War with Russia

[Pinno718]

One of the things which concerns me, is, if Russia implodes (and, I dont disagree with your reasoning) what will they be left with, yet another "failed state" the size of Russia is not a pleasant prospect IMHO.

We do not know how oppressed/supressed the population is. You never know, there could be a significant body of people that might actually want a democracy.
There is no voice for the anti-state - it has been quashed. A chaotic Kremlin might open the door to moderates. It has a population of 143m and I bet the power is in the hands of a tiny percentage of that.
Plus - they will have a significant veteran population.

 

[BoldonLad]

We do not know how oppressed/supressed the population is. You never know, there could be a significant body of people that might actually want a democracy.
There is no voice for the anti-state - it has been quashed. A chaotic Kremlin might open the door to moderates. It has a population of 143m and I bet the power is in the hands of a tiny percentage of that.
Plus - they will have a significant veteran population.

Not sure if that is supposed to reassure me? It doesn’t. 😊

 

[Pblakeney]

We do not know how oppressed/supressed the population is. You never know, there could be a significant body of people that might actually want a democracy.
There is no voice for the anti-state - it has been quashed. A chaotic Kremlin might open the door to moderates. It has a population of 143m and I bet the power is in the hands of a tiny percentage of that.
Plus - they will have a significant veteran population.

I suspect that significant veteran population is pining for the USSR.

 

[Bazzer]

Stopping some of the missiles some of the missiles at source; attack a missile launching ship in the Azov sea.

 

[Pinno718]

Stopping some of the missiles some of the missiles at source; attack a missile launching ship in the Azov sea.

I saw that. Wet boom!

 

[Bazzer]

A couple more refineries attacked.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraini...trike-oil-refinery-in-russias-krasnodar-krai/
I understand gasoline exports have been stopped until the end of September and shortages are now beginning to bite on the Russian public. Unfortunately, Russia also had a massive over supply of diesel and this doesn't seem to be affected yet.

 

[Pinno718]

A couple more refineries attacked.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraini...trike-oil-refinery-in-russias-krasnodar-krai/
I understand gasoline exports have been stopped until the end of September and shortages are now beginning to bite on the Russian public. Unfortunately, Russia also had a massive over supply of diesel and this doesn't seem to be affected yet.

There are reports of a rise in Russian saboteurs:. There are numerous media outlets reporting on internal sabotage but details are hard to get hold of though the number of reports keeps increasing.

Partisans staged sabotage on railway in Samara: movement of trains carrying cargo for army stopped​

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtobrtxfdXY


More info on these groups here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_partisan_movement_(2022–present)

 

[Pinno718]

Ukraine's military says it struck two Russian oil refineries overnight​

[Reuters]
https://www.reuters.com/business/en...o-russian-oil-refineries-overnight-2025-08-30

Boom shakalak

 

[Pinno718]

[euronews]

Ukraine’s Security Service struck an airfield in Saky in annexed Crimea overnight on Monday, hitting five fighter jets, which Russia uses for its regular attacks on Ukraine.​

Five Russian fighter jets have been hit in an overnight drone attack by Ukraine’s security service at an airfield in Saky in Russia-annexed Crimea.
SBU stated that its Special Operations Centre "A" mission’s drones destroyed one SU-30SM aircraft, damaged another and hit three Su-24s while also striking the aviation weapons depot.
"The successful special operation carried out by the SBU in Saky marks another step toward weakening the enemy's capacity to wage its war of aggression against Ukraine," security service said.

 

[Pinno718]

More boom, this time in Crimea. Go Flamingo, go:

New Ukrainian Flamingo Cruise Missile Scores Hits on Russian Secret Service Base in Crimea​

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/59264

 

[Bazzer]

Another Crimean attack with a report of radar equipment worth north of $200m damaged or destroyed by Ukraine special forces on the Crimean peninsula on the night of the 31st of August.

 

[Pinno718]

 

[Bazzer]

More "falling debris" as the Ryazan oil refinery once again gets toasty

 

[briantrumpet]

Not good, on any metric.

 

[Psamathe]

What is interesting/scary if the Russian drones that "strayed" into Polish airspace to the point where Polish & NATO fighter jets were shooting them down 35 Polish and NATO fighter jets were scrambled and several airports closed.
Poland shoots down drones over its territory amid Russian attack on Ukraine

Months ago several sources were talking about how Russia wouldn't just send troups across its borders into a NATO country but first there would be a lot of "trangressions" a bit like poking the target to see what happened or to distract from the real target, etc.

Does anybody really believe that are Russian drones so bad and under such poor control they they'll be accidentally flying to the wrong country?