Probably the only practical use for hydrogen vehicles

[nzoomed]

Ukraine successfully re-purposed a hydrogen fuel canister from a Toyota Mirai as a bomb fitted to a drone.
https://www.teslarati.com/toyota-mirai-h...an-target/

[zqwerty]

The Ukrainians will need all their ingenuity to beat out the Russians, let's hope Trump doesn't bugger it all up.

[nzoomed]

The Ukrainians will need all their ingenuity to beat out the Russians, let's hope Trump doesn't bugger it all up.

Some sources are suggesting that Trump may have changed his tune on Ukraine. 

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-pl...17437.html

Hopefully this is the case, it's possible he might take a different approach however. 

Ultimately what will lead to victory is when the Russian economy collapses.

[zqwerty]

Trump and Musk will be looting the American Economy after switching all the Welfare off, just like the Gov here, then Trump will look further afield to grift more from Russia and NATO States.

They're going to make Billions from this takeover of America.

The Robber Barons of the old days, the Gilded Age, are going to look like Santa Claus compared to Trump and Musk, biggest transfer of money from the poor to the rich ever seen in the history of the world.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump makes some sort of deal with Putin over Ukraine as a settlement.

[nzoomed]

Some speculate that Trump will be going to make a deal where Ukraine gives up the occupied territory to Russia, in his eyes only temporarily, meanwhile he will sanction Russia harder and flood the market with cheap US oil to bring down the global prices, in turn hitting russias economy harder, in an effort to cause Putins regime to collapse.

I don't really know how that would play out, but all i know is it needs to come to an end, so many lives taken for no real reason.
The ideal situation is where Ukraine gets its occupied territory back and Putin is taken down and democracy reinstated in Russia.

[Praktica]

Democracy - like we have here, eh?

[zqwerty]

I think the ideal situation for America is that the war continues, the final winner only matters in a global picture and how much NATO can influence Trump, but the guiding hand is the Military-industrial complex of America as it has always been all over the world and the profits thereby, weakening Putin in the process but not creating a power vacuum if he is defeated.

Trump will be wheeling and dealing in the midst of all this and the fate of Ukraine won't matter much to him just how to extract maximum money for his interests out of the situation. Trump doesn't seem to have in depth knowledge of world affairs over the past and is strangely lacking in different area of knowledge which he should be in full understanding of but he has other priorities as we have learnt.

Russia's nuclear capabilities make it almost certain that Russia will not be defeated under any circumstances, who wants all those weapons in the hands of terrorists and unknown political entities if Putin goes down. At least he is fairly predictable as it is now.

We are talking about a big chess game with no winners or losers only money changing hands. Good and evil got nothing to do with it, America is just as much of a bad guy as Russia.

[nzoomed]

Democracy - like we have here, eh?

More or less! Lol

I don't really think Russia had much of a democracy post soviet breakup, but it sure was a ton better before Putin undone everything that had been achieved prior.
Ukraine is kind of in that same situation as post Soviet russia where they are a fledgling democracy but still rife with corruption.
Unfortunately, that's probably the main reason Putin attacked Ukraine to begin with, as he doesn't want a democratic country with close ties to the United States on his back doorstep.

[nzoomed]

I think the ideal situation for America is that the war continues, the final winner only matters in a global picture and how much NATO can influence Trump, but the guiding hand is the Military-industrial complex of America as it has always been all over the world and the profits thereby, weakening Putin in the process but not creating a power vacuum if he is defeated.

Trump will be wheeling and dealing in the midst of all this and the fate of Ukraine won't matter much to him just how to extract maximum money for his interests out of the situation.  Trump doesn't seem to have in depth knowledge of world affairs over the past and is strangely lacking in different area of knowledge which he should be in full understanding of but he has other priorities as we have learnt.

Russia's nuclear capabilities make it almost certain that Russia will not be defeated under any circumstances, who wants all those weapons in the hands of terrorists and unknown political entities if Putin goes down.  At least he is fairly predictable as it is now.

We are talking about a big chess game with no winners or losers only money changing hands.  Good and evil got nothing to do with it, America is just as much of a bad guy as Russia.

Yeah I agree  and sadly Ukraine is the piggy in the middle, a bit like the pawn on the chessboard.

[zqwerty]

When Yeltsin appointed Putin he was hailed as a Saviour, a sensible, strict but fair and predictable leader that's why he got the job.

[nzoomed]

When Yeltsin appointed Putin he was hailed as a Saviour, a sensible, strict but fair and predictable leader that's why he got the job.

I never realised he had any involvement in appointing him, I wonder what his views were of him at the time and if he were alive today be in agreement with his policies?

[zqwerty]

As I remember the mission was to appoint a new leader that the Russian people would accept.

It was said that they admired a leader who was strong, unyielding, unchanging, uncompromising, predictable because of sticking to the party line, patriotic and it was said that Putin fitted the bill.

Yeltsin was seen as a bit of a fool because of his drinking and escapades whilst under the influence.