens a door for a retreat as in "We changed our mind".
He can withdraw from Ukraine and avoid loss of face by blaming others.
Not saying his days aren't numbered though. Sharks smell blood and are circling.
Like the way they are cutting Putin some slack and blaming his "advisers" Message being Putin is totally blameless. The mass destruction, rape. pillage and slaughter of women and children should have gone smoother and faster. tut tut.
 

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If some of the news reports are to be believed, the Russian forces are in full fledged retreat, fleeing actually, in many areas, and the officers have abandoned several of their posts as well. Should be interesting to see what happens next. Zelensky has said it's not over until all of the Russians are gone, including Crimea.
 
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And another oligarch has croaked, today’s fell off his yacht while it was going full speed.
 

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And another oligarch has croaked, today’s fell off his yacht while it was going full speed.
Wow, how many is that the past few months?
Not a lot of future in being an oligarch these days ...
In all this I for one just hope some Russian general somewhere, stops Putin before he hits the nuke button ...
 

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Wow, how many is that the past few months?
Not a lot of future in being an oligarch these days ...
In all this I for one just hope some Russian general somewhere, stops Putin before he hits the nuke button ...
Everyone must be thinking about killing him before he kills them.
Plus he just arrested a couple of generals, could see the army turning against Putin’s FSB lapdogs.
 

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The former PM and President of Russia is currently the chairman of their national security committee.
Todays he is advocating a nuclear attack on the West on his Telegram page. He has repeatedly argued in the past that nuclear war won’t be so bad as long as the West suffers.
Russians are just fucking lunatic savages.
 

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The former PM and President of Russia is currently the chairman of their national security committee.
Todays he is advocating a nuclear attack on the West on his Telegram page. He has repeatedly argued in the past that nuclear war won’t be so bad as long as the West suffers.
Russians are just fucking lunatic savages.
This is the same kind of insanity that stopped the Soviet Union from taking over Europe in the 70’s. It was an open secret that NATO would have to go nuclear to stop them from surging through the Fulda Gap , limited tactical strikes would have escalated into a full strategic strike rapidly!
 

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A lot of Russian media are criticising Putin's advisers, suggesting he was fed incorrect data about Ukraine.

It's a huge deal that they are doing this openly even on TV talk shows. It tells me that Putin endorses this argument. First it allows him to offload some of the blame for this disaster, second it opens a door for a retreat as in "We changed our mind".
He can withdraw from Ukraine and avoid loss of face by blaming others.
Not saying his days aren't numbered though. Sharks smell blood and are circling. View attachment 48492
What he went on to say was "by the old colonial style of war with conventional means" or words to that effect. Russian state tv is calling for Russia to take the gloves off.
 
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