02-28-2022, 02:22 PM
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#2001
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Originally Posted by curves2000
Is destroying the front, middle and rear of this massive 20 km convoy the key that needs to occur here for this war to tilt significantly in Ukraine's favor?
If we can get some air support and drone attacks to take out a sizeable portion of it in some capacity, it would render a lot of equipment useless.
There has to be a way for the west to provide some additional significant resources in the next day or so that will have a material impact on the outcome.
I am still stunned at how little, or how little support we all think is going to Ukraine from western democracies, EU and NATO.
You would think some Cyber attacks on critical communication to Russia would have occurred, some defensive mechanisms in place for the same Cyber attacks.
There has to be more outside level help that can assist here without getting boots on the ground or providing just some equipment. Like our favorite deli's, perhaps even Ukrainian ones where we know someone's put their finger on the scale to jack up the price, we gotta up the price for Putin.
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My bet is that US intelligence is feeding realtime data to the Ukrainian defenders. Enemy troop movements, unit type, mission objectives, etc. That's how the Ukrainians have been able to repel the attack this long.
There's tons going on behind the scenes we don't know about, I'll warrant. Basically everything short of American boots on the ground.
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02-28-2022, 02:23 PM
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#2002
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: A small painted room
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Frustrates me that Belarus can help Russia but on the Ukraine side the consequences of assisting are vastly different.
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02-28-2022, 02:26 PM
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#2005
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by curves2000
Is destroying the front, middle and rear of this massive 20 km convoy the key that needs to occur here for this war to tilt significantly in Ukraine's favor?
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No, because the key crisis facing Ukraine now is the encirclement of most of its Army east of the Dneipr.
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02-28-2022, 02:29 PM
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#2006
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by calumniate
Frustrates me that Belarus can help Russia but on the Ukraine side the consequences of assisting are vastly different.
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Meh, Belarus helping Russia was pretty much a given. Many of the kinds of sanctions being put in place against Russia over the last few days were already in place against Belarus. Belarus today is what Russia wants Ukraine to become: a vassal state run by a Putin-friendly tinpot dictator. It was given that the Belarussians were helping the Russians. There has effectively been a rehashed Iron Curtain at the Belarus-Poland border for years now.
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02-28-2022, 02:29 PM
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#2007
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Azure
There are rumors flying around of the feds reaching out to numerous different oil & gas companies who have developments in the books. We gotta make up for that cut in production somehow.
Energy East would be amazing right now.
Keystone
Coastal Link
Trans Mountain
Ugh. We could be so prepared.
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If we had all of those with no extra production would we gain much? If we crank up production to fill them would that extra global capacity reduce the global price? Obviously it would be nice to cut out unfavourable suppliers but I’m curious what the net impact of countries replacing Russian oil would be on global supply, demand, and prices.
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02-28-2022, 02:32 PM
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#2008
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by peter12
The poor bloody infantry.
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They are pulling what China did with Tiananmen and are bringing in poorly educated rural conscripts from other parts of Russia who will share little understanding and brotherhood of the people of Ukraine and then sending them into the meat grinder.
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02-28-2022, 02:40 PM
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#2009
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour
Glad it happened, sad it took a war to make it happen.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1496930973966995457
Almost 300 million last year (according to this) so not nothing.
Edit; Interesting to see if the Americans follow suit. From what I can see, they import ~600,000 bpd of Russian product. |
Not yet.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1498412131426910219
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02-28-2022, 02:41 PM
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#2010
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by peter12
Azure is hard as a ####ing rock right now.
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Only been banging the energy independence drum for 5 years now.
Hard to believe we are there.
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02-28-2022, 02:47 PM
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#2012
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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Airspace West and East of Russia effectively blocked now. Surprisingly the US has not closed its airspace to Russian flights. Russia has enacted retaliatory bans of course.
This also means that a lot of international flights are going to have take the long way around for most carriers. Not that a lot of us are travelling with Covid still being an issue, but when we can, I expect the environment to be a lot different with more refueling points or longer flight times since most countries can't transit over Russia now.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1498374801689350150
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02-28-2022, 02:48 PM
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#2013
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Azure
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Might be better through Canadian Red Cross. Canadian government is matching all donations so your money goes further
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02-28-2022, 02:49 PM
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#2014
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Franchise Player
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Ol Serbia and Bosnia just doing there own thing down there. Great job fellas.
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02-28-2022, 02:51 PM
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#2016
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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I didn't even know Putin knew where Saskatchewan was, never mind Prince Albert.
I guess I have heard of some really rich Canadians who own cabins on some of those central Sask lakes and such.
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02-28-2022, 02:56 PM
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#2017
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Azure
Only been banging the energy independence drum for 5 years now.
Hard to believe we are there.
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All it took was starting World War 3.
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02-28-2022, 02:59 PM
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#2018
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Azure
Only been banging the energy independence drum for 5 years now.
Hard to believe we are there.
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Don't get excited, there will be divots in the ground from all the pivoting on their heels after this crisis is over.
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02-28-2022, 03:00 PM
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#2019
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
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Um, Canada IS a NATO partner, Psaki
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02-28-2022, 03:00 PM
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#2020
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by FlameOn
Might be better through Canadian Red Cross. Canadian government is matching all donations so your money goes further
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Canada Helps has a Canadian Red Cross page, so you can do both.
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