Plenty of ships pass the strait and this is kind of to be expected. Especially the UAE, but also other Gulf countries have been key places for money laundering. They allow Russians in and do not ask many questions. Mordashov also probably has contacts to Iran, so he can make these sort of deals.

It is just insane that the last tank losses reported in this were on Thursday…

What is even crazier are the casulties. The casulty numbers are in the lower range of Russias losses during WW1 today. That is with a much older population, which is already in structural decline.

The April drop represents a total decline of up to 600,000 barrels per day compared to late 2025 levels. However, the news agency noted that a monthly decline would not necessarily mean an annual production decline.

That is roughly half the consumption of Italy, just as a comparison. The entire EU is at 10.5million barrells/day

It can also be an increase in Ukraines range. If for example AA and jammers have been destroyed in sections of the front, you would expect longer range Ukrainian attacks.

Musk cut Starlink This matters as electronic warfare can ground a drone very cheaply and quickly.

Israel and the US, which would be the ONLY legitimate targets for Iran. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Thailand and many others are not. Ukraine does not have the right to blow up Bejing for example either.

Ontario is already talking about cutting off the US grid. Obviously changing voltage, frequency and maybe plugs(although the EU does not have a standard for that) would be a big change.

We might see 1,300,000 casulties tomorrow. Crazy to think that 2% of the male Russian population has been a casulty in this war.

It is not just cutting research funding, but also making migrating to the US much much harder. The US has amazing pay for the absolute top researchers, which makes it attractive for even migrants from other developed countries. However life in most other countries is better then one of the new migrant concentration camps the US is building with ICE.

Probably the Anglosphere apart from the US and then other rich developed countries will benefit fro this the most. They all have somewhat working migration systems in place to attract talent. China so far lacks that, but they probably set one up soon.

Online money making apps, which you do for a bit to be able to buy a beer or some other small stuff you might want. Stuff like surveys, tests and so forth.

Friendica is the Fediverse version of Facebook.

If Iran loses the war, due to either a massive US ground invasion(will turn out bad for the US, but whatever) or them losing control of the country, would add Irans massive oil supply to the global market and lower oil prices a lot. If there is peace in the region, oil prices would also fall. If prices continue to be high, then EV adoption will lower oil consumption. Also shale takes like 3-6months to start a new project. So prices will fall. With $100 WTI, the oil price is also lower then the peak in 2022.

Also Ukraine can hit Russian oil exports as well and has done so as well.

That is not a sunrise, but the explosion of the tanker

In 2023 there were 772 LNG carriers in the world. Most of them will obviously not run Russian LNG, so this actually hurts.

That might well change in the coming days. A lot of them are from Iran after all and they are not going to sell them to Russia right now.

Most of the time the companies put country of origins like Germany very prominently. So if they do not do that, they are probably from China or so.

ICE motorcycle engines are incredibly loud. Going electric therefore makes them harder to spot.

Okay! It is nearly 7300 Mar-A-Lagos.

First of all, it is not that relevant anymore, but Trump makes for great news stories, which create a lot of clicks. We are probably at the point, that the US needs to invade Ukraine to end that war for Russia.

Other then that the US still sanctions Russia, which is helpful. They also sell weapons to Europe and especially Ukraine, which are hard to replace(Patriot missiles for example). Also it is really useful to have the US at least pretend to want to defend Europe. Then you have the massive economic war going on and that actually hurts Europe.

So Europe seems to kiss Trumps ass, while working pretty hard on alternatives. Part of that is financing Ukrainian drones to blow up tankers and other export facilities to replace sanctions. European weapons industry needs more capacity and some capabilities to US weapons, which is being worked on right now(for Patriot that is more Aster missiles for SMAP/T and Iris-t SLX for example). As for the tariff war, we currently see the massive trade deals with Mercosur and India to replace the US somewhat.