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[Torch]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2097703117143888010

Okay thats a serious hurt. In the past I have minimized drones on refineries due to the redundant multi streamed layout and the relatively small charges carried by drones. But an attack on a condensate plant can be crippling as what it handles are the gas solids and liquids (at standard pressures).

Every stage is akin to handling gasoline mixed with propane. A misstep in this process is super exciting.

We had a compressor station and a condensate seperstion process catch fire from a lightning strike. The platform burned for 3 days even with it completely shut in and the arrival and continued presence of firefighters (boat)

Result: Complete loss of all equipment and equipment skids.

This hit will probably be a bad one for the Soviets err Russians.

 

[GBS61]

Russia is basically a few populated areas with a whole lot of empty, frozen nothingness. Basically Canada of the East.

Lol! You need a geography lesson.
Hint: where many Native Canadians live.
Eastern Canada is more populous than Western Canada.

 

[RiffRaff]

I hate to say this, but crackpot articles like this just gives more credence to Russia’s notion that the “collective West” is trying to dismantle them. Not saying I agree with Russia, because I don’t; but it is what it is.

Russia's perception of what the US is thinking has nothing to do with what the US is really thinking, but their perception is the only thing that matters. Able Archer 83 is a perfect example of this.

 

[DEFCON Warning System]

Okay thats a serious hurt. In the past I have minimized drones on refineries due to the redundant multi streamed layout and the relatively small charges carried by drones. But an attack on a condensate plant can be crippling as what it handles are the gas solids and liquids (at standard pressures).

Every stage is akin to handling gasoline mixed with propane. A misstep in this process is super exciting.

We had a compressor station and a condensate seperstion process catch fire from a lightning strike. The platform burned for 3 days even with it completely shut in and the arrival and continued presence of firefighters (boat)

Result: Complete loss of all equipment and equipment skids.

This hit will probably be a bad one for the Soviets err Russians.

They need to hit it multiple times to really put it out of commission.

 

[william]

And the US is going to invade Greenland. And annex Canada.

Throw me some more Things That Won't Happen.


A unified Russia? What the heck is he talking about? Russia is basically a few populated areas with a whole lot of empty, frozen nothingness. Basically Canada of the East.

I agree, however how is Russia going to perceive opinions like this? How would the US or Nato perceive it? Not well I would think.

 

[william]

How will the Russians perceive this

GERMANY is deploying their 45th Armored Brigade to #Lithuania to defend NATOs eastern flank. This is the first permanent #German combat brigade stationed abroad since WWII. 5000 men and more than 2000 pieces of combat equipment will be stationed close to the #Belarusian border.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2097776823220265456

 

[william]

Riga moves to block Russian grain transit to EuropeIt looks like Moscow’s previous provocations and threats have seriously angered Latvia.

The country is planning to impose a 300% tariff on grain from Russia and Belarus, Reuters reports. For Moscow, that would be especially painful now, with exports through the Black Sea and Sea of Azov severely disrupted and Baltic ports still serving as one of the fallback routes.

Around one million tons were transshipped through Latvia last year, but experts estimate that this year the volume could have increased by as much as tenfold.

And that’s not all. Starting next year, Latvia also wants to completely halt regular bus services to Russia and Belarus, including transit routes.At the moment, effectively only one route remains — Riga to Moscow, operated by Ecolines. Its permit is valid until January 9, 2027, and the authorities do not plan to renew it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2097658779521126416

 

[william]

Russia just threatened nuclear Armageddon again

Former president Dmitry Medvedev says that if Moscow cannot end the Ukraine war on its own terms, the fighting could escalate into a global conflict. He is reminding NATO and Europe that Russia has nuclear weapons - and that its doctrine allows their use if the state’s security is judged to be under threat.The core problem has not changed. Ukraine is unlikely to accept the terms Russia is demanding. That stalemate keeps the risk of a wider war alive. Nuclear threats may grab headlines, but they have not forced Kyiv or Europe to cave so far.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2098003563947466767

• The X post from geopolitics account @World_At_War_6 reports on Dmitry Medvedev's September 10, 2026 interview warning that failure to end the Ukraine war on Russia's terms risks global conflict, citing Russia's nuclear doctrine that permits use if state security is threatened.
• Accompanying video footage shows Russian mobile strategic missile launchers being transported on roads and erected vertically at a forested test or deployment site, visually reinforcing the nuclear capability reference.
• Medvedev's remarks repeat prior rhetoric, stressing military potential for devastating strikes on Kyiv and NATO targets while claiming Russia seeks to avert catastrophe but has limited patience, amid an ongoing stalemate where Ukraine rejects Moscow's demands. Grok

 

[william]

The toll at Novorossiysk appears worse than initially reported.

New imagery indicates that three Russian missile carriers were struck:

a Project 21631 Buyan-M
ADMIRAL ESSEN
ADMIRAL MAKAROV

Particularly significant: both Project 11356R frigates, ESSEN and MAKAROV, were already hit in the August 12 raid on Novorossiysk.Less than a month later, the same two high-value Kalibr carriers appear to have been struck again, this time with hits reported to their superstructures.

Russia moved much of its Black Sea Fleet from Crimea to Novorossiysk for protection. The same scarce missile carriers being repeatedly hit at their supposed sanctuary points to a serious force-protection failure.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2098027629710283127

 

[DEFCON Warning System]

Former president Dmitry Medvedev says that if Moscow cannot end the Ukraine war on its own terms, the fighting could escalate into a global conflict.

This guy needs to shut up.

I wonder how much of Putin's ear he has. Or his mouth. It would be much more worrying if Putin is using Medvedev as a trial balloon.

 

[Snowfall]

This guy needs to shut up.

I wonder how much of Putin's ear he has. Or his mouth. It would be much more worrying if Putin is using Medvedev as a trial balloon.

Medvedev is a joke that is not worth paying attention to, he’s only useful to the Kremlin because the west still publishes him as “ex president” even though everyone knows he was a puppet for Putin when he was president.

 

[DrMantisToboggan]

Russia's perception of what the US is thinking has nothing to do with what the US is really thinking, but their perception is the only thing that matters. Able Archer 83 is a perfect example of this.

Exactly what I meant.

 

[DrMantisToboggan]

This guy needs to shut up.

I wonder how much of Putin's ear he has. Or his mouth. It would be much more worrying if Putin is using Medvedev as a trial balloon.

Wait, so you’re saying Putin is using Medvedev as a “trial balloon” or simply speculating? I wonder how much sway Medvedev actually has over policy, he seems to make outstandish, apocalyptic statements every so often. Putin compared to him seems almost rational; and that’s saying something.

 

[Snowfall]

Wait, so you’re saying Putin is using Medvedev as a “trial balloon” or simply speculating? I wonder how much sway Medvedev actually has over policy, he seems to make outstandish, apocalyptic statements every so often. Putin compared to him seems almost rational; and that’s saying something.

The last part of your statement is the entire point. He’s the kremlins lapdog to make outlandish threats that spread around western media, that the central government can then say “woah we’re actually the non escalatory ones unlike the hardliners.”

 

[DEFCON Warning System]

Wait, so you’re saying Putin is using Medvedev as a “trial balloon” or simply speculating?

I am not saying Putin definitely is. Only wondering if he is.

 

[william]

And the dual use missiles keep flying! On both sides! What could possibly go wrong!