@Pluto's Republic the electricity war was new to me and the blackouts early in the war could be repaired in a few months.

attacking generation facilities and special high power distribution systems could take years to repair

there can be NO effective military action without electricity

add to that taking out fuel and even the dense leaders could figure it out

it is hard to imagine what military people know, or don't know, and what they tell the politicians

the gap between what is happening and the propaganda is wider than during the Viet Nam war when I was a young protester.

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...since last Fall. The massive Russian military could squash the Ukraine army like a bug. But they have no intention of doing so. Russia does not consider itself at war with Ukraine, whom they consider to be more or less Russians-gone-astray. The SMO (Russian Special Military Operation) entered Ukraine to clear out the restored NAZIs who had joined Ukraine's military. The NAZI troops were tasked with exterminating the ethnic Russians living in the western borderlands between Russia and Ukraine. But it soon became clear to the Russians that they were fighting NATO and the US in a proxy war.

Ukraine only recently became an independent nation in 1997, after the collapse of the Russian economy. Ukraine was originally established in the small yellow area on the map above. However, during the 20th century and after WWII, Russian Czars and Soviet Leaders began attaching large blocks of Russian territory to Ukraine, padding it as a bufferzone between Europe and the USSR. In Russian, the word 'Ukraine' means 'borderlands.'

After Russia's collapse in 1990, the Russian occupied borderlands became part of the country of Ukraine when new borders were drawn in 1997. Problems began in Ukraine in the years that followed. (Remember, Ukraine was a NAZI stronghold in WWII. The NAZIs, NATO, and the Neocons hated Russia with a deranged passion.) In Ukraine's first three Presidential elections, candidates who were favorable to Russians easily won. That's because most of eastern Ukraine is occupied by Russians, who had settled on these lands centuries ago. The red areas on the Ukraine map, below, are Russian-speaking area's that vote for Russia-friendly candidates. They include former Russian territories that were artificially attached to Ukraine by Soviet leaders.

After the US-managed overthrow of Ukraine's government in 2015, which was headed by a Russia-friendly President, the interim government sent Ukraine's NAZI military troops, who had been trained in neighboring Poland, to attack the cities and towns in the far west borderlands. The civilians living there had held a referendum in 2015 applying to remain in Ukraine as an autonomous republic. An emergency cease-fire agreement, the Minsk II accord, was negotiated and signed by Ukraine and Russia. However, Ukraine broke the agreement almost immediately and continued its military attacks on the ethnic Russian population that lived in the far Western region. The civilians fought back, but by 2022, 14,000 of the Russian residents had been killed. The US and NATO ignored Russia's demands for a ceasefire, and Ukraine applied to become a NATO member— bringing a hostile Europe to Russia's doorstep once more.

The past six months of the Russia's Special Military Operation has become a war of attrition. Russia is defending a line of separation between Ukraine and the Russian occupied parts of Ukraine. The map below shows what that looks like. The Ukraine army has been decimated because the US and NATO are forcing them to attack the line of defense.

It's not much of a war. It's more of a border skirmish. It's hardly an invasion of Europe to "expand the Soviet Union." Reading the Western media has kept Americans completely in the dark. But not so, the rest of the world.
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