The problem is that the penalties are just way to low. They really need to be in the double digit billions to work.

There are currently billions of frozen assets in the West and also oil and gas pipelines to Europe. With a peace deal, it would be possible to restart the sale of oil and gas and maybe even get the money. Even if they have to give it to Ukraine, that would be less of a problem, as they do not control it anyway. Especially if Putin gets couped, this might well leave Russia as part of the EU sphere of influence, which would give them the option to move soldiers 1000km from Bejing.

I would honestly not be surprised. Invading a collapsing Russia might well be easier, then invading Taiwan and China has claims of the Russian Far East.

Casulties are not deaths, but soldiers which can no longer fight. So when somebody gets badly wounded, they are also a casulty.

Still really horrible though.

Reached 1,111,111 casulties.

Russian deaths in WW1 were 1.7-2.25million. Obviously that is deaths and not casualties, but Meduza is at 132k deaths by name and 219k deaths by probate count. That was the Russian Empire, so a much larger country then modern day Russia, with a larger population and a much younger one as well.

Seems like the Russians pushed in the south around Orikhiv. That part of the front was very calm for months. Also the Ukrainians seem to close the northern most cauldron

Windows are certainly worse quality for oligarchs, given how many fall out of them.

He does not need to. He just does as his handlers command and they are from the US oil and gas industry.

He wants Europe to buy American instead. Given the situation that is indeed reasonable, but the real solution is to go green. That he hates though.

Nope. Most UN members have diplomatic relations with Palestine. Even the ones that do not recognize it as a country do. Mostly it is some small countries, which do not, but I fully get that say Samoa does not care that much about Palestine. Wikipedia has a good list of it.

Russia seized a lot of Western assets and is activly suing companies with long term gas delivery contracts, which do not buy Russian gas, because the Russians cut it off.

These are refineries not oil fields. They turn oil into gasoline, diesel, kerosene and much much more.

No, that is exactly what is going to happen. The Russians leave them out their tied up, so the Ukrainians can kill them.

The US is not part of the ICC.

That is the clear difference to close source. YouTube, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Twitter, PowerPoint or Word are amazing names…

“Buy” implies they have money to pay for it.

In Crimea the Russian authorities have started using coupons to be able to buy fuel. So there is clearly a shortage. I would not be surprised, if that extends to the front at least eough to slow down attacks.

The other part is that Russia had a breakthrough a few days ago and Ukraine has closed that. They probably put a lot into that. Besides the Donbaz the fighting is also pretty light.

This is really important right now. The new EU sanctions targets crude oil and Trump hitting India increased the discount for Russian oil. A lot of poor countries especially in Africa would love to buy that, but lack reffineries. So Russia refines the oil and sells it. Ukraine damaging Russian refineries obviously makes this a lot harder.

It really looks like Russia is struggling right now.

It really is striking how low the tank losses are.