Without electricity, Ukraine is done, and the Russians intend to wipe out the parts of the grid that they haven’t already destroyed. From John Helmer at johnhelmer.net:
As the Ukraine’s peak summer electricity season approaches, the list of the Russian General Staff’s Electric War targets is shrinking. This is because almost all the Ukrainian electricity generating plants have been stopped. What remains for destruction are the connecting lines and distribution grids for the Ukraine’s imported electricity from Poland and other European Union neighbours. The microwave and cell telephone towers, and the diesel fuel stocks which are powering the back-up generating sets are next.
“There’s no keeping the Ukrainian cell network up any more than there is keeping up the electrical grid,” comments a close military observer. “The General Staff have set the flow of Ukrainian refugees west as inversely proportional to the flow of data and electrons over Ukrainian airwaves and transmission lines. We can expect that relationship to be set to highly inverse before the summer is out. What calculations have been made regarding things further west are just beginning to become evident.”
The Electric War is now accelerating faster to the Polish border than the Russian army advance along the line east of the Dnieper River.
In the very long history of siege warfare, there has never been a case of letting the enemy’s civilian population run safely away from his castles and cities until the fortifications and army which remain must choose between surrender and destruction.
Beats mass formation 1000 bomber raids with hardly any casualties, you don’t want to be working at those plants right now.
A new Sun Tzu, the guy with the electricity on wins?
How will Zelensky count the money in the dark? (/s)
Reading about Lindsey Grahamnesty stating that we can’t allow RF to get $10-12$ trillion in minerals. (h/t-JR)
He says its a big effing deal. (rimshot)
There’s also that valuable harass or invade Russia being right next door.
You shouldn’t completely ignore them because sometimes they Freudian Slip the truth.
Breaking from Billy Preston:
Outa Space (Disco Cat Remix)