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🙂 yes stupid and liars and cowardly and incapable of anything else. István thank you for your effort every day.

So the idea that Paks-2 con continue is difficult to believe. As the 30 year loan deal was originally structured it was the Russian state Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs Vnesheconombank (VEB) that was financing the project that would have to be built primarily by Rosatom from what we know of this formally secret deal. VEB and all 42 of their subsidiaries are under economic sanctions by the US https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0602 and the EU could be cut off VEB from the Swift messaging network under proposals being discussed by EU member states right now. 

Today Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Affairs essentially repeated the idea that Hungary could continue to do business with Russia and if it did not here is what will happen: “I would like to make it clear that if natural gas does not come to Hungary, there will be no heating, no industry and no jobs. If a nuclear power plant is not built in Hungary . . .a brutal increase in energy prices will follow.” (https://magyarnemzet.hu/gazdasag/2022/03/szijjarto-peter-nem-engedhetjuk-meg-hogy-mi-fizessuk-meg-a-haboru-arat ) 

I honestly do not disagree will Szijjártó’s gloomy prospects for Hungary in terms of energy prices and that I think will apply to the USA to a lesser extent and the EU as a whole significantly. But these could be the least of the problems we all will be facing in the not too distant future. Because the Russians have determined that a full scale war of attrition against Ukraine is necessary, the methods used in the 1999–2000 battle of Grozny will be applied to Kyiv. and other cities. 

The Russian tactic in 1999 was to hold back tanks and armored personnel carriers and subject the entrenched Chechens to an intensive heavy artillery barrage and aerial bombardment before engaging them with relatively small groups of infantry, many with prior training in urban warfare. As we have seen in Ukraine the Russians did attempt fast light drives into Grozny initially that were repelled.

The Chechens dug hundreds of trenches and antitank ditches, built bunkers behind apartment buildings, laid land mines throughout the city, placed sniper nests on high-rise buildings and prepared escape routes. In some instances whole buildings were booby-trapped; the ground floor windows and doors were usually boarded-up or mined, making it impossible for the Russians to simply walk into a building. Relying on their high mobility (they usually did not use body armor because of lack of equipment), the Chechens would use the trenches to move between houses and sniper positions, engaging the Russians as they focused on the tops of buildings or on windows. Well-organized small groups of no more than 15 fighters moved freely about Grozny using the city’s sewer network, even sneaking behind Russian lines and attacking unsuspecting soldiers from the rear.

Near the end of the siege the Chechens carried off a breakout from Grozny, in some respect similar to the breakout attempted by the Germans and their Hungarian allies in Budapest during the Soviet siege in WWII, but actually much more successful. None the less, the Russians hunted down the Chechens and slaughtered them over time. The United Nations workers who entered the city with the first convoy of international aid discovered “a devastated and still insecure wasteland littered with bodies”. There were some 21,000 civilians still in Grozny. The city’s losses were never counted. Most of the corpses were cleared in 2000 and 2001 but one mass grave dating from the time of battle was discovered in 2006 in the former Kirov Park area of Grozny. 

Being a former artillery officer I am highly familiar with this tactical approach to taking a city and I studied examples of this approach at the US Army War College covering even the US Civil War bombardment of the Confederate Defenses of Richmond Va to Stalingrad. Really the civilian deaths in all of these assaults are discussed almost clinically as an inevitable but not intentional. I believe that it could well become impossible for some NATO nations to stay out of some level of direct combat in Ukraine if the slaughter carried out is as ugly as it was in Gozny. Zelensky seems to be counting on moral outrage pushing countries to greater involvement on the ground in Ukraine and he is using all of his skills as an actor to promote this and ever opportunity. If the worse does come to pass the energy problems will be the least of all of our problems, we are all treading on very dangerous ground. 

EU should focus on organizing an airbridge out of Ukraine.
It’s not too early!

Thanks for the comprehensive post. Sadly, most of us know that the Hungarian regime leaders lie about everything or as Mary McCarthy once commented: “including and & the”. Nevertheless, the breathtaking lies are at a new level. Of course, the peacock
Orban had to retreat from standing in the way of NATO/EU, but few outside of Hungary are fooled by this behavior. Meanwhile, Orban and stooges such as Deutsch look for ways to fool Hungarian voters (behavior similar to Trump, whose initial embrace of the Putin invasion has yield to his usual b.s.)

This is what the Russian military demanded from the mayor of the freshly occupied Kherson.

People can be on the streets only during the day.
Maximum two people are allowed to walk together.
Only cars or trucks delivering food or medicine to the stores and pharmacies can move. But only slowly and have to stop by the orders of soldiers.
Strict curfew from 8 PM to 6 AM.

Mayor Kolykhayev:
“We are experiencing enormous difficulties with the collection and burial of the dead, the delivery of food and medicine, the removal of garbage, ”

https://www.facebook.com/kolykhaev.igor/posts/4999567616803299

Putin can declare victory in a week.

If the Russian army takes Odessa, the remaining Ukraine will be completely land-locked. Putin will keep his conquests – the entire Black Sea region (which was called New Russia in the 19th century).
If he can take Kharkov, he will add most of the Ukrainian military industry to Russia.

Cease-fire will mean that that Putin will keep all of his conquests.