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John McCain is dead. Liz Cheney daughter of Dick Cheney of the Iraq war recently lost her seat. There is a faction in the Republican party and indeed the Democrats who see the aid to Ukraine as none or their business and they will hold more sway after the election. The Republicans are expected to take the house of representatives in November and maybe the senate too. That leaves a lame duck president that may well be impeached for whatever reson, they set the bar low with Trump. Considering the activity of the leftists while Trump was president, their current activity against the Supreme court justices, they are not likely to accept a Republican dominated house, senate and supreme court and start agitating again. Couple that with the inflation and cost of living struggles of the middle class, domestic concerns can mean support for the Ukraine is not favoured as they concentrate on the 2024 elections.

Right now in Germany and across Europe a shortage of gas molecules affects industrial production, electricity and gas heating. It will take at least 3 years before any semblance of stability is restore to the gas markets and in the interim that is a lot of supply destruction for the good produced by those processes. Politically there will be pressure from industry on politicians to bring about a resolution. That opens the appalling vista of a war economy as more money and resourcs are fed into the war machine to make up for stimulus. The domestic political environment will become very unstable, we can expect strikes, and outages and large bankruptcies in Europe.

If Medvedev had a spark of sense he'd be keeping his big gob shut and positioning himself to fill Putins boots after his inevitable demise. It seems none of them are intelligent enough to play that game. Stay onside with Putin but remain palatable to the west.

Not true, VW group and Mercedes are two of the leading companies in the electrification of cars and will eventually surpass Tesla in the coming years. The Japanese will suffer as they haven't embraced electric cars are banking on hydrogen.

German Motor industry is finished if Electric vehicles become mandatory???? Only difference between EV's and Diesel/ Petrol engined cars is the power source,,,everything else in the same. Bodys. Interiors, drive trains, brakes, steering etc. Production lines will still be the same...car bodies will still have to be manufactured, regardless of the power source, be it electric or ICE. No, I doubt German vehicle production will be affected. Probably increase if anything.

It wasn't the train because the section that blew out was on the opposite side to the train track and the road in-between is still fairly intact.

If I was to guess it was marine based. Blew out a pillar to drop a section and the shrapnel penetrated the fuel tanks on the train causing them to ignite.

So these are all the little crutches that you and your ilk are now relying on to keep you going? I can understand how the nekulturny back home would fall for some of this considering the Kremlin-polluted media there. But anyone outside of Russia would have to be fairly thick to believe any of it.

Fuel or otherwise, they weren't the main target. They were welcome collateral damage. In your pic you can see the collapsed pillar. In my opinion that was the main target. Everything else was calculated in hope and treated as a bonus.

Precisely.