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Appears the podcaster Charlie Kirk was assassinated at an event at Utah Valley University. Probably more details and news will be published later, as currently not much is available.

And in other news, many Russian drones entered Polish airspace (on their way to Ukraine) and some got shot down by fighter-jets.
Also Israel performed targeted strikes in Qatar, aiming at Hamas leaders.
 
, many Russian drones entered Polish airspace (on their way to Ukraine) and some got shot down by fighter-jets.
It appears Poland was the target, so it was done on purpose. Some of these drones didn't had explosives in them but had extra fuel instead to increase their range to reach deep into Poland. They eventually ran out of fuel and landed/crashed.
Other drones, longer range ones with explosives, turned around and continued to Ukraine.

Some did get shot, but with very expensive rockets. Sure, they had to... but if Russia starts sending 100's each day this won't work.
 
It appears Poland was the target, so it was done on purpose. Some of these drones didn't had explosives in them but had extra fuel instead to increase their range to reach deep into Poland. They eventually ran out of fuel and landed/crashed.
Other drones, longer range ones with explosives, turned around and continued to Ukraine.
At first I thought they were after some weapons in transit to Ukraine, but later it seemed it was not so.
Some did get shot, but with very expensive rockets. Sure, they had to... but if Russia starts sending 100's each day this won't work.
Expensive rockets and planes which are also expensive to fly.
I think I've read some drones reached 300 km away from the border.
They say Russia is testing NATO defenses, but I don't understand.
Russia alone is not able to fight at the same time in Ukraine and some NATO front.
They just gave the NATO plausible reason to patrol the western Ukraine skies,
so that Ukraine can deploy more air defense eastwards.
So Russia either intends to grow relunctance of NATO to send air defenses to Ukraine (and use them themselves, so Putin may think the NATO can't also not help Ukraine and fight at some other front at the same time)
or counts on other countries to help Russia (North Korea already, then Belarus, and the big question is how much would China help, how much is at stake for China in Europe).
 
They say Russia is testing NATO defenses, but I don't understand.
Russia alone is not able to fight at the same time in Ukraine and some NATO front.
Russia cannot fight a war with NATO, but their point is to show Europe they cannot fight that war either. A few drones couldn't be stopped and this time it were only a few.
Europe can do something, but at a high cost and not even effectively.
Europe would need Ukraine more for air-defence.

It's like yelling they'll use nukes, it's to make Europe think twice about their support for Ukraine. And it appears to still work.
 
Russia cannot fight a war with NATO, but their point is to show Europe they cannot fight that war either. A few drones couldn't be stopped and this time it were only a few.
Well, as Zelensky said, it's normal not to be prepared because Poland is not in a war.

I'm also unsure why more drones weren't stopped. I've heard those heading for a NATO base where stopped.
Maybe they were following them to check what were the targets?
Or maybe they just couldn''t catch them. I don't know.

I read they may have been drones launched from Ukrania, Russia or Belarus flying over Moldavia, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and I remember some years ago a Russian drone crashing on parking lot in Croatia ((no casualties but cars destroyed).
I can't tell what's and accident, or a probe, and what's a provocation. But this last time in Poland looked like provocation.


Europe can do something, but at a high cost and not even effectively.
Maybe I'm just a pacifist, but preparing for war causes wars (international wars, "civil" wars, military coups...).
And it's a little like saying Nepal is ill prepared for tsunamis. It's fine because it shouldn't be.

In fact the new Polish president is asking the government to confirm if the only damage in the incident was caused by friendly fire
(a private house roof destroyed allegedly by a air-to-air missile from some F-16 which fortunately didn't arm and explode).
I don't think I like the new president, but he's right this should be investigated and known.
So, being less prepared still could maybe have saved some tens of thousands of euros.

In fact Russia is in war, and is apparently not well prepared enough because Ukraine keeps hitting oil infrastructure dozens of hundreds of kilometers from the border.
I wonder whether it's too hard to be well prepared against drones. It's increasing a never-ending fighter robot buildup with humans as collateral damage and paying for it all
Europe would need Ukraine more for air-defence.
Ukraine is offering to train Polish soldiers in air defense. Not sure if Poland will want it or not. I think they want but they don't know how exactly.
They fear sending troops to Ukraine for training, which would likely be the most useful, and they doubt taking Ukrainians to Poland as instructors while they could be working in Ukraine...
It's like yelling they'll use nukes, it's to make Europe think twice about their support for Ukraine. And it appears to still work.
I hate to agree with Trump, but Europe should stop buying Russian fossil fuels. Trumps wants Europe to buy fossil fuels from USA and I want to accelerate renewables,
Russia is slowly taking economic harm. I doubt the West can do enough economic harm but it should try.
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I'm being let loose on the staff at my voluntary job. One of the assistant managers has passed a portable appliance training course and wants me to give them further instruction.
Just tell them to buy Pyras, that'll give you a comfortable work schedule.
 
