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.

The Russian opposition news site Mediazona is counting names of Russians who were killed by them wanting to conquer Ukraine. They are at 168,142 and also try to estimate using death statistics of districts which comes up with 219k dead. However the Russians seem to have become better at hiding those numbers, with public records being delete and so forth. So it is probably much higher then that, but a million is also stretching it.

Just as a comparison the US had fewer deaths fighting Japan in WW2, then Russia has confirmed by name fighting Ukraine.

and another 250k. It is just insane how much suffering Russia is causing for itself and obviously also Ukraine.

Most of the assets have been bought out by Lyten. It really does not matter who owns the companies.

Oil price is set by supply and demand. Demand is still unfortunatly slowly growing. So if you cut supply, by for example stopping Russian oil exports, you then increase the oil price. The bad part in that is that it probably leads to Russia being able to somehow export oil around those sanctions(like via land to China for example) and actually make more money with it then with sanctions applied. This is made worse by Europe being oil importers, so a high oil price hurts Europe.

Right now a number of things come together. Trump caused a recession in the US(lower oil demand), EVs are growing in sales(lower oil demand), Venezuela Maduro stuff(higher oil supply), OPEC increases oil production(higher oil supply), Trump makes it easier to frack in the US(higher oil supply) and so forth. The only thing increasing the oil price right now, is a potential invasion of Iran. However even that does not seem that likely. In other words cutting off Russian oil supply, is currently possible.

Then Trump seized a Russian tanker and nothing happened and Greenland happened. Therefore Europe knows the risk of doing it are lower then thought and they have to take risks to make sure they do not depend on the US, if Russia starts a war against the EU directly.

Oh and Russia looks weak right now. The economy has some serious problems, so this is likely to really hurt.

So is lithium to be honest. Refining it is just a really dirty process.

Volkswagen has just opened a battery factory in Germany, which is able to produce something like 10% of car batteries needed in the EU. There are others as well, like Northvolt. So if China cuts off batteries, then there would still be a car production in Europe and within a few years it would be back to normal. Obviously there are also countries like South Korea producing batteries. However the EU has some strong train manufacturers and the like, which can also reduce the demand for cars, which is another great alternative.

Rare earths are worse though.

It is the usual international maritime law. Warships are allowed to board foreign vessels, if they are pirates, drug trafficing, slave traders, illegal broadcasters or in this case not registered with another country. So this is completly fine.

They are still off road capable vehicles, with decent armor and a useful gun. Many Russian soldiers would probably prefer sitting in one of them, over running with nothing against Ukrainian positions.

Only? That is surprisingly low to be honest.

Holy crap we get 1.2million before the year is out.

This just sucks. Just take the money from the frozen Russian assets and pay development aid. Europe has not reason to want famines in Africa. This will just backfire.

Burning means the at least some of the oil does not end up in an oil spill.

We do not see it just in aircraft. Russian railway total transport is down quite a bit. In 2010 rail had a modal share of 59% in Russia.

Torpedos have fibre optic cables to control them for the submarine or ship they are launched from. Those are quite long, so an unmanned service vassel could transport such a torpedo close to the port and then launch it inside it.

The point of the video is that the 28 point peace plan is what Russia believes is their best case scenario. So they are from taking Ukraine in three days to they are doing an amazing job if they manage to take the Donbaz. That is really weak.

It is also in the interest of Ukraine. There are oil reserves in the parts of Ukraine currently occupied by Russia. Those pipelines are a great option to sell that oil to Hungary and so on.