Yeah, that's fine. I ignore wars outside of Europe myself so I can understand that point of view.
The nuclear plant is still there. Even if it blows it doesn't look like the physics will allow another Chernobyl type disaster. Which is great news.
It seems someone has dropped another cigarette at the Russian Black Sea Fleet Headquarters.
On Wednesday 14th August it's Ukraine's Independence Day celebration. The perfect day for the Kerch bridge to disappear.
The nightmare scenario may be on the cards :
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He means "without" not "with" in this follow up :
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No, he needs a bad defeat so he'll slink back under his rock and not trouble the World again. A defeat so bad his army is crippled for 20 years.
Any sort of win and he comes back in 5 years for more.
There's a rumour that Putin's "chef" - Prighozin - has been killed in Ukraine, although reports are conflicting. Anyway, his HQ has been flattened by HIMARS.
Not a chef as such, he's the guy that runs the Wagner mercenaries.
Russia can blow it, blame it on Ukraine or a sad sap russian scapegoat commander, declare a ceasefire, withdraw from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts as a "goodwill gesture", and cement their territory in Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Putin has a way out of his disasterous war, doesn't lose...
This nuclear plant is my main worry now.
I'm not bothered about hollow rhetoric about firing nukes, but russian shenanigans at this power station could go very wrong, very quickly.
If it blows - and it can be blamed on some sap local commander - it gives Putin a face saving way to end his...
The gas supply card is a given. We'll have a bad 3-4 months but it won't change anything.
His army is now taking such a battering he'll be lucky to hold onto Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
No more than my opinion of course.