I hate to agree with Trump, but Europe should stop buying Russian fossil fuels. Trumps wants Europe to buy fossil fuels from USA and I want to accelerate renewables,
Russia is slowly taking economic harm. I doubt the West can do enough economic harm but it should try.
Europe buying oil (and gas) is mainly Trumps friend Hungary and Slovakia, no others countries buy oil.
Gas is mainly LNG, that should really stop as it's purchased by multiple countries still. But it's in less quantity compared to oil.
Trump could call Orban and ask him to stop buying oil.

Ukraine damages pumping stations and pipelines, halting oil deliveries.
 
Having US fracking LNG shipped to Germany is an economical and ecological nightmare. Closing and/or destroying some of the most well maintained nuclear plants in the world is stupidity on another level altogether. Now we're facing increased risk of brown- and blackouts. Moreso having to *pay* neighbouring countries to take our overproduction in solar and wind based energy is madness, while we in turn have to build more LNG and coal plants as well as import nuclear based energy from France for when the sun don't shine and the wind ain't blowing.
We have to thank the German green and the US blue parties for the mess we're currently in. Our business has lost a ton of customers, small bakeries etc., because of energy prices.
BTW Russia has enough customers for their cheap gas and will always find a way to sell it to energy hungry countries that don't have a mental block due to some asinine ideology.

So, zero point energy anyone? DM me your plans :-)
 
Having US fracking LNG shipped to Germany is an economical and ecological nightmare.
Well, yes, that should be stopped as soon as possible.

Closing and/or destroying some of the most well maintained nuclear plants in the world is stupidity on another level altogether.
Nuclear is not competitive. That good maintence costs a lot, and we're running out of water to refrigerate. It was wise to close them.

Now we're facing increased risk of brown- and blackouts. Moreso having to *pay* neighbouring countries to take our overproduction in solar and wind based energy is madness, while we in turn have to build more LNG and coal plants as well as import nuclear based energy from France for when the sun don't shine and the wind ain't blowing.
Batteries not included. Just add storage. Traditional Battery prices keep going down, and new kinds of batteries get developed (tin and carbon for long term thermal storage ? I had never heard of that).
But the grid can't take it all, so renewable generation and batteries must be well distributed.
We have to thank the German green and the US blue parties for the mess we're currently in. Our business has lost a ton of customers, small bakeries etc., because of energy prices.
Well, sorry about the bakeries, but in general we should be more frugal, and that may mean some businesses closing.
If we had some (well!) planned economy resources could be directed to more important activity, with free market capitalism, they just make energy more expensive.
In any case if you don't have so much energy you won't use so much energy.
The first to do should be to fix trains and eliminate unnecessary commuting, tourism and fossil fueled cars.
Unfortunately the right wind UE just today rejected climate goals, so we get bot scorching climate and fossil dependence.

BTW Russia has enough customers for their cheap gas and will always find a way to sell it to energy hungry countries that don't have a mental block due to some asinine ideology.
That's true, and it means that even if EU hadn't decided to reduce its fossil purchases from Russia, Russia might have decided to starve the EU from gas and oil, throtle it to influence EU policy, etc.
Or it might have been forced to it. I hear there's a little shortage of fuel in gas stations in Russia now that they need tractors collecting crops, so they may not be willing to always export so much.
It's not very clever to build your economy on resources from unreasonable neighbors that get violent on others and get their infrastructure bombed as a result.
Adding dependencies on other countries and assuming that'll work forever is some asinine ideology.

So, zero point energy anyone? DM me your plans :-)
Frugality, renewables, storage, some improvement in the electrical grid, and more local planning.
Try to get by with your local resources and use imports just for extra, not vital goodies.
 
Yeah, looks like the way out is to just keep hoping for new tech that will make the situation manageable. And just be fine with the economical decline and get comfortable with feedin on cheap, mass-produced industry food. And let them build more missile bases in the EU, because hey, Germany is considered to be "verbrannte Erde" anyway in the case of war. We're f'ed either way. To top it all off, islam will be the nail in the coffin of sh*thole-ification. Goshdarnit this makes me salty.
 
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