JRP3
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There is no African Putin nor the possibility of one.
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Russia/Ukraine conflict
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petit_bateau
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SwedishAdvocate
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Isn't the southern part of Europe quite sunny as well. How far could we get if we covered every warehouse rooftop and every larger factory rooftop with solar in the southernmost parts of Spain, France, Italy and Greece?...
petit_bateau
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happens to coincide with my own view
www.theguardian.com
Gorbachev was let down by the west. Putin’s Russia is the result | Letters
Letters: With better support from the US and Britain, Russia could have been a very different place today, says Michael Meadowcroft, while Bill Robinson remembers photographing the Thatchers and the Gorbachevs in Moscow
www.theguardian.com
happens to coincide with my own view
Gorbachev was let down by the west. Putin’s Russia is the result | Letters
Letters: With better support from the US and Britain, Russia could have been a very different place today, says Michael Meadowcroft, while Bill Robinson remembers photographing the Thatchers and the Gorbachevs in Moscow
Yup. George HW Bush had a Marshall Plan to bring Russia into the fold, but Congress refused to fund it. Another example of politicians being too short sighted.
TheTalkingMule
Distributed Energy Enthusiast
Cloudy ass Germany went from .5% solar to 9% in essentially a handful of years. We shouldn't be asking ourselves about putting solar in every nook and cranny.
It's so early in the game, we should just create protections for solar to thrive in the face of corruption and let the market do it's thing.
Give wind and solar projects "grid preference" so that their supply must be bought first. Set grid compensation rates for long chunks of time where necessary. Mandate grid level storage as a certain percent of peak demand.
Doing things like that will get us moving a lot faster than trying to micromanage where it goes. Let the riff raff figure that out.
SwedishAdvocate
Active Member
As I understand it Gorbachev didn't wan't the Baltic states to leave the USSR/Russian Federation. It's debated whether he was involved in the decision to use deadly force in Lithuania in januari of 1991 which resulted in some 14 deaths and more than 140 injured.
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He also supported the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and also defended the rigged referendum that followed.
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There were also events like these under his rule:
bobby g
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RobStark
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Yes, with the current amount of wind plus some hydrogen as energy storage.
As I understand it Gorbachev didn't wan't the Baltic states to leave the USSR/Russian Federation. It's debated whether he was involved in the decision to use deadly force in Lithuania in januari of 1991 which resulted in some 14 deaths and more than 140 injured.
Source:
He also supported the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and also defended the rigged referendum that followed.
Source:
There were also events like these under his rule:
As Kamil Galeev has pointed out pretty much all Russians in power or aspiring to it are pretty similar on foreign policy. They all want to maintain the Russian Empire. Gorbachev did too, his USSR was too weak to hold the empire together.
Could be.
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adiggs
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SwedishAdvocate
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As I understand it Gorbachev didn't wan't the Baltic states to leave the USSR/Russian Federation. It's debated whether he was involved in the decision to use deadly force in Lithuania in januari of 1991 which resulted in some 14 deaths and more than 140 injured.
Source:
He also supported the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and also defended the rigged referendum that followed.
Source:
There were also events like these under his rule:
The events mentioned above happened some 31 years ago. The year is no longer 1991.
People live in the past quite often. It's a common trope of dictators and would be dictators to get people riled up about the past. The Nazis used it. It was called the Third Reich for a reason. Many conservative political movements today use referrals to the past. A Greek friend of my partner hated the Turks because they conquered Constantinople in the 1400s.
You may consider the past irrelevant, but quite a few people in this world consider the past as highly important. If you don't accept that you will miss a chunk of the picture and you will have trouble understanding why people are acting the way they are.
31 years is not that long ago. A lot of people still have living memory of those events. The collapse of the USSR is seen as a very shameful event among many of the Russians who lived through that time.
SwedishAdvocate
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That is a single data point. How is a single data point relevant at all?
The past isn't completely irrelevant. In that case you have misunderstood. But you have to look at the whole picture...
Now as fun as this has been, unfortunately enough I haven’t got an infinite amount of time to continue arguing about this…
So…
With maybe, maybe some limited geographical areas excluded, Russia will continue to be a complete POS place for the foreseeable part of eternity because that’s what The Prophet and All-Around Impressive guy Galeev tells us. That and because of 500 to a 1100 years old but oh so important ”culture”. And also: Because Memes.
Got it!
You're welcome to have the last word...
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petit_bateau
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"The chairman of Russian energy company Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, 67, was found dead after allegedly falling from a ward on the 6th floor of a hospital in Moscow
Russian News Agency Mash wrote: “Ravil Maganov threw himself from the sixth floor of the Central Clinical Hospital on Marshala Timoshenko Street.""
euroweeklynews.com
Russian News Agency Mash wrote: “Ravil Maganov threw himself from the sixth floor of the Central Clinical Hospital on Marshala Timoshenko Street.""
Chairman of Russian energy company Lukoil found dead under mysterious circumstances
The chairman of Russian energy company Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, 67, was found dead after allegedly falling from a ward on the 6th floor of a hospital in Moscow, where he was being treated.
euroweeklynews.com
petit_bateau
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interesting
theins.ru
A farewell to arms. By year end Russia will be left almost without shells, artillery and armored vehicles
For Russia, six months of war have led not only to colossal irreplaceable losses in manpower, but also to a huge waste of weapons and military equipment: guided missiles are already very scarce, shells for artillery and armored vehicles will be exhausted by the end of the year, and the state of...
theins.ru
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In support of VPP we have direct evidence that it not only works but rewards locals who participate. I like the Tesla app that keeps a ledger of all energy assets and the monitoring of the needed capacities for the home, grid, etc. Ukraine already has Starlink internet(and Powerwalls I believe)and the educated people that could set up something similar a to the VPP. The EU can also take advantage of using Powerwalls to tell the Russians to put their gas where the sun don't shine.
Tesla California VPP is supplying the grid with 20MW+ in second event
Tesla’s California VPP is proving its mettle yet again, supplying the grid with more than 20MW of energy amid a scorching heat wave.
www.teslarati.com
interesting
A farewell to arms. By year end Russia will be left almost without shells, artillery and armored vehicles
For Russia, six months of war have led not only to colossal irreplaceable losses in manpower, but also to a huge waste of weapons and military equipment: guided missiles are already very scarce, shells for artillery and armored vehicles will be exhausted by the end of the year, and the state of...
Terrific article. I've seen bits and pieces of this information in various places, but this pulls it together. Basically Russia is running out of everything and there is no way to efficiently solve the problem.
