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No that’s a photoshop dating from a few months back, but the reality is not that far off. Problem with those night lights pictures is a lot of stuff can influence them.
Also what is this in the North Sea? There’s literally nothing there?
Oil rigs I suppose, they have a lot of oil
I remember reading about this, those pictures are actually collages of hudreds if not thousands of pics, and what you see in the North Sea is probably edit mistake from hundreds of times worth of shipping movement all merged in one.
Jup, these pictures are actually several hundred pics laid ontop of each other. The more pictures, the more details.
Could be fishing boats or oil drilling platforms
Real talk here guys, how much can Ukraine last and will last by this temp? Constant bombings and destroying of military equipment, 100s soldiers dying daily, infrastructure being destroyed constantly, already hundreds of thousands of dead, power, electricity and lights are gone, water is gone, internet is frequently gone, food shortages, more than 10 million immigrants ran from country and more are going, population crippled from about 41-42 million to probably below 30 million in a matter of months(it was falling even before) due to deaths, immigration, annexation of 4 Oblasts by Russia and it will continue to fall rapidly, even UN predicts that it will never recover population before 24 February seriously what will be left of this country and who will be left?
Now way they can last more than a few months from now.
Nothing will be left. Washington has publicly committed to fighting to the last Ukrainian. The 4 annexed regions contained most of Ukrainian GDP, ie productive capacity. The remainder will have to pay for all the weapons as Ukraine, the poorest country in Europe, is on some kind of perverse lend-lease program that functions as a demonic iphone upgrade program for NATO countries with old stockpiles of Soviet weapons. To add insult to injury, even the Klanadian Ukraine bonds, a scam to transfer public funds into private coffers, are disbursed to Ukraine through the IMF.
They will last however long NATO wants them to last. Soldiers can be replaced with foreign mercenaries. There have already been adverts with some ridiculous sums offered (see below). And nobody gives a hoot about civilians, Russian or Ukrainian or in any of the neighboring countries. And if you are wondering what will be left in its place - look at the other places where the footsteps of NATO have been felt. Libya, Syria, Somali, Afghanistan. Eternal misery is not a problem for the ruling class. It’s not them being miserable after all.
I think the breaking point is going to be when there is a refugee crisis in Europe. People can’t live in cities without power and water. And it looks like Russian plan is to destroy the energy grid entirely. Once that happens, people have no choice but to flee to Europe. This means something like 8 million refugees coming in. Europe is not even remotely prepared to absorb that right now.
Europe is not the one making the decisions here
Washington has no loyalties whatsoever. They’d absolutely do to Germany or France what they did to Yugoslavia and Iraq, and are currently doing to Ukraine, if it benefitted them and if they thought they could pull it off. And a cynical part of me thinks that liberals in Berlin and Paris would still be licking American boot, and talking about NATO as the peace-shield of freedom against Russian aggression.
The US outright declared war on Germany with the sabotage of vital infrastructure. And no one cares.
I honestly do not get German foreign policy since… well, unification. For a whole lot of her history, Germany was an underdog in western Europe, constantly manipulated by more powerful neighbors like France. Then political unification happens, and what does the German government do? Try to integrate into the same “western community” that has continually shown itself to have no good will toward Germany; or, failing that, devote all their efforts toward become the bigger, badder imperialist on the block. It’s like that bullied kid on the playground who tries hard to make friends with his bullies, and then occasionally snaps and becomes a mass shooter.
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems like economic integration with Russia would have solved so many of Germany’s problems a long time ago.
Something something, Germany down, brits in, Russia out.
Post-war west germany was set up a vassal and has a reliable 5th column in control of most media, all big politcal parties and the government most of the time.
The origins of state means greatly. Current Germany was basically remnant nazi state reformed in shape by and for USA elites. And you know nazis, not only they modeled a lot of their ideology straight up on USA, but then the USA went on them all like abusive husband, and it’s the relation since then. In other words, current Germany was created as colony of USA and it never stopped being one.
economic integration with Russia would have solved so many of Germany’s problems a long time ago
Which is why it was prevented from ever happening
Yup, if we learned one thing from this war it’s that Europe has lost any semblance of sovereignty at this point.
This means something like 8 million refugees coming in. Europe is not even remotely prepared to absorb that right now.
Poland itself absorbed around 4 million people (for basically permanent stay) between 2014-2022, so Europe is certainly able to take in more. Difference is, those 4 million were able bodied workers and now entire families are coming en masse, but as usual it depend on who they are. Brown and black people = “let them drown”, Ukrainians are welcomed right now, but when the tables turn (and they will) they will be relegated to the “slavic untermenschen” in a blink again.
Yup, and this time around the economy is crashing and there’s an energy crisis looming. An influx of millions of people isn’t going to be popular in these conditions I suspect. Especially if many of these people are going to be a direct burden on the system.
Russia can just end it in days-week if it feels like it tho and NATO can’t do nothing about it.
How? No, really, how?
They really could, but it would be very, VERY illegal and tactically incongruous to Putin’s political ambition’s and Russia’s interests.
Position: Contract
Also remember that if any of these dies in war, the western media will be like “RUSSIA KILLED AN AMERICAN CONTRACTOR” as if he was there fixing lights.
$1000 per day…
I would imagine there are plenty of able-bodied people around the world desperate enough to take up that offer
There is a difference between “able-bodied” and “experienced”, and then there is a difference between “experienced” and “able to get hit by a thermobaric TOS-1A missle and not get your flesh literally ripped off your bones by the blast force”. These guys won’t live long.
You can promise any amount you want if the recruits don’t live long enough to get paid!
This might actually be their plan ngl
It’s very convenient that they won’t live long cause US can just be like “oops, there was a fire at our records keeping department, we have no idea who we hired so I guess we can’t pay their families! It’s such a tragedy”
For the TOS to shred the mercs, it needs to know where they are. But merc don’t really need to operate like a normal army. Just look at ISIS.
Russia has reconnaissance drones with infrared sensors. The FSB is active in Ukraine and has averted uncounted amounts of terrorist attacks. No amount of Nazi terrorism using tactics devised decades if not centuries ago will overturn the victory of truth.
There is likely so much damage that reconstruction is probably gonna take a decade or more. Even IF Russia loses.
100s of dead soldiers per day sounds like an underestimate by now ngl. Maybe during the Donbass grind, but not anymore.
Holy shit, does no one in the Netherlands or Belgium turn off their fucking lights?
There is a joke in Russia, “some people talk about climate change, Putin does things about climate change”. I personally suspect that Ukraine’s become the most environmentally friendly country on Earth by now.
Morale in the Ukrainian army when Russian missiles take down the electric grid, meaning nobody can access Nazi furry porn anymore: 📉
I guess Belgium is just extremely dense
Reminds me of this
Anons with working brains?! Almost makes me miss 4chan, almost.
Pretty sure it’s Leftypol
What do you mean Venice was the most powerful country in Europe, it’s so tiny?
They were in a good geographic position economically I guess
Maritime empire
yes
