It comes to something when HYUFD is speaking more sense than most people on here. So let’s say it again. S L O W L Y A no fly zone requires NATO to shoot down Russian planes and bomb Russian assets o… (View Post)

If NATO became actively engaged in Ukraine, every Russian division would be destroyed, as quickly as Putin could press gang fresh boys into service. If Putin escalated the war to firing on NATO bases… (View Post)

I spoke to a Moscow based Russian today. He is out of foreign currency. He is also more or less out of roubles. Because his cards don’t work and he can’t draw more without an appointment at the bank,… (View Post)

Any day now Putin will be bringing out the serious deep state tech. You know the kind. No obvious means of propulsion, can fly 17,000mph with right angle turns, through water, air and space and can r… (View Post)

The reputational issue is massive but finding boats willing to accept Russian crude is going to be part of it. Europe politically may be wavering about stopping taking molecules of Russia hydrocarbon… (View Post)